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JJ McC reviews Test Subject: Synaptix: "Drug Trial Trevails" August 2, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 20m 3 playthroughs Synaptix is a work that posits a present/future where..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Espresso Moka: "DoubleDown, The Game" August 2, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 20m, two playthroughs, Marco stepped in both times This is a work in..." - See full review

A new listing for The Murdered Official, by Ogre

A new listing for The Cult, by Ogre

A new listing for Dark Night (Noir), by Ogre

A new listing for Goldbird and Whispers of Snow, by Northwind

A new listing for Gay Old Time, by Darius Conwright

A new listing for One Story Please, by Darius Conwright

News on Hidden Agenda: Hidden Agenda 2025 in Active Development August 1, 2025 Hi there. My name is Ron Martinez and I’m one of the original creators of hidden agenda I wanted you to know that I’m producing a new version of Hidden Agenda, nearly forty years after the original, and... - Details

A new listing for Flaneur, by Galvan

A new listing for Through Time, by Killa Robot

JJ McC reviews As the Fire Dies: "The Remarkable Rigidity of Randomness" August 1, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 30m, 2 fire dies, finished This was a tight, light puzzle fest, exploring..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Terra Nova - The Mystery of Zephyr's Landing: "Your Parser Knowledge is a LIE" August 1, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 1.5hr, 4 endings There are some tropes in IF that are pretty well..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Little Match Girl Approaches the Golden Firmament: "Dr. Who-Dat-Girl" August 1, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/10/25 Playtime: 1hr 10m, finished If there is a word for this series, it is..." - See full review

A new listing for Mole, by Sherbet

A new listing for Little Mage's Potion Shop, by Darius Conwright

A new listing for The Duke of Winslow, by Darius Conwright

A new listing for Blood in the King's Court, by Orange

Canalboy reviews First Things First: "For Want Of A Nail The Shoe Was Lost" July 31, 2025 "The time travel dream-as-narrative has, of course a long and distinguished history in literature - H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens and J.B...." - See full review

dudeinaplace reviews MY REAL AND SINCERE APOLOGY TO MORAL CRUSADERS: "Get their asses!!" July 31, 2025 "Created an account just to review this. You’re 100% right. Keep on doing your thing! Keep on tarrying with The Unspeakable. Someone’s..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews For Lila: "Dangers on a Train" July 31, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/10/25 Playtime: 5m, 2 endings This is a tight little work about strangers on a train,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Spring Gothic: "Influencer Seeking Partner: Two Dimensions Only, Please" July 31, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/9/25 Playtime: 1.5hr This work announces itself as a fictionalized-but-biographically-based..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Goldilocks Principle: "JJMcC's Amazing Technicolor Condescension Coat" July 31, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/9/25 Playtime: 10m, 5 (of course) playthroughs Here is the order you should play this game:..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Stowaway: "HMS Bananas" July 30, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/8/25 Playtime: 15m, 5 endings What is the line between dream logic and Dada? The obvious..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Cut the Sky: "Man With No Verbs" July 30, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/8/25 Playtime: 1.75hr Notwithstanding Clint Eastwood’s descent into deplora…bility?..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Canvas Keepsakes: "Art Imitates Life" July 30, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/8/25 Playtime: 45m The conceit of this work, like a lot of genre works, is doing a lot of..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by fiction-interactive.fr, Prix de design narratif au concours annuel July 29, 2025 3 items Les fictions interactives arrivées en tête du classement de design narratif lors du concours annuel

Canalboy reviews Heist: "A Middle Aged Andy Phillips Game With Central Hub" July 29, 2025 "Heist is one of Andy Phillips's mid-era exercises in masochism. It is more user friendly than his earler TATCTAE but then that wouldn't..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Three-Card Reading: "Don't Get Fancy, Just Get Yancy" July 29, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/7/25 Playtime: 15m Over the last few Comp cycles, Bez has treated us to a few works..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews idle phone simulator: "Dibs on the Ball of Yarn" July 29, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/7/25 Playtime: 10m This is a Ren’Py game, kind of an under-represented platform in my IF..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Wayfarers: "Post Human Stress Disorder" July 29, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/7/25 Playtime: 1.5hr, 3 endngs Wayfarers is a work firmly on the FICTION side of..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for July 2025 July 28, 2025 8 items On Monday, July 28, 2025, 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...

