Top 1000 Tags

Here are the top 1000 tags on IFDB, listed in order of frequency, along with numbers showing how many games have each tag. Click on a tag to list the games associated with the tag.

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walkthrough (1931)

parser (1835)

cover art (1723)

IFComp Game (1418)

twine (1380)

graphics (1157)

short (838)

CYOA (821)

choice-based (817)

horror (796)

female protagonist (791)

source available (768)

multiple endings (748)

two-word parser (715)

science fiction (714)

ClubFloyd transcript (682)

sound (634)

male protagonist (606)

Xyzzy response (548)

commercial (516)

TADS (491)

adrift (489)

humor (489)

rpg (482)

gender-neutral protagonist (464)

hypertext (440)

nonhuman protagonist (424)

Ectocomp game (410)

music (367)

tads 2 (366)

second person (363)

built-in hints (362)

first person (350)

Spring Thing Game (330)

Winner of a comp (318)

word count limit (318)

sexual content (301)

Eamon (280)

LGBTQ+ (278)

magic (272)

foreign language (269)

neo-twiny jam (263)

single room (257)

ChooseYourStory (256)

profanity (250)

score (238)

first effort (232)

I6 source available (232)

I7 source available (222)

german (221)

multiple protagonists (210)

puzzleless (202)

gender choice (199)

comedy (198)

present tense (198)

bookmarks (197)

child protagonist (197)

landscape mode (196)

maze (196)

ChoiceScript (191)

C64 (189)

slice of life (189)

Mini-comp (186)

French (185)

Inform (180)

third person (180)

teenage protagonist (175)

Colossal cash prize (173)

historical (173)

IntroComp (173)

choice of games (168)

Adventure (167)

dragon (165)

IF Short Games Showcase (164)

La Petite Mort (164)

adventuron (162)

Le Grand Guignol (161)

space (161)

adaptation (156)

linear (155)

undo (152)

visual novel (151)

combat (150)

zx spectrum (150)

collaboration (149)

conversation (143)

murder (141)

Neo-Twiny Jam 2024 (137)

escape (133)

ghost (133)

based on songs (131)

time travel (131)

death (130)

primitive parser (129)

fan fiction (124)

TADS 3 (123)

incomplete (121)

TRS-80 MC-10 (119)

Fallen London content (117)

family (117)

detective (116)

gay/queer protagonist (116)

BASIC (115)

Interactive Fiction Top 50 (114)

animal protagonist (113)

cats (112)

PC Eamon Museum (112)

treasure hunt (112)

aliens (111)

long-form (110)

poetry (110)

aif (108)

CYOA with location-based world model (108)

castle (107)

Available on Steam (106)

cat (106)

IFComp 2020 (104)

puzzle (104)

dreams (103)

MICRO (102)

past tense (102)

Glulx (97)

game doesn't exist (96)

strong profanity (95)

Short Games Showcase 2024 (94)

post-apocalyptic (92)

House Setting (91)

character graphics (90)

kid-friendly (90)

Adrift 3.9 (89)

fairy tale (89)

ShuffleComp (85)

delayed text (84)

retro (84)

crime (83)

IFComp 2019 (82)

Lovecraftian (82)

adaptive hints (81)

city (81)

PunyInform (81)

IFComp 2017 (80)

slow (80)

stats (80)

built-in map (77)

IFComp 2018 (77)

dog (76)

sub-Q magazine (76)

hosted games (75)

IFComp 2023 (75)

artificial intelligence (74)

easy (72)

queer (72)

single choice jam (72)

war (72)

Apocalypse (71)

IFComp 2021 (71)

IFComp 2022 (71)

IF Short Games Showcase 2023 (70)

Interactive Fiction Top 50 2023 (70)

simulation (70)

educational (68)

evil protagonist (68)

Interactive Fiction Top 50 2019 (68)

Small-Sized (68)

IFComp 2024 (67)

Ink (67)

depression (66)

spaceship setting (65)

body horror (64)

exploration (64)

Free IF Playoffs (64)

limited verbs (64)

People's Champion Tournament 2025 (64)

supernatural (64)

experimental (63)

dialogue jam (62)

NightFloyd transcript (62)

Old School (62)

unfinished (62)

drama (61)

Moderately-Challenging (61)

food (60)

house (60)

meta (60)

randomized (60)

achievements (59)

murder mystery (59)

replayable (59)

silly (59)

Text Adventure Literacy Jam (59)

IFComp 2016 (58)

translation (58)

BASIC source available (56)

funny (56)

Quest (56)

dynamic fiction (55)

IFComp 2015 (55)

transgender (55)

dark (54)

party (54)

