Review-a-thon 2025 Wrapup
After multiple extensions beyond the original end date, Review-a-thon 2025 is now over! Ultimately totaling 16 participating reviewers and 89 reviews, which is an amazing amount. Thank you so much to everyone who joined in! And if you meant to join but didn’t get around to it, or started writing any reviews that you didn’t finish, even though RaT is over it’s never too late to post a review.
I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t done so yet to cross-post your reviews from here to IFDB. Having reviews on IFDB benefits both authors and players by collecting all reviews in one easily discoverable place, and benefits you the reviewer by making your reviews more likely to be found and read in the future!
Looking Ahead
The 2026 Review-a-thon IFDB poll is up and ready for more authors to add IF works to!
As far as timing for next year, I’m thinking that I’ll make it July 1 – August 15, and if that goes well, stick with that period/length going forward.
If you have feedback or suggestions for future editions of RaT, I’d love to hear it! Feel free to post here or DM me.
Finally, Review-a-thon now has a dedicated webpage!
Potential spinoff event: Rate-a-thon
This is something I’m thinking of running sometime early next year. New IF works receive relatively few ratings on IFDB, and I think it’d be nice to change that! I’m imagining Rate-a-thon as a relatively short (two weeks?) event during which people are encouraged, perhaps through a friendly competition, to rate works they’ve played on IFDB. Ratings are useful because more ratings = better discoverability, and in the case of positive ratings, it’s another way to let an author know you enjoyed their work!
To gauge interest, here’s an anonymous poll:
Would you consider participating in a Rate-a-thon event?
- Yes
- No
Thanks again to everyone who joined this year’s Review-a-thon and helped make it a success!