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pieartsy reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "An idyllic forest day from the eyes of a child...mostly (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A delightful game! After a bit of an awkward and rushed start, it really eases into itself once you enter the forest proper. Lara, the..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Dysfluent: "Timed text, my beloathed (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "Oh my god the timed text. Oh god. I’m not as big of a hater on timed text as some, having used it in many of my pieces, but this was..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Whale's Keeper: "Charming story, at least in my route! (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "This game was really charming! You find yourself waking with amnesia in the belly of a whale. I ended in half an hour with 17 sanity and..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Library of Knowledge: "This is a short story... (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "I was curious as to why this one wasn’t just a prose story, then I checked the author’s website and saw that the bulk of it already..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Sunburst Contamination: "Sad to say it wasn't for me" July 16, 2024 "This is an old 1988 basic game ported to Z-machine. It has a simple plot of you trying to … Well, it wasn’t entirely clear from what..." - See full review

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews Tuuli: "Atmospheric, occult, well written!" July 16, 2024 "Tuuli is a text adventure game about life, death, fate, social roles, and black magic. You play a young witch apprentice, suddenly forced..." - See full review

A new listing for Fluid Worlds, by ThunderPerfectWitchcraft

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews A row of chairs abandoned on the beach: "Metamodern interactive poem" July 16, 2024 "A row of chairs abandoned on the beach is a short interactive fiction by LaughingPineapple about a person who melts with the ocean. The..." - See full review

A new listing for A row of chairs abandoned on the beach, by laughingpineapple

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "'bout missed and open chances" July 16, 2024 "The Archivist and the Revolution is a interactive fiction set in a dystopian future. You play a trans person who is working as an..." - See full review

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews Shell Song: "A game about voice." July 16, 2024 "Shell Song is an interactive fiction or a digital essay about the voice as a medium, its relation to the body, the attempts to recreate..." - See full review

Felix Pleșoianu reviews Calypso: "A game to the point" July 15, 2024 "A simple game that doesn't waste your time, and doesn't have any pretenses. The puzzles are simple enough, but frustrating to solve..." - See full review

A new listing for Romance the Backrooms, by Naomi Norbez

Jim Nelson reviews The Sculptor: "What makes a sculptor a sculptor?" July 14, 2024 "The Sculptor is a brief narrative regarding age, art, and commercialism. You play a sculptor facing, on the one hand, a final assignment..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Stick it to the man: "Too little, too soon" July 13, 2024 "This starts out unpromising, in the ultimate entry in the My Crappy Apartment genre, as you awake in a grody underimplemented squat. But..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country: "More sins against mimesis" July 13, 2024 "Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country is a parody of AIF in general, especially the sort epitomised by the original SM, which had the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Read This First: "A small circular game" July 13, 2024 "This game seems to be one giant loop. It's a pretty amusing representation of the frustration of starting a new board game and trying to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sun And Moon: "An early ARG experiment" July 13, 2024 "[This review was written and originally posted on the raif newsgroups at the conclusion of the 2002 IFComp] A year or so ago, Electronic..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Goofy: "A small custom parser java game about exploring an abandoned building" July 13, 2024 "This is one IFComp game I was never able to play due to its use of an outdated Java platform that you have to pay to download. I was able..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Your World According to a Single Word: "Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia for no reason whatsoever" July 13, 2024 "The game’s flow is interesting and yet captivating, picking between single-choices with massive texts of screen before them, and ones..." - See full review

A new poll by Dannii, Interesting uses of colour in TADS created July 13, 2024 4 votes for 4 games What are some interesting uses of colour in TADS games? Foreground, background text colours, or windows with different colours?

Kastel reviews idle hands: "Intensity. Seduction. Taboo." July 13, 2024 "These are the three words that keep popping into my head as I read and re-read idle hands, a game about "idolatrous devil-fucking". I..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Kiss of Beth: "A strong debut title from an up-and-coming author" July 13, 2024 "Kiss of Beth is a debut game from Charm Cochran before they ever set foot in the interactive fiction community. The player character is a..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Look Around the Corner: "Too short a new day." July 13, 2024 "This game, for better or for worse, simulates the drudgery of waking up to a new day. ..." - See full review

Kastel reviews How Dare You: "No means no." July 13, 2024 "How Dare You puts the player in a strange situation: they must find the verbs that will hopefully resolve a potential breakup between the..." - See full review

