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A new listing for La caverne des lutins, by Unknown

A new listing for The Troll Hole Adventure, by Unknown

A new listing for Aventures insolites, by Chuck Benton

A new listing for Mystery House, by Malibu Computing

A new listing for Les bâtisseurs d'empire, by Computerre

A new listing for Empire I: World Builders, by Edu-Ware Services

A new listing for Cyborg, by Mike Berlyn

A new listing for Arsène Larcin, by Éric Primeau

A new listing for La maison du professeur Folibus, by Alain Brégeon

A new listing for Des cavernes dans le poquette, by Charles Feydy

A new listing for Mission secrète à Colditz, by Marcel Le Jeune

Dawn S. reviews Dark Communion: "Quiet alcoves and dark forces" July 28, 2024 "Dark Communion’s most critical choice comes not at the end of the game, but at the beginning. You the player must define how the PC (a..." - See full review

Dawn S. reviews VESPERTINE: "The erotics of annotation" July 27, 2024 "I opened up VESPERTINE having missed the whole Goncharov moment. Still, I found a lot to enjoy this game. It is brimming with sensual..." - See full review

Dawn S. reviews How To Make Eggplant Lasagna (With Cats!): "Five second rule!" July 27, 2024 "In addition to sharing what looks like a pretty yummy recipe, How To Make Eggplant Lasagne (With Cats!), very accurately captures cats’..." - See full review

Sobol reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "Can't wait for the next installment" July 27, 2024 ""The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow" is the tenth game about the titular Match Girl overall. Being familiar with the previous..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews The Play: "Is there a director in the house?" July 27, 2024 "The Play won me over with its strong cast of characters, stylization, and comedy. In this story, you play as a director for a local..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews DOL-OS: "Found-document sci-fi horror" July 26, 2024 "DOL-OS is less a choice-based game and more a hypertext exploration game—or more specifically, a “found document” game, with the..." - See full review

A new listing for The Amateur Deity Society, by Robert Carlson

News on The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: Public release July 25, 2024 LMG5, once a Patreon exclusive, now enjoys a public release!

News on Untitled Relationship Project: Full version released July 23, 2024 This game formerly had a different name, but has been expanded with snippets by several authors and updated with a new name. Hope you enjoy!

A new listing for Tears of Tianchao, by Red Bean Buns

Joey Jones reviews You Gen #9: "Promising Beginning" July 23, 2024 "This is an excellent first chapter that uses Twine in a really elegant way. The story of an enhanced eugenics movement is told quite..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Codex Crusade: "Crazy Cats, (al)Chemy Combining Coffee Creatively" July 23, 2024 "This was a strange thing to experience! It’s about a humble librarian’s assistant’s intern finding a strange and special book. Much..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews It can't be true it mustn't be true: "A great (temporary) conclusion" July 23, 2024 "While I didn’t call this out in my review of the prior entry, it’s true of all three games: the cast list provided at the beginning..." - See full review

manonamora reviews La réclusion de Callisto: "It's all about the (lack of) journey" July 22, 2024 "La réclusion de Callisto is a short textual adventure in the style of older CYOA books, both in form and content. Embodying a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Terra's Leap : Un rêve incombustible: "Stanger danger" July 22, 2024 "Terra’s Leap : Un rêve incombustible is a short sci-fi adventure, where we follow the ventures of Elio, a child in a faraway colony,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Baston ou Ruse : L'Épopée de Krug: "W40k - Intro to the orcs" July 22, 2024 "Baston ou Ruse : L’Épopée de Krug is a short humoristic game based on Warhammer 40k, where you play as Krug, an orc that has no idea..." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Zork I: "GANGSTA" July 22, 2024 "Zork 1 is straight up GANGSTA, yo! If you can beat this game without hints then you are, without a doubt, one of the smartest people...." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Bradisson Rayburn's Revenge!: "Worth Taking A Look" July 22, 2024 "There is a lot to like about Bradisson Rayburn's Revenge. The premise is funny. You're on a game show. You can't win it, because the game..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Biblioflam: "Tricks and dices for a book!" July 22, 2024 "Biblioflam is a short fantasy adventure in Moiki, where you play as an employee of a strange and magical library (where no books can be..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Susi: "Revenge or Forgiveness" July 22, 2024 "Susi is a sci-fi story, set in the 22nd century, where we follow the eponymous character, a half-wolf half-humanoid AI, after feeling a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews L'abribus: "A magic orb and impacting choices" July 21, 2024 "L’abribus is a short fantasy story, where we either play as some sort of force controlling a magic orb (which can influence everything..." - See full review

