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Some Games

by Razzal - 3 games

My new walkthroughs for April 2021

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"On Tuesday April 27, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of..."

"Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces Infocom" CD Rom

by bgb1975 - 1 game
"Help! I'm a complete layman with this stuff - I have the old Activision CD ROM "Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces Infocom" and am trying to run the games using Gargoyle (downloaded onto my MacBook Pro). But I can't figure out how to do..."

Older Frankendrift compatible games

by Denk - 16 games
"Frankendrift was first published in 2021, which made Adrift 5 games playable on Mac and Linux and provides a lighter Runner for Windows as well, though without sound so far. So older Adrift 5 games may have been overlooked on those..."

IF For Libraries

by pwaak - 11 games
"I have examined the licensing and reviews for these games. They all conform to the selection policy of a typical public library in Texas. Your mileage may vary. Academic libraries may consider this list conservative while school..."

Must-Play IF

by gettera - 4 games
"There are some games I think everyone should play--as I play through them, I'll add the best games here."

Games with cities

by Felix Pleșoianu - 5 games
"Because I like cities and they mean a lot to me."

RPG Games

by mjhayes - 4 games
"IF that integrates common elements of role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons"

Individual teen PCs

by Kinetic Mouse Car - 22 games
"This list is not for games that are simply about teens. It is for games starring an individual teen PC (you know, 13-19). I made this list because it is interesting to interact with a story through the perspective of teenagers,..."

For My Correspondence Course

by TaciturnScribe - 3 games

Favorites (games that will get you hooked on IF)

by crown_etherette - 6 games
"This list is for Vern and includes my favorite titles to date. I prefer puzzle games with extensive environments to explore."

2025 Alternative Top 25

by Denk - 25 games
"(Created 16-May-2025) This is a snapshot of the 25 games on IFDB with the highest average star rating, though excluding games with less than 5 ratings. The purpose is to allow for games with few ratings so people can check out the less..."

A Year on IFDB: The games that have stayed with me

by Spike - 12 games
"About a year ago I discovered post-AGT interactive fiction. Since then I've played a lot of great IF games. This list consists of the ones that have stuck with me the most. They're not necessarily the ones I rated the highest immediately..."

High Fantasy Game Recs

by Heli N. - 4 games
"While I continue to play and review games here, I'll continue to update the list with more and more games that belong to this genre."

Medium Puzzles

by Fie - 8 games
"This is my attempt at creating a player's needs focused list of puzzles. Puzzle games at approximately the same difficulty will be grouped together, so that someone who plays one game on this list will be likely to enjoy other games on..."

An Incomplete List of IF That I've Come To Love

by Wes Modes - 3 games

New walkthroughs for October 2024

by David Welbourn - 7 games
"On Tuesday, October 29, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

Funny Games

by Ivanr - 6 games
"Okay, this is purely subjective, but since really successful comedy is so rare in IF I thought I'd collect what I consider to be the successes. Each of these is a game that made me grin. (To avoid killing any frogs, the commentary here..."

Ogre's Stories

by Ogre - 5 games
"A list of stories written by me, Ogre."

Big, non-linear adventure games with score system

by MathBrush - 33 games
"These are classic-style games, where you have to collect a large variety of objects while exploring a cave or building. My favorite way to play these games is to start playing without hints, mapping out the world and seeing what all I..."

Enduring Games

by AmberShards - 6 games
"These are games with memorable stories, whose characters live long after the window has closed, and in which the puzzles are an integral part of the game. "

Good German language games

by ifwizz - 15 games
"The best German language games I ever played"

My favourite old IF games

by zhaofeng - 6 games
"Old IF games."

Simulation games

by SpesKnight - 17 games
"Games that simulate something, not just IF stories but kind of management games made with IF engines"

Favorite Fours From Industrious Implementors, 2G

by Walter Sandsquish - 28 games
"Some I.F. writers write more than others. Here are my favorite four games from authors who've released at least half-a-dozen games to date. This list covers 2nd-generation text-adventure implementors, who published the bulk of their work..."

