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A new competition page: Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 4) created November 14, 2026
Until Crispin’s Day, by Trooperlooper
Custom
DHITD: Down Here In The Dark, by WizardxHorse
Custom (Python, web)
FINAL CUT, by Johnny Rewind
Twine
News on The Seventeenth Name: Playtest open through 13 November Details
A carta no móvel da estação, by José Martins
HTML/JavaScript
Carnacki: The Whistling Room, by sagaflow team

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Reviews

MathBrush reviews Cat Scan: "Speed IF cat logic puzzle" - See full review
MathBrush reviews It's In the Bacon: "Catch a criminal in the Union Carbide RCRA site" - See full review
JoshGrams reviews TOITŪ: "A poem at war with an adventure game?" - See full review
Mike Russo reviews Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express: "Mike Russo's Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express" - See full review
Mike Russo reviews See You Around: "Singing the blues" - See full review
Mike Russo reviews A Triangle for Two: "Landscape with trio" - See full review

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IF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards

Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 4) created November 14, 2026
Bare-Bones Jam 2026 created November 10, 2026
ECTOCOMP 2026 created November 2, 2026
32nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2026) created September 1, 2026
News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3): Iron ChIF S1E3 - Dishes are served! August 28, 2026 Details
Engine Jam created August 28, 2026
News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3): Iron ChIF S1E3 - Turning up the heat! August 23, 2026 Details
Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3) created August 23, 2026

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IFComp 2026 games geoblocked in the UK by JTN, 14 items
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New walkthroughs for September 2026 by David Welbourn, 8 items
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Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to...

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Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but...

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to...

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Interactive Fiction technology Foundation
IFDB is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. It is funded by the donations of IF supporters like you. All donations go to support the operation of this web site and IFTF's other services.