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A new listing for Dracula, by DJSoft

jas reviews 4x4 Archipelago: "Unfortunate Incentives" August 23, 2026 "It's really cool to see a full roguelike in Twine like this. This game has a lot going for it: the prose is good and the combat is..." - See full review

News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3): Iron ChIF S1E3 - Turning up the heat! August 23, 2026 For Season One Episode 3, the competing chefs have elected to tackle the most difficult challenge ingredient yet! Audience members can see them contend with it (and each other) over the next five days and... - Details

A new competition page: Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3) created August 23, 2026 Iron ChIF is an intfiction.org "forum show" modeled after the Japanese television series Iron Chef. Over the course of five days, two authors compete to create a working game from the same "challenge...

A new listing for The Last Leventhian, by Marian Dumitrache

A new listing for Homebound, by Portia Elan

A new listing for Memories Of Erimyal - Chapter One, by gturri

The Elusive9 reviews In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE: "Cool ham themed game" August 18, 2026 "Treasures of a slavers kingdom is hilarious and this is too. I laughed so hard after drinking the poison lmao "

A new listing for When Life Gives You Lemons, by C.C.Hill

Fan Shiyuan reviews Stay?: "A really moving game" August 17, 2026 "I just cannot decide whether to choose Suzette or Myka to stay with. " - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews The Gnomish Treasury: "So Close to Great It Hurts" August 17, 2026 "First things first: Gnomes and Orcs being closely allied, sharing cultural artifacts and inviting each others ambassadors to their..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dinosaur Island Escape: "Parser-like Choicescript game based on Jurassic Park" August 16, 2026 "Dinosaur Island Escape This is another shorter Hosted Game that breaks the traditional mold. It has a lot in common with text adventures;..." - See full review

A new listing for Pixel Prose, by Oliver Lenz

OtisTDog reviews Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma: "Yo momma's so fat she don't fit in Z-machine." August 15, 2026 "(The title of the review comes from the game itself. I couldn't resist.) Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma is from 2010, but its core..." - See full review

A new listing for Free Rein, by Sean Jeh

A new listing for Wyrmward, by Johan Berntsson

OtisTDog reviews Kissing the Buddha's Feet: "Old school but plays well today, the earliest winner of both NPC-related XYZZYs" August 15, 2026 "Having recently enjoyed Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, it seemed like a good opportunity to check out an older work by the same..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape from the MV Capricorn, by FLACRabbit

Tabitha reviews Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure: "Ups and downs" August 14, 2026 "First, caveat that this isn’t the kind of IF I’d normally play; I’m interested in the early days of the medium, but not so much in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by emigre, Games August 14, 2026 57 items

A new listing for SILAS — Logos-Arche, by Mosherfist

RainbowDarter reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Tumblr, as It Was and Wasn't" August 14, 2026 ""What do you do with the mad that you feel..." - See full review

A new listing for Read the Room, by Ilia

A new listing for Becoming Alan Smedwick, by Tender Boing

Tabitha reviews my baby needs blood: "A trans tale" August 12, 2026 "I really like this one. The blue, grainy images and the sounds of wind and crunching snow capture the mood of the long, oppressive winter..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Relics of the Lost Age: "Archaeology game with a very large amount of hot-button issues included" August 12, 2026 "This game was very interesting. I am actually really impressed out how it handles complex geopolitical issues. (I’m going to..." - See full review

A new listing for One Remained, by Alex Winters

Tabitha reviews A Garden of Impossible Objects: "Impossible resolution" August 12, 2026 "This piece hit me hard emotionally both when I first played it last year and when I replayed recently in preparation for reviewing...." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Kingsley's Mansion: "It's Illogical Doctor" August 11, 2026 "This is a ghost story with an interesting premise, if not a particularly original one (house appears once a year containing a ghostly..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Anxiety. Despair. Algae-Based Foodstuffs." August 11, 2026 "Woof. This may be the most wholly discomforting game I've ever played. You need to try it, right this second. ..." - See full review

Fred A reviews The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "A Mischievous Masterpiece" August 11, 2026 "The narrator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is third-person omniscient, but most importantly -- it's also evilly unreliable. It..." - See full review

A new listing for The Brain Cell, by Marc van der Meer

A new Recommended List by RainbowDarter, Devon's Favorites (So Far) August 11, 2026 10 items Just a few of the IF games I've played that particularly stuck with me, whether narratively, gameplay-wise, or both. I'm still very new to the scene, so I expect this to evolve a lot. If you think of...

Passerine reviews Lilac Song: "“You are done with the game, for now. Do something else.”" August 11, 2026 "Important context: I have not successfully played any of the Social Democracy games. I tried, but history was not my friend until..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Trenchline: "In the trenches" August 11, 2026 "This is a tight, focused game set in the trenches during a war—the first game with that setting I’ve encountered! I will confess that..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews Every day I get emails: "Corporate Enpoopification, but Make It Spooky" August 10, 2026 "Apologies for the juvenile self-censorship in the title, but I like writing these silly little reviews, and I'd rather not risk a ban for..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds: "Maybe the Best Opening Line in IF History" August 10, 2026 "Seriously, even if you don't plan on playing this one, just open it up and get to the second page of text. Try and tell me that didn't..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Onion Hugs: "So surreal, it's hard to connect" August 10, 2026 "This game is full of surrealism. It's an open question from the start of the game to the end of the game whether the whole thing is a..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by MathBrush, My Top 10 Game list (2026) August 10, 2026 10 items I decided to update my top 10 list every few years and just make a new list each time. The process for this list is here: https://intfiction.org/t/the-quest-to-make-a-new-top-10-favorite-games-list/80706/98...

Dan Fabulich reviews Made with Real Forest Scouts: "It's a microgame, not really an intro" August 10, 2026 "It's a small maze to figure out how to sell all of your cookies. The back button helps. The writing is charming, but if it's the start of..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews CoreOS: "Solid database search game" August 10, 2026 "It's a nice little database search game. Decent puzzles in a nostalgic format. I never got too stuck for long. It's a bummer that it only..." - See full review

A new competition page: IntroComp 2026 created August 10, 2026 IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product....

A new listing for The Veil, by Josh Hamelin

A new listing for The Mermaid's Mystery, by Vance Chance

A new listing for Stories of Stars and Woods and City Jungles, by Maxrem

A new listing for Onion Hugs, by Alex Birch

A new listing for Made with Real Forest Scouts, by Tessa Lee Ren

A new listing for CoreOS, by Julian

A new listing for AO Morning Signal, by Rieko Naito

A new listing for 1NTERSTELLAR c0NQUEST: a textb00k, by Yoon Ha Lee

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