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Project Announcements Have you just released a new work? A game? A book? Tell us all about it and where to find it here! Getting Started Playing IF Here you can find out information on what it takes to start playing Interactive Fiction and what programs you need. Game Hints Hints about specific games. Beware! Spoilers! Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges Have a great riddle, forum game, or challenge to the community? This is the place to do it. Ideally the purpose is to motivate conversation about games, but feel free to play Mornington Crescent, challenge people to find every IF that contains a lizard, tell running jokes, run a low-stakes local speed-IF challenge, or run your own bracketed showdowns between IF games and characters. IF Reviews and Essays Post your reviews or long-form writing about IF titles, or links to blogs, articles, and news for discussion. Have favorites? Let us know what you’re playing! Beta Testing Requests and Discussion If you’ve completed a story or game, or wish to get beta testers for one, let us know here!

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Playing category Playing	7	1534	January 3, 2025
The Hint Library Game Hints	8	147	February 14, 2026
Jacaranda Jim: Anyone worked out how to get 100% or close to? Game Hints	45	651	February 14, 2026
The sinister version of Snowhaven Project Announcements parsercomp	3	650	February 14, 2026
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 1 (lpsmith vs. Afterward, using Inform 7) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	8	487	February 13, 2026
The Great Play Marathon of 2026 Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	44	642	February 13, 2026
Super Halloween Horror Show Invisiclues Walkthrough / Hints Game Hints invisiclues	3	70	February 12, 2026
Let's play Zork + Colossal Cave Adventure Playing lets-play	17	699	February 12, 2026
"Infocom Chat"? Playing ai	17	326	February 11, 2026
Let's Translate: Lighan ses Lion by Andrew Plotkin Playing lets-play	511	2444	February 11, 2026
Request for a tester on Apple Mac in time for Spring Thing Beta Testing Requests and Discussion springthing-2026	2	117	February 11, 2026
Cloak of Darkness available to demo in ChronicleHub [now Open Source] Project Announcements chroniclehub	5	158	February 11, 2026
Looking Ahead to a 2026 Play Event [decided: Great Play Marathon] Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	40	1233	February 12, 2026
Hint for Time: All Things Come to an End Game Hints	11	192	February 10, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine IF Reviews and Essays rosebush	71	2998	February 9, 2026
Requesting beta testers for a great depression bank heist game Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	19	350	February 7, 2026
"Within the Woods" Invisiclues Hints / Walkthrough / Map Game Hints invisiclues	8	86	February 6, 2026
RASCAL, a ZIL roguelike Beta Testing Requests and Discussion rogue-like , zil , z-machine	12	297	February 6, 2026
Seeking testers for Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory (choice-based fantasy/mystery RPG) Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	0	57	February 5, 2026
Shop Crush - Psychological Horror VN and Thrift Shop Sim with Literal Illusions Project Announcements visual-novel , announcement , interactive-fiction , ai	7	171	February 5, 2026
Parser Text Adventures on Steam and GOG Getting Started Playing IF	34	3738	February 4, 2026
Recording and playing back commands: Do any Glulx interpreters do this? Playing	6	102	February 4, 2026
Quest Viva WebPlayer works on macOS Getting Started Playing IF	0	39	February 4, 2026
Testing/feedback request for the web version of a hint map feelie Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	22	161	February 3, 2026
New Experimental Game [Under a Killing Sun] Project Announcements ai	7	221	February 2, 2026
DetectivesGame: A New AI-Powered Murder Mystery Experience Project Announcements ai	17	129	February 1, 2026
Let's Play: Samsara Playing lets-play	53	667	February 1, 2026
The Retro Adventurers podcast Project Announcements podcasts	121	4611	February 1, 2026
I'm looking for testers for LLM-empowered IF Beta Testing Requests and Discussion beta-testing , ai	8	661	January 31, 2026
Testers needed for new BDB Project’s game: The Horror of Goldmine City. (Murray Shannon series #2) Beta Testing Requests and Discussion beta-testing	12	139	January 31, 2026