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MathBrush reviews Kaboom: "Puzzly choice-based game about being someone weak helping those you love" November 22, 2023 "This is a game translated from Russian that has quite a bit of twists and turns in it. Most are discovered early on. I’ll say that a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gestures Towards Divinity: "Thoughtful interactive museum/psychological piece about artist Francis Bacon" November 22, 2023 "I have to preface this review by saying that I have always that that Francis Bacon, the renaissance guy, was the same as Francis Bacon,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Have Orb, Will Travel: "Long old-school game with hard maze and complex puzzles" November 22, 2023 "This is I think the 5th Jim MacBrayne game I’ve played, and I think it’s definitely the most fair and well scoped of them that I’ve..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bright Brave Knight Knave: "Long wordplay rhyming game with helpful NPCs" November 22, 2023 "This is definitely one of the heftier IFComp games; I took a whole evening to look at it, spending two hours playing it and then speeding..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Escape your psychosis: "Small PDF CYOA game about psychosis" November 22, 2023 "This is a choose your own adventure pdf. The last one of these in IFComp I’d heard of was Simon Christiansen’s Trapped in Time, which..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hawkstone: "An old-school RPG with combat and some neat UI" November 22, 2023 "This one was a bit of a wild ride. It’s a long game written for windows. At first I wondered if it was another secret BJ Best game (in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Witch: "A long fantasy parser game about elves and a witch with some bugs" November 22, 2023 "I played this game because it was a ‘longer than two hours’ parser adventure, so one that I would consider might be difficult to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Artful Deceit: "Commodore 64 murder mystery game with independent NPCS" November 22, 2023 "This was one of the better experiences I’ve had with a custom parser game written for a retro format. This game was written for the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lonehouse: "A texture game about siblings and loss" November 22, 2023 "This is a brief Texture game, one where you drag actions over verbs. It looks like several of the Texture games in this comp were written..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 20 Exchange Place: "A difficult, branching Ink game about hostage negotiation" November 22, 2023 "This is a pretty tricky ink game. I had to play it around 10 to 13 times to win, even using saves. I didn’t realize that one of the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bonfire Night: The Black Dog: "Escape a cult in the middle of the night" November 22, 2023 "This is a parser puzzle game made in 4 hours or less for Ectocomp. In it, you play as someone who has been bound and thrown in the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Haunted House for Social Phobics: "An altgame for social anxiety" November 22, 2023 "This is an altgame, like Depression Quest or Will Not Let Me Go, a game that seeks to bring understanding to a mental illness or other..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Labyrinthine Library of Xleksixnrewix: "A difficult but rewarding dungeon making Inform game" November 22, 2023 "This game was pretty difficult but rewarding. It was entered in the La Petite Morte part of Ectocomp, which is surprising given its..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Shattered Fortress: "A deeply confusing visual novel about fantasy and strange monsters" November 22, 2023 "This is a relatively brief visual novel written for Ectocomp in the Grand Guignol competition. It's a tale about a creature from Hell (a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Virtue: "Left a sour taste in my mouth..." November 22, 2023 "Virtue is a short-ish linear entry, where you follow Gloria, a newly middle-class woman on a self-righteous path to prove her standing in..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Please Sign Here: "Will we ever know the truth?" November 22, 2023 "Please Sign Here is a fairly linear visual novel mystery. As a coffee barista, you have been brought in for interrogation after being..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Ship: "Distracting puzzles" November 22, 2023 "The Ship is a hypertext puzzle game, following two interconnected stories of captains, each looking for a specific location. The game..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Lonehouse: "Sorting through your feelings..." November 22, 2023 "Lonehouse is an emotionally charged piece about facings reality, processing one's grief, and finding ways to remember passed loved ones...." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Barcarolle in Yellow: "Giallo as IF" November 22, 2023 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally published in my blog during IFComp 2023) I usually start any IFComp by playing a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Taller Tech Mauler Mech: "A confusing entry in a rhyming series" November 22, 2023 "This game has me at a bit of a loss. I'm a big fan of Andrew Schultz and probably have had more total fun playing all his games than..." - See full review

