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A new listing for Omerta, by Hue November 11, 2026 You're the new Don. Every day brings new requests and problems. Swipe to decide, keep four forces in balance, and see how long you last.

Mike Russo reviews Bob The Barbarian: "What is best in life?" November 11, 2026 "It is easy, in space-year 2026, to view all old-school parser puzzlers as essentially alike. We’re far enough away from the design..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Epistemophilia: "Knowing's half the battle" November 11, 2026 "Epistemophilia isn’t quite a neologism, but the title is unfamiliar enough to prompt some attention: it means love of knowledge, if I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Shadow and Ink: "Writing through it" November 11, 2026 "There’s nothing more annoying than someone who’s constantly citing themselves (well, OK, I guess it’s worse if they’re a..." - See full review

A new listing for A Dark Cave, by Julian Bauer November 10, 2026 A Dark Cave is a dark, text-based survival incremental. Wake up in a cave, make a fire, gather resources, build a village and lead it through a hostile world. Choices, events and timed decisions shape the...

A new Recommended List by tehckisnow, Stuff I Think is Fantastic November 10, 2026 7 items

A new listing for Cygnus: 2112, by John Patuto November 10, 2026 In a city where every hour is accounted for and no one has heard real music in living memory, an ordinary systems technician stumbles onto something the world was built to forget. What he chooses to do with...

A new listing for Only Me, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *Only Me* is an 18+ short interactive novel, the sixth book in the series that began with *What Happened in Barcelona*. It also works as a standalone. The live catalogue describes it as intended for adult...

A new listing for Friday in Dimona, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *Friday in Dimona* is an 18+ short interactive novel, the fifth book in the series that began with *What Happened in Barcelona*. It also works as a standalone. Omer Dahan, a lawyer from Tel Aviv, drives...

A new listing for The Advance, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *The Advance* is an 18+ short interactive novel, the fourth book in the series that began with *What Happened in Barcelona*. It also works as a standalone. Carla, a twenty-nine-year-old pharmacist in Lisbon,...

A new listing for Under Another Name, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *Under Another Name* is an 18+ short interactive novel, the third book in the series that began with *What Happened in Barcelona*. It also works as a standalone. Dafna Raz, a fifty-five-year-old lawyer,...

A new listing for Seven Minutes Before the Rain, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *Seven Minutes Before the Rain* is an 18+ short interactive work of suspense and science fiction. It is a standalone: the live catalogue does not place it in the series that began with *What Happened in...

A new listing for My Turn This Time, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *My Turn This Time* is an 18+ interactive novel, the second book in the series that began with *What Happened in Barcelona*. It also works as a standalone. Shani Hazan arrives in Lisbon to build a different...

A new listing for What Happened in Barcelona, by EroBook November 10, 2026 *What Happened in Barcelona* is an 18+ interactive novel. Noa Sagi has built a life without openings. One night on a rooftop in Barcelona changes that. When the man she met enters her professional life too,...

The Elusive9 reviews Donkey Kong: "Beautiful" November 10, 2026 "Beautiful. I am dead serious this is one of the most excellent uses of the medium and excellent play on tradition. The way everything is..." - See full review

A new competition page: Bare-Bones Jam 2026 created November 10, 2026 The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or...

A new listing for Bone Factory, by wormius51 November 10, 2026 Make bones

A new listing for October 15th, by Night November 10, 2026 They will be expecting you soon. You know you can't be seen as you are. Make sure you're dressed to their standards. A short story created for the The Bare-Bones Jam 2026. Special thanks to Lander for...

A new listing for Blind Boxed, by BorealisGames November 10, 2026 This game was developed for the Bare Bones Jam 2026: https://itch.io/jam/bare-bones-jam-26 No visuals, zero audio, only text, and one single theme - MONSTER. You find yourself magically blindfolded, and...

A new listing for Welcome to the Monster Mash, by Grem November 10, 2026 Welcome to the Monster Mash! It's Halloween, and while you're a little old for trick-or-treating, you're never too old to go on the hunt for a Special Fall Drink. To your surprise (horror? delight!?), the...

A new listing for lineage: I, by katypso November 10, 2026 made with twine's chapbook 2.3.0 for the bare-bones jam [rules: no changing of the original engine formatting, no assets, optional theme "monster mash"] trigger warnings: body horror

A new listing for Vukodlak, by Kaptain Viciorious Grimoire November 10, 2026 A horror visual novel exploring Balkan folklore of the Vukodlak. Be ready for a little fright, a little blood, and horror that will sink into your bones with a bite. Set in the 19th century when Montenegro...

A new listing for Blackout Fun, by itsradarhun November 10, 2026 Veronica is at a party, I hope she has fun. For the Bare-Bones Jam 2026 First time using Ink, had a lot of fun with it. Enjoy!

A new listing for SKOGA: SPAWN OF THE SALTWODE, by Guildworks November 10, 2026 Fight monsters, collect materials,  settle your campsite, and venture deep into the SALTWODE! SKOGA: SPAWN OF THE SALTWODE is in very, early development, and I intend to continue working on it until it...

A new listing for Lost in the Woods, by PlainShane01123 November 10, 2026 A very short narrative adventure about being lost in a forest not your own. Submission to the 2026 Bare-Bones Game Jam.