New walkthroughs for November 2023

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"On Wednesday, November 29, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for..."

To Play

by Ms. Woods - 3 games
"Games to be played."

Stiffy Through The Ages

by Ivanr - 7 games
"One of the most enduring characters in interactive fiction is a guy named Stiffy. Stiffy Makane. A misogynistic, notoriously ill-coded three-room game from 1997 launched an enduring inside joke, and over the past 20 years the ribald id..."

QuaintHydra's Picks

by QuaintHydra - 4 games
"Games I enjoyed, in no particular order."

New walkthroughs for September 2022

by David Welbourn - 6 games
"On Friday, September 30, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for..."

Plot-heavy IF

by Emily Short - 10 games
"Interactive fiction with a lot of plot -- many scenes and events moving the player forward, rather than just a collection of puzzles. Some of these works are fairly difficult and do use puzzles as pacing devices, while others are low in..."

Games that have been adapted into books, films and other works

by Strident - 7 games
"A list of text adventures and other IF that were later adapted by their authors into novels, films and other works besides traditional IF. "

New walkthroughs for September 2021

by David Welbourn - 6 games
"On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! (Plus a walkthrough for a game called Chipmonk not listed on IFDB yet.) Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon...."

Innovative Interactive Fiction

by Victor Gijsbers - 7 games
"Much Interactive Fiction, and some of the best, quite obviously descends from Zork and other early Infocom text adventures. But some of it departs from that terrain, and attempts to take the medium to new and unexplored areas. I here..."

Top 20 by 2019

by kala - 20 games
"I have followed the one work per author rule."

TBR

by Ms. Woods - 2 games
"To be replayed."

Find-all-the-rooms games

by mg51 - 5 games
"Usually short and contained, not particularly heavy on plot. But they definitely scratch a certain itch."

Games That Will Keep You Busy For Weeks

by Raksab - 6 games
"These games are long. It may take you days, weeks, or even months to finish them. Not because the puzzles are incredibly hard (although some are), but simply because the worlds are so big and the plots so complete that it will take you a..."

New walkthroughs for May 2025

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of..."

Winter Wastelands

by verityvirtue - 13 games
"Games set in the Arctic, Antarctic, or any other cold wilderness. Preferably with the isolation and harsh environment featuring prominently. Suggestions welcome. (Sorting is random, but games I have played come higher up)"

Easy, fun, short.

by Michael R. Bacon - 10 games
"Easy to get into and complete while remaining very entertaining."

New walkthroughs for December 2023

by David Welbourn - 6 games
"On Thursday, December 28, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for..."

Works Consulted

by Drew Cook - 19 games
"I've decided to make a list of games that have influenced my writing, whether it be criticism or game development. I'll be adding to this over time. Comments and questions are welcome! There is no particular order or rating, no matter..."

Cool games I like

by Seth Fisher - 8 games
"to be expanded"

Distinctive Puzzle Style

by Sam Kabo Ashwell - 10 games
"One of the most powerful techniques for rendering a game memorable is to build it around a unusual, interesting and consistent way of handling significant world interaction (or puzzles, if you prefer). It's also a difficult technique to..."

Games with lessons for aspiring IF authors

by Pinstripe - 6 games
"These are the games that, in my opinion, have the most to offer prospective authors of interactive fiction. As an experienced player but rookie author myself, I'll be relying on my own highly subjective criteria. Elements of IF these..."

Started But Unfinished Games

by GameDesigner - 10 games
"These are games that I started and never got around to finishing. I intend to finish them one at at time."

Something Moving Under The Bed recommended IF

by Something Moving Under The Bed - 6 games

Favorite Weird/Surreal Games

by thecanvasrose - 17 games
"An ongoing list of bizarro, out of the box, quirky and 'who would ever think to make this' games which force one to question their own sanity, if just a little bit."

