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hiannace reviews Color the Truth: "Half-Baked" May 28, 2026 "I enjoyed some aspects of this game. I thought the linking and contradictions aspect was interesting and the connections were not always..." - See full review

A new listing for Fearless Games, by TharaApples

A new listing for Timun Emas, by Salsabiil, Ana, Amri, Abiyyu (G2 DLR SAS D24)

zerotrickpony reviews The Red Pearls of Borneo: "free and fun" May 27, 2026 "A nice iteration on the Type Help who-when-where mystery mansion concept, with an atmospheric / historical setting, well written..." - See full review

A new listing for The Red Pearls of Borneo, by bushmonkey

HereticMole reviews meminerimus: "The treachery of self-serving memory" May 27, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. You take on the viewpoint of a simulacrum, a recreation of a human being. In..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews The House: "A doll, a writer, a time wizard, and not-Terminator walk into a haunted house…" May 27, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. …and learn profound inner social truths. The game directly starts with the most..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Vie et mort d'un voyageur: "Game like 'Her Story' but with French cities and trains" May 26, 2026 "(I wrote a review for this before but now can't find it anywhere) This game takes place in the afterlife. You are a train enthusiast at a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Le dernier train pour Florence: "Footsteps in French" May 26, 2026 "This game is fast-paced, with different difficulty levels. You are running after a train and you have to choose between three cards..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Train Loop: "Brief time loop game with cheese" May 26, 2026 "This is a French game set on a train where you wake up with your memories somewhat befuddled. Then your phone rings. In general, the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Speed 3 : le train: "Manic fast-paced game with different time challenges on a train" May 26, 2026 "This choice-based game puts you on a train where you are forced to participate in a series of challenges to earn points. These are..." - See full review

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Works where the main map is a 3x3 maze created May 26, 2026 3 votes for 3 games I saw a parallel between two very different games, and I think there must be more such games! I appreciated the economy in both, diagonal exits or no. I sort-of wrote one of my own & have a WIP that is sort...

archcorenth reviews Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients: "Good writing, bad gameplay." May 26, 2026 "This game is actually fairly well-written and feels like an authentic (if unrisky) sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Unfortunately,..." - See full review

EJ reviews Reflections: "Reflections review" May 26, 2026 "Reflections is a brief and charming game in which you play as the grandchild of a sorceress trying to awaken your magical powers, which..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews L'Improsteur: "A deck-based madlib in French" May 26, 2026 "I'm not sure I quite understood the rules of this game, but it was fun. Your twin brother, who is working on a play, is sick, so you have..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mylette assurances: "A funny visual novel about insurance adjusters during a battle" May 25, 2026 "This is a French visual novel. I found the writing very amusing, with great art to boot. You play as an insurance adjuster during..." - See full review

A new listing for The Trapster's Maze, by Raymond E. Feist

A new listing for The Jester's Court, by Raymond E. Feist

A new listing for Castle Danger, by Pat Hartman

HereticMole reviews Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory: "The Death and Birth of Flowers" May 25, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. I greatly enjoyed Lamp Post Projects’ The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens and Fantasy..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Our Lady of Thorns: "Just a little while until the color of sins is brought to light" May 25, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. I was intimidated from looking at the long (relative to other entries in the..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead: "Summoning all monster hunters" May 25, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. The game initially shipped without a blurb at all, until it was added a day after..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Aim, Inspirational Games to Make Me Learn Twine May 24, 2026 1 item These games either teach me the capabilities of Twine or help me compose my thoughts about how best to make my own.

News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 2): Iron ChIF S1E2 - The battle has begun! May 24, 2026 The challenge ingredient for Season One Episode 2 has been revealed, and the clock is now ticking. Audience members can see the chefs at work over the next five days and vote for the winner once they have... - Details

A new competition page: Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 2) created May 24, 2026 Iron ChIF is an intfiction.org "forum show" modeled after the Japanese television series Iron Chef. Over the course of five days, two authors compete to create a working game from the same "challenge...

