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Niels G. W. Serup reviews The Princess of Vestria: "Nice hints (and good game!)" January 19, 2024 "Other reviews have highlighted that this is a well-made fantasy adventure, which I agree with: I felt that the abstraction at which the..." - See full review

Niels G. W. Serup reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "I liked the second half" January 19, 2024 "This is a well-made game that worked well for me in the second half where everything is coming together, with a good central game..." - See full review

Niels G. W. Serup reviews You Are Standing: "Great narrative progression within big constraints" January 19, 2024 "After playing this game I was thinking to myself what I would have done if I had decided to constrain myself to use six different game..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Grocery Game: "A light-hearted grocery shopping trip ft a late customer" January 19, 2024 "This was such a different experience from when I do grocery shopping. From arriving just before closing time, to having the option of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Petit ramoneur: "It's not easy to be a chimneysweeper" January 19, 2024 "In this tiny game, you play a child chimneysweeper on the first day of their job. You'd expect the chimney to go straight up to the top,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews tramway: "CYOA Trolley Dilemma" January 19, 2024 "Why bother with the philosophical questions when you could just make the trolley dilemma a humorous light-hearted murder-fest? Yes, you..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Mondes rêvés: "Dreamy prose" January 19, 2024 "In this micro CYOA booklet, you play as Aoda, a hotel accountant prone to falling asleep, dreaming of other worlds. Sectioned in small..." - See full review

manonamora reviews 😱🔤😱: "The Emoji Interactive Fiction" January 19, 2024 "😱🔤😱 is a short and wordless interactive game, that relies only on emojis to tell a story. What story? Well, it is for you to..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Deux ans.: "An uncomfortably creepy short game" January 19, 2024 "Deux ans. follows a conversation between a man and emergency services after an intrusion at the former's home - where he currently is...." - See full review

manonamora reviews La manif': "A silly little entry about protests" January 19, 2024 "In this mini-entry, you play as Artour, an elf taking part of a protest because the King is at it again with his shenanigans. People are..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Votre oncle: "A childish CYOA (good!)" January 19, 2024 "As a tiny Choose-Your-Own-Adventure booklet, based on the 1958 of the same name, you play as a young child playing with your friends. The..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "Punishing Kids for Being Kids?" January 19, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Turns out, you don’t have to be Twine to be part (4) of the “Twinesformers: Parsers in Disguise”..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews All the Troubles Come My Way: "That's Not an IF, THIS Is an IF" January 19, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review This piece brought home to me that relatively speaking, Westerns feel underrepresented in IF. Sci-Fi,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Gift of What You Notice More: "Metaphor Mania" January 19, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Part 3 of the “Twinesformers: Parsers in Disguise” review sub-series. This is a surreal, metaphorical..." - See full review

A new listing for Solitary Stars, by Stephane F.

thesleuthacademy reviews Waiting for Sunrise: "Short but interesting" January 18, 2024 "I liked how it's heavy on deduction skills and how it just cuts to the chase with the narrative. Short and sweet; totally my cup of tea...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head: "E is for Existential Dread" January 18, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review It’s time to inaugurate a new review sub-series: “Twinesformers: Parsers in Disguise.” Encompassing..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews For Eternity, Again and Again: "Speed Running the Infinite" January 18, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review This is a work about all of time, the entire universe, intersection of the divine and the human ideal,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lake Starlight: "Bossy, Flossy, and Exhausty" January 18, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Say you have a friend that is REALLY into flossing. We all know flossing is important, right? It’s kind..." - See full review

A new listing for Blood and Company, by alyshkalia

JJ McC reviews A Thing of Wretchedness: "Do Ya, Do Ya, Do Ya, Do Ya Wanna Dance? Please?" January 17, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Let’s imagine IF as a dance between Interaction and Fiction. What else you got to do right now? Imagine..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews One Does Not Simply Fry: "The Ring Must Be Deployed" January 17, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Comedy is a macro phenomenon, a numbers game really. Success is predicated on getting just the right..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Last Valentine's Day: "Love's Labors Looped" January 17, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Time Loop stories have been with us for over a hundred years, but it seems fair to say that their broad..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Double jeu...: "Superficial story about having faith" January 16, 2024 "With its minimalist prose, the story follows a woman with a heavy past who found solace in faith. This faith is tested when the woman..." - See full review

A new competition page: Concours Moiki #5 created January 16, 2024 Thème et contraintes Pour ce concours le thème retenu est : La colère des Dieux Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme bon vous semble. Votre histoire peut être destinée aux enfants ou non, c'est à...

