Spring Thing 2026

Spring Thing, also known as the Autumnal Jumble, focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new experiments.

Entrants to the Main Festival can be nominated for a “Best In Show” ribbon, and all entries are eligible for custom “Audience Award” ribbons. Prize donors also gift fun, unique prizes, which Main Festival entrants have a chance to receive.

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Series: Spring Thing

Official Web site: https://www.springthing.net/2026/

Organizer(s): Brian Rushton profile

Award date: May 9, 2026

Submission deadline: April 4, 2026

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Main Festival

Main Festival games can be nominated for a "Best in Show" 'ribbon', and (unrelatedly) are eligible for prizes.

Entrant: 23 Minutes, by George Larkwright
Entrant: Before the Snow Melts, by Zach Crowe
Entrant: The Coffee Cake Caper, by Darius Foo
Entrant: Crier, by Antemaion
Entrant: Cryptid Hunter, by Adam Wade, Alex Kutza, Skye Murrell
Entrant: Cyclic Fruition Number One, by D E Haynes
Entrant: Enigmart, by Sarah Wilson
Entrant: Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory, by Lamp Post Projects
Entrant: The House, by Miles Poehler
Entrant: Latinorum, by Roberto Ceccarelli
Entrant: Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead, by Ellric Smith
Entrant: meminerimus, by diluculum
Entrant: The Missing City Council, by Solarius
Entrant: Our Lady of Thorns, by Joel Burton
Entrant: The Perilous Plot, by Carrie Berg
Entrant: A Quiet Scurry, by Moss & Quill Studios
Entrant: Social Democracy: Popular Front, by Autumn Chen
Entrant: Strings: a (bug)folk song, by Tabitha and baezil
Entrant: The Universal Robot (Assembled By Hex), by Agnieszka Trzaska

Back Garden

Back Garden games don't participate in "Best in Show" voting and prizes, but have looser restrictions on entry.

Entrant: Exchange, by Peter Johnston
Entrant: Join the Swarm, by Senica Thing
Entrant: Unseelie, by Alun Clewe

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