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A new listing for schoolnight, 3am, by ellis dex

A new Recommended List by ellisdex, inspirations November 10, 2023 5 items

A new listing for GUTLESS, by DOMINO CLUB and cecile richard and isyourguy

A new listing for GIRLKILLER (covet), by ellis dex

A new listing for please tell me you love me, by ellis dex

manonamora reviews Bonfire Night: The Black Dog: "Creepy escape, if you manage to, that is.." November 10, 2023 "This is a short but a bit of an obtuse parser (definitely not beginner friendly), working as a survival entry in a creepy cult-like..." - See full review

manonamora reviews A Study of Human Behavior: "Just wait and pass the plate" November 10, 2023 "In an alien abduction sci-fi setting, this game takes on the Game Theory/Prisoner's dilemma, discussing ethics and morals. After a short..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Zombie Eye: Campfire Tales: "Spoopy tales around a camfire goign haywire..." November 10, 2023 "A cute and short parser, with the Dee Cooke (tm) graphics and vibes, a sequel to last year's entry, with simple and limited commands...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Please Leave a Message: "Subtle horror through rambles" November 10, 2023 "This entry took a subtle approach to horror, using the rambling of an older woman through a voice message to her son. Complaining about..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Vampire Gold: "Dying is fun… but in moderation." November 10, 2023 "Dungeon crawlers, my other nemesis. The difficulty of this one is not understated - not for the commands, as it uses the basics cardinal..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Ballyhoo: "The Circus That Nostalgia Forgot" November 9, 2023 "For lack of a better term, let us borrow one from renaissance studies: Ballyhoo is what I would call a "problem" game. At times it is..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Out of Scope: "IFComp 2023: Out of Scope" November 9, 2023 "By the time an old servant slash formerly the imperial admiral patriarch’s mistress slash secret agent from some fractious Balkan..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Dying of the Light: "It hurts. But what else can you do?" November 9, 2023 "This was quite a difficult parser to play, not much because it is a parser (and those are usually difficult for me), but more so because..." - See full review

manonamora reviews ConfigurationUploader: "Don't use programs you don't understand..." November 9, 2023 "When I saw the game pop up on my feed, I honestly thought Autumn had built a new program and had just uploaded a legit but bare..." - See full review

manonamora reviews YOUNGBLOOD; YELLOWBELLY: "Now I'm hungry..." November 9, 2023 "You know how cooking blogs have those insanely long recipe posts, in which they talk about their whole life, often mentioning things that..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Ah Lim's Chicken Rice, #01-08A: "Heart-pincher" November 9, 2023 "While quite short, this entry was very effective in conveying feelings of sadness, griefs, and longing, as well as joy and hope, even if..." - See full review

manonamora reviews GUT THE MOVIE: "Silly, chaotic, loads of fun!" November 9, 2023 "Silly games are my favourite kind, especially the ones that know that the premise is silly and continue to go full speed ahead towards..." - See full review

A new listing for Thank You For Your Inquiry, by Louphole

MathBrush reviews El último Baile: "A branching adventure about a deadly dance" November 8, 2023 "This short Petite Mort ectocomp game features a branching narrative written in 4 hours. Despite its short creation time, it manages to be..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Gateway to Karos: "Derek Haslam's Excellent Expanded RISC OS Version Of An Old Acornsoft Game" November 8, 2023 "I have just finished play testing Derek Haslam's new version of this game for RISC OS emulators. Thirty-nine years after the original..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Loneliest House: "An eerie voyeuristic languished gaze at an abandonned house" November 8, 2023 "This is a short parser letting the players use only one command: examine (X / L), where the point is to examine the abandoned house, and..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Author and its characters: "Meta-Philosophical musing" November 8, 2023 "This kinetic bitsi is more of a meta/philosophical musing about creative writing (or creating in general) and an author/creator's..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Forever and Ever: "There's no good choice here." November 8, 2023 "This game might be short and concise, but it is quite well-written, impactful and heartbreaking. From the start, there is something not..." - See full review

manonamora reviews InGirum_French: "Un Jeu impressionant qui fait froid dans le dos!" November 8, 2023 "Utilisant le motif de jeu dans un jeu, avec des commentaires d’un narrateur (génial, la voix~!) et une interface de vieil ordi qui..." - See full review

manonamora reviews InGirum_English: "A building chokehold making for an incredile multi-media game" November 8, 2023 "This was an incredible game. Using the framing of a game within a game, it taps into the creepypasta vibes and lost content, by adding..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Travesuras de estudiantes: "Procedurally generated (?) game about students torturing a professor" November 7, 2023 "Every year when I play Spanish Ectocomp I encounter a game by this author and it's always wild. They usually have 3d models that are in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Monte de las Ánimas (2023): "A Spectrum CYOA game based on a famous short story" November 7, 2023 "This is one of two games entered in the Spanish Ectocomp Grand Guignol that use a ZX Spectrum emulator to make CYOA games controlled by..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El Virulé, segunda parte: Padre: "The origin story for a singing traveller and his demons" November 7, 2023 "Last year, when I played El Virulé (part one), I had a lot of trouble understanding it. It was written in what I would consider advanced..." - See full review