A new listing for Double jeu..., by m-prinss

manonamora reviews HéraDikator: "Can't spend your holiday in peace, can you?!?!" January 16, 2024 "What would you do if the goddess Hera came to spoil your much needed and chill holidays, meant for you to get over your ex? Well... not..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Goncharov: "A short take on Goncharov, the fake Tumblr movie" January 16, 2024 "This was written for the single choice jam. In 2023 (or maybe starting 2022?) Tumblr started pretending that there was a movie called..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Robbery Reverie: "Rob a witch--but keep only one thing" January 16, 2024 "This game was entered in the Single Choice Jam. In it, you play as a robber who has picked the absolutely wrong house to rob--or maybe..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews forever, interrupted - interactive fiction version: "Nice characterization in a cosmic story" January 16, 2024 "This entry in the Single Choice jam works as either a short story or a part of a broader setting. In it, you play as a human witnessing..." - See full review

A new listing for HéraDikator, by Lilie B

manonamora reviews La pierre précieuse: "An adventure with more than it lets on." January 16, 2024 "Set in your run-of-the-mill fantasy setting, you are a newly made adventurer looking for quests and riches - a small search as a quest..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Finding Martin: "An odyssey of puzzles" January 16, 2024 "One day, completely out of the blue, you get a phone call from Rachel Kessler, the sister of your old university room-mate, Martin. He's..." - See full review

A new listing for La pierre précieuse, by salut

manonamora reviews Le Trône des Dieux: "A D&D adventure... without the wrath of the RNG god" January 16, 2024 "With its fantasy setting, based on Norse mythology, this textual adventure follows three characters looking for treasures: Sehlif, a..." - See full review

A new listing for Le Trône des Dieux, by Oli-X

manonamora reviews Le Procès de l'humanité: "Will you save humanity?" January 16, 2024 "Thrown without warning in the midst of a trial for humanity, you find yourself before a handful of gods, ready to make their judgement,..." - See full review

A new listing for Le Procès de l'humanité, by Gavroche Games

Rovarsson reviews Tookie's Song: "Cats & Dogs" January 16, 2024 "Alien Cat Beings from Extra-Terrestrial Outer Space have dognapped your dearest Tookie! And they have a remarkable propensity for..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Summers with the Sea King: "Summer of sadness" January 16, 2024 "This was a linear short story where you reminisce about summers from your childhood, and the time you shared with a friend (or was it..." - See full review

manonamora reviews night confessional: "When hotlines meet confessions." January 16, 2024 "I feel like this kind of system sort of exists in real life, with phone lines open to let you scream in the void or whisper your darkest..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Messages From the Universe Graveyard: "Who says MMOs are dead???" January 16, 2024 "Wow, this one is insane… and I only scratched the surface of what’s in there. This is an exploration game, mixing parser logics..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS: "50% Chance of Exactly As Advertised" January 16, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Excerpts of interview between JJMcC from a future where he has played DMcBGKitN, and JJMcC from the past,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Shanidar, Safe Return: "Oog-Ug Make Society" January 16, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review James A. Michener (JAM! called by no one. UNTIL NOW.) was a singular author, wasn’t he? His most..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Long Kill: "Aimlessness in the Crosshairs" January 16, 2024 "Adapted from an IFCOMP23 Review Reading the title, I immediately assumed I was in for a black and white hard-boiled mystery joint. I was..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Give Me Something to Dream: "short and strange" January 15, 2024 "This was a short kinetic entry, made in Texture, following Rahel (a witch/sorceress?) and Strider (apostle?) trying to - i think - run..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Vomit Economy: "So gross (in a good way)" January 15, 2024 "Vomit Economy is a resource management parser, where you take over your uncle’s factory creating gallons of vomit (why? don’t worry..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Open Flame: "Let it all burn" January 15, 2024 "An enigmatic entry, with an interesting interpretation of Hozier’s Arsonist’s Lullaby, as you play some sort of prisoner in an..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Starfisher: "Uncertainty is the only certain thing in life..." January 15, 2024 "Filled with melancholy and discomfort, this game displays a slice-of-life snippet between a dad and their child (you), stuck in a place..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews "I am inventing all this and it is about to disappear, but it does not”: "A poetic image of echoing worlds featuring you" January 15, 2024 "This game has disjointed and poetic imagery of you as a person that exists across multiple worlds and dimensions. It was written for the..." - See full review

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