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A new listing for A Spy's Heist, by dott. Piergiorgio

A new poll by The Elusive9, Games where you play as a lone ranger type protagonist created August 29, 2026 6 votes for 5 games Like Cut the Sky and Tales of the Traveling Swordsman where you play as a traveler with nothing but a purpose. Those games are so full of atmosphere

A new poll by The Elusive9, Games with any kind of magic system created August 29, 2026 11 votes for 8 games Games where you can cast spells, change objects’ properties, or shapeshift etc. Enchanter, Oppositely Opal, Metamorphoses are some of my favorite magical games

A new listing for As I Remember, by Latrai

A new listing for Annie Timbers, by Jorge Casares Aguayo

News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 3): Iron ChIF S1E3 - Dishes are served! August 28, 2026 The games produced by the competing chefs have been released for play: Out of Luck by challenger FLACRabbit, and A Bonded Harvester by defending Iron Chef Dee Cooke. Both are available to play at the... - Details

A new listing for A Bonded Harvester, by Dee Cooke

A new listing for Out of Luck, by FLACRabbit

jakomo reviews Odysseyland: "Whine, dork. See?" August 28, 2026 "Totally goofy short Odyssey-themed puzzle fest in the classic Scott Adams mould, using the engine created by the author of Draculand. And..." - See full review

A new listing for mementOS, by quietKalliope

A new listing for The Fading of Jay, by Holly Maley

A new listing for acts of preservation, by najiberry

A new listing for can I get you some action with your adventure?, by KA Tan

A new competition page: Engine Jam created August 28, 2026 The Engine Jam is a month-long Interactive Fiction unranked jam to explore a new or unusual engine to create text-based games. Pick an IF engine you've never used before or a program not meant to create IF...

Jandeveloper101 reviews The Dark sorceror: "The Dark Sorceror by Jandeveloper101 " August 27, 2026 "Let me be honest, this is one of the best non-ai interactive story ever."

A new listing for The Dark sorceror, by Jandeveloper101

A new listing for Odysseyland, by Adam Biltcliffe

A new listing for Astaria | Retro Multiplyer Text-Based RPG, by Anonymous

A new Recommended List by Jade68, Ricardo Oyón games. August 26, 2026 4 items Ricardo Oyón passed away recently. I create this list as a memorial. There are 4 games listed here, he wrote Mazmorras de Antur and its sequel. I LOVE both and tested the second one. The same happens with...

A new Recommended List by Jade68, Spanish if games released in 2026 at ifdb. August 26, 2026 5 items This is my 2026 annuary which includes the spanish games released in 2026 and listed in ifdb.

A new listing for The Magician's Niece, by Eric Anderson

Coral Nulla reviews Violet: "Yours, vegemite." August 25, 2026 "A confession: of the 100 top-rated games on IFDB, I have played zero. Since I'm working on my first parser games, and most of those top..." - See full review

A new listing for Dreamworld Group Chat Game, by Puka Muriska

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

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