The 2021 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features thirty-eight new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text games. Participants chose to place their games in either the Main Festival, where they are eligible for a Best In Show ribbon and prizes, or the Back Garden, with looser entry requirements allowing for more experimental or work-in-progress entries.

Main Festival

• An Amical Bet, by Eve Cabanié - Quest
• Baggage, by Katherine Farmar - Inform/Glulx
• A Blank Page, by Edu Sánchez - Twine
• Copper Canyon, by Tony Pisculli - Ink
• Eleanor, by Rob - Windows
• Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris and Duncan Bowsman - Twine
• Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games - Twine
• Hand of God, by Dana Freitas - Twine
• Heroes!, by Bellamy Briks - Quest
• Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, by Havilah "mwahahavilah" McGinnis - Ink
• Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier - Twine
• Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella - Inform/Glulx
• Medicum Veloctic, by Lawrence M Marable - Twine
• Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks - Twine
• Misty Hills, by Giuliano Roverato Martins Pereira - Twine
• Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job, by Eric Crepeau - Twine
• Perihelion, by Tim White - Twine
• Picton Murder Whodunnit, by Sia See - Strand
• Project Arcmör, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross (as Bitterly Indifferent Studios) - Twine
• [PYG]MALION*, by C.J. - Twine
• Queenlash, by Kaemi Velatet - Twine
• The Secret of Nara, by Ralfe Rich - Twine
• Some Space, by rittermi - Twine
• Sovereign Citizens, by Laura Paul and Max Woodring - Twine
• A strange dream, by Anaïs Tn - Quest
• Sunny's Summer Vacation, by Lucas C. Wheeler - Twine
• Take the Dog Out, by Ell - Inform/Z
• Those Days, by George Larkwright - Twine
• The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong - Inform/Glulx
• Wintervale, by Ethan Erh - Twine

Back Garden

• Blue November, by Lawrence Furnival - Twine
• Budacanta, by Alianora La Canta - Ren'Py
• Cycles (Excerpt), by Mike Marttila - Ink
• Eyewear Cleaner 2077: Demo, by Naomi Norbez - Twine
• Manikin Demo, by Rose Behar - Twine
• So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest, by Anssi Raisanen - Inform/Glulx
• Space Diner, by Marta and Alexej - Python
• Theatre of Spud, by D E Haynes - Python

The authors of individual games retain all rights over their work. You do not have the right to redistribute, sell, or modify these games without permission from the work's original author.

The SpringThing2021.zip download contains all individual entries under 100 MB in size. Eyewear Cleaner 2077: Demo, Project Arcmör, and Eleanor can be downloaded individually. Budacanta can be downloaded in platform-specific versions from the festival website. Some entries may require online access to play.