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ChanceOfFire reviews Would you like to make some tea?: "Can't see the tea" July 31, 2026 "A charming and relaxing game. You get a choice of what tea to pick, and how you plan to enjoy it. The game might not be happy with......" - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Visions of an End: "What did I see?" July 31, 2026 "A battle is coming. You obtain something with prophetic properties. Something which could show you bits of the future. Unfortunately, it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Edge Valley Bigfoot Society: "Cryptid breakout" July 31, 2026 "There is a host of well-meaning, and actually quite wise, advice for first-time authors of parser games. This ranges from emphasizing the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Uncle Sam Atrium: "Urban renewal" July 31, 2026 "Hot on the heels of Blossom, NY comes the author’s other local-history game focusing on upstate New York. But while the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Isekai: "Internal explorations" July 31, 2026 "(No star rating since this is just a write-up of the preview) Exactly at the midpoint of my combined ParserComp/Review-a-Thon list,..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Plant: "The Plant review" July 30, 2026 "The Plant is a classic puzzlefest, of a substantial length few modern games try to match. The PC is a nameless corporate drone who, along..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Incident at Galley House: "Don't you (forget about me)" July 30, 2026 "This commercial remake of Type Help doesn't make changes for changes sake: fans of the original will experience the same story, with the..." - See full review

A new poll by RainbowDarter, Research 'Em Ups created July 30, 2026 19 votes for 17 games Games where progress is primarily made through discovering and cataloging information, rather than traditional puzzles.

RainbowDarter reviews Excalibur: "Almost as Weird as Real 70’s Television" July 30, 2026 "The first time I tried to play Excalibur, I bounced off it hard. Surely, I thought, reading a fandom wiki shouldn't count as interactive..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Haunted House for Social Phobics: "That was an intense experience" July 30, 2026 "Okay, no, actually, that was terrifying. So many awkward situations, fired in such quick succession ... it seems like every choice you..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews The Chinese Room: "So promising, but underimplemented" July 30, 2026 "You have a surreal world based on an academic subject, with the protagonist being a practitioner of that academic field who seems to have..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Take What You Need: "You may leave when you are ready" July 30, 2026 "Alright, this one is pretty short. You enter a mysterious hut during some trying times. The sole inhabitant offers to let you take some..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Take Them Home: "My favorite part of the date" July 30, 2026 "Anothe linear IF entry. You have a pleasant date and are now making the trip home. Always my favorite part of the date. That said, the UI..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Sweet Embrace: "No escaping death" July 30, 2026 "You wake up amongst the dead. Someone calls out to you. What is happening? The story wasn't entirely unpredictable, but I still had some..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blossom, NY: "Upstate state of mind" July 30, 2026 "OK, now for the first installment in a series that we’ll occasionally dip into through the remainder of the Review-a-Thon: Wait, Did I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sleepless in the Sapphire City: "Poetic justice" July 30, 2026 "This is really very good. I know my schtick is usually to dress things up, do some tapdancing with a barely-related personal anecdote or..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews DEVIL'S LIMINAL: "Slow cooking" July 30, 2026 "I suppose I’ve played a fair number of visual novels, in an objective sense – each year sees at least a couple entered in the various..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Summer of '22: "Begin again" July 29, 2026 "A short IF where you reflect upon a past relationship which ultimately came to an end, as well as life in college. It did remind me of my..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Prodly the Puffin: "It sets out to do what it sets out to do" July 29, 2026 "Pokey the Penguin is/was a webcomic so bizarre that it may well be outsider art. Various identical-looking characters and their weirdo..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for July 2026 July 29, 2026 8 items On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even...

A new Recommended List by The Elusive9, My favorite-est games!!!! July 29, 2026 6 items I like games with magic systems so most of these involve that heheh

The Elusive9 reviews Oppositely Opal: "Fun and satisfying" July 29, 2026 "Fun, not too challenging and making the potion was super satisfying~!"

