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A new listing for City of the Damned, by Chris Godber

A new listing for Sexy Facemask Mod, by HHRichards

kaemi reviews Les lettres du Docteur Jeangille: "Spring Thing 2024: Doctor Jeangille's Letters" April 21, 2024 "What a wondrous, sappy tradition, the breathless letter. The rawly overworked declarations, with their extraexclamatory raptures of..." - See full review

A new listing for Die Zuschauer, by Amanda Walker and Olaf Nowacki

A new listing for Das Versteck des Meisters, by Stefan Hoffmann

A new listing for Der Wildkatzberg, by Jürgen Popp

A new listing for Der Turm des Hexenmeisters, by Carsten Pfeffer

A new competition page: 14th IF Grand Prix 2024 created April 21, 2024 German language IF competition as announced on Oct 31, 2023 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1311 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2024.html

MathBrush reviews Holography: "An experience like brainstorming, written in Inklewriter" April 21, 2024 "I used an Internet Archive backup to play this game. In it, you start with a one-sentence story, and then expand on it. After three or..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fugue: "A game out of time--short, with little time but several options" April 21, 2024 "This is a choice-based game written using a parser. At the time it came out, 2008, choice-based games had a long history already but they..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Codex Crusade: "A complex Twine game about exploring an enormous library" April 20, 2024 "This game was in a poll for games that need more reviews. In this game, you play as a lowly librarian who has been tasked by a mysterious..." - See full review

A new listing for The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow, by Ryan Veeder

TestTubeHuman reviews A Collegial Conversation: "Least Fun Workplace Interaction" April 15, 2024 "I'm fascinated by the perspective switching in this one. It takes the seed and really puts it to good use. You get to see a heated,..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Dungeons & Distractions: "DND Sim" April 15, 2024 "Here's my DND story: The longest campaign I've been in ended after two sessions, but not before my character broke both legs jumping off..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Faery: Swapped: "Unique and whimsical puzzle game" April 15, 2024 "This game is really trippy. And hilarious. Took me a while to figure out you were supposed to give the meat to the dog - there was what..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Passages: "A short linear Twine game about wormholes popping up" April 15, 2024 "This is an example of dynamic fiction, where you have no interactivity (although there is one instance of cycling text) and the entire..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Max Fog, Infocom (in personal favourite order) April 14, 2024 24 items Max Fog's personal order of Infocom games, with the top being my favourite and bottom being my least favourite. These are only of those I have played.

kaemi reviews You Can Only Turn Left: "Spring Thing 2024: You Can Only Turn Left" April 14, 2024 "When I first learned what REM actually meant, I struggled to sleep for a week. I’d start to drift off, then I’d shiverfreak up to..." - See full review

A new listing for En el abismo, by JM.Atencia

A new listing for Project Tezerat (Demo), by Teo Tucan

A new listing for Letters from the Moon, by Stephen Weese

MathBrush reviews Renegade Brainwave: "A music-enhanced goofy night in a cemetery investigating aliens" April 9, 2024 "There have been a couple of polls over the years for 'games that need more reviews' and this has been on all of them. I loaded it up once..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Insatiable Jeunesse: "To hunt or not to hunt, that is the question..." April 9, 2024 "Insatiable Jeunesse is a short "storylet"-based interactive story, where you incarnate some sort of creature needing to hunt down people..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Meurtres en eau profonde: "Deep water murder mystery" April 9, 2024 "Meurtres en eau profonde is a relatively short Binksi game (mixing Bitsy and Ink), where you play as a rookie goldfish police officer..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft: "An expansive and engaging magical puzzler with images" April 8, 2024 "I was talking to someone about Quest games, and searched for the top rated Quest games of all time. It brought this up as number 1, a..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Alyssia, My favourite games of all time April 7, 2024 9 items

Max Fog reviews WWII Elevator Escape: "Time-limited and tight puzzles" April 7, 2024 "This game was a light little puzzle about escaping a building. The puzzles were short and time-limited, and it felt a few times like I..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Octopus's Garden: "An octopus nestled in sweaters!" April 7, 2024 "This is a cute game! I've never played a game with an octopus PC before, and my favorite aspect was the descriptions, which paint such..." - See full review

