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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

archcorenth reviews Gateway 2: Homeworld: "Great Sequel to a Great Game. Read the books too!" May 20, 2026 "I really enjoyed this first Gateway and I thought this one was much better. Between playing the two games I read the book, and the..." - See full review

A new listing for The Cats of Crossed Elder, by Jennifer S. Lange

Mike Russo reviews A Quiet Scurry: "Scurry in a hurry" May 20, 2026 "There was a year when I was in middle school that the Redwall series were my favorite books. As with so many artifacts of one’s youth,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Missing City Council: "Unstable ordinance" May 20, 2026 "Local government is weird. In my career I’ve done advocacy at the federal level as well as the state level in California, working on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cryptid Hunter: "Gotta catch 'em all" May 20, 2026 "One of the blessings of middle age is that I’ve arrived at a stage of life where I’m neither especially good at video games, nor..." - See full review

Crazyqix reviews Pytho's Mask: "Deception, intrigue and romance" May 19, 2026 "Whilst I am aware of Emily Short’s fairly extensive list of works, I came to Pytho’s Mask having purposely avoided seeing anything..." - See full review

A new listing for werewolf roulette, by Polaris Storm

A new listing for Dungeons and eBooks: A D&D-themed Project Gutenberg Presentation, by Polaris Storm

MathBrush reviews The Gnomish Treasury: "Museum curation and artifact assembly in fantasy setting" May 19, 2026 "This game is the first parser game by Lamp Post Projects, whose other works that I played have been watercolor-illustrated fantasy..." - See full review

raresaturn reviews The Secret of Bastow Manor: "atmospheric" May 19, 2026 "The first adventure game I ever played, and the first c64 game I ever bought. Loads of creepy atmosphere and fun puzzles"

A new listing for Marginalia and Madness: A Writing Quiz, by Fabrikant

HereticMole reviews A Quiet Scurry: "Micro Night" May 19, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. Love that opening passage, the stark truth of the first sentence, the proceeding..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Join the Swarm: "The Swarm-That-Walks" May 19, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Some edits were made. I played a previous Senica Thing anthology, Deep Dark Wood, when looking at past..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Exchange: "Two perspectives, a promising start" May 19, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. This is a demo for a longer game in development. It takes place in the future but close-enough to our..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Our Lady of Thorns: "A canonical mystery" May 19, 2026 "The pantheon of great murder-mystery settings surely has a niche of honor set aside for the medieval monastery. Partially this is just..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Before the Snow Melts: "Waiting for the thaw" May 19, 2026 "I’ve mentioned before that my wife is a fan of the notionally-set-in-the-Regency-but-people-talk-about-closure romance Bridgerton, so..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Crier: "Dankest dungeon" May 19, 2026 "Sometimes you can tell a lot from a font, and the one visual novel Crier uses for its protagonist’s dialogue is a clear statement of..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Tabitha, No One's Home May 18, 2026 13 items Games focused on the exploration of abandoned, after-hours, or otherwise uninhabited (whether permanently or temporarily) places. Currently only includes games I've played; will add more relevant ones as I...

A new listing for Late Summer by the Pond, by Peter Johnston

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