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Mike Russo reviews Shanidar, Safe Return: "Lost in prehistory" December 5, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). Shanidar, Safe Return, has a..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Spingly, games for beginners December 4, 2023 6 items work in progress collection games with built in hints and/or easier puzzles content in this list should be more or less suitable for most ages

A new Recommended List by Spingly, spingly's favourite games December 4, 2023 9 items not too difficult and/or with mechanics or storylines that i found compelling My comments aim to provide a brief summary with rough suitability ratings

Rovarsson reviews LUNIUM: "Keys and cuffs." December 4, 2023 "(Review based on the IFComp version of the game.) Without reading the blurb, I had expectations of a SF or fantasy work in which Lunium..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Detective Osiris: "Murder-solving amongs the Gods" December 4, 2023 "(Review based on the IFComp version of the game.) This title interested me because it brings together two elements that I would not have..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews A Clockwork Noir: "A promising noir mystery" December 4, 2023 "Looked promising till I got hopelessly stuck . A walkthrough or a hint system would have..." - See full review

A new listing for Big Brains in Little Jars, by Ashlee Sierra

MathBrush reviews eurydice exhumed: "Orpheus and Eurydice, with a single choice" December 4, 2023 "This was made for the Single Choice Jam, and it takes that format in a straightforward way. The game has a linear text that spools out..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Vambrace of Destiny: "Pauldron of peril, gorget of glory" December 4, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). It’s probably the dream of most..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Sculptor: "Art vs commerce in a rigged fight" December 4, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). The randomizer, ever playful, gave..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Death on the Stormrider: "Hide-and-seek for your brother's life!" December 3, 2023 "I had a dream: The Doors were performing a sweaty, breathtaking drawn-out version of Riders on the Storm when David Suchet’s finely..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "Woodland Wonder" December 3, 2023 "A very intruiging title. I didn’t know what to expect. The “tricks” part made me think of magicians or wizards at first. The game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lonehouse: "An over-generic take on loss" December 3, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). My wife has a sweatshirt that used..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bali B&B: "Indonesian innkeepery" December 3, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). For all that Bali B&B lives up to..." - See full review

MartynJBull reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Magnificent tense dystopia" December 2, 2023 "“The Archivist watched. The Archivist listened.” And no matter what happens as the game progresses, this is how you always feel...." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode: "An effective argument" December 2, 2023 "I found this game to be an effective argument that the fear that games may be hiding secret hateful content is silly, because games don't..." - See full review

MartynJBull reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Confusing" December 2, 2023 "I played this after playing Pageant by the same author. It’s a very different story and expansive in its ambition. So expansive it’s..." - See full review

A new listing for Grassy Knoll: The JFK Assassination Simulation, by Tom Kidd

MartynJBull reviews Pageant: "A memorable story" December 2, 2023 "I played Pageant after reading the Autumn Chen interview in The Rosebosh IF magazine: https://the-rosebush.com/2023/07/autumn-interview/..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head: "The world's first Muppetvania" December 2, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). Everyone remembers the first time..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Beat Witch: "Effects pedal to the metal" December 2, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). Beat Witch is something I..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Fix Your Mother's Printer: "Light but enjoyable" December 2, 2023 "It had to be a printer. Printers are evil. I'm relatively tech savvy, but the one computer accessory that I look at with trepidation is..." - See full review

Havoc Crow reviews The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky: "Best left forgotten" December 1, 2023 "A simplistic, joke game, with a deliberately dumb premise: you're an "excessively fat imbecile", stuck in a room with no exits and a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews One Does Not Simply Fry: "(Insert LotR pun here)" December 1, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). The 2023 Com doesn't have an entry..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dr Ludwig and the Devil: "Infernal laws" December 1, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I really enjoyed SV Linwood’s..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews One King to Loot them All: "Better than you might expect!" December 1, 2023 "Let me come right out and say I don't like the title of this game. Sure, I get the The Lord of the Rings reference, but, first of all,..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews GameCeption: "Please hold my dynamite" December 1, 2023 "It’s pretty clear from, well, everything that the protagonist is going to be lured into a Battle Royale style game involving real..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Assembly: "Follow the manual" November 30, 2023 "There’s an old chestnut in adventure games: the recipe. You’ve got to make a magic potion, and you have a recipe, and now you have to..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Gestures Towards Divinity: "One of my favourites IFComp 2023 pieces" November 30, 2023 "Recent world events are fairly disheartening and would give a lot of comfort to those who believe that violence is the dominant force in..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Witch: "Underrated puzzle game" November 30, 2023 "I ended up liking The Witch quite a bit more than I started out liking it. It does a lot of stuff early on to make you bounce off of it,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Long Kill: "The war comes home" November 30, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). (Spoilers in this one) What I like..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Library of Knowledge: "A girl and her goat" November 30, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). Oof. Despite being a sucker for..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews All Hands: "Snack sized, but atmospheric" November 30, 2023 "I'm still not sold on Texture. There's the weird bug with the extremely small button text, but let's ignore that. Then there's still the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Shanidar, Safe Return: "Ancestral Haven" November 29, 2023 "A band of Cro-Magnons has raided the camp and killed most of the group. The Neanderthals must run and find a safe haven elsewhere...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hand Me Down: "A new perspective on Grandad's mansion" November 29, 2023 "Ruby’s riding the bus, on her way to the hospital. Her father’s not well at all, and Ruby’s struggling, wanting to see and hug him..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for November 2023 November 29, 2023 8 items On Wednesday, November 29, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make...

Pseudavid reviews My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition: "Design, mechanics and interactions bring life to a deeply felt text" November 29, 2023 "Not in a thousand years I would have thought a mechanism to let this story, or essay, be told as interactive fiction. The exhibition..." - See full review

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

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