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MathBrush reviews A murder of Crows: "Twine game where you play as a group of crows" September 27, 2025 "This is a Twine game designed to be played in a relatively short time (I think someone mentioned that it will end after a certain number..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Errand Run: "You got me" September 27, 2025 "When I first read the description, I was expecting a game where you are given a fixed amount of money and then have to make choices on..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Island Of Rhynin: "Shoot the unstable bridge to cross it" September 27, 2025 "Despite the game’s description, this story is largely linear. You travel to an island with a companion, dealing with some challenges on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fired: "Take revenge against an awful boss" September 27, 2025 "Olaf Nowacki is a popular figure in both English and German IF, with games like Schief/Wry and Fischstäbchen/Eat the Eldritch having..." - See full review

A new poll by MathBrush, Games about uploading your consciousness or uploaded consciousnesses created September 27, 2025 22 votes for 9 games I'm looking for games where a human brain is put into a computer or is already in one.

MathBrush reviews whoami: "Very well-styled twine game about uploading a consciousness" September 27, 2025 "I played and reviewed the Spanish version of this game before. When I play a game in another language, it has an air of mystique around..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Cannot Speak: "Unfinished Ink game" September 26, 2025 "You Cannot Speak Hmm, this game is almost entirely incomplete. While several games in this competition are unfinished at various levels..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Constrained, one-room wordplay game" September 26, 2025 "This was a solidly coded and enjoyable game that I found just slightly under-clued. In it, you play as someone who gets drawn into an..." - See full review

Jaded Pangolin reviews The Path of Totality: "fantasy journey to see an eclipse " September 26, 2025 "this might be the last review i write this ifcomp (though ive played some games i haven't reviewed and i hope to still play more), bc im..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fable: "Intense and magical relationship drama" September 26, 2025 "I like Penthesileia by the same author, so I was looking forward to this. This is an intense love triangle (actually more like a..." - See full review

brapelo reviews Horse Whisperer: "Has potential!" September 26, 2025 "I enjoyed it a-lot and I hope the author puts in the time to finish it. "

MathBrush reviews Horse Whisperer: "Incomplete game about talking to racehorses" September 26, 2025 "This is an unfinished Twine game about you, a horse whisperer that now works for the mob. You have to talk to three horses and get them..." - See full review

A new listing for Butter Side Down, by Kalle MacDonald, Lachlan MacDonald

A new listing for Specters of the Deep, by Abigail C. Trevor

Cerfeuil reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "Plato's desert?" September 26, 2025 "You're in the Platonic realm of ideas or something, which has been utterly wrecked due to the desert of the real or something, and..." - See full review

A new listing for Morgana, by Brianna Bell

A new listing for The Archivist's Vault, by KitKatKate

A new listing for The Grief Gardens, by KitKatKate

A new listing for Marooned On Mazoomah, by Larry Horsfield

A new listing for The Vault of Stories, by KitKatKate

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Retrograding: "In retrospect, not the game for me" September 25, 2025 "You play as Ioanna Arcensis, a Recollection Officer for Waste Management, a department that seeks to destroy artifacts from other worlds...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "Cool idea that needs more testing and implementation (one-room amnesia)" September 25, 2025 "This game has a lot of interesting ideas (the phone dialing was especially interesting) but has deeply broken implementation. It's a one..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Violent Delight: "Horror on a timer" September 25, 2025 "This game uses the Decker system, which has a nice integration of graphics and interaction, similar to bitsy or binksy but with more..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Space Mission: 2045: "Currently unplayable" September 25, 2025 "This game depends on the author's api AI key, which is currently non-functioning, making this game unplayable. I'll update this review if..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Moon Logic: "Choice-based Zork parody with unusually constrained commands" September 25, 2025 "Someone in my life dislikes cheese, pickles, and mustard. If I spent a long time making a beautiful cheese-filled pickle dipped in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Under the Sea Winds: "Explore eels through three chapters of an Adventuron game" September 24, 2025 "This game is an Adventuron game, which was fun to see (haven't been very many this year). It's in three major parts after a brief..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion: "Where poetry and politics intersect" September 24, 2025 "Ancient China. You are a poet whose family fell from grace, making you somewhat of an outcast. But time has passed, and you’ve now..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Witch Girls: "Try to attract a boyfriend with dangerous magic" September 24, 2025 "I heard a lot of people praise this game before I played it, and I can see why. It's a nice-looking Twine game with multiple graphics..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Backpackward: "Isekai fantasy with a backpack interface" September 24, 2025 "This game had extensive strong profanity, so I ran it on a backup browser I have with a filter rather than skip it altogether. This game..." - See full review

