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News on Short Games Showcase 2025: Short Games Showcase 2025 open for submissions! December 2, 2025
The IF Short Games Showcase 2025 is currently open for submissions! You can submit up to two short games, previously released or not, as long as they were made in 2025. Games in the SGS compete for an... - Details
The Tales of Erenel, by Will11
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The Enchanted Forest, by Peace SnuglyCloud
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Containment Breach: SCP Research, by Peace SnuglyCloud
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Loving Him, by Coralina
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Creation: Dawn of a New God, by Liam Reichdan
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The Krampus Case, by Kirk Damato, Sarah Willson
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Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Growth under the Dome: "There is little room to grow when you live under a dome" - See full review
Rovarsson reviews Warden: a (bug)folk horror: "Beetle Jig and a dead carapace..." - See full review
Rovarsson reviews Beneath the Weeping Willow: "Ghostly remembrances" - See full review
Rovarsson reviews The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition: "Small town business and the silent moors..." - See full review
Wade Clarke reviews Temptation in the Village: "Atmospheric elaboration on a Kafka short story with a psychological focus." - See full review

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News on Short Games Showcase 2025: Short Games Showcase 2025 open for submissions! December 2, 2025 Details
Short Games Showcase 2025 created December 2, 2025
PunyComp 2025 created December 2, 2025
News on ECTOCOMP 2025: Results are out! December 1, 2025 Details
Iron ChIF (Pilot Episode) created November 14, 2025
Bare-Bones Jam 2025 created November 3, 2025
ECTOCOMP 2025 created October 31, 2025
News on 31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025): Final results October 19, 2025 Details

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Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that...

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...

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...

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

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...

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