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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedNews on Short Games Showcase 2025: The Short Games Showcase 2025 has begun! January 1, 2026
The submission deadline has passed for the SGS 2025, and voting on Itch.io is now open! (We'll work to get the voting form for additional categories up and running shortly.) Check out this year's crop of... - Details
Games
Add a game listingDerrière la cascade, by Ju / smwhr Ink |
Why would you summon a demon?, by Kobato Games Ren'Py |
Let's go for a walk!, by wiglett Scratch |
Our Only Life, by cizclera Twine |
RIDE HOME, by TabbieDearest Ren'Py |
a dialect for two, by lacunova Ren'Py |
Reviews
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Vault of Stories: "An innovative example of Twine as a teaching tool (with a sci-fi twist)"   |
hemoanemic reviews Will the Real Marjorie Hopkirk Please Stand Up?: "RE; Will the Real Marjorie Hopkirk Please Stand Up?" |
MathBrush reviews Zodiac - An Arthur Blonde Mission: "James Bond-style comedy parser game" |
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Starfreighter: "A procedural generation space commerce game with no growth" |
Competitions
Add a competition listingIF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards
News on Short Games Showcase 2025: Short Games Showcase 2025 open for submissions! December 2, 2025 Details
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IFDB Recommends
| 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... |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are... |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
| 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... |
| 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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