The IF Review-a-thon

The IF Review-a-thon (aka RaT) is an annual event that I started in 2024 to spur reviews of games that haven't received much previous reviewing attention.

Eligibility

To be eligible for submission to the Review-a-thon, a game must:

• Have five or fewer reviews across the Interactive Fiction Community Forum and IFDB at the time of submission to the event.
• Not include any art, code, or writing produced by generative AI (see the FAQs on the Weekly Roundup page for why).

To submit games for inclusion, authors should add them to the IFDB poll for the coming year (or ask me to add them for you). The poll for 2026 is here.

RaT runs annually from July 1 into August. During this time, participating reviewers post reviews on the Intfiction forum, IFDB, or both. To join in as a reviewer, all you have to do is write at least one review!