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A new listing for The Unnumbered Room, by Impossible Editions Free Studio October 27, 2026 Four fictional objects arrive before a museum opens. Arrange up to three on Daylight, Centre and Exit using five units of care. Their qualities and placement affect the score and which of five fixed literary...

A new listing for The Midnight Exchange: The Rain Bell, by Impossible Editions Studio October 27, 2026 Six calls reach the exchange from different years. Read each caller’s account alongside the reference records to identify who is speaking and when. Reconstruct an event order and correct a mistaken...

MathBrush reviews Keeper of the Day and Night: "Fantasy/supernatural boarding school, part II" October 27, 2026 "I liked this better than the first game, though it did something I see a lot in sequels and which sometimes I love and sometimes I don't:..." - See full review

Passerine reviews When You Were Shot By Elephants: "Just Shoot Me" October 27, 2026 "Every IFComp, I come across a Personal Pick: a game that grabs me and speaks directly to the heart and/or brain in a surprising way, and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Sleepless in the Sapphire City: "Ulysses Got Bit" October 27, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Visual Novel without pictures Played: 7/16/26 Playtime: 30m, finished “isn’t it freeing..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews recombinatorial: "Interactive Innovation" October 27, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/16/26 Playtime: 5m One of IF’s venerable capabilities is the use..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lewd Mod: No Butts: "Unrealistically Few D!@k Pics" October 27, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/16/26 Playtime: 10m, one mis-classified image By all accounts,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Black Thumb: "Seeds of change" October 27, 2026 "The identity of Black Thumb’s protagonist is never made that big a deal: this is a magic-realist game about the lengths you’ll go to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews WITHOUT corporation: "In Limbo" October 27, 2026 "It’s not actually a complaint to say that I don’t feel like I can remember a time when I wasn’t playing WITHOUT Corporation. It was..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Alana's Dungeon: "A grand(child's) adventure" October 27, 2026 "When I was ten or eleven, my parents put me in a weekend enrichment program at the local college. It involved doing something other than..." - See full review

Games from the Lightside reviews Great Mouse Escape: "Broken on small screens*" October 26, 2026 "EDIT: Okay, uh. The game is playable if you have it in a larger tab and click fullscreen. Apparently my half-screen tab hid the..." - See full review

A new listing for Goose the Goosie Girlie in: Breakfast Quest, by Emma Conner October 26, 2026 You are a small and precious little baby cat. Can you obtain breakfast?

A new listing for The Shadow Crown - Frostwynd Chronicles, by Superhero Panda October 26, 2026 The kingdom of Frostwynd is dying. Long ago, the Shadow Crown corrupted the noble dragon Scorathax and plunged the realm into eternal twilight. From the last bastion of light, Eldergrove, you set out to end...

A new poll by Games from the Lightside, Games about mice created October 26, 2026 14 votes for 14 games Games that involve mice in some major way, probably as characters or a major focus on them with symbolism, etc. Mmm, rodent.

A new listing for Who Kept the Light, by TorkelRunarson October 26, 2026 The prequel to The Turner of Hollin Rigg. For sixty years one man kept the lamp burning on a Yorkshire moor. A short folk-horror text adventure about his last nights. Plays in the browser.

A new listing for The Turner of Hollin Rigg, by TorkelRunarson October 26, 2026 Keep the lamp lit. Don't let owt in. The Turner of Hollin Rigg is a short folk-horror text adventure set on a lonely Yorkshire moor. Through one long night you tend a lamp, listen at the door, and piece...

JJ McC reviews Saintsridge Angels: "Harem Horror in First Gear" October 26, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/15/26 Playtime: 2.5 hours, 5 (of 9 I think?) chapters complete,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Uncle Sam Atrium: "Hell's Paved Road is a Mall Parking Lot" October 26, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Visual Nonfiction Played: 7/15/26 Playtime: 5m There is some art (if not MOST art) that..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews GET MANIFE$TO: "Groucho's Little Red Book" October 26, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Parser Played: 7/8/26 Playtime: 2hrs, score 450/1000, blunzed, stuck and quit Here is a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dear Anna: "Audio diaries" October 26, 2026 "I see that there are a number of audio-focused games in this year’s Comp, so I suspect I’ll be issuing this disclaimer several more..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Meet the timesheet: "Horrible boss" October 26, 2026 "I have profoundly mixed feelings about it, but we are all living in the post-postmodern age. We’re all fluent in the may tongues of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Doppelgangers: "Talk therapy" October 26, 2026 "Creating NPCs who can be interacted with in relatively-freeform conversation has long been one of the white whales of parser IF. That’s..." - See full review

A new listing for Ember & Moonfire, by Christopher68 October 25, 2026 A complete 15-chapter text RPG, free in your browser. You're sent to kill the dragon that burned Ember Village — and you bond with her instead. Choose one of four guilds, roll your stats, learn spells,...

