The 2023 IFDB Awards

The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction.

It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and take the form of polls.

The polls can be found here.

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Series: The IFDB Awards

Organizer(s): Brian Rushtonprofile

Award date: February 17, 2024

Qualification opening date: January 1, 2022

Qualification closing date: December 31, 2022

Games and Awards

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Outstanding Game of the Year 2023

Tie: Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Tie: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook

Author's Choice for Best Game of 2023

Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook

Outstanding Debut 2023

Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook

Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2023

Winner: Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush

Outstanding Short Game of 2023

Winner: The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker

Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2023

Winner: Kaboom, by anonymous, artwork by Vera Pohl

Most Sequel-worthy Game of 2023

Winner: Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier

Trailblazer Award of 2023

Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook

Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2023

Winner: His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair

Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2023

Winner: One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer

Outstanding Retro Game of 2023

Winner: LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best

Outstanding German Game of 2023

Winner: Fischstäbchen, by Olaf Nowacki

Outstanding Spanish Game of 2023

Winner: El Virulé, segunda parte: Padre, by paravaariar

Outstanding French Game of 2023

Winner: DOL-OS, by manonamora

Outstanding Children's Game of 2023

Winner: Barry Basic and the Witch's Cave, by Dee Cooke

Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2023

Winner: How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler

Outstanding Educational Game of 2023

Winner: Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray

Outstanding Historical Game of 2023

Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers

Outstanding Horror Game of 2023

Winner: Eat the Eldritch, by Olaf Nowacki

Outstanding Humor Game of 2023

Winner: Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood

Outstanding Mystery Game of 2023

Winner: LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson

Outstanding RPG of 2023

Winner: The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca

Outstanding Romance Game of 2023

Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers

Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2023

Winner: Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush

Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2023

Winner: Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray

Outstanding Surreal Game of 2023

Winner: The Gift of What You Notice More, by Xavid and Zan

Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2023

Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook

Outstanding Twine Game of 2023

Winner: LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson

Outstanding Ink Game of 2023

Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers

Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2023

Winner: Bali B&B, by Felicity Banks

Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2023

Winner: You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed

Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2023

Winner: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor, by Stefan Vogt

Outstanding Game in a Custom System of 2023

Winner: Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Robert from High Tower Games

Outstanding Moiki Game of 2023

Winner: Retour vers l'extérieur, by No Game Without Stakes

Outstanding Ren’py Game of 2023

Winner: The Good Weapon, by Madeline Wu

Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2023

Winner: The Familiar, by groggydog

Outstanding Unity Game of 2023

Winner: Out of Scope, by Drew Castalia

Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2023

Winner: the mountain is as it always was, by christine mi

Outstanding Texture Game of 2023

Winner: All Hands, by Natasha Ramoutar

Outstanding Gruescript Game of 2023

Winner: Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid

Outstanding TADS Game of 2023

Winner: How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler

Outstanding ADRIFT Game of 2023

Winner: Xanix - Xixon Resurgence, by Larry Horsfield

Outstanding Decker Game of 2023

Winner: Solkatt_ (french version), by BenyDanette

Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System of 2023

Winner: ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen

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