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10 Games We Played on Long Car Rides and in Standby Lines at Disney, by Harper Shen Twine |
The Orb Cycle, by Taccas Software Custom |
Dracula — Mac Illustrated Edition, by Gian Battista Aicardi Custom |
News on The Path: An Interactive Self-Understanding Journey: September update: shorter setup and optional reader feedback Details |
Last Light at Meridian, by David Washington Custom |
Reviews
Adam Cadre reviews The King of Shreds and Patches: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #20" - See full review |
MathBrush reviews Meet the timesheet: "Kind-of-procedural workplace comedy with cool walkthrough"   |
Rui Pires reviews Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: "Interactive fiction? Possibly - but of which text?" - See full review |
MathBrush reviews Forensic Necromancy: A Murder in Nineveh: "Drug-induced exploration of dead people's mind palaces" - See full review |
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IFDB Recommends
| 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... |
| Type Help, by William Rous A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead. Investigate the files on an old... |
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but... |
| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a... |
| 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 is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
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