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ChanceOfFire reviews Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets: "Not a great college experience" May 8, 2025 "I don't claim to have played every game in the Heart's Choice library, but I've played a fair number of games, and this magical school..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gefeuert: "Stick it to the man (your boss) by revealing his evil deeds" May 7, 2025 "This is a German parser game where you have to leave your work after being fired but not before exposing your boss for all his crimes...." - See full review

A new listing for The Mindfulness Game, by Anonymous

OtisTDog reviews Christminster: "Good core concept and excellent puzzles marred by inconsistency and opaqueness" May 7, 2025 "There's a long-standing joke about Shakespeare being overrated: "It's just a bunch of moldy old quotes and worn-out cliche." The joke, of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Ratings War: "The lengths I’d go for a good story" May 7, 2025 "As with Undercover Agent, I’d describe this game as solid and functional, but nothing spectacular. Ratings War takes place in a..." - See full review

A new listing for Human Interview: Subject 003, by Cleril

OtisTDog reviews Ryan Veeder's Mud Warriors: "An impressive labor of love and a great complement to the original" May 7, 2025 "Having been recently alerted to this remake/adaptation, I moved its inspiration up on my to-play list, and as soon as I had finished..." - See full review

A new listing for Gardening Simulator, by Phil Riley

ChanceOfFire reviews Life of a Mobster: "The outlaw lifestyle" May 6, 2025 "Life of a mobster is an interesting beast. Unlike many choicescript games which let you pick your strong and weak skills, before putting..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews I, the Forgotten One: "One of the strongest games in the choicescript world" May 6, 2025 "ITFO is not your typical fantasy medieval tale. It’s a game which explores the difficult realities of the medieval world, as well as..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Sky Pirates of Actorius: "You’ve got two choices" May 6, 2025 "It’s a pretty straightforward short game, but with an interesting premise. In this aero steampunk world (we really ought to have more..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Village of Lost Souls: "There's Something Nasty In The Chicken Coop" May 6, 2025 "Village of Lost Souls is an excellent and rather creepy puzzlefest set in the once sleepy village of Dinham. You play as a fairly..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Zip! Speedster of Valiant City: "Short but superb" May 6, 2025 "The superhero genre isn’t really my thing, yet for some reason, I decided to try out this short superhero story. I was definitely..." - See full review

Wynter reviews A Bottle from the Future: "Message in a Bottle" May 5, 2025 "A short Twine game about a narrator who goes down to the sea one day and sees a bottle with a message in it, washed up on the shore...." - See full review

Wynter reviews blackberry bloodbath: "Poetry in AOL Messenger" May 5, 2025 "The first thing that jumps out from this is the fantastic graphics: the online notepad and chat of a teenage girl in the late 90s/2000s...." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "A compelling text strategy game that's quality edutainment" May 5, 2025 "Monopoly is one of the most popular games in American history. There's something telling about modern culture's inattention to history in..." - See full review

Wynter reviews As the Fire Dies: "A puzzly dreamscape" May 5, 2025 "This was enchanting. The game begins by asking your name, relationship status, whether you have children, and if you fear death. None of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew: "A advsys game about putting together a magical potion" May 5, 2025 "While I may have given this game a lower score, I think it shows markable progression in the author's skill over time. This the fourth..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Administer Naloxone: "A game about opioid use, administrating Naloxone, and the War on Drugs" May 4, 2025 " Because I don't make enough for how I use to be called a phase or a Bay Street afternoon-pick-me-up. I don't have the economic stability... " - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Nested: "Highly intricate universe procedural generation - and nothing else" May 4, 2025 "I found this game because it was linked in another game called The end of the WORD as we know it, which was an art gallery of sorts. I..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews The end of the WORD as we know it: "Open source server-based networked chatroom created with Twine" May 4, 2025 "Found this game at random through the creator's blog. It's fascinating because it's in all appearances a Twine game, but it's also a..." - See full review

A new listing for Nested, by Orteil

A new listing for The end of the WORD as we know it, by molleindustria (Paolo Pedercini)

asparagus reviews The Time Crystals of Cythii: "Short and sweet" May 4, 2025 "This game reminds me a bit of Francis' other game "Acid Rain". Both fun little puzzlers that aren't too difficult. I got stuck a couple..." - See full review

Wynter reviews their angelical understanding: "How will you survive in the outside world without a face?" May 3, 2025 "The protagonist has fought angels and been injured in a war against them, and is now recovering in a monastery without a face, in order..." - See full review

A new listing for Make it to Ketchikan, by Squaw Dee and OPOSSUM and Theultimategergdown and Schism

MathBrush reviews Das Schneemädchen: "A short German parser game based on Japanese folklore" May 1, 2025 "It's interesting, I've seen Japanese-inspired games pop up in several non-English IF competitions in the last few years (I think Spanish..." - See full review

A new competition page: Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2025 created May 1, 2025 This is the fifth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must...

A new listing for Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew, by Robert Szacki

A new listing for The Time Crystals of Cythii, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Tempus Fugit: The Past is Yet Unwritten, by Gianluca Girelli

A new listing for Quirky Test, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for Home Party, by Zeno Pillan

A new listing for Fixing Time: A Hack & Makerspace Adventure, by Richard Pettigrew

A new listing for Fat Bear, by Charles Moore, Jr.

A new listing for WAITING FOR THE DEATH WIND, by roman_hyacinths

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for April 2025 April 28, 2025 18 items On Monday, April 28, 2025, 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...

A new listing for Macbeth, by Oxford Digital Enterprises

News on Bureau of Strange Happenings: Version 2 of Bureau of Strange Happenings Released April 28, 2025 All the same lizard people you've come to love, with fewer bugs! Submitted to Narrascope Showcase 2025.

kaemi reviews Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917: "Spring Thing 2025: Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917" April 27, 2025 "The Duma was formed after a great massacre: the embittered Tsar wanted to see if we could do it better. Now that a catastrophic world war..." - See full review

A new listing for Make a Fountain, My Chest, by SkyShard

A new listing for take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die, by Naarel

A new listing for The Court of Mac and Cheese, by Naarel

A new listing for The Art of Masquerade, by Jakub Debski

MathBrush reviews Der Finale Tag: "Short illustrated game about the afterlife" April 27, 2025 "In this German choice-based game, you play as someone who recently died and has to prepare for the afterlife. To do so, since the IT..." - See full review

News on The Corridor: Minor Update. Bunker Busting April 27, 2025 Continuing with the minor updates, this is a refresher of all the bunker scenes in the game to date – hence the title, as I am sure some of you eagle-eyed readers would have guessed, and a tidy-up on the... - Details

A new listing for 查找我的iPad, by Adam Hu

Wynter reviews Test Subject: Synaptix: "The age of human art has ended, and what came before means nothing" April 25, 2025 "This was great. A believable situation (a character desperate to earn a bit of extra money) in a future which may not be too far away:..." - See full review

A new listing for Windhammer, by Wayne F Densley

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "A complex magical game with many points of view and settings " April 23, 2025 "I played this game over about two months during lunches at work. I kept thinking I was close to completing it, only to find that there..." - See full review

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