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Mike Russo reviews Thanks, but I don't remember asking.: "Dream theater" May 17, 2024 "I don’t think it’s a kick against Thanks… to say that its opening is disorienting and dreamlike, since the author’s note reveals..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Pass A Bill: "Mr. Fudd Goes to Washington" May 17, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/8/24 Playtime: 25min, Master of Politics, 4/7 deaths If there is a more fraught topic to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Zomburbia: "Oldschool (Implementation) Horror" May 17, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/8/24 Playtime: 2hrs, unwinnable at 1.5. Restarted, 1.25hrs later ANOTHER unwinnable state?..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Octopus's Garden: "Eight Legs, One Hat" May 17, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/8/24 Playtime: 45min How smart are Octopi? One list had them #8 in ranked sub-human IQ,..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Les lettres du Docteur Jeangille: "Lovelorn letters... with a twist" May 16, 2024 "The first thing that struck me about this game was the UI. It’s gorgeous! The softly textured main background, the handwriting fonts..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews To Beseech Old Sins: "Left me a bit lost" May 16, 2024 "I was drawn into this one by the stylish UI and the character-focused setup, immediately interested in our three MCs’ circumstances and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Who Kidnapped Mother Goose?: "A fairytale game about rescusing a kidnapped mother goose" May 16, 2024 "This is a polished parser game entered in the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. In it, you find that Mother Goose was kidnapped, and you have..." - See full review

Fie reviews You Can Only Turn Left: "Story isn't interesting, but the sound design is" May 16, 2024 "This game describes itself as "a playful exploration" and inspired by "guided sleep meditations", and it goes about as deep as it..." - See full review

Fie reviews A Simple Happening: "Would be more funny if it was less lazy" May 16, 2024 "This is a comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously. It's not trying to say anything about feudal Japan, though it is set in feudal..." - See full review

AvB reviews Dead Man's Fiesta: "A feast for fans of the Big Lebowski" May 16, 2024 "(I posted this review years ago in a non-public message board, but I feel enough water has gone down the river to post it here, now)..." - See full review

AvB reviews Ferryman's Gate: "Your English teacher would like this" May 16, 2024 "(I posted this review years ago in a non-public message board, but I feel enough water has gone down the river to post it here, now)..." - See full review

manonamora reviews To Beseech Old Sins: "Anti-clamatic Guess the Link" May 16, 2024 "To Beseech Old Sins is a linear sci-fi Twine story, part of a larger series, where you play as Epsilon, a superpowered (if you will)..." - See full review

manonamora reviews PROSPER.0: "temporary Poetic end-a-eve-or" May 16, 2024 "Note: I beta-tested this game. PROSPER.0 is a dystopian Twine game with a very interesting gameplay mechanic. As an employee of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "Grinning all the way through!" May 16, 2024 "Rescue at Quickenheath is a delightful fantasy swashbuckling Twine puzzle-y game, where you play as the dashing highway-person Kit..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Simple Happening: "Commit to the bit" May 16, 2024 "I was raised Catholic, and unsurprisingly given the wide range of material included in the Bible, I remember often being confused by what..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Alltarach: "Historical mythologies" May 16, 2024 "(This is a game with a narrative that unfolds in layers, and as a result it’s hard to talk about without engaging with some elements..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Case of the Solitary Resident: "Ferns and forensics" May 16, 2024 "So this is a slightly strained parallel, maybe, but you know Evil Dead 2? The title makes it sound like a sequel, but actually it’s..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Loose Ends: "The Broad Wore Fangs" May 16, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 1.75hrs, For as big a horror fan as I am,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Voyage of the Marigold: "The Wrath of C'mon" May 16, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 1.75hrs, 4 plays, 4 fails Have we culturally saturated ourselves on Star..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews You Can Only Turn Left: "I'm not High, You're High!" May 16, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 15min, two passes I know I just said two passes, but this is a one..." - See full review

