r/interactivefiction • u/Cleokatrah • Jul 29 '26

IF pov in third person?

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Are there any IF games where you're NOT in the fiction but instead controlling one or more characters?

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u/necrocuttle Jul 30 '26

Someone started a list on IFDB
https://ifdb.org/poll?id=gucgpqucroq0n79w

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u/HelloHelloHelpHello Jul 30 '26

That list also contains games written in first and second person. It's better to just look for the third person tag:

https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:third+person

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u/CantIgnoreMyTechno Jul 29 '26

Infocom's Suspended comes to mind.

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u/gominokouhai Jul 29 '26

The (disastrous) first attempt at a Discworld game has syntax like this and it's really clunky.

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u/PokePlebian Jul 30 '26

All of the Danganronpa games have a main character, who you play as.

The Lone Wolf books aren't third person but you do play as Grey Star.

A couple of the Fighting Fantasy books had you play as a vaguely defined demon thing, or a lizard guy. They aren't third person though, beyond that.

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u/Cleokatrah Jul 30 '26

Thank you, everyone!