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pixel reviews The Scoop: "More detail than you can poke a stick at" June 3, 2026 "I played The Scoop for over 100 hours with a few restarts. I ended up taking over 80 pages of notes keeping track of who had said what..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Universal Robot (Assembled By Hex): "Train your own replacement!" June 3, 2026 "This game reminded me a lot of the non-fighting parts in Chuk and the Arena by the same author (in a good way). This game feels like a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Crier: "The class system meets the denial of humanity (mushy version)" June 2, 2026 "This is a visual novel with many different images. This game is a gross game (intentionally so, and advertised as so). It features a Mad..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Quiet Scurry: "A gauntlet-structure game where you play as a mouse" June 2, 2026 "Me starting to play this game: Ah, this is cute. Me after playing this game: This is definitely not cute. This is one of the deadliest..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cryptid Hunter: "Hunt down cryptids matching specific traits given to you" June 2, 2026 "This is a fun replayable game written by a team of authors. Its fairly short and simple, but hard enough for me that I only go 1/3 my..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Social Democracy: Popular Front: "Vive la france! Hopefully" June 2, 2026 "This is the third Social Democracy game, a series that has proven popular outside of the usual IF haunts (even the history teacher of my..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cyclic Fruition Number One: "Language/conversation theory in game form" June 2, 2026 "This is a short branching hyperlink game that is cyclical in nature and uses a new system called 'spiki'. It's based on information..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 23 Minutes: "A poem of a daily run with dozens of images" June 2, 2026 "This game essentially takes a video of someone walking to school for 23 minutes and slows it down to one frame at a time, with each tap..." - See full review

psj reviews First Draft of the Revolution: "excellent epistolary tale" June 2, 2026 "what an EXCELLENT game! although i use the word game loosely - the limited interactivity and single ending here makes it feel more like a..." - See full review

psj reviews ♥Magical Makeover♥: "girlsgogames.com for fairies!" June 2, 2026 "such a fun game! short and sweet with witty writing and a clear focus. i love a short game where the author clearly has such a strong..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead: "A fantasy game where you can summon 4 very different characters" June 2, 2026 "I don't know why, but as I review this I am struck by a strong memory of the game Gallery Gal, where you can, at any point in the..." - See full review

News on Delphina's House: Delphina's House: Release 3 June 2, 2026 Release 3 of Delphina's House came out on May 19, 2026! ... - Details

MathBrush reviews Latinorum: "Amusing school hijinks" June 2, 2026 "This was one of the more enjoyable modern commodore 64 games I've played. Short, good parser, to the point, amusing. You play as a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Join the Swarm: "A fun mix of games" June 1, 2026 "I always look forward to the Senica thing each year, a collection of short Twine games written by students and associated adults. This..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Coffee Cake Caper: "Coffee cake crime " June 1, 2026 "This is a mystery game, one of my favorite IF genres. It's a cozy mystery. No murder here--instead, a cake competition is sabotaged when..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Before the Snow Melts: "Thoughtful game about unspoken feelings" June 1, 2026 "This is a visual novel that is a bit more complex than appears on one playthrough. You play as a young person in a relatively small town..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews High On Grief: "An abnormal way to respond to a death in, well, an abnormal relationship" June 1, 2026 "I have a huge backlog of IFComp 2025 reviews to post from the author's forum. This was the one of two I had extra notes on, and it took..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Unseelie: "Mushroom madness isekai" June 1, 2026 "This is an unfinished TADS game with some good content and promise. You get isekai'd by two weirdos into a purple portal. The world you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews meminerimus: "Very short game about manipulative relationship" June 1, 2026 "I helped a bit in the creation of this game and am mentioned in the credits, so this is not an objective review. I gave a higher score..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Perilous Plot: "Randomized game with dastardly plots" June 1, 2026 "I started playing through all Spring Thing 2026 games in reverse order by IFDB rating. I saw this one had a 2.5 rating, and so I had low..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Exchange: "Promising unfinished memory transfer game" May 31, 2026 "This is a very short twine game that serves as the first act of a larger game. You can play as two characters. There is a rich..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The House: "Pick from a cast of characters to watch their interactions and backstories" May 31, 2026 "This is a Twine game where you pick from 8 or so characters to form a team of 4, then investigate rooms in a house one at a time to get a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Missing City Council: "Buggy, hard-to-follow parser game about, well, a missing city council" May 31, 2026 "This game feels more like an unfinished prototype than a fully-intentioned game. I have no doubt it could be completed into an enjoyable..." - See full review