Great religious and mythological games

by MathBrush - 27 games
"My "Best Fantasy" list was growing too big, so I'm splitting off the religious, mythological, and afterlife games. Some games like Curses! have a lot of religious and mythological references, but this list focuses on games where it's the..."

Sabrina's Recommended Reading

by ninethlion - 4 games
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New walkthroughs for December 2022

by David Welbourn - 7 games
"On Friday, December 30, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

Rather Old IFDB Games

by HoneySpeck - 35 games
"These are games that fit into the category of 'rather old', i.e. they were released before 1990."

Felicity Drake's favorite interactive fiction

by Felicity Drake - 9 games
"Personal favorites!"

My new walkthroughs for July 2019

by David Welbourn - 9 games
"Very late on Monday July 29, 2019, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for..."

Light-hearted games with solveable puzzles

by Celestianpower - 4 games
"Games with comedic elements, and good, solveable puzzles."

Time travel games

by MathBrush - 25 games
"These are games where the main puzzles are centered on time travel. I'm splitting this off from my science fiction list. Many games include one or two time travel puzzles, such as Spellbreaker or Curses!. But this list is for games whose..."

My favorite games

by Paolo Lucchesi - 5 games
"A brief list of the games I've liked, and I would recommend to another player"

Hard puzzle and dungeon games, Zork I, II, and III

by WandWielder - 2 games
"Very cool. Has a good story with a nice description and background. One small problem is the lack of enemies you find during the underground..."

My (19) January CASA/solutionarchive walkthroughs/contributions

by Andrew Schultz - 21 games
"This month I got back into contributing to CASA. Actually, I never seriously had before. I have a year's goal of getting to 150 points, or Dungeon Master. I tried to avoid duplicating David Welbourn's excellent work both by checking his..."

French Interactive Fictions played on streams

by Lilie Bagage - 37 games
"Fictions interactives francophones testées à plusieurs durant des sessions de streaming sur ma chaîne Twitch. French interactive fictions played during streaming sessions on my Twitch channel."

Works of Wordplay

by Walter Sandsquish - 12 games
"Text-adventure games consist of little more than words, so some of them concern themselves with little more than wordplay. Here are a dozen of the better ones."

New walkthroughs for January 2024

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

New walkthroughs for January 2025

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"n Wednesday, January 29, 2025, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for..."

My new walkthroughs for September 2020

by David Welbourn - 7 games
"During the morning of Monday September 28, 2020, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new..."

Silly/goofy/purposely bad games

by MathBrush - 9 games
"These are games that are funny because they are ridiculous or completely absurd. This does not include games like Tex Bonaventure or Rogue of the Multiverse which have developed plot lines and long stretches of non absurdity."

Campus Capers

by Walter Sandsquish - 11 games
"Games set on the author's campus have the same reputation as games set at the author's home: Trite and clumsy. But, some college games have excelled ..."

Interactive Fiction Competition Winners

by RichCheng - 32 games
"These are the games that won First Place honours in the IFComp each year."

New walkthroughs for March 2022

by David Welbourn - 10 games
"On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

Bear Hardness

by Fivetenosdhotnvi - 1 game
"Its is a really hard game I tried playing but its an awesome game made by somebody else."

1-room games

by Luihum - 4 games

New walkthroughs for May 2022

by David Welbourn - 9 games
"On Monday, May 30, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of..."

Best of Quest

by Denk - 6 games
"There are lots of Quest games, some better than others. These are my favourites:"

nanobots

by Xavid - 8 games
"a twine album by the Society of Narrativist Progenitors with apologies to They Might Be Giants and the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction (Twine games based on the track of the same name from the They Might Be Giants album..."

ZX Spectrum / SAM Adventures I enjoy

by chris00 - 10 games

New walkthroughs for February 2022

by David Welbourn - 13 games
"On Friday, February 25, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

New walkthroughs for April 2024

by David Welbourn - 5 games
"On Monday and Tuesday, April 29 and 30, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new..."

