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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: 16th IF Grand Prix 2025 created April 4, 2026
Games
Add a game listingNews on To Burn in Memory: To Burn in Memory (Anniversary Edition) - v4.0 Update Details |
News on The Corridor: Major Update. The Mad Jack's Update (At Blooming Last!) Details |
Nils' Bohrmaschine, by Olaf Nowacki Inform 7 |
Caribbean Nightmare, by Stefan Hoffmann Custom |
Merchant, by Stephen Big Twine |
Supercharged Squabble, by Naarel Ren'Py |
Reviews
archcorenth reviews Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective": "It stinks!"  - See full review |
MathBrush reviews Encounter: A 8-Bit Noir Adventure: "A graphical remake of an old detective game with 2-hour time limit"  |
Jo the Plunderer reviews The Road to Canterbury: "Enjoyable if you go in with the right expectations" |
Denk reviews Attack of Doc Lobster's Mutant Menagerie of Horror: "Speed IF (played with Parchment): Creative monster creation!" |
MathBrush reviews War for the West: "Medieval Lord simulator with mild fantasy elements" |
Competitions
Add a competition listingIF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards
News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 1): Iron Chif S1E1 - Dishes are served! February 27, 2026 Details
Polls
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IFDB Recommends
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon... |
| 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... |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe... |
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IFDB is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
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