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A new listing for The Tower, by communistsister

Max Fog reviews Forward: "Have ourselves a good time - and never look back..." March 30, 2024 "But maybe you just need to remember the past. Honestly, the first thing I can say is quite clear. I could picture everything. Now..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Le Dernier Serment: "An alchemy parser game on a retro platform" March 30, 2024 "This French game is designed to run on an Amstrad CPC emulator. It comes with pixel art. This was tough; I often struggle with old-school..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Radio liberté - prologue: "The intro to a longer game about revolutionary radio" March 29, 2024 "This is a prologue to a humor sci fi game written in Moiki. In it, you play as a radio repairman in a futuristic world. A transgender..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Once and Future: "Excalibur in Avalon" March 29, 2024 "--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "She is not any common earth Water or wood or air, But..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Un Songe sans fin: "A surreal game set in a dream" March 29, 2024 "In this game, you fall asleep, and wake up trapped in a strange dream world. The game is choice-based, using Moiki, but it has a strong..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for March 2024 March 29, 2024 8 items On Friday, March 29, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more...

Lance Cirone reviews Letters from Home: "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" March 29, 2024 "I'm a fan of wordplay games, so it's only natural that I'd end up liking Letters from Home. It took me a bit of time to understand what I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Immobilistes: "A databse search game with revolutionary poets" March 29, 2024 "This game took me a while to figure out. There's a text box to enter stuff, but hitting enter just goes to a new line. Eventually I..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Walter Sandsquish, Murder Mysteries March 28, 2024 14 items Text-adventure games ask players to solve puzzles, so asking them to also solve a murder mystery is quite common. Figure out who-done-it in the following games.

Canalboy reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "An Enjoyable Soak In An Old School Tub" March 28, 2024 "The Only Possible Prom Dress was for my part a long-awaited sequel to Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina and showcases the author's admirable..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Panique à Mandonez: "An easy-to-play and intriguing IF mystery set in a small town" March 27, 2024 "This Ink game was fun. You play as someone who received a note to come and investigate a town on behalf of a countess who has had to make..." - See full review

A new listing for El Pacto, by Eduardo Solans Mares and Antonio Casares Rodríguez and José Antonio Caracuel and Carlos Solans and Sonia Melero Hueso

TestTubeHuman reviews Familiar: "Dating sim = real" March 27, 2024 "Here's a comment I made on the itch.io page, copied over because I figure it's long enough for a review and this game is cool: THE..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Les lettres du Docteur Jeangille: "Epistolary Mystery" March 27, 2024 "Feeling angry, hurt, betrayed, le Docteur must leave for the countryside, banished from the educated and cultured social circles of the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews La Fabrique des Princes: ""Hominem unius libri timeo."" March 27, 2024 "The product of the Prince-factory, your education is almost complete. In these final hours before being sent off to the Kingdom that..." - See full review

A new listing for Dive to the Heart - a text-based demo with real-time combat!, by Clayn

Lance Cirone reviews Toonesia: "Zany to the max" March 26, 2024 "Toonesia knows what it wants to be and isn't anything more than that. It's not a criticism with the game, it's a fun (albeit short)..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape Espacial I, by Trevizer

A new Recommended List by Walter Sandsquish, Works of Wordplay March 25, 2024 12 items Text-adventure games consist of little more than words, so some of them concern themselves with little more than wordplay. Here are a dozen of the better ones.

A new Recommended List by Walter Sandsquish, The Great Underground Empire March 25, 2024 15 items Zork, the first commercially-successful adventure game, spawned a prequel, several sequels, and a slew of homages and pastiches, all of which were set in or around the whimsically-anachronistic land of...

MythOnirie reviews Radio liberté - prologue: "Un univers prometteur." March 25, 2024 "Cette fiction interactive nous fait suivre une histoire linéaire où Hego, réparateur de génie rencontre sa star favorite avant que sa..." - See full review

MythOnirie reviews La Fabrique des Princes: "Devenir Prince ? " March 25, 2024 "Dans ce jeu, nous incarnons un prince en formation, lors du jour de son évaluation. Le jeu nous propose d'écouter de petites histoires..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Bee: "I just don't know the words / or how to conjugate them" March 25, 2024 "There's a specific style to Emily Short's games that I really like, and it's inspired plenty of my own writing. Just this dry, bleak..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Le chaudron d'Anaritium: "A fantasy mystery traversed through a map " March 25, 2024 "This is my first time playing an OpenAdventure game, and it was interesting. I didn't get it at first, so I tried a tutorial game, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Head Case: "Solve a splitting headache" March 25, 2024 "This brief Inform game has you waking up with temporary amnesia in a medical research facility with a door that has recently been welded..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Dungeons & Distractions: "I'm on a highway to hey look a squirrel!" March 24, 2024 "I found this game honestly quite humorous. It reminds me of every D&D session I’ve ever had (both as DM and as a player. Things make..." - See full review

A new listing for The Symbol, by Dominik Jarco

Tabitha reviews No Earthly Use: "Use fingers on keyboard" March 24, 2024 "I played this game because it was the only entry in UseComp, and I was curious what gameplay would be like with "use" as the only verb...." - See full review

MythOnirie reviews Vesna: "Prendre son temps et raconter des histoires" March 23, 2024 "Cherchant le calme dans un village (presque) desert, le personnage principal se retrouve chargé de redonner vie au village de Vesna de..." - See full review

A new poll by OverThinking, Best antagonists created March 23, 2024 25 votes for 12 games IF has a tradition of pitting the player against the environment or their circumstances. I'm looking for something a little more personal. Give me your moustache-twirling, card-carrying villains. Give me...

Cryptic Puffin reviews Faery: Swapped: "Name theft is the name of the game" March 22, 2024 "A very funny little puzzler (it took me like 20 minutes tops I think?) with basically one puzzle and a very clever mechanic for it...." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Walter Sandsquish, Time Travelers March 22, 2024 13 items Players get to travel back and forth through their player-characters' time-lines all the time by using UNDO, RESTART, and RESTORE. So, it's only fair that player-characters sometimes get to move back and...

Max Fog reviews 1 4 the $: "Game 1 in my list, and I'm all 4 it" March 22, 2024 "What a strong start to the competition! I am personally quite a fan of grotesque and dark subjects, but this one portrayed it very..." - See full review

Max Fog 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): "Honestly a very fun game" March 22, 2024 "I’m not sure there’s much to say about this game. Funny, for sure! Very mini IF, but certainly clever. I like the reviews and the..." - See full review

A new competition page: Revival Jam 2024 created March 22, 2024 The Revival Jam is a short game jam about bringing back themes and constraints from older game jams to create small interactive fiction games.

A new listing for Neapolitan, by Rylie Eric

A new listing for tiny ratopia, by alyshkalia

A new listing for stomping grounds, by Sophia de Augustine

A new listing for The Chosen Path, by Noah Si

A new listing for Kel (2024, words on screen), by alyshkalia

A new listing for Labyrinth, by KA Tan

A new listing for Malachi And The Quest for Attention, by João Aguiar

A new listing for FIA: The Vacuum Cleaner, by manonamora

A new listing for sojourn, by 30x30

A new listing for Uptown, by John H Doolittle

A new listing for Toyland, by John H Doolittle

A new listing for Pirate Island, by John H Doolittle

A new listing for Midnight Emergency, by John H Doolittle

A new listing for Hangtown, by John H Doolittle

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