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A new poll by Denk, Choice based IF where you actually learn something created November 8, 2026 No votes If you feel you learn something about life or a topic from a choice based work, please add it to the poll. I do not include parser IF here as I would recommend it to people not familiar with IF. Thanks :)

Mike Russo reviews Invasive Species: "Incomplete metamorphosis" November 8, 2026 "I haven’t gone back and checked, but it feels like there are more explicitly-incomplete games in this year’s Comp than usual. For the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews High School Reunion: "Don't look back in anger" November 8, 2026 "There are a ton of stories about high school reunions, and basically none about college reunions, because of course there aren’t. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Gambler's Quest: "Snake eyes" November 8, 2026 "I have a little ritual I follow at the beginning of every parser game I play: I turn on transcripting, I type ABOUT, I type CREDITS, I..." - See full review

A new listing for La Abuela, by Tiny Lobby November 7, 2026 You're the grandma, and a scammer is calling: first "your grandson", then a lawyer, then an inspector. Your job is not to hang up. Pick your answers and catch him in his own lie. One fully voiced call, about...

Dan Fabulich reviews First, Second, and Third Persons: "A charming game of murder" November 7, 2026 "I love Bruno's writing voice in general, and here specifically. There seems to be a bug, or something I didn't get, about the UI. After..." - See full review

TheBetterStory reviews De Baron: "Well, All Right" November 7, 2026 "I don't think this was a bad game, but I'm a bit baffled by all the praise and high ratings. The prose is serviceable, although there's a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews NODE [7,3]: "Explore data files on a computer to uncover a crime" November 7, 2026 "I almost didn't play this game, since it mentions lewd ascii art and strong profanity, but I found it not really objectionable at all (in..." - See full review

A new listing for Why Don't You Dance, by Lucian Frost November 7, 2026 An interactive fiction adaptation by Lucian Frost, after the short story by Raymond Carver (from "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," 1981). Written in Inform 7.

Mike Russo reviews The Very Last Night I Spent at Ethelred Estate: "Poe-taster" November 7, 2026 "More than any other genre – yes, I’m including you, hard sci-fi – horror depends on rules. This is maybe a counterintuitive..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tableaux Vivants: "Still life with puzzles" November 7, 2026 "I have a lot of admiration for IF authors who come to the scene via one of its two main branches – choice-based and parser – and then..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Pegasus Crew: "Flashback drawbacks" November 7, 2026 "Here’s a typology of CRPGs, take it or leave it: some are epic sagas where the main character is deeply tied into the business of the..." - See full review

A new listing for Starling, by Kevin Flanagan November 6, 2026 A Zeroth-person braindeath. Feat. Lawrence Stern.

EJ reviews The Flourishing: "The Flourishing review" November 6, 2026 "The Flourishing is a surreal, dreamlike work that appears to be about the difficulties of artistic expression and choosing the life of an..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Rat: "The Rat review" November 6, 2026 "In The Rat, you play as Fox, a sort of project manager for a group of criminals carrying out a heist at the home of a bat-themed..." - See full review

EJ reviews Out by Midnight: "Out by Midnight review" November 6, 2026 "Over the past ten years or so of IFComps, Art DiBianca has firmly established a niche of puzzle-box-style limited parser games. No..." - See full review

A new listing for Once Upon a Wound, by Xavier Carrascosa November 6, 2026 Once Upon a Wound is a personal horror game. Venture into the gloomy forest and uncover the five revelations. Can you survive the truth?

A new listing for The Seventeenth Name, by Nexa Lab November 6, 2026 A short, choice-driven browser mystery about an evacuation register and a missing name. Follow two of three leads; your choices affect which options become available later. The story has four endings and...

MathBrush reviews An Unlikely Demon: "Semi-Optimization game for killing mobsters Final Destination-style " November 6, 2026 "This game has a peculiarly interesting structure. It's kind of like the classic 'Verdeterre' gameplay style (popularized by Ryan Veeder's..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Monster at the End of This Game: "This game is messing with you" November 6, 2026 "In this game, the main character you control is your antagonist; the character is frequently messing up your plans. This is also a game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews On Repeat: "Out of the loop" November 6, 2026 "We are many years on from the times when Karl Rove bestrode the country as the dark impresario of the right, and the increasing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Purgatory: "Redemption deferred" November 6, 2026 "I don’t tend to have many unpopular opinions or hot takes, both because I’m generally a pretty easygoing let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny 4: "Mind the horn" November 6, 2026 "“Everything in war is very simple,” Clausewitz tells us, “but the simplest thing is difficult.” The same is true in the business..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Descent: "A Metroidvania with world-puzzle rules" November 5, 2026 "I'm not sure how playable/enjoyable this game is (or would be) without a lot of familiarity with other games in Veeder's Lephrea series,..." - See full review

EJ reviews Amb fang a les mans: "Amb fang a les mans review" November 5, 2026 "I don’t speak Catalan, but for a choice-based game I’m willing to stumble through most any Romance language with my knowledge of..." - See full review

