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MathBrush reviews Keepsake: "Incredible concept that could probably be put to better use" July 25, 2025 "This is a short game that has a special gimmick. Revealing the gimmick removes most of the enjoyment of the game. I recommend playing it;..." - See full review

A new listing for MY REAL AND SINCERE APOLOGY TO MORAL CRUSADERS, by Naarel

A new listing for Isekai, by dott. Piergiorgio

MathBrush reviews Desperados: "A short adventure in the wild west" July 25, 2025 "This is one of three brief games written a long time ago but now translated and updated by a team of authors for Parsercomp 2025. The..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Hound of Ricsige: "Sir Dram-alot" July 25, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/2/25 Playtime: 15m, 3 playthroughs Why make fiction interactive? I ask this question..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Elaine Marley and the Ghost Ship: "Marley and Guybrush are Dead" July 25, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/2/24 Playtime: 45m This is an ambitious look back at and interrogation of an underserved..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews We Stole a Ship to Run a Scam: "Not WSASTRAS At All" July 25, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/2/25 Playtime: 15m I am on record as observing that the RPG Maker gameplay paradigm is not..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing: "A puzzle-y time-based Inform walking simulator with collectible badges " July 25, 2025 "This game was part of Ryan Veeder's early explorations with unusual uses of Inform, which later branched out into things like..." - See full review

A new listing for Keep Away From Pets and Women, by fen slattery

A new listing for Mis/Guided, by Jari Sarajärvi, Patrik Dekhla, Tara Fkri and Rasmus Gunnarsson

iaraya reviews Closed Loop System: "A science fiction story told through a *fully functional game of minesweeper*" July 23, 2025 "The first thing that caught my eye about this one is, it's an actual minesweeper game. In HTML. On the AO3 fanfiction archive. I've..." - See full review

A new listing for Closed Loop System, by One_of_Them

MathBrush reviews Kenam Moorwak - Chronicles of the Moorwakker: "Complex combat RPG in Twine format" July 22, 2025 "This game was originally made as a tabletop RPG and then converted into Twine years later. It features a pretty great storyline about..." - See full review

A new listing for addressing the rumors..., by Naarel

MathBrush reviews A Taste of Terror: "A well-polished horror story with a large map" July 21, 2025 "Garry Francis has a good system for taking a concept ('mystery in a high school', 'searching for the holy grail', 'fairy tails') and..." - See full review

A new listing for Project Anafabula, by RyboiTheLegend

A new listing for By the Light of Day, by Fluxion

A new listing for Safe, by ninjapitka

A new listing for Blackbirds, by ninjapitka

A new listing for The Reign of Terror, by Will11

kaemi reviews The Journey: "ParserComp 2025: The journey" July 20, 2025 "What’s gone isn’t gone but radiates your negative space. The last little enclosure you’ve fortressed, the “scream” where “the..." - See full review

News on RPG in Another World: Update V 0.1.1 July 19, 2025 Hello again everyone! It's time for another update to this isekai world. Well, I decided to release the update early as a celebration for 100 plays and 250 views! Thank you all so much! Update V0.1.1 : -... - Details

A new listing for The Hand with the Knife, by Bilbo

A new listing for Saturday Bike Ride, by jster02

A new listing for Of Dreams and Daemons, by Clayfinger

Fxlmine reviews Lazarrien: A Love Story: "A Fool's Errand" July 18, 2025 "As a newcomer to the community, this is my very first time reviewing a work of interactive fiction. I stumbled across this game from a..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape from Ojai, by OPOSSUM and Squaw Dee and ColonelKurtz and Fenris2010 and Alula and DaniPine3

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient, the Mathbrush Release July 16, 2025 Thanks you, Mathbrush, for taking the time to give Quotient a try. With your feedback, I was able to polish this game up a little more! New features include a quantum console display, a flight manual, a... - Details

MathBrush reviews Escape from Death: "Character-focused fantasy land game themed around the afterlife" July 15, 2025 "I sought out this game specifically by trying to find the worst-selling recent games published by Choice of Games. I'm working on making..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, 2026 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only) created July 15, 2025 4 votes for 4 games The IF Review-a-thon is an event meant to spur reviews of games that haven't received much reviewing attention. If you're an IF author who would like more reviews of your work, feel free to submit your...

