Playing

Let's Play! (spoilers!) This is for long-form and episodic play through transcripts and annotations, as well as links to audio and video gameplay. 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! Getting Started Playing IF Here you can find out information on what it takes to start playing Interactive Fiction and what programs you need. 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! Game Hints Hints about specific games. Beware! Spoilers!

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Playing category Playing	6	1581	January 3, 2025
Need help identifying an old 70s-80s castle adventure - tourist castle, spells, coloured fluids Playing	9	61	September 13, 2026
Gold Machine: Bureaucracy IF Reviews and Essays infocom	2	86	September 12, 2026
Which games (eventually) lead to other games? (per IFDB data) Playing	4	218	September 12, 2026
Visible Zorker updates Playing zork	16	447	September 12, 2026
What does your IF-playing setup look like? Playing	33	236	September 12, 2026
Zed reviews-a-thon IF Reviews and Essays reviews , review-a-thon , ifcomp2026-game	32	1366	September 11, 2026
A work-in-progress tool-assisted speedrun of Zork I for Apple II Playing speedrun	17	401	September 11, 2026
Anchorhead Classic vs. Anchorhead 20th Anniversary Illustrated edition Playing	11	1590	September 11, 2026
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 3 (Audience Commentary) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	72	1188	September 10, 2026
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 2 (Audience Commentary) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	85	1359	September 10, 2026
Failure states in the Zork trilogy + Trinity (data in OP) IF Reviews and Essays	26	663	September 9, 2026
The Cathedral — Take a Pilgrimage \| Beta Testers Wanted Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai , beta-testing	2	93	September 9, 2026
"The Shack" Invisiclues Hints Game Hints invisiclues	0	54	September 8, 2026
Let's Play: Finding Martin by G.k. Wennstrom Let's Play!	105	1297	September 8, 2026
Tool for writing interactive fiction that unfolds in real places Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	2	130	September 8, 2026
What are the worst games to play before bed? Playing	3	121	September 7, 2026
Reasons a player might not want to engage with Web-Based parser deployments Playing split-on-request	78	956	September 6, 2026
Canovaccio is now in Open Beta: direct an improvising cast through a story Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai , new-platform	4	126	September 6, 2026
stuck on Galilee Bones [hint request] Game Hints ifcomp2026-game	6	80	September 5, 2026
Demonstration walkthrough Game Hints ifcomp2026-game	0	69	September 5, 2026
Small private beta wanted - Maximilien Steam Edition (Oct 26) - unrelated to IFComp judging Beta Testing Requests and Discussion beta-testing	0	51	September 5, 2026
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft Invisiclues Hints Game Hints invisiclues	0	56	September 4, 2026
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 3 (FLACRabbit vs. dee_cooke, using Adventuron) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	150	2164	September 2, 2026
Sounds from Beyond, a narrated noir for iPhone. What would you call this format? Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai	1	68	August 31, 2026
S1E3 Iron ChIF games released! (audience voting now open) Playing	2	148	August 31, 2026
The Old dungeon. Hi would like someone to play a not so finished game with 110 rooms so far, whith rpg elements. and I would like to know what you think. Only a text adventure, no graphic except for the childish maps I created. Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai , rpg	2	117	August 30, 2026
Looking for Playtesters, Comparing Two different combat systems for Twine/Sugarcube Beta Testing Requests and Discussion sugarcube	0	47	August 29, 2026
Interactive fiction (lack of) mainstream popularity Playing	145	1710	August 29, 2026
Hint Thread for Never Gives Up Her Dead Game Hints	179	4500	August 28, 2026