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MathBrush reviews It's In the Bacon: "Catch a criminal in the Union Carbide RCRA site" November 14, 2026 "This game was educational and had some neat tricks. You are an investigator trying to track down a vandal at the site of a disaster years..." - See full review

JoshGrams reviews TOITŪ: "A poem at war with an adventure game?" November 14, 2026 "This was an interesting exploration of a place and a history and a local writer, but it frequently used language and hyperlinks in ways..." - See full review

A new listing for DHITD: Down Here In The Dark, by WizardxHorse November 14, 2026 The City of Permanent Midnight. Nine Elms in the Golden Hour. And something in the water. A multiplayer horror story told mostly in text, in the tradition of BBS door games: you play a few turns a day in a...

Mike Russo reviews Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express: "Mike Russo's Ryan Veeder's Agatha Christie's the Murder on the Orient Express" November 14, 2026 "When I say that Ryan Veeder’s Agatha Christie’s etc. etc. etc. really reminded me of a game from a previous IF Comp, the obvious one..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews See You Around: "Singing the blues" November 14, 2026 "The thing about patterns of behavior is that they’re patterns for a reason. Like, absent some very intensive work on mindfulness and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Triangle for Two: "Landscape with trio" November 14, 2026 "It is, I suspect, profoundly unfashionable at this point to confess to liking John Updike, but I will cop to the crime: for a decade or..." - See full review

A new listing for FINAL CUT, by Johnny Rewind November 13, 2026 You are Vera Kessler, a cursed 1970s grindhouse actress, trapped on an abandoned studio lot that will not let her leave. Every wing of the lot is a different horror genre, and every one of them has become...

MathBrush reviews BAD N.E.W.S: "Ghost hunting for missing directions!" November 13, 2026 "This is an ambitious game for a 4-hr speed competition. It messes with the direction system itself! A ghost steals your directions, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Vampire House: "Choicescript game where you can date monsters" November 13, 2026 "This game was fun, though it is definitely a mixed bag. Its starting premise reminds me of the old ‘my parents sold me to One..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews One (More) Week in Dolcett - Scarlett Sky: "Extremely NSFW" November 13, 2026 "We don’t actually know where Tituba was born. She was indigenous, native to somewhere in the Western Hemisphere, but 17th-Century..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews New Captain: "Making it so (after a meeting)" November 13, 2026 "My old tabletop RPG group liked to rotate GMs. There were three of us who’d alternate running long campaigns, but pretty much everybody..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Wild Ride to Earth: "Odd jobs" November 13, 2026 "There was a moment towards the end of Wild Ride to Earth’s introductory sequence where I heaved a heavy sigh. See, I’d read through a..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Triangle for Two: "Triangle for Two review" November 12, 2026 "A Triangle for Two A Triangle for Two is a short hypertext piece about two personalities, Jan and Maria, sharing a body and their..." - See full review

EJ reviews Shadow and Ink: "Shadow and Ink review" November 12, 2026 "Shadow and Ink is a Twine game set in an alternate 1920s Japan where ink flows in rivers and paper creatures inhabit the countryside..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Acquisition: "The Acquisition review" November 12, 2026 "The Acquisition is the story of a man named Paul who wants to acquire an expensive work by a famous artist, leading to friction with his..." - See full review

News on The Seventeenth Name: Playtest open through 13 November November 12, 2026 Nexa Lab has opened a short playtest of The Seventeenth Name, a free 5–10 minute browser mystery. You can follow two of three leads before the last ferry, and what you find changes the choices you have. If... - Details

OtisTDog reviews Wolfenschtein: The Text Adventure!: "Basically silly plot with a somehow damaged parser" November 12, 2026 "I came across this game because it is heavily tagged. I assumed that it was something of a joke game, along the lines of IF Quake. It..." - See full review

A new listing for A carta no móvel da estação, by José Martins November 12, 2026 A short investigation game set during a night shift at a small railway station. The game is written and played in European Portuguese; there is no playable English translation. You are the night clerk at...

A new listing for Carnacki: The Whistling Room, by sagaflow team November 12, 2026 Carnacki: The Whistling Room is a browser-based, choice-driven, AI-generated horror adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's occult-detective stories (Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder, 1913), and the first of five...

A new listing for Margot Quill: The Phantom of Gull Rock Light, by sagaflow team November 12, 2026 Margot Quill: The Phantom of Gull Rock Light is a browser-based, choice-driven, AI-generated mystery, and the first of five cases for Margot Quill, a heroine created for SagaFlow rather than taken from a...

A new listing for Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by sagaflow team November 12, 2026 Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a browser-based, choice-driven, AI-generated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story, and the first of five cases for C. Auguste Dupin. Paris, July 1840. Two women...

A new listing for Thor: The Hammerless Road, by sagaflow team November 12, 2026 Thor: The Hammerless Road is a browser-based, choice-driven, AI-generated work of interactive fiction, and the first of ten episodes in a Thor series drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda. Loki has promised the...

A new listing for Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative, by Hap Aziz November 12, 2026 Williamsburg, Virginia. April 19, 1775. The Revolution is about to begin. You are Nathaniel Blake, a merchant from Richmond. You arrive in the colonial capital at half past five in the evening, just as the...

Mike Russo reviews TOITŪ: "A focused wander" November 12, 2026 "TOITŪ provides a compact pitch for itself midway through its first part: >the house has a perfect view of Serpentine Avenue as it wends..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Flourishing: "Walk and talk" November 12, 2026 "For all that I’m maybe a liiiiiitle obsessed with IF (glances over at 802 reviews tallied on IFDB), I don’t tend to gravitate towards..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Archive 13: "Lost in the stacks" November 12, 2026 "There is, I would posit, no better setting for a piece of IF than a library. In IF everything is text, and the interactive element means..." - See full review

A new listing for Shepherds of Haven, by Lena Nguyen; Manifold Studios November 11, 2026 Become the Hero They Fear Magic has been outlawed for centuries. People with supernatural gifts like yours are hated, hunted, and blamed for the world's misfortunes. But when demons return from another...

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!

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