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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

A new listing for Rivals, by Tim Sheinman

RainbowDarter reviews The Case of the Dungeon Descent: "Another Jamwitch Gem" July 31, 2026 "I get so giddy every time I see this team post something new. I don't always love their games, but I can always count on them to be..." - See full review

A new listing for My Friends the Monster Trainers, by Jamwitch

RainbowDarter reviews Violet: "An Okay One-Room Puzzle That Read Me for Filth" July 31, 2026 "Feel free to scoff at this, veterans of Interactive Fiction, but I found a lot of the puzzles in Violet pretty obtuse. None are outside..." - See full review

A new listing for The Case of the Dungeon Descent, by Jamwitch

RainbowDarter reviews The Red Pearls of Borneo: "A History Mystery That Ends With Some Misery" July 31, 2026 "...Is it blasphemy to say I like The Red Pearls of Borneo more than Type Help? Well, if it is, then darn me to heck, because I like The..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews What Happened to the Crew?: "Fun and Frustration, Together at Last" July 31, 2026 "This game makes me desperately wish IFDB allowed half-stars in their ratings, because What Happened to the Crew? is my textbook..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews The Enchanted Cottage: "A Cast Of Seven " July 31, 2026 "The Enchanted Cottage comes from the most creative and well-crafted section of the prolific Jack Lockerby's text adventure Curriculum..." - See full review

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 38 votes for 21 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

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