AKheon reviews The Vambrace of Destiny: "A well-presented dungeon crawl" November 7, 2023 "The Vambrace of Destiny is a parser-based IF by Arthur DiBianca, published for IFComp 2023. The game is a dungeon crawler with a very..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews BILLIE NIGHT: "Graphical 'gauntlet' game fighting (and dating) zombie Michael Jackson" November 7, 2023 "I played this game in Spanish. It's made for the Spectrum platform, and is designed with a ton of retro graphics, many of them consisting..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Chasquidos: "The beginning of a big 1800's horror mystery" November 7, 2023 "This is an excellent Twine game...for a little bit. Then it ends, unfinished. This game places you in the role of a detective in the..." - See full review

A new listing for Please do not climb on the dinosaurs, by A.K

MathBrush reviews Esbozo de feto investigando crimen: "Fetus vs mother, plus detective shenanigans" November 7, 2023 "This is a bizarre little game. You are a fetus who is superintelligent and a detective. You have a very low opinion of your mother...." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Gooooooood Dog Show: "Surrealist Insanity" November 7, 2023 "This game is downright absurd and really anchored in surrealism. I first played it when the Italian version was only available, relying..." - See full review

manonamora reviews SpeedRead: "A different way to display text" November 7, 2023 "This was a very short game to show off the mechanic rather than a story. Words flash on the screen one by one, testing your reading..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Diana and Vega: "a lo-fi game to relax to" November 7, 2023 "The game describes itself as a 'lo-fi game to relax to', and it does not lie! From the interface and its calming palette, the background..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Trial: "Creepy puzzle with rogue-like vibes" November 7, 2023 "This played like a dungeon crawler/rogue-like, with a puzzle determining your fate. There is a specific order to interact with the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Eyes Open: "Interesting moody set up" November 7, 2023 "Though it is an incomplete story (you are warned on the game page), there is something pretty intriguing with the premise. The game sets..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Meurtre dans la Station Spatiale: "Uncover a murder on the space station" November 6, 2023 "This is a pretty complex game entered in Ectocomp Grand Guignol edition. The same game is also entered in Petite Mort, where it was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Meurtre dans la station spatiale - 4h: "Investigate a space station murder from multiple perspectives" November 6, 2023 "This is a pretty complex game entered in Ectocomp Petite Mort edition. The same game is also entered in Grand Guignol, where it was..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Confectioner's Atelier: "A delightful 15min" November 6, 2023 "This was such a fun and quick treat. A very cozy game where you gather around ingredients to create treats for customers. The gameplay is..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Blink: "Prototype with potential" November 6, 2023 "This game was build in a time-cave type of branching (each choice branches out, potentially to an ending), which means quite many endings..." - See full review

manonamora reviews ruin: "Lovely for poetry lovers..." November 6, 2023 "This game rest heavily on vibes and poetic prose, with loosely connected spaces, rather than a more traditional story with a clear start..." - See full review

manonamora reviews skinner: "Lie detector test, but for your humanity" November 6, 2023 "In a quite Blade Runner vibe, you are tasked to assess whether the person in front of you is a human or an android. Others trust your..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Larp and Monty's Metamorphies: "A delightful approach to Kafka's Metamorphosis" November 6, 2023 "If you've read Kafka The Metamorphosis, you should have an idea of the ride you're about to embark. But rather than taking a bleak modern..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Dying of the Light: "Heartbreakingly effective" November 5, 2023 "This game hurts, but in the best way--capturing a little slice of what it's like to be someone else, in this case someone experiencing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 30 Dreams in 31 days: "A Spanish game made of 30 nightmares in Binksi" November 5, 2023 "This game was made in conjunction with Inktober, which means the author made one part of it every day of the month of October. So there..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews InGirum_French: "A French 'lost game' game with voice acting" November 5, 2023 "This game isn't the usual sort of thing I review. While it firmly falls into the category of what I think of as interactive fiction (due..." - See full review

A new listing for 谐恶力量 puncrime, by alpacanist

manonamora reviews Lid Astray: "Blink, don't blink, oh no you blinked at the wrong time!" November 5, 2023 "This game had a very creative take on the blinking theme, using the player actually blinking to affect the gameplay, via your webcam and..." - See full review

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