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Dan Fabulich reviews Kobold Crawl: "A charming mini randomized adventure" January 4, 2022
"This game includes a few dozen rooms presented in a random order. You're given a menu of options, which often invite you to take a risk..." - See full review
Dan Fabulich reviews A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity: "Unfair guess the verb" January 4, 2022
"The conclusion of the game is a fun crunchy arithmetic logic puzzle. The puzzles leading up to it are not as fun. There's an annoying,..." - See full review
Mike Russo reviews The TURING Test: "Affable but philosophically unconvincing" January 4, 2022
"(This is a lightly-edited version of a review posted to the IntFict forums during the 2021 IFComp. My son Henry was born right before the..." - See full review
Andrew Schultz reviews Recon: "Fast-paced, but critical parts may zoom past the 1st time" January 4, 2022
"Recon has maybe the coolest stand-alone puzzle in the whole comp: the bookcases that clue you to a computer's password. It's a funny..." - See full review
Dan Fabulich reviews Morris: "A tiny game with multiple solutions" January 3, 2022
"This game's central puzzle is to escape the pub. There are two ways out of the pub, numbered #1 and #2; when the game ends, it tells you..." - See full review
Matt Wigdahl reviews Dragon's Pass: "Strong tech and writing demo" January 3, 2022
"This bite-sized game is a very nice tech demo and a brief sample illustrating the high quality of Wade's writing. For more of an..." - See full review

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