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A new competition page: French Comp 2026 - Concours de FI francophone 2026 created September 7, 2025
Fairytale Detective Mystery 1, by Santosh H
Custom
News on Why Pout?: Why Pout version 7 released, but play IFComp games instead! Details
Blood of Creation, by Jekyllstein Gray
Twine
Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure, by GameClicks
Custom
The end of an obsession, by ebi-hime
Ren'Py

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Reviews

MathBrush reviews Just Two Wishes: "Commentary on Israel, Trump, and Palestine through metaphor" - See full review
MathBrush reviews Grove of Bones: "Short horror Choicescript game about carnivorous trees" - See full review
OtisTDog reviews Backpackward: "Neat backpack inventory interface but only an introduction to a story" - See full review
ChanceOfFire reviews An Unexpectedly Green Journey: "It ain't easy being green" - See full review
OtisTDog reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Yes - it's every bit as terrible as it sounds!" - See full review
OtisTDog reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "Barely functional interaction coupled to fundamentally anti-player design" - See full review

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IF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards

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

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IFDB Recommends

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...

Type Help, by William Rous
A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead. Investigate the files on an old...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but...

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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