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Passerine reviews Let's go for a walk!: "You are a dog" January 19, 2026 "This is a cute little game where you get to be a dog and choose your own mini adventure every day. It’s a graphical mobile-oriented..." - See full review

A new listing for Within the Woods, by BrownPants

A new listing for Palace of Pantheon: Episode One, by Asydien

retroprogrammez reviews The Hobbit: The True Story: "Parody of the hobbit" January 18, 2026 "This game is quite entertaining as it is a parody of "The Hobbit" with strange characters. The adventure is short and easy to solve. It's..." - See full review

A new listing for Strange House, by Anonymous

A new listing for Mugger, by Anonymous

A new listing for Castle Slab, by Tara McGrew

BrettW reviews Us Too: "Whirred plaid right into his hands" January 18, 2026 "I have to admit with great shame that this is my first Andrew Schulz game. I’m aware of the area of IF he had staked out, and every..." - See full review

BrettW reviews The Little Four: "Utterly charming homage to Hercule Poirot." January 18, 2026 "Interactive fiction spans a wide plain of different content. In some games the author slams down a puzzle box in front of you and cracks..." - See full review

BrettW reviews whoami: "Great command-line interface vibes with a sparse fiction." January 18, 2026 "I am a sucker for a certain type of terminal computer aesthetic. As a kid I enjoyed watching disk defrags in MS DOS 6.22. Nowadays I..." - See full review

BrettW reviews A Rock's Tale: "Delightful writing with a nice gameplay loop" January 18, 2026 "I thought the writing task of “you’re a rock” would be a tough one to get much mileage out of, but I was wrong. You find yourself..." - See full review

BrettW reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Enthusiastic, colourful, but a little off-target" January 18, 2026 "On the tin, this looks to be a weird beast: a puzzly mix between Total Recall and The Hobbit. Now I’m the last person who should worry..." - See full review

BrettW reviews you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion: "poets racing cups downstream / some unaware theirs have tipped" January 18, 2026 "I’ve never really been keen on Western courtly intrigue. There’s always been something blunt and stodgy about it, like a beef..." - See full review

A new listing for Castle Dracwulf, by benkid77

MostImmortalSnail reviews Nyoperativsystem: "Near-future scifi where you explore multimedia files on someone's computer" January 18, 2026 "I found this game because the creator, Chris Pang, mentioned it in a comment on another vastly more popular game/interactive art piece..." - See full review

A new listing for Nyoperativsystem, by Nakade

MostImmortalSnail reviews it sucks to be us: "Short queer Twine game about abuse and community" January 18, 2026 "A curious game that reminded me of negative experiences I've had in the past. Mild spoilers within this review. Major spoilers are..." - See full review

A new listing for it sucks to be us, by tofurocks

crimsonlea reviews Slated For Demolition: "This game healed me" January 18, 2026 "I went into this knowing very little about what to expect, but the short description reminded me of surreal games like Kentucky Route..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Behind the waterfall: "Excellent atmosphere, balanced minimalist gameplay" January 17, 2026 "You are exhausted after hiking across who-knows-where. All you want to do is rinse yourself off in that cool, refreshing waterfall... But..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fallen Hero: Retribution: "Existential crises, romance and villainy" January 17, 2026 "This is the second game in the Fallen Hero series. I'll give a brief, spoiler-free description first, and then dive more into spoilers...." - See full review

Passerine reviews The iCarly RPG: "Everything I know about iCarly I learned from this game" January 17, 2026 "First of all, it needs to be said that I played this game with only a basic understanding of what iCarly is. But even though I didn’t..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Within Rotation: "Strong message. But I might be missing something..." January 17, 2026 "Note: The game’s itch.io site says that there is a commercial version of the game available. I'm reviewing the non-commercial version...." - See full review

A new Recommended List by writersarchive, Surreal, experimental, psychological, weird, unusual, historical January 16, 2026 35 items