A new poll by Fie, Games involving deception created July 21, 2024 12 votes for 8 games Deceiving a talking obstacle? Tricking a child? Fooling you? Besting me? Interactivity means that intentional decisions are made, and intentional decisions can be wrong.

Lance Cirone reviews The Garden of Earthly Regrets: "Garden exploration" July 20, 2024 "This is a surreal game where much of it seems to be left to the player's interpretation. You explore a garden surrounding a wedding,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Lowell's Paradise: "Even Lowell thinks that my mind is gone" July 20, 2024 "This is one of the games from Bouchercomp, a SpeedIF running in 2008. The premise involves a prison escape, and the interpretation here..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Merk: "I know you're going to be a great typist one day" July 20, 2024 "Merk is a pretty amusing SpeedIF. You are sent a letter by an alien who requests that you bring him a 100 year-old typewriter, because he..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine: "Excellent tiny horror" July 20, 2024 "This is the second of three games (so far) in Charm’s RGB Cycle, all of which were made for this year’s Neo-Twiny Jam, which had a..." - See full review

CalliopeFyre reviews Halfling Dale: "Brilliant!" July 19, 2024 "Okay, I LOVE choice story games like this, I've never particularly enjoyed games like Episode, or of that format, but this is nothing..." - See full review

A new listing for Ocean Red, by Palette

A new listing for Ritorno nel Castello (The Secret of the Lost Castle), by The BaK

Drew Cook reviews The Tempest: ""But this rough magic I here abjure"" July 17, 2024 "1992's "The Tempest" by David R. Grigg, which should not be mistaken for Graham Nelson's adaptation, is an unkind game that modern..." - See full review

Hyacinthos reviews Lysidice and the Minotaur: "Minotaur Escape Room" July 17, 2024 "Without a doubt, this is the best parser the author has released until now. The take on Lysidice's character on the Minotaur mythology..." - See full review

A new poll by Hellzon, Games featuring alchemy created July 16, 2024 6 votes for 6 games Games featuring alchemy, a subset of games with cool magic systems. There are at least some with puzzles based on mixing alchemical compounds, and even more where the setting is some kind of alt-historical...

A new listing for Skarn's Keep, by Kenneth Buchs

A new Recommended List by lil540, games i liked July 16, 2024 4 items

pieartsy reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "Put a pin in that puzzle" July 16, 2024 "I wanted to show my boyf a recent IF game since he’s played parsers ages ago but wanted to get back into the swing of it. When polling..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Sculptor: "Awkward and odd (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A linear game until the very end choice, about a pitiable old sculptor trying to create his last masterpiece, essentially before he dies...." - See full review

pieartsy reviews LUNIUM: "Over the moon about this game (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "This one had all my favorite things—a murder mystery, an “escape room” vibe like the author’s previous game (The Kuolema), fun..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews To Sea in a Sieve: "Cast off and set sail (if only you had an anchor or sail) (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A fun sea adventure indeed, even for a landlubber like me! Very good title too. I love a solid puzzler, and this one had me feeling very..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Detective Osiris: "Weirdly melancholy railroad with sparks of potential (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "Hmm…as someone who wrote er own game about someone solving their own murder, I wanted to like this game more than I did. It was a..." - See full review

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