Kastel reviews NYX: "A click that sparks many stories" July 13, 2024 "The premise of NYX is one that many science fiction and horror fans have heard over the years: the cosmic horror has taken over, and the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Cross of Fire: "Sherlock Holmes becomes an action hero" July 13, 2024 "This game has been on my 'to play' list for several years. It was one of the earliest Spring Thing games, in fact one of 4 games in the..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Meritocracy: "A sticky concept" July 13, 2024 "The packaging of Meritocracy is pure sugar to the likes of me. “A battle of the wits” over a topical philosophical concept—student..." - See full review

A new poll by Zeugma, Arterias de metal created July 12, 2024 No votes Una piedra

Tabitha reviews Not Just Once: "A mysterious encounter" July 12, 2024 "I played Not Just Once back when it was first released and enjoyed it then, but encountered a few bugs. Having just played the updated..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "Don't panic" July 12, 2024 "In some ways, the author of Milliways has put themself into a bind. The original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy might be the most..." - See full review

Laurie N reviews machina caerulea: "Knife-sharp Prose" July 11, 2024 "This is an incredibly stylish entry into several jams and I found it through the Neo-Twiny jam, specifically. I have a passing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews All Through the Night: "A short and effective creepypasta" July 11, 2024 "I was looking back at my 'wishlist' and this game had been on there the longest, for most of a decade if I recall. I thought I'd finally..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Coloratura: "Story > gameplay" July 11, 2024 "The problem with hype is that it raises your expectations, and when the hyped thing fails to meet those expectations, it inhibits your..." - See full review

laurennovember reviews Superluminal Vagrant Twin: "Mysterious exploration that encourages outside-the-box thinking" July 11, 2024 "Easily one of the most engaging beginnings to an IF piece. It gets you right onto the journey of planetary exploration/hopping from the..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews LUNIUM: "A Victorian escape room" July 11, 2024 "I thoroughly enjoyed Ben Jackson’s Spring Thing effort, The Kuolema, and deduced from Lunium’s cover art that he’d produced another..." - See full review

A new poll by filiaa, Fictions interactives en français humoristiques et/ou feel-good created July 10, 2024 22 votes for 21 games Beaucoup de FI en français abordent des sujets sérieux, éveillent des sentiments difficiles et des émotions fortes. Malgré la grande qualité de ces FI sérieuses et tristes, on recherche parfois...

manonamora reviews Ashes: "Fixing time and space or..." July 10, 2024 "Ashes is a sci-fi text adventure written in Inklewriter, where you follow Josh and Aria, two space-travellers landing on Earth and..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Corps Brulés: "Fun mystery, interesting gameplay" July 10, 2024 "Corps Brulés is a mystery game made in INK, where you play as some sort of investigator/detective on holidays. Coming across three burnt..." - See full review

manonamora reviews La fonte du monde: "A fantasy text adventure focused on Dragons" July 10, 2024 "La fonte du monde is a fantasy textual adventure in Inklewriter, when you incarnate Voulks Mirmabull, a great dragon who's destiny seems..." - See full review

A new listing for //, by Mx. Dietrich Squinkifer

MathBrush reviews Zugzwang: "Fantasy chess battles in miniature" July 10, 2024 "Zugzwang by Vanessa Jygon, Eleanor Jimmy This game was compact and fun. It feature a plus-sign shaped map. Movement is N/E/S/W, but..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Barcarolle in Yellow: "A stylish and ambitious miss" July 10, 2024 "Film noir and gritty crime movies are a passion for me, and so the cover and blurb for Barcarolle in Yellow hooked me. The cover is a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The English Restaurant: "A full-sentence parser that struggles with simple commands" July 9, 2024 "I've played a lot of Perplexity games over the years (well, I can remember 2 or 3). But something seems to have gone wrong with the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 19 Once: "Short conversation puzzle game" July 9, 2024 "I saw spoilers already on this games secret, but I've only played this game for now so I'll judge it on its own. It's a fun parser game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Project Postmortem: "Brief investigation game" July 9, 2024 "Gamefic! I remember a Gamefic game in my first IFComp, Second Story, I remember the parser being better than many custom systems. This..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS: "For I have sinned" July 9, 2024 "This is a brief excerpt from a longer work-in-progress that packs a lot into its short space. We, the readers, watch the scene unfold in..." - See full review

A new listing for Dinner At Suzanne's, by jwfreeman

Dan Fabulich reviews My Girl: "A well-written non-interactive short story" July 8, 2024 "Non-interactive, except for page turns. The pacing is good, and the story is solid."

Dan Fabulich reviews the sea god: "A lovely little interactive poem" July 8, 2024 "It's a poem. You interact with it with arrow keys, bumping into hotspots to see what they say. The poem is good, and the Bitsy UI and..." - See full review

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