A new listing for The Sin Eater, by Zephyrcloud November 10, 2026 Short, interactive fiction developed for The Bare Bones Jam 2026. You are a thing that defies description, but what? Are you a monster, or just a thing to be feared by superstitious villagers? Content...

A new listing for Trick or Treat: Last Delight, by Q.T. November 10, 2026 Guide Sarah through a chaotic Halloween night where even small choices matter. This prototype includes the first route; future updates will add more characters, more trouble, and more things that go bump in...

A new listing for The Feminine Urge, by Jill McAdams November 10, 2026 The year is 1227. It is your wedding day. You have a knife. ***Submitted for the Bare-Bones Jam 2026. This is my first-ever Twine game.

A new listing for Pupperween, by spewkybits November 10, 2026 Join a goodboy pupper guarding his home from an assortment of threats on Halloween night. This was created for the Bare-Bones Jam, which is for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the...

Mike Russo reviews The 9:00 AM Train: "Tourist trap" November 10, 2026 "The 9:00 AM Train is either a thriller or a meditation on grace; I’m tempted to say that I’d like it more if it made up its mind, but..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Maximilien: "The cosmic horror of living in Boston" November 10, 2026 "Maximilien is a maximally stylish Lovecraft-baiting work of occult horror that immediately grabbed me with compelling ideas and enticing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dreamteller: "Dreaming of killers" November 10, 2026 "For the better part of two decades, I’ve enjoyed making fun of Downton Abbey for naming its sole Turkish character “Kemal Pamuk”..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Two Seasons: Encounter With A Vampire: "Encounter with a Vampire review" November 9, 2026 "This is a pretty classic parser game about two dorky teens, Maddy and Matty, who discover one of their high school teachers is a vampire..." - See full review

EJ reviews Tales of Nivea: GRIP: "GRIP review" November 9, 2026 "Most people might compare this fascist bureaucracy/complicity simulator to Papers, Please, but the first comparison that came to mind for..." - See full review

EJ reviews TOITŪ: "TOITŪ review" November 9, 2026 "Something I've noticed about some more arty, literary IF works is that they'll often incorporate interactivity in a way that's..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Hampton Manor: "An Awkwardly Manored Work" November 9, 2026 "Hampton Manor was the first of two DOS mysteries authored by Art LaFrana in the early nineties. The intriguing back story has you as a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Copper Tavern: "Snark hunt" November 9, 2026 "All good game reviewing is subjective, in my view, but sometimes that gets tricky because the subjective experience of playing a game can..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Demonstration: "Spy intrigue" November 9, 2026 "Belying its title, Demonstration isn’t a game overly concerned about selling you on anything. This short parser game is made up of four..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews SCAVS: "Streamlined survival" November 9, 2026 "There aren’t a lot of One Simple Tricks in IF. There are so many different kinds of experiences text games can provide, so many..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El Día Después: "Small Ink game with dice about politics" November 8, 2026 "This was a brief game made in Ink with some dice-rolling mechanics, made in 4 hours or less for the La Petite Mort division. You're..." - See full review

Stewart C Baker reviews I Just Gave Your Game a Low Rating on IFDB: ""Anyone is free to rate this game 1 star for any reason." -- Well, okay, but..." November 8, 2026 "This game (is it a game?) is set up as a google form in which you respond to somebody who has given your game a 1-star rating on IFDB...." - See full review

Doug Egan reviews Type Help: "Following a breadcrumb trail of clues" November 8, 2026 "“Type Help” is an ambitious, enjoyable, and unique interactive mystery. The player character reviews old audio recordings to piece..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Pattem6, Word Games November 8, 2026 1 item Word games from the 80's

A new poll by Denk, Choice based IF where you actually learn something created November 8, 2026 3 votes for 3 games If you feel you learn something about life or a topic from a choice based work, please add it to the poll. I do not include parser IF here as I would recommend it to people not familiar with IF. Thanks :)

Mike Russo reviews Invasive Species: "Incomplete metamorphosis" November 8, 2026 "I haven’t gone back and checked, but it feels like there are more explicitly-incomplete games in this year’s Comp than usual. For the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews High School Reunion: "Don't look back in anger" November 8, 2026 "There are a ton of stories about high school reunions, and basically none about college reunions, because of course there aren’t. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Gambler's Quest: "Snake eyes" November 8, 2026 "I have a little ritual I follow at the beginning of every parser game I play: I turn on transcripting, I type ABOUT, I type CREDITS, I..." - See full review

A new listing for La Abuela, by Tiny Lobby November 7, 2026 You're the grandma, and a scammer is calling: first "your grandson", then a lawyer, then an inspector. Your job is not to hang up. Pick your answers and catch him in his own lie. One fully voiced call, about...

Dan Fabulich reviews First, Second, and Third Persons: "A charming game of murder" November 7, 2026 "I love Bruno's writing voice in general, and here specifically. There seems to be a bug, or something I didn't get, about the UI. After..." - See full review

TheBetterStory reviews De Baron: "Well, All Right" November 7, 2026 "I don't think this was a bad game, but I'm a bit baffled by all the praise and high ratings. The prose is serviceable, although there's a..." - See full review

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