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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: NarraScope Showcase 2025 created December 12, 2025
Games
Add a game listingCheerleader's Choice: New York Spirit, by Charli Battersby ChoiceScript |
House of the Golden Mask, by Miranda Eastwood ChoiceScript |
An Imp & An Imposter, by Athar Fikry ChoiceScript |
Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters, by Paul Wang ChoiceScript |
Galaxy Princess Zorana, by Hanako Games Ren'Py |
salvage., by Athar Fikry Twine |
Reviews
MathBrush reviews The Bloody Wallpaper: "Very long, complex Fallen London story about serving in a hotel"  - See full review |
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Acreage: "My title was going to be a clever verse, but I gave up" - See full review |
MathBrush reviews Rana's Reception: "Short parser game with a riddle and a timing puzzle"  |
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Selfish Gene: "At the end of the day, we all want the same thing" |
Competitions
Add a competition listingIF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards
News on Short Games Showcase 2025: Short Games Showcase 2025 open for submissions! December 2, 2025 Details
Polls
Create a pollHelp other IFDB members find the games they're looking for by voting in their polls. Here are a few recent ones:
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IFDB Recommends
| 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... |
| 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... |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are... |
| 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... |
| 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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