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A new competition page: Concours d'aventures textuelles, 6e édition (2010 - annulée) created September 2, 2025
A new Recommended List by JTN, IFComp 2025 games playable in the UK September 1, 2025
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A new competition page: 31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025) created September 1, 2025
Your Very Last Words, by Interactive Dreams
Unity
You Cannot Speak, by Ted Tarnovski
Ink
you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion, by KA Tan
Twine
The Witch Girls, by Amy Stevens
Twine
The Wise-Woman's Dog, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Dialog
A winter morning on the beach, by E. Cuchel
Inform 7

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Reviews

Dan Fabulich reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "A good start" - See full review
Dan Fabulich reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Easy pickings" - See full review
MathBrush reviews Operative Nine: "A spy/hacker game with graphical mini-games" - See full review
jkj reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "Compelling and Unpredictable" - See full review
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?: "Bubble Gumshoe’s stickiest case yet" - See full review
Cerfeuil reviews Errand Run: "Short linear Twine game" - See full review

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IF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards

Concours d'aventures textuelles, 6e édition (2010 - annulée) created September 2, 2025
31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025) created September 1, 2025
Single Choice Jam 2025 created August 22, 2025
News on IntroComp 2025: Late Entrant: The Ivory Calico August 19, 2025 Details
News on ParserComp 2025: Final results August 9, 2025 Details
IntroComp 2025 created August 8, 2025
Neo-Twiny Jam 2025 created July 3, 2025
ParserComp 2025 created June 30, 2025

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IFComp 2025 games playable in the UK by JTN, 62 items
New walkthroughs for August 2025 by David Welbourn, 9 items
Mentions honorables - FI les mieux notées du concours annuel n'ayant pas reçu de prix by fiction-interactive.fr, 23 items
good ass text RPGs by hecuba, 12 items
Phone-friendly parser games by kqr, 38 items
My IF favorites by xkia, 11 items
Prix de design narratif au concours annuel by fiction-interactive.fr, 3 items
New walkthroughs for July 2025 by David Welbourn, 8 items
Prix technique au concours annuel by fiction-interactive.fr, 16 items

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IFDB Recommends

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon...

Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the...

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...

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IFDB is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. It is funded by the donations of IF supporters like you. All donations go to support the operation of this web site and IFTF's other services.