IF Competition 2000 (53)

play online (53)

replay puzzle (53)

Amiga (52)

asian protagonist (52)

IF Competition 2001 (52)

ocean (52)

time limit (52)

robot (51)

Australian (50)

ECTOCOMP 2023 (50)

illustrations (50)

Interactive Fiction Top 50 2015 (50)

on Jay is Games (50)

witch (50)

Broken links to Delron (49)

active NPCs (48)

ECTOCOMP 2024 (48)

Interactive Fiction Top 50 2011 (48)

Life (48)

map (48)

cave (47)

dark fantasy (47)

noir (47)

Spring Thing 2022 (47)

Christianity (46)

drugs (46)

ECTOCOMP 2022 (46)

random combat (46)

sex (46)

They Might Be Giants (46)

EctoComp Winner (45)

non-standard system (45)

school setting (45)

share (45)

autobiographical (44)

Eamon Deluxe 5.0 (44)

investigation (44)

student project (44)

train (44)

IF Competition 2006 (43)

blood (42)

haunted house (42)

hints (42)

IFComp 2014 (42)

Middle-earth (42)

naked twine jam (42)

Trivially-Challenging (42)

Adrift competition 2004 (41)

based on book (41)

psychological (41)

trans protagonist (41)

voice acting (41)

atmospheric (40)

Eamon Remastered (40)

love (40)

test as premise (40)

cute (39)

demon (39)

escape room (39)

gore (39)

GPL (39)

Nouvim3000 (39)

abuse (38)

Amstrad CPC (38)

dead protagonist (38)

greek mythology (38)

grief (38)

IF Comp 2011 (38)

IF Competition 2002 (38)

procedural generation (38)

Zork (38)

deliberately bad game (37)

distinct areas (37)

Hell (37)

IF Competition 1999 (37)

IF Competition 2004 (37)

Spring Thing 2021 (37)

TADS2 source available (37)

urban fantasy (37)

very brief (37)

Adrift competition 2003 (36)

ancient Greece (36)

Back Garden (36)

character creation (36)

game adaptation (36)

IF Competition 2005 (36)

sexuality choice (36)

smoochie jam (36)

systematic puzzles (36)

AI cover art (35)

IF Competition 2008 (35)

IF Competition 2013 (35)

Mars (35)

mental illness (35)

Part of a Series (35)

psychological horror (35)

relationships (35)

resource management (35)

retro-machines (35)

sidekick NPC (35)

Unreliable Narrator (35)

compassless (34)

ECTOCOMP 2021 (34)

French game (34)

friendship (34)

IF Competition 1997 (34)

Japan (34)

moral choice (34)

Spring Thing 2025 (34)

moiki (33)

nonfiction (33)

Spring Thing 2024 (33)

Spring Thing Winner (33)

CYOA with puzzles (32)

EctoComp 2017 (32)

IFComp Winner (32)

Let's Play (32)

money (32)

multiple solutions (32)

parent-child relationships (32)

PunyInform source available (32)

2024 IF Review-a-thon (31)

Full-Sized (31)

game within a game (31)

multimedia (31)

nsfw (31)

2019 XYZZY Awards (30)

AGT source available (30)

Atari 8-Bit (30)

Dialogue Jam 2025 (30)

ectocomp 2018 (30)

Ectocomp 2019 (30)

heist (30)

IF Competition 2003 (30)

ship (30)

tower (30)

translated game (30)

1800s (29)

1980s (29)

2020 XYZZY Awards (29)

fish (29)

high school (29)

IF Art Show (29)

IF Competition 2007 (29)

mild profanity (29)

noninteractive (29)

recommended for beginners (29)

transformation (29)

Xyzzy Awards 2018 (29)

Alternate History (28)

Art (28)

graded success (28)

IF Competition 2012 (28)

Miss Congeniality Winner (28)

sudden death (28)

turn limit (28)

werewolves (28)

XYZZY Best Game (28)

XYZZY Best Story (28)

XYZZY Best Writing (28)

anti-romance jam (27)

bare-bones jam (27)

bare-bones jam 2023 (27)

family-friendly (27)

feelie map (27)

IF Competition 1996 (27)

IF Competition 1998 (27)

kids (27)

mathematics (27)

paranormal (27)

Really Bad IF Jam (27)

Xyzzy Awards 2015 (27)

XYZZY Best Individual NPC (27)

XYZZY Best Individual Puzzle (27)

XYZZY Best NPCs (27)

XYZZY Best Puzzles (27)

XYZZY Best Setting (27)

AI protagonist (26)

boat (26)

cave crawl (26)

demo (26)

