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Mike Russo reviews Slappy Squirrel Gets The Girl: "A wily squirrel" August 6, 2026 "For decades, one of the standard critiques of adventure game puzzles is that they can operate on cartoon logic. It’s a brave move by..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews This Island is Trying to Kill You: "Isle of puzzles" August 6, 2026 "The Simpsons is responsible for so much at this point that it feels hubristic to pick out one thing and call it the Simpsons Effect, but..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grand Island Bank Robbery: "A layered treasure-hunt" August 6, 2026 "Apologies for the mass of blurry-text immediately below, but despite its apparently straightforward treasure-hunt-in-a-1930s-bank..." - See full review

A new listing for Strings Attached, by Crepusucl

Mike Russo reviews Alyas of Starhollow: "Pipe dreams" August 5, 2026 "I have been married for going on eleven years now, and in that time my wife and I have developed our own little habits for certain..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Garden of Impossible Objects: "Grief, observed" August 5, 2026 "Sometimes I worry that, for all that I try to have recourse to some consistent albeit subjective standards as I write these reviews,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure: "Rock enrages" August 5, 2026 "After I finished Bael’s Rock, I turned to the walkthrough – a document with which I’d become well-acquainted – to see if I could..." - See full review

A new listing for Mystery of Cave Maze, by Rex Bader

A new review of Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts - From the Author "A flurry of real & unsolicited feedback from people who have played or read Dimity Jones: "Thank you so much for this. It's an amazing..." - See full review

A new listing for Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts, by O. B. Nakwa

Jean-max Thuille reviews Grainsalt: "Grainsalt " August 4, 2026 "I created grainsalt.com in 2003. Since this time I have worked to improve my code with one goal: build text and images to produce..." - See full review

A new listing for Grainsalt, by Jean-max Thuille

RainbowDarter reviews Quirky Test: "A Rosy Comp With Some Runny Fighting" August 4, 2026 "I feel a bit like I've stumbled into someone's high school reunion while trying to find the hotel vending machines. Quirky Test is an..." - See full review

A new listing for The Path: An Interactive Self-Understanding Journey, by Doğa Arslanyılmaz

RainbowDarter reviews Intelligence: "Deduction in Spaaaaace!" August 4, 2026 "Intelligence is an object lesson in polish. Fundamentally, it's closest in kinship to Kinophobia by Bruno Dias or Jeremy Johnston's The..." - See full review

Passerine reviews Quirky Test: "Exploring the human experience via spoonerisms" August 4, 2026 "In many ways, Quirky Test reminds me of the other spoonerism-based wordplay games I’ve played by this author, but this one is..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Train to Piccadilly: "Histories mysteries" August 4, 2026 "I would like to say that it is my decades of IF experience that allowed me to suss out the subtle gradations of influence that gave rise..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Saintsridge Angels: "Demons and doorstoppers" August 4, 2026 "The greatest gift God ever bestowed on writers was editors (I could certainly use one). And while I’m not one to venerate the old days,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lilac Song: "Exit music (for a game)" August 4, 2026 "I’m hoping that by the end of the Review-a-Thon, someone will write up Lilac Song without having played Social Democracy; it’s..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Mansion: "Do the Wall Street Shuffle" August 3, 2026 "I have always had a soft spot for the "explore a large mansion" type of game; "The Mulldoon Legacy", "McMurphy's Mansion" and "Cranston..." - See full review

News on Mansion: Version 3 is now imminent August 3, 2026 Derek is shortly to upload a new play tested version which removes earlier problems.

RainbowDarter reviews End of Life Care: "More Than 80% Relatable, to Me" August 3, 2026 "This review will likely be a bit shorter than is typical for me, since I don't know how much of my personal business I want to share with..." - See full review

A new listing for The Red Tomorrow, by WindmillTales

A new competition page: 1st Annual Thinky Awards 2023 created August 3, 2026 (IFDB does not record all Thinky Awards winners and nominees.)

