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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

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

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