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Catalogue, reviews and play links for four decades of interactive fiction, maintained by people who take the form extremely seriously.
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IFDB sits in Text Adventures under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Interactive fiction, MUDs and choose-your-path stories. Some are forty years old and still better written than most things released this year.
Yes. IFDB is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use IFDB without signing up for anything.
Yes. IFDB works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The annual competition that decides what interactive fiction is this year, with every entry free to play in the browser.
Where interactive fiction authors argue about parser design, post works in progress and review each other with alarming thoroughness.
Point it at any classic story file and it runs in the tab, which makes the whole Infocom era playable without installing an interpreter.
You are a colony ship AI choosing which disasters to absorb, and every run ends with a summary of how badly humanity settled.
Free illustrated repair manuals for phones, laptops, cars and appliances, plus teardowns that name and shame every glued-in battery.
Popular science headlines with the volume turned up, handy for the fact you half-remember reading somewhere.
A philosophy department's catalogue of illusions, each with what it is, what it demonstrates, and the argument still going about it.
Catalogue of impossible figures, ambiguous objects and Escher-adjacent architecture, kept up by one very devoted collector.
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