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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

Dan Fabulich reviews The English Restaurant: "Doesn't work" July 8, 2024 "It's designed to allow you to practice English, it says. I'm a native English speaker and tried to type reasonable responses to the..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Project Postmortem: "Not much to it" July 8, 2024 "This is a minigame with one puzzle. The puzzle has decent clues and a solid solution. I'd say that this game is a good start, and I'd..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews PARANOIA: "A nervewracking game" July 8, 2024 "This game is pretty different from most other parser games. In it, you are part of a yes-no experiment. You are placed in a room with..." - See full review

A new listing for The English Restaurant, by Eric Zinda

A new listing for Project Postmortem, by Fred Snyder

A new competition page: Nouvim 3000 - 2024 edition created July 8, 2024 La NOUVIM 3000, 6e édition ! 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un mois pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 501 à 3000 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais...

A new competition page: ParserComp 2024 created July 8, 2024 ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text.

A new listing for Terra's Leap : Un rêve incombustible, by Terra's Leap

A new listing for La réclusion de Callisto, by Otto Grimwald

A new listing for Biblioflam, by Wilem Ortiz

A new listing for Baston ou Ruse : L'Épopée de Krug, by Tarhuin

A new listing for L’Incombustible 3000, by manonamora

A new listing for Susi, by Hefka Games

A new listing for Ashes, by encoretoisnake

A new listing for L'abribus, by Pierre Poulard

A new listing for Corps Brulés, by Selsynn

A new listing for La fonte du monde, by HerzEngel

manonamora reviews Daidala: "A text-adventure in a dark cave" July 8, 2024 "Daidala is a short text-adventure in Twine, where you play as an adventurer (archaeologist?) waking up in a dark cave after a fall. You..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Mysterious Cave: "A brief Adventuron game that could be tuned up into something pretty cool" July 8, 2024 "This is a brief Adventuron game with some fun graphics that seem custom-made and a few rooms. I was able to complete it very quickly...." - See full review

A new listing for The Mysterious Cave, by Ragi

OverThinking reviews How Dare You: "A brutal breakup" July 8, 2024 "This one is rough, emotionally. Your partner (Heron) is breaking up with you (Tiel), and you are NOT taking it well. Your goal is to..." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Andromeda Chained: "Taste of Brilliance " July 8, 2024 "Andromeda Chained is a cleverly written interactive reimagining of a classic Greek mythology about Perseus rescuing princess Andromeda of..." - See full review

A new listing for Daidala, by Laeims

manonamora reviews one way: "A conversation" July 8, 2024 "one way is a short kinetic dialogue through text between Syn and Lily, though it feels more like a monologue, as the latter doesn’t..." - See full review

manonamora reviews story of my life: "You can't change your memories" July 8, 2024 "story of my life is a tiny kinetic slice-of-life piece, centred on a couple of linked memories, snapshot seemingly mundane at the time..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Sanguine: The Stygian Shore: "Dark fantasy mini adventure" July 8, 2024 "Sanguine: The Stygian Shore is a tiny Twine adventure, where you incarnate Ash’Garekh, a mercenary stranded on Lunaris after a storm at..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Lunar Fall: "Light make-outs" July 8, 2024 "Lunar Fall is a mini make-out-sim where two women, L and E, embrace each other for a while. With a short tangent about relationships and..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Find a parser beta tester!: "A very relatable experience... and feelings!" July 8, 2024 "Find a parser beta tester! is a short reflection piece on beta-testing, particularly when having your parser work beta-tested by others...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Congrats! Your writing doesn't stink!: "Demoralising :(" July 8, 2024 "Congrats! Your writing doesn’t stink! is a short reflection on sharing one’s work with others. Formatted as an exchange between an..." - See full review

manonamora reviews in the digital age: "talking to your crush is hard..." July 8, 2024 "in the digital age is a short fan-fic piece based on Great Ace Attorney, in a communication-sim type of way. You play as Su, getting a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews come thru at 330am: "Jumbled reflections" July 8, 2024 "come thru at 330am is a short kinetic piece, a jumbled reflection at a barbershop, which dealing with a traumatic past due to abuse in..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Garden Party: "What a party!" July 8, 2024 "Garden Party is an interactive unfolding poem, where you attend a garden party. Clicking on the different elements on the screen, the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews sappho fragment generator: "Randomiser galore" July 8, 2024 "sappho fragment generator is exactly what the title says: randomly printing on the screen fragments of writings of the poet Sappho. Each..." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Turandot: "Love is a lot like a dungeon " July 8, 2024 "Turandot. Oh! Turandot! What is not to love about thee? Your delicate prose dances across the page like a world-class ballerina. Your..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Little Kitty Cat: "Meowwww" July 8, 2024 "Little Kitty Cat is a kinetic Twine piece where you are… a little kitty cat doing little kitty cat things. The prose is very..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Chronostasis: "Time ticking away... until it doesn't?!" July 8, 2024 "Chronostasis is a short almost linear Twine piece about time… or lack of. Your evening ticking away, tempo’d by the metronome-like..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Good Luck and Godspeed: "Unexplained Space Mystery" July 8, 2024 "Good Luck and Godspeed is a short Twine game, where you wake up in a spaceship with a headache, unable to remember a thing. You get to..." - See full review

A new listing for As Prescribed, by Not-Only But-Also

Tabitha reviews Museum Heist: "A fun mini Verdeterrelike" July 8, 2024 "I enjoy this sort of item-gathering optimization game (someone on IFDB has dubbed the genre “Verdeterrelike”), and I had fun with..." - See full review

CodyCodtheOdd reviews Stay?: "One of my favourite IFs of all time" July 7, 2024 "Are you an ending chaser? Do you love replaying your favourite games over and over to find every possible ending or pathway? Do you like..." - See full review

Dawn S. reviews Teatime with a Vampire: "They’re just like us (mostly)! " July 7, 2024 "Vampire stories–and interpretations of vampire stories–have often been vehicles for addressing serious issues such as racism,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews IYASHIKEI: The Fountain: "Small, peaceful game" July 7, 2024 "This is a ZIL game, a system I haven’t seen used much (the most recent I remember is Max Fog’s IFComp game The Restaurant at the End..." - See full review

A new listing for IYASHIKEI: The Fountain, by Adam Sommerfield

OtisTDog reviews Stay?: "Go ahead and skip the "dating sim" part -- it still works." July 7, 2024 "This is another game that I would most likely have skipped if it weren't for the Free IF Playoffs. The moment I see "dating sim" in the..." - See full review

Zed reviews Not Just Once: "Answer the phone" July 7, 2024 "Not Just Once is a well-written creepypasta choice game. There seem to be just two endings, so functionally there’s just one choice:..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens: "Fun to rhyme (most of the time)" July 7, 2024 "This is the 8th entry in Andrew Schultz’s Pro-Rhyme Row series, which is truly astonishing; how there can be so many paired rhymes in..." - See full review

A new listing for Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens, by Andrew Schultz

Zed reviews How Dare You: "Not taking no for an answer" July 7, 2024 "How Dare You? has a cringeworthy premise: you show up at the home of our partner, Heron, who communicates very clearly that it’s over..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Harmonia: "The makings of a very memorable novella" July 7, 2024 "Choice games are not my usual cup of tea, but I have taken the opportunity to play several of them as part of the Free IF Playoffs. As..." - See full review

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