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A new poll by MathBrush, Games about uploading your consciousness or uploaded consciousnesses created September 27, 2025
| Butter Side Down, by Kalle MacDonald, Lachlan MacDonald Twine |
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| Specters of the Deep, by Abigail C. Trevor ChoiceScript |
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| Morgana, by Brianna Bell Inform 7 |
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| The Archivist's Vault, by KitKatKate Inform 7 |
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| The Grief Gardens, by KitKatKate Texture |
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| Marooned On Mazoomah, by Larry Horsfield ADRIFT |
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ChanceOfFire reviews Dead Sea: "Item A, item B, story moves forward"  - See full review |
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| ChanceOfFire reviews The Transformations of Dr. Watson: "A mystery... and some art matters" - See full review |
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| Kinetic Mouse Car reviews One Step Ahead: "Relevant themes, but is more like a draft" - See full review |
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| ChanceOfFire reviews Horse Whisperer: "Under construction " - See full review |
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| ChanceOfFire reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "Bureaucracy, inefficiency and all that good stuff" - See full review |
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| MathBrush reviews The Breakup Game: "A game coaching you through a breakup" - See full review |
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IF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards
News on IntroComp 2025: Final results September 10, 2025 Details
French Comp 2026 - Concours de FI francophone 2026 created September 7, 2025
Concours d'aventures textuelles, 6e édition (2010 - annulée) created September 2, 2025
31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025) created September 1, 2025
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
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Help other IFDB members find the games they're looking for by voting in their polls. Here are a few recent ones:
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Games about uploading your consciousness or uploaded consciousnesses, by MathBrush
Games featuring nature to interact with or encounter, by dmarymac
Games/stories featuring empathy toward “monstrous” creatures/entities, by DemonApologist
2026 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only), by Tabitha
Games that broke containment, by OverThinking
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Split-up PC functionality, by baf
Games which take place in chat messenger systems or on a digital interface, by grimperfect
Games with money management, by Lance Cirone
Best antagonists, by OverThinking
Games with "logical" puzzles, by Victor Gijsbers
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| IFComp 2025 games playable in the UK by JTN, 62 items |
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| New walkthroughs for August 2025 by David Welbourn, 9 items |
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| Mentions honorables - FI les mieux notées du concours annuel n'ayant pas reçu de prix by fiction-interactive.fr, 23 items |
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| good ass text RPGs by hecuba, 12 items |
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| Phone-friendly parser games by kqr, 38 items |
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| My IF favorites by xkia, 11 items |
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| New walkthroughs for July 2025 by David Welbourn, 8 items |
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| Prix technique au concours annuel by fiction-interactive.fr, 16 items |
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| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that... |
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| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
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| 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... |
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| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are... |
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| 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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IFDB's top reviewers, as determined by Frequent Fiction scores:
- #1 MathBrush
- #2 manonamora
- #3 Mike Russo
- #4 Andrew Schultz
- #5 JJ McC
- #6 Rovarsson
- #7 verityvirtue
- #8 Victor Gijsbers
- #9 ChanceOfFire
- #10 Kinetic Mouse Car
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