EJ reviews Devils of Terminology: "Devils of Terminology review" November 5, 2026 "Devils of Terminology is a visual novel about a detective in an alternate Victorian England plagued by supernatural phenomena. The..." - See full review

EJ reviews High School Reunion: "High School Reunion review" November 5, 2026 "High School Reunion is a short Texture game about a man attending his 10th high school reunion. While standing outside feeling anxious..." - See full review

EJ reviews Everyone's Invited: "Everyone's Invited review" November 5, 2026 "Everyone's Invited is a surreal, choice-based game in which the player character is trapped in a looping nightmare of a party where..." - See full review

常谚 reviews 勇者斗恶龙: "还有更的打算吗。💔" November 5, 2026 "我喜欢这个，更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更⊙ω⊙"

Kastel reviews No.: "Who is the one saying no?" November 5, 2026 "I can imagine writing a game about rape culture within the strict constraints of La Petite Mort could not have been easy. With only four..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Старий в темних окулярах: "Simple game with custom parser" November 5, 2026 "I used translation and the walkthrough for this. This is a game in Ukrainian with a custom parser engine. As I don't know basic commands..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Enkii: "Smells fishy" November 5, 2026 "The best thing about Enkii’s opening is the pacing. We start in medias res, having snuck into a facility that’s harming the eponymous..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under Loch: "Avoiding the obvious pun" November 5, 2026 "Under Loch gives an initial impression of being simple to the point of trollishness: a single straightforward Twine passage narrating a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Skeletrom Crew On The Loose!: "Fall down, bones scatter / spine is like a broken ladder" November 5, 2026 "You know, we’re over halfway into the Comp (this is review number 33, but I’ve played a couple more that are awaiting their reviews,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Postgrad. Chapter one (beta): "All But Diploma" November 4, 2026 "What does a work of realist fiction owe its readers? Or to put the question another way, once a game has tipped its hand that it’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Logic Land: "Atari Screenage Riot" November 4, 2026 "Two Rybread Celsius games? In this economy? You can refer back to my previous review for the backstory, but after finding Verb Noun..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Verb Noun Adjective: "What, you hate adverbs?" November 4, 2026 "Holy crap. I know 90s nostalgia is all the rage these days – a trend that I’m not super psyched about in any objective sense, to be..." - See full review

A new poll by OverThinking, Games with combat puzzles created November 3, 2026 19 votes for 11 games I'm looking for preferably parser games that involve combat, where winning the combat is a puzzle, or at least requires more thought than typing "SHOOT ASSAILANT" or whatever. Especially looking for games...

MathBrush reviews taso lon tomo pakala: "Toki Pona game about a ghost in a haunted house" November 3, 2026 "This is the second toki pona game I've played. Toki pona is a conlang (constructed language) based on the idea of using as few words as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fe y Sol: "Linear visual novel with creative character design about a murder" November 3, 2026 "In this visual novel, you play as a son of a cult leader who just assassinated him after he and his followers summoned a blood rain onto..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Devils of Terminology: "Interminable" November 3, 2026 "The political theorist Isaiah Berlin has a famous essay where he proposes that there are two kinds of thinkers: hedgehogs and foxes...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews IF Derby: "Going off-piste" November 3, 2026 "I’ve been playing, reviewing, and rating the Comp for more years now than I care to contemplate, and while some thing have become..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Escape the Wumpus: "Lazy wumpus" November 3, 2026 "It’s easy to accuse IF of being a past-obsessed medium: much as the scene has evolved over the decades, to a certain degree we exist in..." - See full review

Paddythemic reviews Brain of the Night Guest: "Quirky Sensibility" November 2, 2026 "Fun and funny miniature game. I needed a hint because of a puzzle that wasn't implemented thoroughly, but enjoyed it regardless."

A new listing for Fablerift, by SleepyE5 November 2, 2026 A text RPG in the classic MUD tradition, played live against one shared server. Seven regions of forest, coast, desert and frozen peak, each with its own weather and a day/night cycle that changes which...

A new listing for Xalaria, by Julian Cochran November 2, 2026 Xalaria is a real-time strategy text adventure set in one universe shared by every player: 7,804 stars and 48,688 worlds, with 3,690 civilisations, each with its own music, art and celebrations. Everything...

BrettW reviews Galilee Bones and the Juggernaut of Jordan: "The careful archaeological art of punching Nazis" November 2, 2026 "Galilee Bones and the Juggernaut of Jordan is Indiana Jones with the serial numbers filed off but goddamn I am here for that. Even if we..." - See full review

BrettW reviews Wait-Our-Way Tower: "Weep lay one Sagan" November 2, 2026 "Last year I admitted that I was aware of Andrew Schultz's oeuvre, but hadn't played any. Us Too was a neat introduction to his kind of..." - See full review

BrettW reviews Epistemophilia: "Endless entropy, oft mistaken as information." November 2, 2026 "Entropy is a measure of a system. It gives a sense of how unpredictable one state is from another. A fair coin has maximum entropy..." - See full review

BrettW reviews See You Around: "Familiar chords, but this is just the warm-up" November 2, 2026 "See You Around is hypertext fiction about a couple/not-couple of musicians confronting each other about their relationship or lack of..." - See full review

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