A new listing for Snowshoe Adventure, by Eldritch Renaissance Cake

MathBrush reviews The Litchfield Mystery: "Exploration detective game followed by a quiz on suspects and motives" September 23, 2025 "Just as a heads up to readers, I have a personal bias in favor of mystery games. This is the third thesleuthacademy I've played. I've..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews High On Grief: "Eat your mother's ashes, baked into brownies " September 23, 2025 "I want to preface this by saying ahead of time that I have a very specific framing of this game in mind: I don't think the author thinks..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mooncrash!: "Multiple paths in a parser fantasy game with unique interactivity" September 23, 2025 "This looks like it was made for a school project, as it mentions a Portland State University interactive fiction course. It seems more..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Detritus: "We are made of what we leave behind" September 23, 2025 "This review is based on the NORMAL Mode setting of the game. It’s not every day you get reprinted. But then again, you are Jean Wilson,..." - See full review

A new poll by dmarymac, Games featuring nature to interact with or encounter created September 22, 2025 22 votes for 18 games I'm trying to discover games that rely on uses of nature in games. I'd like to find ones for which the environments can be verbosely described with outdoor nature, but also games that use it in puzzles.

MathBrush reviews WATT: "Obtain seven keys in a surreal world" September 22, 2025 "Okay, let's get one thing out of the way. Getting a math PhD has rarely proven to be a useful choice in my life, so I wanted to try it..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion: "Navigate a visit to the Imperial Palace and deliver a poem" September 21, 2025 "I enjoyed the setting of this game, as I've recently been rewatching Zhen Huan Zhuan/Empresses in the Palace and some of the elements of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Very long Total Recall and Hobbit parody pseudo-parser game" September 21, 2025 "This is a Gruescript game mixing Total Recall with The Hobbit. It uses ai-generated pixel art. It's quite long. It's listed as 1.5 hours,..." - See full review

Atreyu_Celestine reviews Lecoq : Investigations in Paris 1900: "A thorough detective-simulator that prioritizes immersion" September 21, 2025 "Lecoq is a very interesting concept with some very promising mechanics and U.I. taking place in a very well-built simulacrum of 1900's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "Vorple multimedia parser game with a monastic mystery" September 21, 2025 "This was a very polished parser game, with no real bugs that I found, a full map that adjusted based on the room, music, and an..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews A Smörgåsbord of Pain: "Breaking new ground in use of music within IF" September 20, 2025 "[Full disclosure: I know the author of this work personally, and I helped with beta testing for this game.] I have to admit that I find..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Slated For Demolition: "Intense personal allegorical game about loss and spaghetti" September 20, 2025 "There was a big shift that I saw in Twine games from when I started (around 2015) to now. Those earlier Twine games were often influenced..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Clickbait: "Search an abandoned train tunnel and train with escape-room puzzles" September 20, 2025 "I was excited to add this game to my list of surreal games on trains, an oddly specific genre that pops up in all years and among all..." - See full review

A new listing for Lecoq : Investigations in Paris 1900, by Soren

MathBrush reviews Willy's Manor: "Riddle-and-treasure hunt in a jokester's mansion" September 20, 2025 "This is a parser game set in an eccentric older man's joke-filled house using traditional parser game play (i.e. taking items and using..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer: "Kidnap Kenji Eno and repeatedly search for his turtle" September 20, 2025 "This game is well-written, engaging in its action, and has nice twists and a strong story format. This is a choice-based game with some..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Under the Sea Winds: "Great concept, underwhelming product" September 20, 2025 "Under the Sea Winds was one of the first entries that caught my eye in this year’s competition because I love marine biology and jumped..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Smörgåsbord of Pain: "Game with pony characters and innovative combat system" September 19, 2025 "This game does a lot of unusual things that I'm not even sure how to react to. I can't tell yet if I love this game or hate it, only time..." - See full review

A new listing for Dear Devere, by Jasmine Osler

News on Passerine Hills: Just a Bite: Lonely Week Update out now! September 19, 2025 Hi hi! This is, quite possibly, the worst time I could've chosen for an update with IF Comp and all but oh well. PHJAB got updated with five new scenes, which are approximately 40k words of new content. More... - Details

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