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Tabitha reviews Fix Your Mother's Printer: "Cute but missing something" November 20, 2023 "This game's delightful UI, emulating a video call (complete with a Mom sprite), struck me immediately and was a very charming touch. The..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Trail Stash: "Not stale trash at all!" November 20, 2023 "Trail Stash is similar to Andrew's other wordplay games, but it’s written in Twine (Sugarcube specifically) rather than Inform—so..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Virtue: "Political satire that tries to be too many things" November 20, 2023 "Virtue: an interactive narrative is a short-to-medium choice-based game about an English middle-class woman whose pathetic need to feel..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Lid Astray: "Don't sleep on Lid Astray" November 19, 2023 "The eye-blinking mechanic is wild. You've just gotta try it. The game is short, but I think I couldn't handle an eye-blinking game any..." - See full review

A new listing for The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls, by Ryan Veeder

kaemi reviews Barcarolle in Yellow: "IFComp 2023: Barcarolle in Yellow" November 18, 2023 "In Federico Fellini’s 8 ½, a director, mistresser of actresses, has a vision of some thespian Beatrice that will elevate his existence..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews A Thing of Wretchedness: "Good horror vibes, unsatisfying ending" November 18, 2023 "I liked the “mundane horror” vibe of this game, with the eponymous wretched thing wandering around the PC’s house but not posing..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews One King to Loot them All: "Limited parser with a twist" November 18, 2023 "I was looking forward to this one, and it did not disappoint! I knew it included , so I thought..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Vambrace of Destiny: "Well done but not for me" November 18, 2023 "I didn't finish this one, as after playing for a bit it became clear that it just wasn’t for me. The super-limited parser (e.g., type..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews LAKE Adventure: "Deeply sad" November 18, 2023 "(Review largely hidden because most of my thoughts contain spoilers.) " - See full review

Tabitha reviews Honk!: "Honk if you love this game!" November 18, 2023 "This was fun! I completed it without using the walkthrough or any hints, which always makes me feel accomplished; the puzzles weren’t..." - See full review

Video_ouija_ reviews For a Change: "beautiful" November 17, 2023 "dreamlike. I'm fairly new to these things, got stumped a few times. really wonderful experience. I am left with visions of this strange..." - See full review

dogdennings reviews The Story is a Room: "A box-shaped box" November 17, 2023 "Less interactive fiction and more endurance test, The Story is a Room is what happens when you structure an entire game around one action..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming: "A wild adventure trying to use the toilet at night" November 17, 2023 "This game is a sprawling and varied horror comedy twine game about trying to use the toilet at night. The style is kind of like a..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Last Valentine's Day: "A linear time-loop game about processing loss" November 17, 2023 "So, this game's blurb is rather misleading. The PC’s partner never appears in the story; by the time we’ve gone through picking up..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Hand Me Down: "Didn't quite work for me" November 17, 2023 "This was an unusual one, starting with a short Twine piece that leads into a parser game. While the “a father made this for his..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "Compelling" November 17, 2023 "I liked this game a lot! It’s very aesthetically pleasing, with soft, shifting-color backgrounds, a map that expands as you go deeper,..." - See full review

blackle reviews One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World): "I'm so glad this exists" November 17, 2023 "I love this story. I love watching it careen off the rails, landing on different rails, and careening off those. The way I recommend it..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Gift of What You Notice More: "Song -> game" November 17, 2023 "I didn’t realize to what extent this game was based on the song mentioned as inspiration (“The Blessings” by Dar Williams) until I..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Whisperers: "Game-play" November 17, 2023 "This is an unusual one, and one I quite enjoyed. I’m not super familiar with the history and politics of the USSR, but some..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Roads of Liches: "Wordplay game with a branching structure" November 16, 2023 "This game was entered into Ectocomp 2023, in the Grand Guignol division. It is a wordplay game, centered on the idea of rhyming pairs..." - See full review

A new listing for Starless, by CherylDella

A new listing for Preordained (A Dimensions Tale), by Jackson The Bear

A new listing for Christian Delaney and the Dirigible of Death, by noseflautist

News on Repeat the Ending: Release 4 (final?) of Repeat the Ending now live November 16, 2023 I am excited to have completed (I hope) the final update of this weird game. It is primarily a feature release. Here's what's new on that front: I've heavily revised the hints for earning every point,... - Details

A new competition page: ECTOCOMP 2008 created November 16, 2023 The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. ULES: * The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird fiction,...

