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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! Getting Started Playing IF Here you can find out information on what it takes to start playing Interactive Fiction and what programs you need. 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! Game Hints Hints about specific games. Beware! Spoilers! Project Announcements Have you just released a new work? A game? A book? Tell us all about it and where to find it here!

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About the Playing category Playing	7	1525	January 3, 2025
Let's Translate: Lighan ses Lion by Andrew Plotkin Playing lets-play	380	1410	December 15, 2025
Zork I for Glulx Beta Testing Requests and Discussion glulx , zork	4	159	December 15, 2025
Early alpha testing for a browser based fantasy text RPG with MUD influences Beta Testing Requests and Discussion fantasy , rpg	2	97	December 13, 2025
I'm looking for testers for LLM-empowered IF Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai , beta-testing	2	227	December 12, 2025
Announcing Bael’s Rock - My passion project, a Zork-Inspired traditional parser adventure (and a bit about its development) Project Announcements	5	274	December 12, 2025
Review: The Beast of Torrack Moor (30th Anniversary Edition) IF Reviews and Essays reviews	7	162	December 11, 2025
'The Organ Grinder's Monkey' released Project Announcements	3	192	December 11, 2025
Let's Play Winterstrike While We Still Can Playing lets-play	19	569	December 10, 2025
Looking Ahead to a 2026 Play Event Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	19	428	December 10, 2025
Testing needed for EctoComp post-comp release Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	2	79	December 8, 2025
Updating 350p Adventure Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	7	303	December 8, 2025
TerrAdapt: The Return DEMO now available Project Announcements demo , interactive-fiction	5	129	December 8, 2025
The Retro Adventurers podcast Project Announcements	102	4104	December 7, 2025
Iron ChIF: Season One Episode 1 (lpsmith vs. Afterward, using Inform 7) Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges iron-chif	3	155	December 6, 2025
Super Halloween Horror Show Invisiclues Walkthrough / Hints Game Hints invisiclues	0	32	December 5, 2025
"The Spirit in the Door": Looking for playtesters for high-fantasy textadventure, 33K words + questionaire. Playtest runs until Dec 5th. Unpaid. Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	4	144	December 5, 2025
The Krampus Case: An Interactive Advent Calendar Project Announcements	0	63	December 5, 2025
Endymion post-competition release Project Announcements iron-chif	0	82	November 26, 2025
Playing Zork on a 1975 vintage Altair 8800 Playing infocom , retro , zork	0	99	November 25, 2025
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please IF Reviews and Essays	3	133	December 3, 2025
Hint request for Adrift (PunyComp 2025 entry) Game Hints	2	86	December 3, 2025
Review: Return to the Mysterious Island IF Reviews and Essays	32	1217	December 1, 2025
Guess the IF game from a riddle poem about it Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges	33	751	December 1, 2025
The Visible Zorker Playing	31	1114	December 1, 2025
Osloholde Project Announcements twine , chapbook	2	123	November 30, 2025
ACMI Game Worlds Exhibit and collectible Zork booklet IF Reviews and Essays	4	223	November 29, 2025
New Version Of Derek Haslam's Gateway To Karos Project Announcements	23	702	November 29, 2025
What IF are you playing? Playing	30	715	November 27, 2025
The roadrunner in Trinity is named "Meep" Playing infocom	3	148	November 26, 2025