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Pseudavid reviews To Sea in a Sieve: "Straight to my list of favourite parser games" November 29, 2023 "To sea in a sieve is brilliant! It’s yet another parser game I’ve been able to solve with little help, and the help I needed was due..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Pageant: "Live a semester of a young woman's life" November 29, 2023 "Having played many recent Autumn Chen games in the last year or two, I saw a lot of references to Pageant, and thought, 'I don't really..." - See full review

Fie reviews Divis Mortis: "Stopped playing after an unintuitive glitch" November 29, 2023 "I didn't play this game until the end because I encountered game-breaking glitches. This review will focus on the parts in the beginning..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Whisperers: "Intriguing, but should be performed" November 29, 2023 "So here's a strange autobiographical fact, or at least, a fact that felt strange when I started playing The Whisperers. I once made some..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews To Sea in a Sieve: "Good, but could have been more surprising" November 29, 2023 "To Sea in a Sieve is a prequel to To Hell in a Hamper, J. J. Guest's 2003 game where you find yourself in a hot air balloon with a crazy..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hand Me Down: "Legacy game" November 28, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I’ve noted elsewhere that the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Virtue: "Birth of a Tory" November 28, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). Per a Who song from 50 years ago,..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, Rat games created November 28, 2023 27 votes for 21 games Collecting games that have: a rat PC; rats or a rat that play(s) a significant role in the game; or the word "rat" or "rats" in the title.

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Finders Commission: "Solid, small heist game" November 28, 2023 "Heist games are well-known genre, and with good reason. There's a clear goal that requires ingenuity to achieve; there's a spatial and..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Dysfluent: "Very effective" November 28, 2023 "Allison's game is a very effective piece that puts you into the role of someone who stutters, as they get through a day in which they..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews The Phantom's Revenge: "An Excellent Dian Crayne Ghost Story Cum Puzzler In Dos" November 27, 2023 "On the whole I enjoyed this game; I like Dian's games in general but this one ratchets up the story and the atmosphere as you progress..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls: "Relight my fire" November 27, 2023 "Scientists have proven that by the year 2033, all interactive fiction will be Little Match Girl games. The eighth episode to date has..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Meeting in the Dark: "Defining the relationship in times of covid" November 27, 2023 "This game takes place in the same universe as Pageant and New Year's Eve, 2019. This has one of the best mechanics I've seen used in the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Demon Hatching: "The hatching of a creature" November 27, 2023 "This is a brief Ink game entered in the Single Choice jam. You play as a creature newly formed, emerged from a chrysalis. Being exposed..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews The TURING Test: "A tense decision, but a tedious setup." November 27, 2023 "The conflict at the heart of this entry is gripping: You are the only person on board the International Space Station, and you must..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Beneath Fenwick: "Worth checking out if you're into Lovecraftian horror." November 27, 2023 "Beneath Fenwick is the Lovecraft-adjacent story of a remote New England town full of sinister, malformed humans lurking just out of..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Kidney Kwest: "Kidney Kwest might be trying to do too much at once." November 27, 2023 "I enjoyed the writing in Kidney Kwest. It has the unavoidable “after-school special” tone that you would expect from the subject..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews To Hell in a Hamper: "Some aspects haven't aged well" November 27, 2023 "I had fun with this game and found it a lot easier than the prequel, To Sea in a Sieve. But I wanted to note that it contains some..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Sculptor: "A visionary statue" November 27, 2023 "The best moment in The Sculptor is the description of the final statue. This is a hard moment for any artist. When you're writing about a..." - See full review

Khalia reviews The Nascent Necromancer: "Not worth the money" November 26, 2023 "The synopsis make it sound much better than it is. It's very rushed, basically a found family speedrun, where everyone starts caring..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Citizen Makane: "Yu-Gi-Hoe - the Sexy card game" November 26, 2023 "Citizen Makane is an adult deckbuilding RPG, based on mythos of The Incredible Erotic Adventures of Stiffy Makane, in a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews CODENAME OBSCURA: "Did I just become a Jane Bond?" November 26, 2023 "CODENAME OBSCURA is a relatively simple parser with a retro-vibe, reminiscing of 90s spy movies (à-la James Bond), where you must rescue..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates: "Emotions bursting, with philosophy on the side..." November 26, 2023 "Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates is the imagined final night between Xanthippe, Socrates's second wife, and the philosopher - the..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls: "No time for tears" November 26, 2023 "Is The Little Match Girl my favourite fairytale? There are other fairytales that have better, more interesting stories. But ever since I..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Magor Investigates...: "Mascarpone and Gorgonzola" November 26, 2023 "Magor is an Italian cheese made up of alternating layers of Mascarpone and Gorgonzola. (The name, which is an obvious portmanteau of the..." - See full review

A new poll by Beable, Games that simulate their own aging created November 25, 2023 30 votes for 15 games I'm looking for games that pretend to be another, older game - sort of like Repeat the Ending and LAKE Adventure - or that contain elements within them that are supposed to play like an older game - like And...