RJ Kowalski reviews Slappy Squirrel Gets The Girl: "It's silly to call anything perfect, but-" August 3, 2026 "For starters- this is a surprisingly grounded, traditionally structured puzzler that should be beatable in around two hours by someone..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews Help! I am Locked in a Fortune Cookie Factory!: "Easy to bounce off of." August 3, 2026 "No review would be complete without addressing the unique interface choices here. It's a wild choice. I respect it immensely. I also find..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews The Priest and the Rennes Alignment: "There are two games here, and each is good- in its own way." August 3, 2026 "But I'm really not sure whether they're good together. A strange thing. Maybe that helps the theme of dualism above all else that's here...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews WWII Elevator Escape: "Elevator action" August 3, 2026 "Titles are one of the many things I struggle with when writing my own IF, so I always perk up when I come across one that seems to scoff..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews my baby needs blood: "Hunting for blood" August 3, 2026 "I’ve been to a lot of communications trainings over the years – I work in policy advocacy, so the topic of how to use words to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blood and Silver: "Episodic anniversary" August 3, 2026 "Blood and Silver is a short vignette in the relationship between a vampire and his human partner, deepened by being one installment in a..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews Alyas of Starhollow: "Uncompromising in its devotion to form and style. " August 3, 2026 "It's very tough to give a rating here, so I won't- especially because I beta tested. Alyas of Starhollow goes to great lengths not just..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews A Quest In Time: "Impressive parser, comfortably familiar story, nearly-there atmosphere." August 3, 2026 "The parser is a serious achievement. It's smooth, with one exception having to do with contained items that's thoroughly explained in the..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews The Most Valuable Card in the World: "More than the sum of its parts" August 3, 2026 "First of all, I love Glumpus, and I would never let anything bad happen to him. Well-written interactive fiction generally makes the..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Unearthly, Friend recommendations (WIP) August 2, 2026 10 items

A new listing for DRIVE, by DRIVE

A new listing for GHOST LAYER, by XaltotunITA

Mike Russo reviews Quirky Test: "Spooner feeding" August 2, 2026 "Andrew Schultz’s wordplay games have always been distinguished by a copious amount of documentation and player support, even as their..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Trenchline: "Bunkered up" August 2, 2026 "I promised we’d be circling back around to this series, and so the time has come for another thrilling installment of: Wait, Did I Beta..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews GET MANIFE$TO: "Manifest no" August 2, 2026 "I’ve said before that one of the nice things about the ‘thon is that it enables you to engage with games without necessarily having..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Paradox Factor: "Intricate time loop puzzle game" August 1, 2026 "This unique game uses the Choicescript engine for an entirely different kind of game. There is only one chapter. You play as a grad..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Incident at Galley House: ""Type Help" has a better, creepier frame story" August 1, 2026 "The Incident at Galley House is a much more approachable game than Type Help. You probably won't get too stuck right at the start of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Magikiras: "Million-word mech game that's mostly chilling with your buds" August 1, 2026 "To adapt a copy pasta that's been around for a while: >looking for a new hosted game >ask people if its plot, simulation or OCs smirking..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Untitled (Underground): "Seeing and being seeing" August 1, 2026 "These days, the phrase “significant other” is probably most familiar from a period around the 90s when straight people were flailing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews the lamp of your body: "A dry heat" August 1, 2026 "(Spoilers for this short game, which is very much worth a play). About a third of the way through the lamp of your body, I squinted at..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Maddie Teases: "Ho hum boobs" August 1, 2026 "Folks, we’ve had a good run. Across five Lewd Mod reviews, I like to think I’ve provided some insight and entertainment, from the..." - See full review

Passerine reviews Trenchline: "Slice of life-threatening danger" July 31, 2026 "Trench Line is a stealthy/actiony/parsery vignette that takes place on an active battlefield, a setting I’m not at all familiar with,..." - See full review

A new listing for on thursdays we make video games, by Els White

aluminumoxynitride reviews My Friends the Monster Trainers: "A blast of nostalgia!" July 31, 2026 "I love Obra Dinn-likes, and I love Pokemon, so this was a delightful way to spend 45 minutes. The characters were note-perfect archetypes..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews My Friends the Monster Trainers: "Delightful!" July 31, 2026 "My relationship with Pokemon is a bit of an odd one; I never played the games as a child, despite being surgically attached to my..." - See full review

EJ reviews Swigian: "Swigian review" July 31, 2026 ""Swigian" is an Old English word meaning "pause", and this story indeed takes place during a pause or lacuna in a more famous tale. I..." - See full review

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