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OtisTDog reviews Kissing the Buddha's Feet: "Old school but plays well today, the earliest winner of both NPC-related XYZZYs" August 15, 2026 "Having recently enjoyed Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, it seemed like a good opportunity to check out an older work by the same..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape from the MV Capricorn, by FLACRabbit

Tabitha reviews Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure: "Ups and downs" August 14, 2026 "First, caveat that this isn’t the kind of IF I’d normally play; I’m interested in the early days of the medium, but not so much in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by emigre, Games August 14, 2026 3 items

A new listing for SILAS — Logos-Arche, by Mosherfist

RainbowDarter reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Tumblr, as It Was and Wasn't" August 14, 2026 ""What do you do with the mad that you feel..." - See full review

A new listing for Read the Room, by Ilia

A new listing for Becoming Alan Smedwick, by Tender Boing

Tabitha reviews my baby needs blood: "A trans tale" August 12, 2026 "I really like this one. The blue, grainy images and the sounds of wind and crunching snow capture the mood of the long, oppressive winter..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Relics of the Lost Age: "Archaeology game with a very large amount of hot-button issues included" August 12, 2026 "This game was very interesting. I am actually really impressed out how it handles complex geopolitical issues. (I’m going to..." - See full review

A new listing for One Remained, by Alex Winters

Tabitha reviews A Garden of Impossible Objects: "Impossible resolution" August 12, 2026 "This piece hit me hard emotionally both when I first played it last year and when I replayed recently in preparation for reviewing...." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Kingsley's Mansion: "It's Illogical Doctor" August 11, 2026 "This is a ghost story with an interesting premise, if not a particularly original one (house appears once a year containing a ghostly..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Anxiety. Despair. Algae-Based Foodstuffs." August 11, 2026 "Woof. This may be the most wholly discomforting game I've ever played. You need to try it, right this second. ..." - See full review

A new listing for The Brain Cell, by Marc van der Meer

A new Recommended List by RainbowDarter, Devon's Favorites (So Far) August 11, 2026 10 items Just a few of the IF games I've played that particularly stuck with me, whether narratively, gameplay-wise, or both. I'm still very new to the scene, so I expect this to evolve a lot. If you think of...

Passerine reviews Lilac Song: "“You are done with the game, for now. Do something else.”" August 11, 2026 "Important context: I have not successfully played any of the Social Democracy games. I tried, but history was not my friend until..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Trenchline: "In the trenches" August 11, 2026 "This is a tight, focused game set in the trenches during a war—the first game with that setting I’ve encountered! I will confess that..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews Every day I get emails: "Corporate Enpoopification, but Make It Spooky" August 10, 2026 "Apologies for the juvenile self-censorship in the title, but I like writing these silly little reviews, and I'd rather not risk a ban for..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds: "Maybe the Best Opening Line in IF History" August 10, 2026 "Seriously, even if you don't plan on playing this one, just open it up and get to the second page of text. Try and tell me that didn't..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Onion Hugs: "So surreal, it's hard to connect" August 10, 2026 "This game is full of surrealism. It's an open question from the start of the game to the end of the game whether the whole thing is a..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by MathBrush, My Top 10 Game list (2026) August 10, 2026 10 items I decided to update my top 10 list every few years and just make a new list each time. The process for this list is here: https://intfiction.org/t/the-quest-to-make-a-new-top-10-favorite-games-list/80706/98...

Dan Fabulich reviews Made with Real Forest Scouts: "It's a microgame, not really an intro" August 10, 2026 "It's a small maze to figure out how to sell all of your cookies. The back button helps. The writing is charming, but if it's the start of..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews CoreOS: "Solid database search game" August 10, 2026 "It's a nice little database search game. Decent puzzles in a nostalgic format. I never got too stuck for long. It's a bummer that it only..." - See full review

A new competition page: IntroComp 2026 created August 10, 2026 IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product....

A new listing for The Veil, by Josh Hamelin

A new listing for The Mermaid's Mystery, by Vance Chance

A new listing for Stories of Stars and Woods and City Jungles, by Maxrem

A new listing for Onion Hugs, by Alex Birch

A new listing for Made with Real Forest Scouts, by Tessa Lee Ren

A new listing for CoreOS, by Julian

A new listing for AO Morning Signal, by Rieko Naito

A new listing for 1NTERSTELLAR c0NQUEST: a textb00k, by Yoon Ha Lee

A new listing for Auld Wood, by Nell Lang, Freddie Lawson

A new listing for The Seminal Works of Dr. Tiffany Belle, by Steve French, Laksh Gandikota

kqr reviews Tristam Island: "Fun exploration at just the right difficulty level" August 9, 2026 "Labrande does two impressive things in this large exploration adventure. First, he reveals the central mystery piecewise to the player as..." - See full review

A new listing for The Navigator’s Map, by P. Williams-Smith

Ordon reviews Help! I am Locked in a Fortune Cookie Factory!: "Wonderfully creative" August 8, 2026 "I am sad that this game got dead last in ParserComp2026. I feel that it should be way higher, and thought it would have been, too, and..." - See full review

Ordon reviews The Woodcutter's Quest: "Middling" August 8, 2026 "Background image is wooden logs. Alright. Nothing much storywise. The writing's standard. Puzzles are all simple on paper but some are..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Most Valuable Card in the World: "Swap, meet" August 8, 2026 "Exciting news, folks – it’s time for our third and final (at least for now) installment of: Wait, Did I Beta Test This? Yes! Just a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Priest and the Rennes Alignment: "Et in Arcadia egrue" August 8, 2026 "The conspiracy theories around the secret treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau are incredibly well-trodden ground in pop culture in general due..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Help! I am Locked in a Fortune Cookie Factory!: "Hell in a very small space" August 8, 2026 "Criticism, I firmly believe, is most valuable when it’s sympathetic to the specific goals of a work. “This apple is no sort of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Slappy Squirrel Gets The Girl: "Very funny parser game with cartoon logic and humor" August 7, 2026 "This is a genuinely very funny game. I laughed at a lot of parts. I was just thinking before this how one thing I really value in a text..." - See full review

A new listing for LLM RPG, by Tiraisoft

RainbowDarter reviews Very Vile Fairy File: "Bad Bugs Give Me Mad Mugs" August 7, 2026 "I'm writing this review a few days after "finishing" Very Vile Fairy File, which normally I'm opposed to. I find that my memory very..." - See full review

Rootabeggar reviews Theatre: "Good but a Bit Frustrating" August 7, 2026 "This is a decent game. The story pulls you in a bit, I wasn't entranced but I was curious enough to keep going even towards the end of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dead Man's Chest: "Yo ho yo ho a puzzler's life for me" August 7, 2026 "In every event where I use a randomizer, I feel like there are at least one or two coincidences that prove that God does in fact play..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Woodcutter's Quest: "A fistfull of wood" August 7, 2026 "It sounds like the very definition of damning with faint praise to say that my favorite thing about The Woodcutter’s Quest is the wood...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Quest In Time: "Alley marketplace temple repeat" August 7, 2026 "Towards the western end of the Forum Romanum, the ancient heart of the Eternal City, tucked below the still-majestic ruins of temples,..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews Social Lycanthropy Disorder: "Someone Give This Girl a Trazodone Wrapped in Turkey" August 6, 2026 "I was always going to like this one. "Gay werewolf social anxiety simulator," besides describing my transition timeline, is a premise..." - See full review

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