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manonamora reviews Potato Peace: "In a world, where mankind and potatoe..." May 15, 2024 "Potato Peace is a fairly linear game made in Ink, set in a fantasy world where mankind and potatoes live in peace and harmony (sort of)...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Do Good Deeds...: "Be kind and become the Forest King" May 15, 2024 "Do Good Deeds... is relatively short Twine children's story, where you play as Modis, an outcast elf on a stroll in the forest. Along the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Zomburbia: "Shambolic but endearing" May 15, 2024 "In my experience, an amusement park appearing halfway into a game that hasn’t previously established said amusement park as part of its..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "All buckles must be swashed" May 15, 2024 "I hope nobody reading my reviews is under the misapprehension that I ever strive for, much less achieve, objectivity, but I figure it’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Do Good Deeds...: "A gentle fable marred by implementation flaws" May 15, 2024 "Lately I’ve been thinking about my approach to a reviewing for an article I’m working on for The Rosebush, and in particular my..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews To Beseech Old Sins: "Teenage Horny Space Marine... Somethings" May 15, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 30 min Up front, the game told me this was part of an ongoing series to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "Always Be Fighting Facism" May 15, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 1 hr, long civil war ending, but hey, no Hitler! There’s a lot of folks..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Do Good Deeds...: "Storytime Slowdown" May 15, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/3/24 Playtime: 20min, finished I kinda love that there is a “children’s story”..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Chatterbox: "Chaos always ensues in chatboxes..." May 14, 2024 "Chatterbox is a short Twine piece about chatboxes experiences. Using the simple interface of Harlowe, you incarnate the user ripherup, a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Phantom Protocol: "Hi, yes, who is this?" May 14, 2024 "Phantom Protocol is a short interactive prologue made in Godot, set (so far) inside your phone. A strange number contacts you,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews ConversationalRumblings: "Let's do this! no, that! or maybe this?" May 14, 2024 "ConversationalRumblings is a short cyclical Twine piece about two people looking for an activity to do and talking about it. Between..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Extended Sabbatical: "To make or not make a game..." May 14, 2024 "Extended Sabbatical is a short linear interactive piece made in Unity about… making a game, or more about not making that game. Though..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Tresmir Sight: "Short VN conversation" May 14, 2024 "Tresmir Sight is a short sci-fi (fantasy?) visual novel, where you play as a young human trespassing in a camp, looking for someone..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Tell Me About Yourself: "What... why?" May 14, 2024 "Tell Me About Yourself is a short Twine conversation between you and your interlocutor Coda. Seemingly a stranger, Coda asks about..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Case of the Solitary Resident: "Snooping around to connect the dots" May 14, 2024 "The Case of the Solitary Resident is a murder(ish) mystery game made in Twine where you get to play the detective, tasked to solve the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Alltarach: "A deep-dive into Irish folklore and religion" May 14, 2024 "Alltarach is a pretty large Twine game centred around Irish folklore and set in the early Middle Ages. Through a character study of your..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dragon of Steelthorne: "Grinding gears" May 14, 2024 "I had some trepidation going into Dragon of Steelthorne, born of my previous experience with a fantasy-themed ChoiceScript game – in..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Octopus's Garden: "A clever but clumsy cephalopod" May 14, 2024 "Octopus’s Garden has a lovely premise – octopi in real life have been known to crawl out of their aquariums and get up to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews PROSPER.0: "Poetic justice" May 14, 2024 "(Much of the interest of this game comes from the way its mechanics are introduced, tweaked, and woven into the narrative;..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Dream of Silence: Acts 1 and 2: "Emotional Support Ghost" May 14, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review WARNING: Review is from an early, incomplete version of the game Played: 4/3/24 Playtime: 2.25 hrs >7..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Case of the Solitary Resident: "Just the Facts, Ma'am" May 14, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/3/24 Playtime: 1hr, 14/16 clues, right cause of death, wrong drug If I part the opaque..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "What Sprite Through Yon Window Breaks?" May 14, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/2/24 Playtime: 45min We’ve been using ‘Interactive Fiction’ as synonym for..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Camelot Jack: "Impressive but flawed hand-made C# system for short fantasy game" May 13, 2024 "The trouble with parser games is that players can type in literally anything and hope to get a reasonable response out. This causes..." - See full review

manonamora reviews beach: "hurt people hurt people?" May 13, 2024 "beach is a short Twine conversation between two individuals on the beach, which was initiated by one of the two following an incident..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Disappearance of Kevin from Finance: "I so want to spoil it, because it was very fun!" May 13, 2024 "The Disappearance of Kevin from Finance is a short mystery game in Twine, where your colleague, the titular Kevin from Finance, is..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Imago: "Masks and meanings" May 13, 2024 "Imago is a short but very branched out poetic “rogue-like” monologue, reflecting on the masts that one wears and the image we preset..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Loose Ends: "Trading favors" May 13, 2024 "(I beta tested this game) So far in this festival we’ve seen games that seem to be about politics but aren’t (Potato Peace, Pass a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Trials of Rosalinda: "Trial with no errors" May 13, 2024 "I wrapped up my review of Spring Thing 2021’s The Bones of Rosalinda with a tossed-off wish for an eventual sequel, off the strength of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Potato Peace: "Spud-ering out" May 13, 2024 "It took me many years to figure out exactly how I felt about horror as a genre. I really enjoy some parts of it – ancient curses,..." - See full review

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