Egypt (26)

IF Comp 2010 (26)

iOS (26)

point and click (26)

sound effects (26)

Spring Thing 2023 (26)

spy (26)

strong npcs (26)

Twine source available (26)

adjustable difficulty (25)

devil (25)

EctoComp 2013 (25)

Fighting Fantasy (25)

Golden Banana of Discord winner (25)

multiple choices (25)

personalisation (25)

Xyzzy Awards 2011 (25)

Xyzzy Awards 2013 (25)

XYZZY Best Individual PC (25)

2021 XYZZY Awards (24)

anthropomorphised animals (24)

beach (24)

birds (24)

cozy (24)

dating sim (24)

epistolary (24)

hotel (24)

IF Competition 2009 (24)

scatological (24)

Work (24)

BBC (23)

character portraits (23)

coming of age (23)

guns (23)

Holiday Theme (23)

inkJam 2023 (23)

mental health (23)

minimalist (23)

philosophy (23)

Shakespeare (23)

space travel (23)

text adventure (23)

typing effect (23)

underwater (23)

virtual reality (23)

Xyzzy Awards 2017 (23)

auto advance (22)

creepypasta (22)

dos (22)

ECTOComp 2020 (22)

free software (22)

many authors (22)

modern day (22)

multiplayer (22)

rat (22)

Spring Thing 2017 (22)

talp (22)

Topologika (22)

Xyzzy Awards 2000 (22)

Xyzzy Awards 2016 (22)

Adrift competition 2005 (21)

car (21)

clickventure (21)

compass status display (21)

EctoComp 2016 (21)

flashbacks (21)

grue (21)

interactive (21)

last lousy point (21)

Medium-Sized (21)

recommended for children (21)

sad (21)

science fantasy (21)

SpeedIF November 1999 (21)

Spring Thing 2020 (21)

student protagonist (21)

type-in game (21)

Xyzzy Awards 2006 (21)

Xyzzy Awards 2012 (21)

1920s (20)

alien world (20)

alternative endings (20)

archaeology (20)

based on short story (20)

C source available (20)

dungeon crawl (20)

magic system (20)

ParserComp 2022 (20)

Published 1985 (20)

room-name navigation (20)

sherlock holmes (20)

social media (20)

Spring Thing 2018 (20)

Spring Thing 2019 (20)

text based (20)

Textfire demo (20)

wolf (20)

Xyzzy Awards 2001 (20)

Xyzzy Awards 2010 (20)

Xyzzy Awards 2014 (20)

2025 IF Review-a-thon (19)

based on poem (19)

ChickenComp (19)

china (19)

complicity (19)

constrained protagonist (19)

dumbwaiter (19)

EctoComp 2014 (19)

Fighting Fantasy Classics (19)

guided maze (19)

Hugo (19)

IntroComp completed (19)

private investigator (19)

real setting (19)

ShuffleComp 2024 (19)

soundtrack (19)

space station (19)

sword (19)

TADS3 source available (19)

tarot (19)

tutorial mode (19)

Xyzzy Awards 1997 (19)

Xyzzy Awards 2002 (19)

Xyzzy Awards 2022 (19)

audio (18)

conspiracy (18)

culinary theme (18)

cult (18)

custom parser (18)

diegetic interface (18)

Doctor Who (18)

fae (18)

gay (18)

generative ai (18)

mobile friendly (18)

one ending (18)

Parsercomp 2021 (18)

sea (18)

SeedComp23 (18)

story (18)

thief (18)

Tiny Utopias Jam (18)

translation available (18)

troll (18)

twist (18)

Unity (18)

angel (17)

chess (17)

child author (17)

d&d (17)

dark humor (17)

French SpeedIF (17)

gun (17)

hostile NPC (17)

inheritance (17)

loneliness (17)

magical realism (17)

moon (17)

myth (17)

nonbinary protagonist (17)

NPC narrator (17)

ParserComp 2024 (17)

Phoenix mainframe (17)

Published 1984 (17)

ShuffleComp: Disc 2 (17)

snow (17)

Softworks AGT competition 1992 (17)

Spring Thing 2016 (17)

university (17)

Velox Fabula 2023 (17)

video (17)

writer protagonist (17)

Xyzzy Awards 1996 (17)

Xyzzy Awards 1999 (17)

Xyzzy Awards 2004 (17)

Xyzzy Awards 2005 (17)

Adrift competition 2006 (16)

bisexuality (16)

changing environment (16)

character based (16)

farm (16)

imaginary games jam (16)

inkjam entry (16)

jam (16)

milk (16)

Multiple clubfloyd transcripts (16)

multiple pov (16)

nautical directions (16)