Andrew Schultz reviews IF Derby: ""So, what cool titles did I miss in this game? I mean, comp?"" October 25, 2026 "I guessed wrong on Hedda Deadline's identity (up there with Ruderbager Doppleganger, pseudonymous author of "Last Minute" in my Pantheon..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Logic Land: "2026? More like 20*2600*, amirite?" October 25, 2026 "Once I was aware of 2600s and text adventures, I wondered if someone could write a 2600 text adventure. I learned reasons why it would..." - See full review

A new listing for SALMON OF DOUBT PART ONE, by KEVIN CASSIDY October 25, 2026 Tribute to Douglas Adams. Sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky

JJ McC reviews The Warren: "Livin' in Mom's Burrow" October 25, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/4/26 Playtime: 5m, left warren Are babies actually cute?..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Edge Valley Bigfoot Society: "'Squatches Gonna 'Squatch" October 25, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Parser Played: 7/4/26 Playtime: 20m, score 28/50 If I say “Bigfoot” what state in the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews WWII Elevator Escape: "Muzak by Wagner" October 25, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Parser Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 1hr, finished w/ hints There’ve been a few works I have..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Out by Midnight: "Checking boxes (and chests, and cabinets, and...)" October 25, 2026 "At this late date, is there juice left to squeeze out of the Verdeterre-like? A baker’s-dozen years one from the inaugural entry in the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ass in the Woods: "Bottom's up" October 25, 2026 "There’s been a lot of discussion of adaptation in the discourse recently: what, if anything, is owed to source material? Does that..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Forensic Necromancy: A Murder in Nineveh: "CSI: Assyria" October 25, 2026 "Liberals like to complain about the current administration’s purge of funding for research and higher education, arguing that a..." - See full review

A new listing for Late Shadows, by quadraturins October 24, 2026 You are a ghost. Your family is moving. Can you make contact before they go? A short narrative Twine game. Written in a couple of days for Garbage jam #7.

A new poll by P-Tux7, Games where cheating at a parlor game is a puzzle created October 24, 2026 5 votes for 4 games In many games, minigames are presented "as-is," where you're intended to play the game fairly. However, in many works of interactive fiction, minigames are presented as puzzles where you have to devise a way...

A new listing for Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Secret, by kyle972 October 24, 2026 Relive Harry’s first year at Hogwarts in a full-length, browser-based text adventure. From the cramped cupboard under the stairs to the towering spires and hidden passages of the castle, explore Hogwarts,...

News on The Path: An Interactive Self-Understanding Journey: October update: reading pace October 24, 2026 Lines now appear at roughly reading speed instead of after a fixed delay, so short lines no longer hold you up. Tapping the text brings in the next line, one line at a time. Some quieter moments keep their... - Details

JJ McC reviews my baby needs blood: "Fang-Free Folklore" October 24, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Visual Novel Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 10m, two playthroughs Given that there is an annual..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews DEVIL'S LIMINAL: "Desert Demonology" October 24, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice Select Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 1hr, demo complete I am from the Southwest, let’s..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lilac Song: "The Most Dangerous Game" October 24, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 10m Hollandspiele is a pretty singular boardgame..." - See full review

A new poll by The Elusive9, Underrated parser games created October 23, 2026 19 votes for 14 games Parser games you enjoyed that aren’t super famous or well-known, and need some more recognition!

Passion reviews That Sink: "peak" October 23, 2026 "let that sink in"

JJ McC reviews Blossom, NY: "Keyboard Tourism" October 23, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 10m, all places and sidebars Every now and then, my..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Blood and Silver: "Denial by Dracula" October 23, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Choice-Select Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 15m, Trusting, reassured, guilted, deflected, heard..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews the lamp of your body: "Classmate from Hell" October 22, 2026 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review Style: Single-Choice Played: 7/2/26 Playtime: 20m, two playthroughs University is an exciting,..." - See full review

meri_something reviews Every day I get emails: "Still haunting me" October 22, 2026 "I've thought about this game on a regular basis for the last year. I'll be in conversation with a friend or colleague about the..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Pirate Railroad: "Short and fun; a demonstration of technique ahead of its time" October 21, 2026 "The only other review for this game (at least, at the time that this one is being written) frames this work as an experiment of dubious..." - See full review

A new listing for That Sink, by Andrew Stephens October 20, 2026 The whole weekend lies before you. But first - breakfast! Unfortunately, your kitchen appliances have disappeared. All of them. Plus your vacuum cleaner. What can be behind this turn of events? Does your...

LoquySSS46 reviews Meet the timesheet: "Working as a Hobby!" October 20, 2026 "First, I would like to acknowledge what genuinely interesting things the game had going for it: Descriptive quality prose, a somewhat..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews A Triangle for Two: "Innovative simplicity in storytelling" October 20, 2026 "This was not bad at all! I first want to highlight how interesting and clever the simple implementation of interactivity the author used..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Shadow and Ink: "A serene journey of altruism and self-discovery" October 20, 2026 "That was quite charming! Though not quite at the level of Eikas, it was rather reminiscent of it, in a sense, stylistically. For..." - See full review

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