A new listing for Planetary Quarantine, by Andrew J. Schaefer

A new listing for Dilemma, by Mikhail Koroviev

A new listing for Dead Already?, by Kie Brooks

A new listing for Land of Three Classes, by Christopher Salomon

A new listing for Paranoia, by Kie Brooks

Victor Gijsbers reviews All the Troubles Come My Way: "Slight but amusing" November 22, 2023 "The premise of All the Troubles Come My Way is exceptionally silly: you are a cowboy who has been transported 150 years into the future...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Haunting of Corbitt House: "Horror noir with a lot of investigation" November 21, 2023 "This glulx game was entered in Ectocomp. In it, you play a classic noir-style detective (who has, I believe, appeared in other games by..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews THAT WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM RESURRECTION: "Brief Android game about resurrection" November 21, 2023 "I played this game on BlueStacks, an Android emulator. This is a short game with a few options, each of which seems fairly strong. It..." - See full review

A new competition page: The Bare-Bones Jam created November 21, 2023 The Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the Bone Have you ever wanted to create a game, but felt overwhelmed by the visual aspects? Or wished you didn't need to edit the UI? This jam is for you! The Bare-Bones...

manonamora reviews Forcas: "Who is truly possessed?" November 21, 2023 "This is a tales in two parts, two POV, where things are not quite what they seem. You are given the choice of two paths: to follow the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Starless: "The monster is not always... the monster." November 21, 2023 "This was a short-ish story about fantasy prophesies and predestination. The game does an interesting thing by using a different POV to..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Preordained (A Dimensions Tale): "Meeting an abrupt end." November 21, 2023 "As the title hints, this short sci-fi story is predetermined. Your ship is task to investigate an area, only to essentially land in an..." - See full review

A new listing for What Happened Last Night?, by Kie Brooks

Zachary Dillon reviews ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III: "Wow." November 21, 2023 "Hilarious. Beautiful. Devastating. I'm super late to this party, but I'm so glad I came."

Victor Gijsbers reviews Shanidar, Safe Return: "A dip into the Deep Past" November 21, 2023 "Earlier his year, I read Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes, a truly great book of popular science..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Christian Delaney and the Dirigible of Death: "An mysterious start" November 20, 2023 "I do wish this had been a completed game rather than a demo, because it was quite fun to play through it. Choose the UNFINISHED paths at..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Secret of Flint Smith: "Needs some testing" November 20, 2023 "I got inside (with some struggles), looked around (with some struggles), and... got stuck, I think? This kinetic parser is a follow-up to..." - See full review

manonamora reviews OBJECT PERMANENCE: "What was that..." November 20, 2023 "I still don't know what to make of this game just yet. There was no blurb on the game page, no tag line on the submission... nothing. I..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Photographs from the Summer of 1987: "Don't ever open a stranger's photobook!" November 20, 2023 "Holy shit, the whiplash from this one. I was warned by the content warning before playing the game (READ THEM, FOR YOUR SAKE), and still..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Roma Tenebris: "Save Rome! Or let it burn... *shrug*" November 20, 2023 "This was a short and fun “political” simulator set in Ancient Rome, where your goal is to try to restore the delicate balance in the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Your World According to a Single Word: "Why words? Why not communicating through..." November 20, 2023 "I really, really, like pieces taking human experiences and flipping it on its head by viewing it from an outsider perspective..." - See full review

manonamora reviews To Burn A God Down: "Bare Revenge" November 20, 2023 "With a very handed dark approach, and many warnings at the start, this revenge story leads you to kill a god (or try to at least). Along..." - See full review

manonamora reviews POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family: "I'm going to need a hug after this, and so will you." November 20, 2023 "The piece is fairly short, with a couple of hundred words at most, and it will make you hate yourself (maybe) when you reach the end...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Maverick Hunter: Scandalous Mission: "It's never what you'd expect!" November 20, 2023 "I wasn't really sure what to expect, because I had no strong frame of reference for either IPs, I know of both but never played either...." - See full review

A new listing for Maverick Hunter: Scandalous Mission, by Noah Si

A new listing for Forcas, by Unexpected_Dreams

Tabitha reviews The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls: "Wacky fun" November 20, 2023 "All the Little Match Girl games are just plain wacky fun. The time/space-hopping, the Metroidvania-ness, and the outlandishness of the..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Dysfluent: "Empathetic" November 20, 2023 "The main thing I knew about this game going in was that it makes significant use of the "timed text" mechanic. While I did find it..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews To Sea in a Sieve: "Well-crafted but hard!" November 20, 2023 "This game has a very fun premise and voice; unfortunately, though, I had to guess-the-verb my way through it, at one point resorting to..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Finders Commission: "Fun Twine puzzler" November 20, 2023 "I have to admit that I was a little underwhelmed by this game at first; the worldbuilding felt a bit bizarre and random for what’s..." - See full review

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