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Mike Russo reviews Detritus: "We're trash, you and me" November 9, 2025 "When I’m playing video games as a civilian – i.e., when I’m not blasting through IF so I can meet the review quota before a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer: "Plumbing a career in game development" November 9, 2025 "Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer has comfortably the most bizarre setup of any game I’ve played so far in this year’s Comp –..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter: "Slop feeding on its own slop" November 9, 2025 "Every once in a while the question of “what is IF?” comes up, and I have a couple of stock answers: one is that “IF” is a..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews Río Alto: Forgotten Memories: "Immersive mystery but very buggy" November 8, 2025 "The narrative and mechanics were engaging enough to draw me in after the first few minutes. There are multiple endings. I only realised..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Sims 2 Corruption Creepypasta: "thought-provoking, substantial, eerie" November 8, 2025 "If you've played The Sims 2, odds are you have been freaked out by stories of how easy it is for the game to get corrupted, and the crazy..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "The garden or the forest" November 8, 2025 "I’ve since moved away, but for a long time I lived just a few minutes away from the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, CA. They’re a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews INPUT PROCESS: "Building a ghost in the machine" November 8, 2025 "It’s getting on towards October, so my four-year-old son is enjoy the advent of his favorite holiday. He enjoys everything that makes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Crescent Sea Story: "A sea of troubles" November 8, 2025 "The 2023 Comp was notoriously a festival of murder-mysteries and boats, and while we’ve seen our share of the former this year,..." - See full review

Nell (Lamp Post Projects) reviews Stage Fright: "Stage Fright" November 7, 2025 "A theatrical game that manages to make script memorization and workplace safety hazards surprisingly fun! This Ectocomp entry was..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews To Ashes You Shall Return: "Undead love" November 7, 2025 "Full Disclosure: I am a credited beta tester for this game. To Ashes You Shall Return breaks many 'rules' of making a choicescript game...." - See full review

A new listing for Executive Suite, by Anonymous

A new listing for Yes, Prime Minister, by John Wood, Richard Yapp, Richard Horrocks

Mike Russo reviews The Little Four: "At home with Poirot" November 7, 2025 "I think a lot about The Sorrows of Young Werther. Let me rephrase: relative to most Americans born in 1980, I think a lot about the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Day in a Hell Corp: "Imp-erfect" November 7, 2025 "It’s a sign that a writer has reached their decadent phase when they turn their critical eye upon themselves and begin to obsess over..." - See full review

A new listing for Cheese, Go Home!, by C. "Sparky" Read

A new listing for Nuntalyli'u, by William Crowther and Donald Woods

A new listing for Wedding Speech, by Galvan

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Texture: "The truth is coming for you" November 6, 2025 "You open your eyes and slowly stand up. Trees surround you. It seems you woke up in a forest. You try to remember. Who are you and what..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Cannot Speak: "Arrested development" November 6, 2025 "I’ll give credit to You Cannot Speak for an interesting opening – sudden-onset aphasia, intrigue on a Martian colony, and sleep..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews One Step Ahead: "ChatGPTerror" November 6, 2025 "Probably the most interesting thing about the rise of LLMs (a low bar) is that it’s given us a new AI story. When I was growing up,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews valley of glass: "Sitting in the gaps of a fairy tale" November 6, 2025 "On thing that I never fully appreciated until I started writing some of my own fiction is just how full of holes most narratives are. I..." - See full review

A new listing for The Magician's Nephew, by Mister Flibble

A new listing for Cruise, by Pierre

A new listing for Weekend, by Pierre

A new listing for Remnants of The Past - Book 1, by Domakir

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The bloom: "…and afterwards, we set out." November 5, 2025 "The bloom is a submission to Bare-Bones Jam 2025. Told in first person from the perspective of a former staff member, the game describes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Temptation in the Village: "Recovering a fragment" November 5, 2025 "I don’t mean to be controversial here, but I’m going to go ahead and say it: Kafka was a great author. Oh, I know some might disagree..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "A dog that didn't bark" November 5, 2025 "Context, they say, is king, and here is proof number nine hundred: I enjoy testing IF, and will gladly spend hours cataloging typos,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Operative Nine: "Boxed in" November 5, 2025 "I’m continually amazed by how Arthur DiBianca is able to write at least one or two highly-polished games a year working in an..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Let Me Play!: "Two characters in search of a NEXT button" November 5, 2025 "When I was in law school, one of my favorite classes was a law and philosophy course that went into some of the dominant schools of..." - See full review

A new listing for a minigolf adventure, by quasiotter

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Doctor Morben's Asylum: "Loot the place (Just don’t panic…)" November 4, 2025 "Founded by Doctor Morben, Morben House was once a state-of-the-art establishment that could cure any mental illness, even insanity. Until..." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews The Night Ferry: "You brought your own ghosts" November 4, 2025 "Nice contemplative, descriptive piece with memorable imagery including frozen blood and running from your own body...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews In the Halls of Asgard: "Between Ragnarök and a hard place" November 4, 2025 "In the Halls of Asgard takes you to a setting heavily inspired by Old Norse religion and mythology. You play as one of the many Gods in..." - See full review

circe08 reviews Alabaster: "Beautiful and haunting" November 4, 2025 "This is an amazing and expansive game, and there are more than the 18 endings listed on the walkthrough"

circe08 reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "The best IF game of all time." November 4, 2025 "This game well deserves its evergreen spot as #1 on the list of best IF of all time."

circe08 reviews Galatea: "This game is Interactive Fiction in the highest sense" November 4, 2025 "This is not a game it is a work of art. It was panned critically when it came out because it did not fit the mold of crude plunder,..." - See full review

circe08 reviews robotsexpartymurder: "Fun, creative romp" November 4, 2025 "This is very fun, I solved the murder but I cannot figure out how to get all the endings. "

Mike Russo reviews Clickbait: "A snappy start" November 4, 2025 "If you were to make a checklist of mistakes first-time parser authors often make, Clickbait would run afoul of a bunch of them. The first..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Moon Logic: "Interface follies" November 4, 2025 "Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions. A couple of years ago, I reviewed the author’s debut game, One King..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "History's mysteries" November 4, 2025 "I went to Italy for my honeymoon, and when my wife and I were reviewing our photos after the trip, we realized that other than posed..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews World War II Armored Recon: "Tank up" November 3, 2025 "In World War II: Armored Recon, you play as the commander of a Stuart Tank. Unlike other war genre games in the HG library, this game has..." - See full review

A new competition page: Bare-Bones Jam 2025 created November 3, 2025 The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or...

A new listing for there should be more here, by I'm L

A new listing for Never After, by kaylynx

A new listing for Martia Termina, by Biggus

A new listing for Before I Stop Writing, by kaylynx

A new listing for greenskeep, by rio 𓆩♡𓆪

A new listing for Uptown 1, by Whit Righteous

A new listing for baby:OFF, by Strange Chemistry Atelier

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