ChanceOfFire reviews Student Driver: "No honking" July 29, 2026 "The story of a young person who sees a commotion, notices something about student driver stickers and figured that it could change his..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Stolen Page: "KEEP ME SAFE" July 29, 2026 "It's definitely unique idea. You get a passage of words. You can click on the words to form a short phrase, and the game gives you a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Silent Treatment: "She can't hear me" July 29, 2026 "First things first, won't take off any stars for this, but the font color choice on the game's itch page was pretty hard to read. Anyway,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews a signal from Saturn: "Time to start fixing" July 29, 2026 "Interesting... a mini-puzzle game in a Neo Twiny Jam entry. You're flying past Saturn when you hear a distress signal. Unfortunately,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Road I Ended Up On: "The road to memories" July 29, 2026 "Another short entry for the Neo Twiny Jam entry. This is more of the short and branching variety rather than the long and linear one...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Repurposing the Past: "Time to start building" July 29, 2026 "2012 came and went without a hitch. Back to real life problems, you suppose. Anyway, there is an abandoned place which you'll have to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Krampus Case: "It's beginning to look a lot like kidnapping" July 29, 2026 "I am not at all a betting man, but if I were, I don’t think I’d ever find a safer wager than betting that somewhere, there’s a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Something in our heart: "The thing in the machine" July 29, 2026 "The paradox of linear games (by which I guess I mean non-branching, puzzleless ones) is that the best ones often give the player a lot to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews recombinatorial: "Wingless migration" July 29, 2026 "One of the things I like about my approach to reviewing IF is that it’s a prompt to think about games, to try to develop a take about..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Psyche: "I see unmatched beauty" July 28, 2026 "You're about to sleep. It is dark. Someone visits you. You can't quite make them out. Who could it be? How will you get answers? This..." - See full review

Passerine reviews The Antediluvian Weapon: "Harmonious in story and puzzles" July 28, 2026 "Disclosure: I am biased in this game’s favor because I managed to finish it on my own (though, fuller disclosure, without the good..." - See full review

A new listing for The Lost Library, by Final Boss

A new listing for Terraform, by Polaris Storm

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Room Mom — The Simulation Archive: "Had, but not preserved, except in memory" July 28, 2026 "Room Mom — The Simulation Archive is a psychological horror game that explores grief, forgetting, letting go, and the lasting effect of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Potion Final: "I got a D" July 28, 2026 "It's a pretty cute entry, with nice art and sound to give you the charm and fantasy vibes. Gameplay is straightforward, but works very..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews pet: "When the roles are reversed" July 28, 2026 "You're a ###### alien species, and you plan to get a pet. Four limbs, ten fingers, two eyes, what could that possibly be? Hmm... It's a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews One and Seventeen: "When I become the seventeenth " July 28, 2026 "A short and entirely linear game, where two supernatural beings who prey on others in some form talk about themselves and each other...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews oxblood: "The permanent efficacy of grace" July 28, 2026 "My old gaming group was very into the old World of Darkness tabletop RPGs, but we never played much Vampire – our tastes tended more..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Warren: "Warren and peace" July 28, 2026 "I’m a big book person, so go figure, some of my earliest memories involve my mom reading to me at bedtime. It’s mostly the favorites..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews All That Shimmers...: "Good puzzles, good jokes, what more could you want?" July 28, 2026 "Maybe it’s because I played All That Shimmers… hot (er) on the heels of Lewd Mod: No Butts, but the thing my brain keeps coming back..." - See full review

A new listing for islands & witches, by Betsy Haibel and Elizabeth Yalkut

Jmoo reviews Shrapnel: "A story masquerading as a game" July 27, 2026 "I first played this game as an impressionable 20 year old and remember being blown away. I didn't quite understand what had happened but..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Antediluvian Weapon: "Use of weapons" July 27, 2026 "The Antediluvian Weapon, by Daniel M. Stelzer An interesting thing about the Review-a-Thon is the way it recontextualizes its entries...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lewd Mod: No Butts: "Lewd Mod: Revelations" July 27, 2026 "This is my third year of review-a-thoning, which means I’ve now played five different entries in the Lewd Mod series – though I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews requiescat: "Neatly implemented thriller" July 27, 2026 "I work in policy advocacy and one of the big no-nos in that corner of the world is Christmas trees. That doesn’t mean actual Christmas..." - See full review

Jmoo reviews Galatea: "Dull as dishwater " July 27, 2026 "Genuinely insipid and overrated. The titular NPC has all the personality of a bar of soap. I cared for neither the PC nor the NPC and..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Necrotics: Jace: "He's a zombie, and he's hungry " July 27, 2026 "Next sequel game I'm playing for the Neo Twiny Jam. This is a short zombie horror IF with a single choice. You're doing tedious everyday..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Mouse Train: Long Distance: "The Mouse Train journey continues " July 27, 2026 "Back on the Mouse Train... I've played other games in the series during my jam review spree last year, and now, looks like we're back in..." - See full review

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