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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: NarraScope Showcase 2026 created February 23, 2026
Games
Add a game listingReigns: The Witcher, by François Alliot, Oscar Harrington-Shaw, Nerial |
Steel and Laurel Wreaths: When Honor Demands Sacrifice, And Glory Comes Wrapped In Chains, by L. M. Hawkes Custom |
Lanista of the Forsaken Vow: A Veteran Gladiator’s Oath Beneath Rome’s Arena Politics, by L. M. Hawkes Custom |
Lanista of the Iron Sand: A Thracian Gladiator’s Trial in the Colosseum, by L. M. Hawkes Custom |
How the Little Match Girl Came to Learn the Code of Poseidon, by Ryan Veeder Inform 7 |
Reviews
caligula jones reviews Shrapnel: "An attempt to blow apart your perceptions, with mixed results"   |
OtisTDog reviews 'Steading of the Hill Giant Chief: "Perhaps better suited to ECTOCOMP" |
MathBrush reviews Moonrise: "Good brief werewolf game made for queer women and nonbinary people" |
MostImmortalSnail reviews Lilac Song: ""Do you believe that a game could really save Germany?"" |
Competitions
Add a competition listingIF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards
News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 1): Iron ChIF S1E1 - The heat is on! February 22, 2026 Details
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IFDB Recommends
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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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IFDB is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
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