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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: Smoochie Jam 2026 created March 7, 2026
Games
Add a game listingNews on Saintsridge Angels: Update 0.2 Details |
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the Welder & the Smelter., by caskethouse Decker |
Warm The Sun, by ozzymango Twine |
JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller, by JD Detective Thrillers Studio |
The Horror of Goldmine City, by Gianluca Girelli Inform 6 |
Reviews
Giger Kitty reviews A Paper Moon: "A decent, nay, pretty good puzzler, in a bland setting"   |
MathBrush reviews Life of a Mercenary: "Huge simulation game of running a mercenary company" - See full review |
Giger Kitty reviews A Moment of Hope: "Could at least have updated the response to "x me"" |
Competitions
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Polls
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IFDB Recommends
| 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around... |
| Type Help, by William Rous A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead. Investigate the files on an old... |
| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to... |
| 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... |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near... |
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