A new listing for Roulette Russian, by Cleril

MathBrush reviews Le passager: "Brief game about a drive through the countryside with a passenger" May 23, 2026 "This is a short, well-made Twine game in French with a few brief choices and at least 2 endings. You play as someone who missed a train,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gare de l'Ouest: "Many-ending game with a timer about executing a spy mission" May 23, 2026 "It's always hard to rate games in foreign languages, because how much of your complaints are due to game design and how much due to your..." - See full review

A new listing for The Smirking Horror, by Jason Davis

archcorenth reviews Eric the Unready: "Tedious storytelling with good puzzles." May 23, 2026 "I really enjoyed Bob Bates's newest game Thaumistry, so I went back and am playing his old games, some of which I'd played before and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Unseelie: "Doing shrooms" May 23, 2026 "This is unavoidably going to sound like damning with faint praise, but Unseelie is really good for an untested parser game made in a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Join the Swarm: "A hive full of honey" May 23, 2026 "As is now Spring Thing tradition, Senica Thing has contributed an anthology of IF by students (and a few friends), this time all written..." - See full review

Crazyqix reviews Junior Arithmancer: "A dark work of genius that drives an obsession..." May 22, 2026 "I guess one could describe Junior Arithmancer by Mike Spivey as a maths exam simulator if wizards studied maths. However, after playing..." - See full review

A new listing for Dynasty of the Sword, by Lhadhaniel

EJ reviews His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook: "HM Royal Space Navy Service Handbook review" May 22, 2026 "His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook is a dystopian work-com. The setting is the military of an evil space empire led by Smurg..." - See full review

A new listing for Maniac Mansion, by Ron Gilbert, Garry Winnick, David Fox, Carl Mey, Chris Grigg, David Lawrence

HereticMole reviews Unseelie: "What’s wrong babe, you’ve barely touched your glowing cave fungus?" May 22, 2026 "Originally written on the intfiction forums, slightly expanded after getting the intended end state in a second playthrough. The in-game..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews 23 Minutes: "Could’ve, would’ve, should’ve" May 22, 2026 "Originally written on the intfiction forums. A 23 minute walk and you think on being a father, a mental grocery list, career woes, angst,..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Enigmart: "Imagine if you had to do a puzzle for each item in the cart during self-checkout" May 22, 2026 "Originally written on the intfiction forums. I first attempted to play this game weeks earlier - on a commute, using my phone, and on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Exchange: "Doctor doctor" May 22, 2026 "I’ve made some significant choices in my IF career: doomed planets and saved them, redeemed villains and romanced companions, started..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Social Democracy: Popular Front: "Allons enfants de la patrie" May 22, 2026 "Three games into the Social Democracy franchise, I think we’re now past the point where reviews need to assess the quality of the..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Operation 'Red Shadow': "An infiltration story featuring generative A.I." May 21, 2026 "Beeping. Regular, persistent. The apparatus. Somewhere in the background, a conversation – muffled voices, rapid words. You are..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Perilous Plot: "Hideously eeee-vil" May 21, 2026 "In the spring of two thousand and twenty six, I, Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, poured all the gold of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory: "Figaro magnifico" May 21, 2026 "One of the coolest things about IF Comp is that every year, you come across brand new authors who bring something fresh and idiosyncratic..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead: "Feeling crabby" May 21, 2026 "I suppose this exposes me as a person of limited imagination, but before I played Maybe you’ll respect this dead person instead, I’d..." - See full review

A new listing for Radiotext, by Alp Arslan

MathBrush reviews Epic Expedition: "Adventuron future archaeology game, brief and good for beginners" May 20, 2026 "I was pleased when going through the competition to see a familiar name I knew and which I associated with quality games, and this game..." - See full review

A new listing for TSA, by Peter Flanagan

A new listing for Yes, Chef!, by Peter Flanagan

MathBrush reviews Beneath the Exhibition: "Some great concepts that have some rusty execution" May 20, 2026 "In this Javascript parser game, you play as a blind professor with a guide that shows you around, describing things for you. This is a..." - See full review

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