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A new competition page: ParserComp 2025 created June 30, 2025
A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for June 2025 June 28, 2025
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The Plot of the Phantom, by Scott Andrew LePera
Inform 7
Last Audit of the Damned, by thoughtauction
Taleweaver++
Swap Wand User, by Sarah Willson
Inform 7
The Journey, by paravaariar
fi.js
Desperados, by Bonaventura Di Bello, Max Di Bello, Gianluca Girelli, Garry Francis
Inform 6
Tin Star, by Bonaventura Di Bello, Max Di Bello, Gianluca Girelli, Garry Francis
Inform 6

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Reviews

MathBrush reviews Cut the Sky: "Limited verb swordplay/action game in a desolate world" - See full review
ChanceOfFire reviews Radiance Inviolate: "The sun is coming" - See full review
ChanceOfFire reviews Wayfarers: "Strong writing, but down a linear path" - See full review
MathBrush reviews As the Fire Dies: "Explore a dream scape with puzzles based on gathering items" - See full review
MathBrush reviews The Goldilocks Principle: "Intense game about eating disorders" - See full review
Lance Cirone reviews A Remote Problem: "Ah The Simpsons" - See full review

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IF Comp | Spring Thing | XYZZY Awards

ParserComp 2025 created June 30, 2025
Dialogue Jam 2025 created May 12, 2025
15th IF Grand Prix 2025 created April 16, 2025
Spring Thing 2025 created April 2, 2025
Nebula Awards 2024 created March 13, 2025
French Comp 2025 created March 11, 2025
Smoochie Jam 2025 created March 5, 2025

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80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near...

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a...

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