Vinesauce's Joel Might Love These Games

by TheVoid - 5 games
"Games Joel, aka Vargskelethor on Twitch, would likely enjoy playing for a "text Adventure Madness" stream"

My favorite games

by lsloan - 1 game

Twine games with gorgeous gradient backgrounds

by Kinetic Mouse Car - 12 games
"These are Twine games that make heavy use of gradient backgrounds. This excludes Twine games that use a variety of single colour backgrounds. Those too are wonderful but do not fit this list. There is something about a well-placed..."

general stuff i dont want to lose

by Merrill - 12 games

Games for Handheld Devices

by Marius Müller - 5 games
"This (by no means complete list) lists game which are easy to play on Handheld devices, because they require neither extensive note-taking nor mapping."

IFDB Top 100

by Pegbiter - 100 games
"An automatically updated list utilizing an IMDb style Bayes estimator to calculate weighted ratings based on all IFDB ratings. Questions and comments can be placed here...."

Games I've enjoyed

by Six31 - 8 games
"Games that I've found enjoyable, either because of their immersive environments, satisfying puzzles, or a combination of both. Games that I recommend to others who want to step into the world of interactive fiction."

Mars master list

by Kinetic Mouse Car - 12 games
"All about Mars. Does not need to take place on the surface of Mars. Games that take place under Mars' surface, orbiting Mars, on Mars' moons, or even just about traveling to Mars are included. Simply ones that add an interesting twist or..."

British setting

by Teaspoon - 5 games
"Good games in a British setting. "

Fun Stuff at ChooseYourStory

by Ogre - 5 games
"Just a list of some fun games from the ChooseYourStory site"

Parent protagonists

by Kinetic Mouse Car - 18 games
"Games where you play as characters with offspring."

Puzzle-less IF

by mjhayes - 3 games
"Interactive stories without the puzzles. Most of them are short, and morbid as well, so be prepared."

Bookamrked

by Xuan Li - 4 games
"memorable stuff?"

Forgotten Treasures of IFDB

by MathBrush - 33 games
"These are games that are great, either in my opinion or in many others, but which have been forgotten. By forgotten, I mean it satisfies the following: 1. Not an IfComp or XYZZY Best Game winner, 2. Not in Best 50 Interactive Fiction..."

Doug's Top Ten of IF Comp 2015

by Doug Orleans - 10 games
"I played all 53 entries in IF Comp 2016. These were the top ten games on my ballot. Note that I rate games on slightly different criteria for the IF Comp than I do for IFDB; in particular, as per the Comp rules, I select my vote after..."

citizinf's completion dates

by citizinf - 4 games
"There's nothing interesting here. I'm just keeping track of the dates when I finished games."

Missing in action.

by Jade68 - 2 games
"I am "studying" the first years of the if, '70s and early 80's and I am going to list here the games we are searching and also which we are finding. F=found and listed in ifdb L=listed in ifdb but no link available f= found in other site..."

New walkthroughs for January 2023

by David Welbourn - 8 games
"On Sunday, January 29, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works..."

Games that Brought Me Back to IF

by BeingTheWriter - 4 games
"I was really into interactive fiction about five years ago. Getting my day job killed off my time to play, as well as the death of my laptop and good enough phone. But now I'm back thanks to an app on my phone. So these are the games I..."

Games Worth Playing

by Jim Turner - 7 games
"Some of the games I liked best."

My List Of Most Fun Games Ever

by Rotonoto - 29 games
"(in purely alphabetical order)"

Liminal Works

by Karona - 5 games
"What distinguishes these works is the feeling I get while playing them -- the pang of ephemeral beauty, the bittersweetness of nostalgia, or a sense of mystery. Most of these works were recommended to me by members of the Interactive..."

Favorite IF with randomized combat

by Denk - 9 games
"All the games on this list use quite simple turn based combat, similar to "Leadlight" and "Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom" (both on this list). A few well known titles with randomized combat are not on this list, since I have not been..."

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