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A new listing for The Garbage of the Future, by AM Ruf

A new listing for Song of Sirens, by David Repuri

Jim Nelson reviews Cannery Vale: "Barton Vale" August 16, 2024 "In this choice-based game, you're an author who holes themself up in a vacant hotel to create the needed mental space for finishing a..." - See full review

Fredrik Ramsberg reviews A Clean Getaway: "Nice game" August 16, 2024 "I had fun with this game. The premise is original, the puzzles fair, and there's some good tension. Recommended."

NegSec reviews Stalling for Time: "Quite entertaining, despite the incompleteness" August 14, 2024 "Can't wait till the full game is released."

dcbueller reviews The Zen of Kayaking: "A zenful way to spend a day outside (on the computer)" August 14, 2024 "It had been a very long time since I tried a text adventure solo, as I always had friends or family to play them with. When I first went..." - See full review

A new listing for Monster Fucker Two: Dragon, by Kristan X

News on Delphina's House: Delphina's House: Post-Comp Release August 12, 2024 Release 2 of Delphina's House is now available, with bug fixes and improvements for a smoother playing experience.

A new listing for Stalling for Time, by Dominic Delabruere

A new listing for Seasons, by Poster

A new listing for Parthenon, by Charles Wickersham

A new listing for Of Pots and Mushrooms, by Devi and Maya

A new listing for Gargoyle, by Simon

A new listing for Exile, by Simon

A new listing for The Despondency Index, by Ed Blair

A new listing for Bender, by Colleen Boye

qpeedore reviews The Case of the Solitary Resident: "CSI: IF" August 12, 2024 "I only played this game a couple of days ago, but it was an enjoyable way to spend an hour or so. You're a detective investigating a..." - See full review

Dawn S. reviews NYX: "Distill humanity into 496 words" August 12, 2024 "NYX, a Neo-Twiny Jam entry, takes on the largest of topics–humanity itself–in the smallest number of words: 496. It condenses a sense..." - See full review

A new listing for Consider the Consequences!, by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins and Gregory Theriot

Lance Cirone reviews TimeTrap: "Unfinished time travel adventure" August 11, 2024 "In this game, you are a scientist who is researching time, when you discover that hidden nuclear devices recently planted by terrorists..." - See full review

A new competition page: IntroComp 2002 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2003 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2004 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2005 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2006 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2007 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2008 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2018 created August 10, 2024

circe08 reviews Anchorhead: "Very disappointed, did not live up to hype" August 10, 2024 "I really wanted to like this game. As a Lovecraft fan and a resident Masshole I was happy to see that the man-made horrors beyond..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Hanna, We're Going to School: "High school horror" August 9, 2024 "There’s a lot going on in this game, as you’ll see from the length of this review! I’ve played multiple other IF works by Kastel,..." - See full review

A new listing for Orphan, by Exalted Text

Max Fog reviews Kiss of Beth: "Can't we all just have normal roommates? —or— Cut the kiiiids in haaaalf..." August 8, 2024 "To start off with, that was a very impressive change in mood there. I was in no way expecting that - I was thinking along the style of a..." - See full review

circe08 reviews Animalia: "Wacky and super funny" August 8, 2024 "Super creative and funny concept, the writing is very good."

circe08 reviews Open Sorcery: "Heartfelt, creative, one of the best games I've ever played" August 8, 2024 "Bought this on Steam a couple years ago and its my fault for not coming give it a 5 star stamp of appreciation sooner. One of my all time..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Game That Never Ends: "A neverending sequence of rooms " August 8, 2024 "This game was the only game entered in Spring Thing 2020's Late Harvest, designed to accomodate designers who were unable to complete..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Kiss of Beth: "A multimedia date-vetting game with a twist" August 7, 2024 "This game has you play the friend of the eponymous Beth, whose date has arrived. It’s your job to size this guy up. The game has music..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by OverThinking, Featuring music by Charm Cochran August 7, 2024 8 items A personal list of games that include my music, either that I wrote specifically for or that use one of my tracks (I'll note which is which). Listed in order of release

MathBrush reviews passenger9027: "A short game about waking from cryosleep" August 6, 2024 "This game has a classic setup: you awake, disoriented, from a cryopod, alone on a starship. It’s been used dozens or hundreds of times..." - See full review

A new listing for passenger9027, by kociamieta

A new poll by baf, Language puzzles created August 5, 2024 25 votes for 11 games I'm interested in games where the player must learn an unfamiliar language. I'm particularly interested in ones that have done it in unique ways, and ones where the language is dissimilar to English.

Tabitha reviews Captain Piedaterre's Blunders: "A ratty spoof" August 4, 2024 "I love rats, and I enjoyed Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder (both when I first played it and after replaying it today in preparation to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Halfling Dale: "An cozy, low-stakes hobbit game with significant branching" August 4, 2024 "This game is a long choice-based game where you build a character who is a hobbit and live through a year or so of local hobbit life. It..." - See full review

Adam Cadre reviews An Act of Murder: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Amanda Malone and I discuss An Act of Murder at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=38m50s"

Adam Cadre reviews Child's Play: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Ellie Darling and I discuss Child's Play at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=16m29s"

Adam Cadre reviews Lost Pig: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Kat Zhang and I discuss Lost Pig at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=20s"

robotspacer reviews The Zen of Kayaking: "A delightful journey" August 4, 2024 "The Zen of Kayaking constantly surprised and delighted me. There are a nice variety of puzzles with a good range of difficulty. Some of..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame: ""Remember, there are few problems that can’t be solved by METAL!"" August 4, 2024 "This game starts off awesome and somehow manages to get even better as it goes on. First off, it's so authentic to the music scenes it's..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, 2025 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only) created August 3, 2024 19 votes for 19 games The IF Review-a-thon is an event meant to spur reviews of games that haven't received much reviewing attention (for this event, that's defined as "has fewer than 5 reviews across IFDB and the intfiction.org...

IFforL2 reviews 黑洞: "Long time no play" August 3, 2024 "It's been a long time since I've seen a new genuinely interactive text in Mandarin Chinese. A lot of what is called 文字冒險遊戲 or..." - See full review

A new listing for 黑洞, by 納德絲

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