JJ McC reviews Hell Ride: "Highway to Hell-Yeah!" July 28, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/7/25 Playtime: 3hr, finished with walkthrough goosing In the past I have observed a few..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Echoes: "Dark Side of the Ben" July 28, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/6/25 Playtime: 3h (2 endings) Echoes was a seminal composition in the discography of the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Sandman: "Philosolypse Now" July 28, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/6/25 Playtime: 30m, 4 playthroughs The Sandman is a horror-tragedy of helplessness. The..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews blackberry bloodbath: "Vicarious Childhood's End" July 27, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/4/25 Playtime: 30m two playthroughs One point must be made clear from the very start. I am..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Interview Interview: "Interview with the Interview Interview" July 27, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/4/25 Playtime: 30m, 3 playthroughs Welcome game! So glad you could make it today, the panel..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Hauntless: "Miss Scarlet, in the Hall of Mirrors with the Lion Tamer's Whip" July 27, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/4/25 Playtime: 1.75hr, disgrace Among the most uncommon experiences I have, here in my..." - See full review

archcorenth reviews Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos: "Short and sweet" July 26, 2025 "I really enjoyed this game mostly for the characters and dialogue. Robb Sherwin is has a really great edgy sense of humor that reminds me..." - See full review

News on Toby's Nose: Version 3 released July 26, 2025 The 10th Anniversary Edition of Toby's Nose has been uploaded to the IF Archive. Along with more corrections to longstanding typos and bugs, some scenes now have "softer" language to fit the Victorian tone... - Details

verityvirtue reviews Night Guard / Morning Star: "nightmare-like exploration of a troubled mother-daughter relationship" July 26, 2025 "The PC looks after her mother's exhibition about memory and family. In some ways, this should be her magnum opus. As the PC goes around,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by fiction-interactive.fr, Prix technique au concours annuel July 26, 2025 16 items Les fictions interactives arrivées en tête du classement technique ou de programmation lors du concours annuel

A new Recommended List by fiction-interactive.fr, Prix d'écriture au concours annuel July 26, 2025 16 items Les fictions interactives arrivées en tête du classement d'écriture ou de narration lors du concours annuel

verityvirtue reviews Fish Bowl: "A bleak story in two halves" July 26, 2025 "You, the PC, are Larry, a beachcomber with little to your name. A mysterious fish bowl appears in your shack one day, triggering a series..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by fiction-interactive.fr, "Meilleur jeu" au concours annuel July 26, 2025 17 items Les fictions interactives ayant remporté le prix du meilleur jeu au concours de fiction interactive francophone.

verityvirtue reviews Laterna Magica: "Perfectly competent, if bland, philosophical roundabout." July 26, 2025 "The IFComp last place has been, in my memory, a place for outright offensive, completely broken or minimum-effort games. This game is..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews WhoDunnIt: "A minimal, incomplete twine game on basic internet safety" July 26, 2025 "This is no great work of art. But as the Online Safety Act looms in the UK, and linking online identity to real-world legal identity..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Starfish and Crystallisation: ""One of these days, Alice! POW! Right in the Poetry!"" July 26, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/3/25 Playtime: 30m, two playthroughs This is a melancholy tale of a (queer? maybe? not..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Retool Looter: "Deliver Semordnilap" July 26, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/3/25 Playtime: 3hr, finished It seems every comp/thing/thon I wade into, there is a game or..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917: "The Gamer Archipelago" July 26, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/3/25 Playtime: 1hr, lost to Bolsheviks Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of my literary heroes...." - See full review

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