ChanceOfFire reviews Echoes of Ending Worlds: "There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere" July 14, 2025 "Another interesting concept in the Neo-Twiny Jam. You are tasked with listening in on several locations, making deductions on whether..." - See full review

vegetablegarden reviews Advent Door: "A short puzzle" July 14, 2025 "Not fully satisfying as a standalone game or story (which is to be expected), but fairly good for what it is, which is a short puzzle..." - See full review

A new listing for A king has Prnoq Pnkhr Zmtmr STOP daughters STOP Pnzbc was killed STOP 1 pad key is XYZZY STOP K Dies STOP inherit the treasure, by Mathbrush

ChanceOfFire reviews Distance: "Short, simple and sweet" July 14, 2025 "A woman writes letters to her husband who is out at sea, talking about other folks, her new hobbies and finally hoping for his return...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Eight Steps: "Shooting an arrow and feeling something else" July 14, 2025 "There are several steps to shooting an arrow. Still, not all is well. As age begins to catch up to you, the movements may feel harder,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Escape Trajectory: "You are over encumbered and cannot run" July 13, 2025 "Whew... games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have inventory weight systems which keep track of the weight of everything in that massive..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Lockout: "ParserComp 2025: Lockout" July 13, 2025 "The nuclear deterrent is frequently misunderstood as mutually assured destruction through glistening missile arrays just a trigger finger..." - See full review

A new poll by OverThinking, Games that broke containment created July 13, 2025 67 votes for 56 games I could have sworn this was already a poll, but I can't find it now. This is for games that gained some amount of recognition outside our bubble. Any amount of notice will do, from write-ups on non-IF gaming...

A new listing for Colditz, by Uto

A new listing for Room 309, by Faraz The Web Guy

ChanceOfFire reviews A few steps (up the hill): "A short walk through nature" July 13, 2025 "It is a very short but entertaining walk through nature, with plenty of descriptions about the sights all around. There is a bit of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Hauntings at St. Comba's Academy: "I saw a ghost" July 13, 2025 "Welcome to St. Comba's Academy. Your task here is to find some evidence of ghosts, and use it to propel you to online fame. This is a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Heart Friend: "Zooming around" July 13, 2025 "Heart Friend feels like a series of powerpoint slides with some heavy slide transition effects. There were some parts where I think I had..." - See full review

A new poll by MathBrush, The most famous games you've never played created July 13, 2025 226 votes for 62 games I'm interested in knowing what games people have heard of, but have put off playing for one reason or another (or never intend on playing at all). I'm also interested in people's decision of what 'famous'...

ChanceOfFire reviews Home: "It's your own book to fill" July 13, 2025 "Home is interactive fiction, I suppose. I've seen a fair bit of interesting takes on the genre within the Neo-Twiny Jam, even with the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews EYE: "ParserComp 2025: Eye" July 12, 2025 "Why is it that you, weak of will, consider a sudoku a puzzle, it requires no concentrated response of alignment, you cell by cell sculpt..." - See full review

A new listing for Solo dos deseos, by Pablo Martínez Merino (aka Kozelek)

Andrew Schultz reviews Please do not the cat: "Please do not overthink the cat" July 12, 2025 "Please Do Not the Cat doesn't inspire confidence with his title, but fortunately, the vanishing word is deliberate, and the game's header..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Adventures Extraordinaire: "Fun graphics, sometimes overdoes the "quirky"" July 12, 2025 "Adventurous Extraordinare starts with an intriguing premise: you're a detective who is trying to solve fairy tales gone wrong. The..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews in augustis: "Horror" July 12, 2025 "A short horror story about a man who torments your dreams and is now coming for you. What does he want? The itch page has some really..." - See full review

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