NPC based hint system (16)

Optional romance (16)

ParserComp 2023 (16)

snake (16)

SpeedIF April 2003 (16)

standard difficulty (16)

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2021 (16)

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2022 (16)

underground (16)

wacky uncle (16)

World War II (16)

Xyzzy Awards 2007 (16)

anti-productivity jam (15)

cannibalism (15)

cards (15)

cryo tubes (15)

divine protagonist (15)

Extremely-Challenging (15)

fire (15)

flashing images (15)

full length (15)

gods (15)

if community references (15)

Introcomp 2020 (15)

laboratory setting (15)

lewis carroll (15)

linguistics (15)

mad science (15)

mad scientist (15)

memorable npc (15)

non-human protagonist (15)

only available on the Wayback Machine (15)

Paris (15)

parser-choice hybrid (15)

Published 1983 (15)

sexual references (15)

ShuffleComp 2023 (15)

SpeedIF May 2001 (15)

technology (15)

Xyzzy Awards 2003 (15)

XYZZY Best Use of Innovation (15)

1930s (14)

advanced difficulty (14)

app (14)

bear (14)

bird protagonist (14)

bureaucracy (14)

child (14)

commodore 64 (14)

Computer Assisted Language Learning (14)

Cruel (14)

curse (14)

disturbing (14)

duck (14)

eamon deluxe (14)

epic (14)

GAC (14)

horse (14)

Hugo source available (14)

loss (14)

ludum dare (14)

lycanthropy (14)

menu-based (14)

night (14)

non-human npcs (14)

NPC parser (14)

ParserComp 2015 (14)

paw (14)

Premios Hispanos a la Aventura 2000 (14)

Premios Hispanos a la Aventura 2002 (14)

protagonist selection (14)

puns (14)

quiz (14)

scary (14)

SeedComp24 (14)

Softworks AGT competition 1993 (14)

SpeedIF March 2001 (14)

storytelling (14)

Survival Horror (14)

text-based (14)

unearthed stories (14)

Unwinnable (14)

vampire protagonist (14)

weird (14)

Xyzzy Awards 1998 (14)

Xyzzy Awards 2009 (14)

XYZZY Best Implementation (14)

young adult (14)

1990s (13)

Adrift competition 2002 (13)

AdventureJam (13)

ask/tell conversation (13)

bar (13)

cow (13)

dysfunctional families (13)

EctoComp 2015 (13)

flash fiction (13)

Hans Christian Andersen (13)

Hourglass Competition 2006 (13)

IntroComp 2002 (13)

IntroComp 2011 (13)

literary adaptation (13)

Love/Violence Jam (13)

miniature protagonist (13)

poem (13)

Published 1987 (13)

renpy (13)

single choice (13)

single puzzle (13)

smoochie jam 2025 (13)

Source is part of experience (13)

StoryNexus (13)

witchcraft (13)

XYZZY Best Use of Medium (13)

Acorn Electron (12)

Adrift 3.8 (12)

Adventuron Christmas Jam (12)

Alice (12)

ancient history (12)

body transformation (12)

car accident (12)

compilation (12)

contemplative (12)

Edgar Allan Poe (12)

email (12)

Erins Winner (12)

fate (12)

fear of twine (12)

fictional nation (12)

food puzzle (12)

IF Competition 1995 (12)

InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp 2005 (12)

IntroComp 2018 (12)

lighthouse (12)

monster protagonist (12)

music references (12)

non-parser in parser oriented system (12)

optimisation puzzle (12)

ParserComp 2025 (12)

pig (12)

Premios Hispanos a la Aventura 2003 (12)

Published 2021 (12)

Published 2024 (12)

secret agent (12)

small town (12)

Speed-IF Jacket 2 (12)

surprisingly not pornographic (12)

text (12)

ToasterComp (12)

undum (12)

user generated content (12)

World War I (12)

2012 IGF Pirate Kart (11)

ADRIFT competition 2008 (11)

Amusement Park (11)

animal NPC (11)

based on TV show (11)

BDSM (11)

bibliographical references (11)

bird (11)

bitsy (11)

bomb (11)

candy (11)

canine protagonist (11)

child abuse (11)

classic category (11)

Cryptex Game Jam (11)

dream sequence (11)

emotional abuse (11)

female protagonists (11)

former commercial (11)

fourth wall (11)

Introcomp 2017 (11)

Jacic (11)

keyword parser (11)

logic puzzles (11)

mall (11)

mouseover enhancements (11)

Penultimate not numbered Speed IF (11)

possession (11)

Public Domain (11)

public transport (11)

Published 1986 (11)