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Coe reviews Dance With Me: "A Tale of Resilience and Beauty in Brokeness" January 9, 2025 "On the surface, this quiet, beautiful story may not seem to lend itself to interactive fiction, but the theme of lack of control..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Museum of Paranormal Phenomena: "I guess they called you?" January 9, 2025 "Museum of Paranormal Phenomena is a relatively short parser made as an homage to the movie Ghostbusters. In the game, you visit the..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews The Fifth Sunday: "Unplayable" January 9, 2025 "Worryingly, it appears this game is no longer playable since Qiaobooks, the creator company, has gone out of business. The IF archive..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Taipan: "Primitive resource management that doesn't hold up" January 9, 2025 "The IFDB description says "former commercial", which is amazing because I wouldn't pay for this in a million years. It's a very primitive..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Ring Sculptors: "Gamebook conversion for Switch makes all the wrong choices" January 9, 2025 "Ring Sculptors is a sci-fi / cyberpunk gamebook IF released for Nintendo Switch in 2024. It's an adaptation of a Polish gamebook by..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Late Night at the Mall: "Try to escape after getting locked in a mall at night" January 8, 2025 "In this game, you are a teenager who was so focused on playing arcade games in the mall that you ended up locked in after hours. It seems..." - See full review

A new listing for Ring Sculptors, by No Gravity Games

Shaun Hamman reviews Trinity: "A Glorious Inspiration That’s Rough Around the Edges" January 8, 2025 "After a rekindled interest in interactive fiction and seeing that many prominent adventure game developers cite Trinity as a major source..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Zork I: "Not a Bombastic Start, but a Rewarding Trove of Adventure" January 8, 2025 "The forefather of modern adventure games, Zork brought the genre to the masses. I have begun this game many times, wandered the dark and..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Spider and Web: "A Good Twist That Is Easy To Miss" January 7, 2025 "Spider and Web is the first IF game I've played in many years, and the first that I actually completed! Don't think that an indication of..." - See full review

Plyr_8 reviews Sargasso: "Surprised" January 7, 2025 "Took me three tries to survive - the marker of success! The story was unexpected but historically grounded. Excited to see if there is a..." - See full review

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 New in December: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. "Played Games" now displays your play times Sort search results by Estimated Play Time Multiple "Play Online" Links

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 "Played Games" now displays your play times: When you go to My Activity you can find a list of all of your played games (games where you've checked the "I've played it" checkbox). If you submitted a vote for how long it takes to finish the game, we'll now include your play time there, as well.

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 Sort search results by Estimated Play Time: You can now sort game results by their estimated play time–from shortest to longest, or longest to shortest. When you sort this way, each game’s estimated play time will display as part of the results. (IFDB's search API and viewgame API will also include estimated play times, where available.)

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 Multiple "Play Online" Links: Now, games can have multiple "Play Online" links, if we have multiple external links that can be played online. (The big blue "Play Online" button will link to the first "Play Online" link on the list.) We've also updated IFDB's viewgame API to match. The API now includes a primaryPlayOnlineUrl as well as separate playOnlineUrl links on each external link.

A new listing for Heavenspire, by ninjapitka

A new listing for Secrets of the Crag, by Gryphon

MathBrush reviews Mars, 2049 AD: "A complex acting game with multiple independent NPCs" January 6, 2025 "This game was written by one of the co-developers of PunyInform, and it shows off a lot of programming complexity. You wake up in the..." - See full review

A new listing for It's a Boy!, by Darius Conwright

manonamora reviews Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror: "Listen, writing poems is hard!" January 5, 2025 "Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror is a poetic Twine game in which you play as famous brooder Edgar Allen Poe, in search for..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Dark Waters on the Night Shift: "A shift you will remember" January 5, 2025 "Dark Waters on the Night Shift is a spooky puzzle game made in Twine, where shenanigans happen on your night shift at a sewer plant. You..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Depths of Madness: "Sink and sink some more" January 5, 2025 "The Depths of Madness is a short horror piece made in ChoiceScript inspired by “The Call of Cthulhu” from Lovecraft. After receiving..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb: "Guess you gotta do it yourself" January 5, 2025 "The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb is a fairly long parser game in Inform 7, where you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Cranston Manor: "An Early Treasure Hunt - Beware The Later Ken Williams Version" January 5, 2025 "Remakes, flippin' remakes. Nicholas Cage in The Wicker Man? Bruce Willis in The Day Of The Jackal? No more questions, m'lud. 1981 was of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews You promise: "Who tricks who at the end?" January 5, 2025 "You promise is a short Faustian horror game made in Twine, in which you make a deal with a mystical being (devil? or maybe fae with the..." - See full review

