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A new listing for The Gilded Mirage: Quest for El Dorado, by sagaflow team

A new listing for Sands of the Silk Road, by sagaflow team

A new listing for Last Stand at Thermopylae, by sagaflow team

A new listing for Illúzió, by László Soma

MathBrush reviews MAD WARRIOR: "Windows executable Diablo-like parser dungeon crawler" September 14, 2026 "Mad Warrior I played this one around 9 or 10 times. I eventually tried editing the json file that Mr Patient mentioned in his ifdb review..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Out by Midnight: "Optimization puzzle exploring a haunted house" September 14, 2026 "I always look forward to Arthur DiBianca's games, which tend to be tightly organized around a single concept and to be minimalistic in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Epistemophilia: "Heavily branching Ink game about amnesia and scifi" September 13, 2026 "Epistemophilia This game feels like something made by someone who has inherent skill but little contact with the worlds of interactive..." - See full review

A new listing for Nightfall, by TheNomad456

MathBrush reviews Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express: "Collect fungible clues to pass number-based gates. Explore cities" September 13, 2026 "Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express This is Schroedinger's game to me, an uncollapsed wavefunction of a game..." - See full review

News on Mansion: Version 4 under production. September 13, 2026 This is to remedy a bug which can be experienced via manipulation of the torches in the game. This was discovered by Derek's brother.

verityvirtue reviews Black Thumb: "straightforward, surreal nod to parser forebears" September 13, 2026 "Now we're talking relatable. I left a pot (teacup) of succulents unattended during the recent heatwave and have managed to kill one..." - See full review

A new listing for Thousand Lives: AI Life Simulator, by MetaWorldOS

A new listing for Jin Ping Mei: Ledger of Desire, by MetaWorldOS

A new listing for Dracula — Illustrated Edition (ZX Spectrum 128K), by G.B. Aicardi -DJSoft

A new listing for Money for Girls: Amortized, by Porpentine

A new listing for Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny 3: Thundah Down Undah, by Damon L. Wakes

A new listing for Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny 2: Aquatic Boogaloo, by Damon L. Wakes

A new listing for Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny, by Damon L. Wakes

MathBrush reviews Galilee Bones and the Juggernaut of Jordan: "Linguistic and pharmaceutical archaealogical adventure " September 12, 2026 "I looked forward to playing this game, as I know Phil Riley tends to make polished, well-written games. I found this game to have all the..." - See full review

A new listing for Squeeze The Moment, by Mink

MathBrush reviews Ruined Temple: "Somewhat underimplemented dungeon crawl with 4 characters" September 12, 2026 "Ruined Temple This game is exactly what I'd expect from an Alex Crossley game based on the last two. A straightforward fantasy game that..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Uninteractive Fiction 3: "a roadside shrine of a game" September 12, 2026 "Previous entries by the same author have been commentaries or meta-games; this is the same. Now this is hypertext. Reading people's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El Ruido: "Telenovela-inspired short Texture game" September 12, 2026 "This is the last game on the IFComp review spreadsheet without a review. It's a short game, written in texture. It mentions violence,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 9 Days in a Van with your 3 Best Friends: "Road trip with a band along I-80 in 1991" September 12, 2026 "9 Days in a Van with your 3 Best Friends Like at least 2 other people on the forums, I decided to play this game next because it was the..." - See full review

Stewart C Baker reviews Under Loch: "What waits beneath the loch?" September 12, 2026 "major spoiler: " - See full review

Stewart C Baker reviews Quackpond: "It's 2003. Do you know where your duck is?" September 11, 2026 "Quackpond is an early-2000s website forum/community simulator that's about playing with cute ducks. But just like a smoothly swimming..." - See full review

A new listing for Crimson Twilight: The Dracula Estate, by sagaflow team

Jacic reviews The Golden King: "All that glitters." September 11, 2026 "I really enjoyed this entry. This is a swiftly moving, unusual game for IFComp. It is a well made, stylised retelling of the King Midas..." - See full review

Jacic reviews Pegasus Crew: "What are memories worth?" September 11, 2026 "I'll admit, I really wasn't sure what to expect with this one from the description, but I actually really enjoyed it. It kind of gave me..." - See full review

AndrewStephens reviews Pegasus Crew: "A Fun Little Sci-fi Story" September 10, 2026 "I didn't have high hopes for this one but the writing and presentation really drew me in. You arrive at a pleasure moon with your loyal..." - See full review

A new listing for The Goddess in the Cellar, by Dagfinn Dybvig

MathBrush reviews The Two Seasons: Encounter With A Vampire: "Tag-team sleuths fight vampire in old-school but polished adventure" September 10, 2026 "The Two Seasons: Encounter With A Vampire This game is a very well polished parser game. It's rare to see a game with this level of..." - See full review

A new listing for Stark County: The Screen That Watched Back, by David J. Falkosky Sr. and Geralyn J. Falkosky

A new listing for Ruby Island: One Passenger Too Many, by David J. Falkosky Sr. and Geralyn J. Falkosky

A new listing for Stark County: The Doctor's Door, by David J. Falkosky Sr. and Geralyn J. Falkosky

A new listing for The Last Showing, by David J. Falkosky Sr. and Geralyn J. Falkosky

A new listing for Write Your Own Ending, by David J. Falkosky Sr. and Geralyn J. Falkosky

MathBrush reviews Bob The Barbarian: "Funny puzzle-filled game about being a dumb barbarian on a quest" September 10, 2026 "This game by improvmonster is a good game but suffers a bit by competition. Slappy the Squirrel by the same author is genuinely one of..." - See full review

AndrewStephens reviews Quackpond: "Enter the Quackpond website and have fun with your duck" September 9, 2026 "Quackpond is a one-trick pony of a game but it is a handsome pony with a good trick. I am not sure how much effect you have on the plot..." - See full review

Cinnamon reviews A Chance for Destruction: "An opportunity to get karma back to the corporate world" September 8, 2026 "Even if it's a science fiction story, this text based game gives the player the opportunity discharge their rage and make justice after..." - See full review

A new listing for Dark Lumber, by Efi

Dan Fabulich reviews The Shack: "An examine-a-thon with straightforward puzzles" September 8, 2026 "As I write this, The Shack is the top-rated Quest game on textadventures.co.uk. It's 50 rooms, with dozens of puzzles. Every room comes..." - See full review

A new listing for The Shack, by System Masters

MathBrush reviews BLOODRUST: "Short brutal game with blackjack, black and white graphics, and audio" September 8, 2026 "I was playing on not playing this game due to its strong language warning, but I decided to try it, and I found that the language was..." - See full review

baezil reviews Skeletrom Crew On The Loose!: "a bone-anza of bone-ified delight (sorry)" September 8, 2026 "Putting this up top in case the author sees it-- the link in passage Dogs13 is bugged, something with the bold text, and I had to DL and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Triangle for Two: "Two people, one body" September 8, 2026 "Triangle for Two I was surprised to see this one unreviewed so far, since Naarel tends to have strong prose and games that are easy to..." - See full review

A new listing for Slide Fourteen, by Crossphase Studio

A new listing for Ashe & Granite, by Andre Bruni

A new poll by P-Tux7, Games where you do what the title says created September 7, 2026 43 votes for 40 games Many works of IF are named after a character, location, or theme. But sometimes they're literally named after what you do in the game.

kaemi reviews TOITŪ: "IFComp 2026: Toitu" September 7, 2026 "Toitu lyricates you into the stream sensorial primally grasping at a before buried in “tangled in barbed rosewire” which overwhelms..." - See full review

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