Voting is now open for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition!

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Voting is now open for the 2026 Lindenbaum Prize.
Voting is open until 5pm GMT on the 27th August 2026.

Voting

The Lindenbaum prizes are awarded based on reader votes and judge decisions. The readers and the judges have a 50% split of the weighting.

This prize relies on votes provided by readers who have read enough of the entries to make a considered choice as to the relative merits of the gamebooks submitted. It is expected by the sponsor of this competition that votes will be provided on this basis. For 2026, the voting system applied as follows:

A valid vote must be forwarded by email to Lindenbaumprize@gmail.com. A valid vote must nominate the three gamebooks most favoured by the voter from the competition entrants. A vote with less than three nominations cannot be accepted. A vote forwarded with more than three nominations will only have the first three accounted for in the voting tabulation.

Only one voter email is allowed per reader. All votes will be checked for duplication of email addresses.

Feedback to the authors may be forwarded to the competition sponsors at Lindenbaumprize@gmail.com. All feedback given will be provided to authors at the end of competition as a part of the email notification of results.

Voting will close on the 27th August 2026 at 5pm GMT!

Entries

All the entries in a zip file.

The Visionary by Kieron Coghlan       Violence is my Last Option by Vilian Stefanov        

Good Dog, Bad Dog by R.L. Gill        Quest for the Green Grimoire by Andrew Wright

The Northern Marches by Paul Partington          You are Dog by Iain Murray

Lost in the City 2 by Joseph Fry           The Ronin of the Spirit Realm by Tom Draycott

Tower of Dreams by Elie Merle            A Way In by Tom Perrett

Longevity by Jason Romein                Treachery at Aeon's Keep by Matthew MacDonald

Sponsorship

The Lindennbaum Prize is sponsored by Peter Agapov, contributor to Lloyd of Gamebooks and owner of  Augmented Reality Adventure Games who is very generously providing the first prize.

The Lindenbaum Prize is also sponsored by Crumbly Head Games who is providing free licenses to The Gamebook Authoring Tool as prizes and also has a free version of the Gamebook Authoring Tool that goes up to 100 sections.

Many thanks to Tammy Badowski for donating her time to the Lindenbaum Prize.