A new competition page: ECTOCOMP 2007 created November 16, 2023 The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. Here are the rules: * The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird...

Tabitha reviews LUNIUM: "Fun and clever" November 16, 2023 "This is a very well-crafted game—impressive that it’s the author’s first time working with Twine! The art is moodily evocative, and..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Gestures Towards Divinity: "Brilliant" November 16, 2023 "Damn, this game. It’s got so much depth, and I spent a lot of time thinking about it after playing. There’s so much emotion here, so..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Bali B&B: "A cheerful, lighthearted game" November 16, 2023 "...despite the rather stressful situation the PC is in! The PC’s position as somewhat of an outsider who’s suddenly plunged in over..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Dr Ludwig and the Devil: "Super solid parser game" November 16, 2023 "So much excellence here—the premise, the characters, the setting, the humor, the puzzles, the narrative voice… it’s all so well..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Bright Brave Knight Knave: "One where fun flair" November 16, 2023 "I hadn’t played any of Andrew’s Prime Pro Rhyme Row games when I tested this one, but as soon as I got into it I loved it, and after..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates: "Both silly and deep" November 16, 2023 "A game about your husband’s last night before his execution has no right being this fun! But Victor has accomplished that with a big..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Witch: "An obtuse game..." November 16, 2023 "The Witch is a fairly difficult parser where you must save the snatched villagers, though how to do so or solve the puzzles along the way..." - See full review

manonamora reviews One Knight Stand: "Needs to pick up the pace" November 16, 2023 "Sitting at over 400k total words, One Knight Stand is quite a sizeable game, with extensive branching. It also is a demo (prologue + 1st..." - See full review

manonamora reviews GameCeption: "Who's playing who?" November 16, 2023 "GameCeption is "a game within a game" action thriller, where the goal is for you and your friend to win the gaming competition, and win..." - See full review

manonamora reviews 20 Exchange Place: "Unnecessarily cruel" November 16, 2023 "20 Exchange Place is hostage-situation high-stake game where you play a Sergeant trying to solve a sticky situation. The game offers..." - See full review

manonamora reviews We All Fall Together: "Take the plunge..." November 16, 2023 "We All Fall Together is a short surrealist game about "taking the plunge" and facing things head on. Made in Texture, you click-n-drag..." - See full review

DrOrthogonal reviews Assembly: "A quick dabble with the Gods of Ikea" November 16, 2023 "Ikea furniture construction and Scandinavian mythology in a work of IF…genius. Beautifully written and straight forward enough not to..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews CODENAME OBSCURA: "Almost perfect in every way" November 16, 2023 "Another gem found. Appreciated the depth of exploration for a one-hour game, the beautiful pixelated old-school graphics(!), and the ease..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Revenant's Lament: "A dark tale of someone who made a deal with the devil" November 15, 2023 "This is a long Twine game entered into Ectocomp, Grand Guignol. You play as what I interpreted as a trans man, someone born as a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Found Objects: "Play my heart like a fiddle" November 15, 2023 "The content warnings gives a head's up on the implied content of the game, but it still hit so hard. Takes your heart out, pulls its..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Our Cabin was Cold: "It's easier to survive with someone..." November 15, 2023 "This is a Twine styled in a CYOA book format with the WritingFantasy coding format, with hyperlinks sending you to the correct..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Moonstrike: Superdim: "Let's hunt down a villain." November 15, 2023 "With a superhero/villain setting, Moonstrike is a relatively long game, both in terms of word count and passage length, in an almost..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Öhfwërhld: "A horrifying tale of a strange being and a family's secret" November 15, 2023 "This is an Ink game entered into several competitions; I saw it in the Grand Guignol ectocomp competition. This game is fairly long and..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Coffee (And a Shake) For Five: "A retrospecting coffee break" November 15, 2023 "A short cute kinetic(-ish) story about the what are/could/should have been in ChoiceScript. The writing is full of emotion, (unrequited?)..." - See full review

manonamora reviews ADVENTURE PYTHON: "99 monsters on the wall, 99 monsters..." November 15, 2023 "This was a fairly basic adventure game, with a combat/inventory/market system. You fight "monsters", get coins, try to balance your..." - See full review

A new listing for The Secret of Flint Smith, by trexanddrago

A new listing for OBJECT PERMANENCE, by graymeditations

A new listing for Photographs from the Summer of 1987, by casket

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