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About the Playing category Playing	7	1530	January 3, 2025
Jacaranda Jim: Anyone worked out how to get 100% or close to? Game Hints	28	251	January 24, 2026
Let's Play Winterstrike While We Still Can Playing lets-play	53	1085	January 24, 2026
Let's Play: Samsara Playing lets-play	47	591	January 24, 2026
Let's play Zork + Colossal Cave Adventure Playing lets-play	14	528	January 23, 2026
New short interactive sci-fi story: Operation Red Shadow (looking for feedback) Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai	11	128	January 23, 2026
I'm looking for testers for LLM-empowered IF Beta Testing Requests and Discussion beta-testing , ai	6	501	January 23, 2026
Shop Crush - Psychological Horror VN and Thrift Shop Sim with Literal Illusions Project Announcements visual-novel , announcement , interactive-fiction , ai	4	75	January 23, 2026
Seeking Seldom-Played IF Playing	12	267	January 23, 2026
Looking Ahead to a 2026 Play Event [decided: Great Play Marathon] Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	37	1019	January 22, 2026
Requesting beta testers for a great depression bank heist game Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	12	203	January 22, 2026
Original Adventure Game ported to Inform 7 Project Announcements inform7	18	728	January 21, 2026
My friend's Apple ii with infocom games (from an sd) Playing	67	767	January 20, 2026
The Retro Adventurers podcast Project Announcements	117	4479	January 20, 2026
roThe Latest IF Writing Project Announcements	7	168	January 20, 2026
interactive poem in Twine: Block by Frozen Block Project Announcements harlowe , twine2	2	64	January 20, 2026
The Great Play Marathon of 2026 Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	15	306	January 19, 2026
Within the Woods - a small Inform 7 game Project Announcements inform7	2	167	January 19, 2026
Cloak of Darkness available to demo in ChronicleHub Project Announcements chroniclehub	4	112	January 19, 2026
Ozmoo Release 14.64 Project Announcements interpreter	39	3174	January 19, 2026
The Visible Zorker: Zork 2 Playing zork	27	544	January 19, 2026
Let's Translate: Lighan ses Lion by Andrew Plotkin Playing lets-play	491	2216	January 18, 2026
Discoggin: an IF Discord bot Project Announcements	20	521	January 17, 2026
Trying for world record turns in Ad Verbum. Got 73, or 74 for 100% IF Reviews and Essays	3	94	January 17, 2026
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 1 (lpsmith vs. Afterward, using Inform 7) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	4	271	January 9, 2026
Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder high score research [spoilers!] Playing	15	168	January 16, 2026
short interactive sci-fi experiments – looking for honest feedback Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai	3	151	January 15, 2026
Kastel's Visual Novel Recommendations for IF People Playing	11	973	January 15, 2026
Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games IF Reviews and Essays	45	2956	January 13, 2026
Most-Played Games of IFDB (Dec 01 2025 edition) Playing recommendations	9	317	January 12, 2026