A new Recommended List by Denk, 2026 Alternative Top 25 January 16, 2026 25 items (Created 16-Jan-2026) This is a 2026 snapshot of the 25 games on IFDB with the highest average star rating, though excluding games with less than 5 ratings. The purpose is to allow for games with few ratings...

aprva reviews Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis: "Fun. Intuitive. Funny!" January 16, 2026 "Loved it. I'm new to IF so it took me a while but it was totally worth it. Didn't need a walkthrough even as a beginner which I quite..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews The Island: "Of Shipwrecks And Submarines" January 14, 2026 "The Island is the fourth Ken Bond game I have tried; The Test and The Base are both two parters and I couldn't access the second halves..." - See full review

A new listing for The Island, by Ken Bond

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Neon Case: "A cyberpunk game that experiments with A.I. in its storytelling" January 14, 2026 "Neon Case is a short custom choice-based cyberpunk/murder mystery game. You are Mei Ling, a Hong Kong police officer in the year 2065. A..." - See full review

Passerine reviews Freed from the Curse: "A short and sweet fairy tale" January 14, 2026 "I really enjoyed this short twist on (a twist on) a classic fairy tale . A bunch of the dialogue and narration..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Lost Memories Dot Net: "Blogs, love triangles, and carving out a space for oneself" January 13, 2026 "April 6th, 2004. Nina is 14 years old. She likes anime, video games, chatting with friends online, and building websites. But recently,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fallen Hero: Rebirth: "Edgy superhero story where you play a telepathic villain" January 13, 2026 "I was provided a review copy of this game. This is one of the most popular Hosted Games of all time, and, by extension, one of the most..." - See full review

A new listing for Neon Case, by Diaries from Future

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews BLACK FLESH: "Yes, more dopamine" January 11, 2026 "This game is currently under development, so I’ll hold off on assigning it a rating. You are a flesh harvester, a nightmare creature of..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Robot Recovery Mission: "Cipy vs. Decabots" January 11, 2026 "Robot Recovery Mission is the most upbeat, light-hearted robot war that you may ever find in interactive fiction. Simple, short, and made..." - See full review

A new listing for Throne of Blood, by Kezia S.

micrebo reviews Anchorhead: "Too easy to get trapped..." January 11, 2026 "I was really enjoying this game, but just a warning for people playing that it is easier than it suggests to get trapped in an unwinnable..." - See full review

A new listing for La casa nella nebbia, by XaltotunITA

A new competition page: Independent Games Festival 2026 created January 9, 2026 The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference. (IFDB does not record all IGF winners and nominees.)

A new listing for Zeus's Lover Search Game, by Tiffany

A new listing for Memoir: Text Adventure, by BlueFlameSkulls

A new listing for Iunnuh 2 The curse from the past, by Aristide Torrelli and Davide Bucci

Nomad reviews Gefeuert: "Funny" January 7, 2026 "A German text adventure from Olaf Nowacki, known for his slapstick and sometimes dark humour. Setting: Your office. Not exactly a fresh..." - See full review

A new listing for Adventure In Humongous Cave, by Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt and David Malmberg

A new listing for Continuity of Care, by Jeff Wu

A new listing for BLACK FLESH, by Maha Deoh

MostImmortalSnail reviews It Was 3 PM: "Autobiographical Twine game about psych wards and homelessness" January 6, 2026 "This is one of those autobiographical Twine games: a series of short vignettes about the author's life in various psych wards, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Witch for Halloween: "Brief and simple illustrated Visual Novel about a witch causing holiday mischief" January 6, 2026 "I played this game as it was one of the least-rated games in the Short Games showcase. It's a visual novel about a girl who meets a witch..." - See full review

A new poll by Adam Biltcliffe, Games that are like eating pizza created January 4, 2026 12 votes for 11 games Dan Harmon has a quote about how writing for entertainment is often like making pizza: people like eating pizza, even if you're not redefining the medium with every slice. So let's hear it for the games that...

TestTubeHuman reviews Summit: "Still holds up" January 4, 2026 "I remember discovering this game in high school, years ago. I showed it to all my friends, and fishstomachs became a brief inside joke..." - See full review

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