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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: Smoochie Jam 2025 created March 5, 2025
Games
Add a game listingPasserine Hills: Just a Bite, by Naarel Twine |
he who tied the bell, by SWANCHIME HTML5 |
ianthine, by Lapin Lunaire Games Twine |
He's Dating the DM?!, by el-dritchknight and owltio Ren'Py |
Thalassaphilia, by InfiniteStars Ren'Py |
Slumber Party, by chrysanthemore Ren'Py |
Reviews
Wade Clarke reviews The Lurking Horror: "Infocom's Lovecraftian campus geek horror"   |
Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone: "What it says on the tin" |
Competitions
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News on Short Games Showcase 2024: Short Games Showcase 2024: Results are out! January 26, 2025 Details
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IFDB Recommends
More recommendations| 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... |
| 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... |
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| 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... |
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IFDB is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
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