A new listing for Tales From The Basement 2, by Endmaster

RJ Kowalski reviews Escape from the SS Borgarís: "Classic premise, impressive achievement, minor tedium" January 4, 2025 "Ultimately, at many points while playing this title I had to keep in mind the fact that it was written in less than eighteen hours, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Candy Striper of St. Asterix: "A complex hotel mystery" January 4, 2025 "This is a large and complex game with several independent NPCs spread out through a large hospital. Someone has died, and you (a teen..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Fireboat: "Row, row your boat!" January 4, 2025 "Fireboad is an action parser, in which you incarnate Captain Kent Decker, a senior fireboat captain of the NY fire department, on the..." - See full review

A new listing for Re-election Campaign, by Orange

manonamora reviews Your Little Haunting: "Ghostly liminal space" January 4, 2025 "Your Little Haunting is short horror parser, where you get to explore an abandoned house and interact with the limited elements within...." - See full review

OSpengler reviews Sargasso: "engaging" January 4, 2025 "A short visual novel for grown ups set at sea in the 1930s. I like that the characters have some life experience and seem real but they..." - See full review

manonamora reviews A Puzzled Soul: "A bit rough but interesting branching" January 4, 2025 "A Puzzled Soul is a short timed parser made in Inform, in which you are trying to escape a creature hunting you, by solving some..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Die Another Day: "Death is just another form of Sleep" January 4, 2025 "Die Another Day is a short resource management game made in Twine, where you play as a person who gruesomely dies at the end of every..." - See full review

A new listing for Un drôle de paroissien, by filiaa

A new listing for Rewind 500, by Open Adventure

manonamora reviews Like a Sky Full of Locusts: "When in doubt, shoot!" January 3, 2025 "Like a Sky Full of Locusts is a western/monster-y parser game in which you play as an Army man in the Far West, whose tale is derived..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Roar: "Zany action-packed game" January 3, 2025 "Roar is a comedic action-focused game in which the animal kingdom has had enough of men and decided to wage war against them. You play a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews No More: "Force is always the answer" January 3, 2025 "No More is a short horror one-room parser made in Inform, in which you, a young woman, are given an opportunity to escape your abusive..." - See full review

manonamora reviews 39 Trillion and 1: "Viral Infection Body Horror" January 3, 2025 "39 Trillion and 1 is a body horror game made in Twine, in which you embody a virus that infected a woman, with the means to spread..." - See full review

Passion reviews Trigaea: "Cool!!!" January 2, 2025 "HOW IS THIS FREE?? Not that I'm complaining. Awesome game."

Passion reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "Good" January 2, 2025 "Overall good game, not too frustrating and unique use of text as art. There were some parts where I knew what to do but had to use a hint..." - See full review

Passion reviews Sargasso: "AI Art" January 2, 2025 "Stopped playing when I saw the AI art. So about 5 seconds in."

manonamora reviews how to fly a kite / cómo volar una cometa: "Benevolent Ghost" January 2, 2025 "how to fly a kite is a short interactive piece made in Ink, based on poem by Refaat Alareer. In it, you play as a spirit in a war-torn..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Thornfell Manor: 1984: "Solve the mystery of a few teens' deaths" January 1, 2025 "This PunyComp game had a nice concept and was pretty fun, with a few caveats. It looks to be the first game by this author, which is..." - See full review

A new listing for Sargasso, by wjball

A new listing for Flashpoint, by Sailing Shells Games

A new listing for There was no going back, by Velvetlobster

A new listing for il Dule, by Dola Vonde

A new listing for Semester Ahead, by Kobato Games

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