A new poll by Max Fog, Cruel IFComp winners created November 25, 2023 3 votes for 3 games Any game which got awarded high in IFComp that isn't necessarily Merciful or Polite in Zarfian Cruelty Standards. Or at least games that did well in IFComp and have quite strict timing features ...

MathBrush reviews ConfigurationUploader: "Story through documentation" November 25, 2023 "This game unrolls as you read through the documentation of a certain piece of software, digging into its API, its pipelines, its..." - See full review

manonamora reviews All Hands: "Beware of the melody..." November 25, 2023 "All Hands is a short horror-y interactive piece set on a ship, one you can explore, and maybe find its secrets. Its prose is atmospheric..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Whale's Keeper: "Conflicting proof-of-concept" November 25, 2023 "The Whale's Keeper is a proof-of-concept piece for the Plotopolis engine, a system where you can play IF through a chat engine like..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Fix Your Mother's Printer: "I'm choosing the throw away the printer option next time..." November 25, 2023 "Fix Your Mother’s Printer is a fairly short and linear story, with a visual novel-like interface, where you try to help your mother..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Finders Commission: "Running around like a mad man" November 25, 2023 "The Finders Commission is a relatively short game, set as some sort of escape-room-puzzle piece where you are tasked to retrieve an..." - See full review

manonamora reviews In The Details: "What do you expect dealing with the devil..." November 25, 2023 "In The Details is a very short game revisiting the Deal with the Devil trope, especially the moment when the Devil comes to collect its..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Please Sign Here: "Coffee shop horror" November 25, 2023 "I'll spend some of this review being critical about the prose of this entry, but I'd like to start with the good stuff, of which there is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Please Leave a Message: "Creepy telephone message game" November 24, 2023 "In this game, you call your son to apologize for not picking him up. The reason you didn't pick him up? That's...complicated. The actual..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews GUT THE MOVIE: "Build a movie, but do it your way" November 24, 2023 "I like this game, the kind of inherent symmetry it has. It starts with introducing you to a young trio who have recently escaped from a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Loneliest House: "A clever twist on haunted house games" November 24, 2023 "This parser game for Ectocomp was written in 4 hours or less. This game really surprised me. I started it up, liked the writing, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Author and its characters: "A linear, illustrated bitsi story contemplating the nature of writing" November 24, 2023 "This game is a Bitsi game, a platform which has art with minimal palettes and simple responses to movement keys, as well as text. This..." - See full review

A new poll by RetroProgressive, Games Where Needing to Eat Actually Becomes Annoying created November 24, 2023 2 votes for 2 games On the big list of insta-kill features that will cause the less patient to completely refuse to consider playing a work, it appears that "needing to eat" is well up there. We are not talking about some game...

MathBrush reviews Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus: "A powerfully-written body creation simulator" November 24, 2023 "I like short, ritualistic Twine games like this. You progress, in any order, through five different sets of body parts, choosing how you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ah Lim's Chicken Rice, #01-08A: "A sweet short story about a tasty afterlife" November 24, 2023 "This short Twine game was entered in Ectocomp in the Petite Mort division. It features a father running a food stall who sees his..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Dying of the Light: "Deeply moving game with deeply flawed implementation" November 24, 2023 "This game is based on the emotional true story of the author's mother having deep dementia, causing her to lash out at those around her...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews ~~~Into Darkness~~~: "A brief scary poem game with multiple endings" November 24, 2023 "I enjoyed this poem-based choicescript game that was entered in Ectocomp, and was made in 4 hours or less. The poem is written in verses..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forever and Ever: "A heartwrenching story of saving a child" November 24, 2023 "This is an Ink game entered into Ectocomp, written in 4 hours or less. It's story-focused, with a well-written tale about a father who..." - See full review

A new listing for Twilight's Ransom, by John Vincent Antinori

manonamora reviews Dysfluent: "Untimely struggles..." November 24, 2023 "Dysfluent is a fairly short slice-of-life story, where you spend the day as a person with a stutter, trying to get through their day. The..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Last Valentine's Day: "The only way is back to the start..." November 24, 2023 "Last Valentine's Day is a fairly short linear story about love and heartbreak. Set in a Groundhog-Day-like loop, the story uses..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?: "Pulp noir but make it sugar sweet" November 24, 2023 "Who Iced Mayor McFreeze? is the second instalment of the Gumshoe series (or is this a prequel?), which I remember quite fondly, a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Bali B&B: "A cosy stressful week..." November 24, 2023 "Bali B&B is a slice-of-life management game, where you are tasked to run your grandparents' B&B in Bali for a week. Between taking care..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews In The Details: "There's a nice detail" November 24, 2023 "Of course I should have known there would be a devil from the title alone, or if I'd actually looked at the cover art instead of just..." - See full review

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