Pete Davison reviews Moonmist: "It looks even lovelier than it sounds in the tourist brochure." April 6, 2024 "Moonmist is a short introductory level adventure whose unique selling point is that it offers four mysteries in one, based on the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews PROSPER.0: "Spring Thing 2024: PROSPER.0" April 6, 2024 "The setting, in which you are a number-named drone for CORPOTech “requested to identify and fully purge any instance of poetry from the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forward: "A game about looking back and looking forward" April 6, 2024 "I generally like Bez’s work, as my view on creative writing is that it’s a way to share parts of our experiences and feelings with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Collegial Conversation: "A game from many perspectives, set at a work party with drama" April 6, 2024 "This was an intricate and surprising game. It uses a seed for color palettes and another for ‘one click=one change in perspective’...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews All The Games I Would Have Made For Seedcomp If I Had The Time (Which I Did Not) (Oh Well There's Always Next Year): "Fake game listings for games that could have been" April 6, 2024 "This game has a genuinely funny title, which I like. In ATGIWHMFSIIHTTWIDNOWTANN, you are provided a list of game seeds the author was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Poetic Justice: "Go on trial with several poets" April 6, 2024 "This game uses a seed where you have to stand on trial before four famous poets. It’s written in Dendry, one of the first Dendry games..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Not Another Sad Meal: "Make some sad food after a breakup" April 6, 2024 "This Adventuron game was pleasant to play. I was able to grasp what was going on, make a plan, carry it out with some exploration, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dungeons & Distractions: "Manage conflicting social demands during a DnD game in a fantasy world" April 6, 2024 "This game consumed a lot of my attention and thought process. You are a dungeon master/game master having a night with a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Found Journal: "Short illustrated dreamlike game" April 6, 2024 "This was a nice game to end the comp on. It’s a relatively brief and poetic Twine game that uses sound (which I believe comes from the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Film: "A surreal horror game about a friend group and their relationships" April 6, 2024 "This game starts off very strongly with a nice animation of tv static, good styling choices and a creepy intro. I was ready to be scared..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sonnet: "Relationship drama at an older university party" April 6, 2024 "This choice-based game is inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 128, as well as the Reverse a Poem prompt (and the surprisingly popular..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 1 4 the $: "The horrors of mankind, now in two flavors" April 6, 2024 "This game is about someone experiencing the worst the world has to offer: isolation, hunger, infection, homophobia, perpetuating cycles..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Forward: "Understanding the past to move forward." April 6, 2024 "Forward is a short personal interactive piece made in Twine, about life. Worries and hopes, anxiety and assurance, failures and..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Fun proof-of-concept" April 5, 2024 "This was another game that had me quite confused at first—I couldn't for the life of me understand what I was supposed to be doing " - See full review

Kastel reviews A Dream of Silence: Acts 1 and 2: "Spring Thing 2024: A Dream of Silence" April 5, 2024 "I'm not familiar with Baldur's Gate 3, but I know that people like Astarion and playing the game made me understand why. ..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Studio: "Spring Thing 2024: Studio" April 5, 2024 "This is the kind of horror that gives me nightmares. There are no supernatural beings in this story, just a diminishing sense of security..." - See full review

Kastel reviews PROSPER.0: "Spring Thing 2024: PROSPER.0" April 5, 2024 "You have recently been hired by a generic dystopian science fiction corporation to filter poetry from an accidental merger of the..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "Spring Thing 2024: Rescue at Quickenheath" April 5, 2024 "A swashbuckling tale of adventures and embassies led by two intrepid highway robbers deeply in love with each other, Rescue at..." - See full review

Kastel reviews A Simple Happening: "Spring Thing 2024: A Simple Happening" April 5, 2024 "A samurai parser game is bound to raise some questions for me: will it be authentic to the historical figures, or will it play on the..." - See full review

Kastel reviews You Can Only Turn Left: "Spring Thing 2024: You Can Only Turn Left" April 5, 2024 "I don't believe it is possible to discuss this title as a "Twine game" but as an experience: it creates visions of a state so unfamiliar..." - See full review

Kastel reviews The Case of the Solitary Resident: "Spring Thing 2024: The Case of the Solitary Resident" April 5, 2024 "A police procedural from the creator of Last Vestiges in IFComp 2023, The Case of the Solitary Resident is a Twine mystery that explores..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Thanks, but I don't remember asking.: "Thanks, but..." April 5, 2024 "I found this game disorienting at first, to the point that I almost stopped playing. I was confused about both the situation and the..." - See full review

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