biasoul reviews I, the Forgotten One: "oh if only.." May 31, 2026 "Holly hell this a good one. For real. Very very engaging narrative, you connect with the characters. If only the romance options weren't..." - See full review

biasoul reviews Superstition S1: "Cant finish the story" May 31, 2026 "Hard to connect with the main character. Theres way too many pointless customization options (cars, food...) so its a struggle to build a..." - See full review

biasoul reviews The Golden Rose: "recommend!" May 31, 2026 "Very good and engaging writing! "

biasoul reviews Our Life: Beginnings & Always: "conflicting thoughts" May 31, 2026 "Ah, I did start the game kind of liking it, but idk, its probably not for me? Lol a bit boring tbh. And it feels weird cause you're..." - See full review

biasoul reviews The Sword of Rhivenia: "average, to be honest" May 31, 2026 "Low player agency on this, didnt really notice much difference regardless of my OCs personallity. And tbh you dont really feel connected..." - See full review

A new listing for Day of the Tentacle, by Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Ron Gilbert, Gary Winnick, Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnel, Michael Land

MathBrush reviews Danse !: "Complex french parser game with many side quests, sketchy implementation" May 30, 2026 "This is among the larger french parser games I've played. In it, you play as a doctor in a medieval type town that has left after a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Train de pensée: "Interactive poem collection in French" May 29, 2026 "This is a collection of poems in French, mostly written with lines of similar length and not much rhyming (which is pretty normal for..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Alphonsine est dans la panade: "Brief replayable one-room western train shootout parser game (in French!)" May 29, 2026 "This was a fun, brief parser game I played as part of the 2026 French comp. In it, you are an undercover agent with a robber gang who has..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Samurai of Hyuga Book 4: "Brutal, unhealthy and demeaning relationship between two former lovers" May 29, 2026 "This game took me quite a while to finish (a couple weeks!). It's pretty different than earlier games in the series. The first two games..." - See full review

News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 2): Iron ChIF S1E2 - Dishes are served! May 29, 2026 The games produced by the competing chefs have been released for play: Time Swap by challenger Onno Brouwer, and Arkanen by defending Iron Chef Max Fog. Both are available to play at the intfiction forum... - Details

A new listing for Arkanen, by Max Fog

A new listing for Time Swap, by Lancelot

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for May 2026 May 29, 2026 9 items On Friday, May 29, 2026, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more...

JoshGrams reviews The Anachronist: "Interesting historical novel with gruesome deaths and unfortunate mechanics" May 29, 2026 "This is a 90K+ word novel exploring religion and philosophy (?) in 1596, near the end of the reign of Elizabeth I when the Protestant..." - See full review

Passerine reviews The Red Pearls of Borneo: "A deduction game for WWII history buffs" May 29, 2026 "The Red Pearls of Borneo is an investigative deduction game that feels a bit like Type Help crossed with Return of the Obra Dinn, but..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Social Democracy: Popular Front: "Ils ne passeront pas" May 29, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. I’ve played the previous two Social Democracy games, and enjoyed them even if I..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews Latinorum: "(chiefly humorous) the usage of Latin, aimed at not being understood" May 29, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made Back when I was in high school, the oral exams for Spanish class terrified the..." - See full review

Mr. Patient reviews The Smirking Horror: "Lossy compression" May 28, 2026 "The title is certainly fun. I figured The Smirking Horror would be a broad, probably scattershot parody of The Lurking Horror, or Infocom..." - See full review

psj reviews The Spectators: "stunning historical game" May 28, 2026 "one of my favorite interactive fiction games i've played! getting to play as various members of the ducal household enlivens the..." - See full review

hiannace reviews Color the Truth: "Half-Baked" May 28, 2026 "I enjoyed some aspects of this game. I thought the linking and contradictions aspect was interesting and the connections were not always..." - See full review

A new listing for Fearless Games, by TharaApples

A new listing for Timun Emas, by Salsabiil, Ana, Amri, Abiyyu (G2 DLR SAS D24)

zerotrickpony reviews The Red Pearls of Borneo: "free and fun" May 27, 2026 "A nice iteration on the Type Help who-when-where mystery mansion concept, with an atmospheric / historical setting, well written..." - See full review

A new listing for The Red Pearls of Borneo, by bushmonkey

HereticMole reviews meminerimus: "The treachery of self-serving memory" May 27, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. You take on the viewpoint of a simulacrum, a recreation of a human being. In..." - See full review

HereticMole reviews The House: "A doll, a writer, a time wizard, and not-Terminator walk into a haunted house…" May 27, 2026 "Originally posted on intfiction. Minor edits were made. …and learn profound inner social truths. The game directly starts with the most..." - See full review

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