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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

manonamora reviews Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "Insane feat for a first game!" November 15, 2023 "M:REU is a large parser game, reminiscent of the old Infocom era, and very much a love letter to the original HHGG game and the HHGG..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Vambrace of Destiny: "A fun dungeon adventure!" November 15, 2023 "The Vambrace of Destiny is a dungeon crawler adventure, with limited commands and filled with puzzles. You must go through the different..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Into The Lion's Mouth: "Here kitty, kitty..." November 15, 2023 "Into The Lion's Mouth is a relatively short game about being stuck in a very unfortunate situation, in the middle of the Savannah,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head: "Five Nights at Freddies, but make it IF" November 15, 2023 "Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head is quite a long entry mixing the heist genre with horror tropes, with a focus on puppetry, and a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews For Eternity, Again and Again: "Confusing vagueness" November 15, 2023 "For Eternity, Again and Again is a quite short entry, about love, unbending fate, and rebirth. The entry plays on the trope of immortal..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Beat Witch: "Woah." November 15, 2023 "A crazy story with some extremely vivid moments (the bridge of bodies, falling, and the immediate aftermath with LIVE. I loved that.) and..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews The Gift of What You Notice More: "I hope I noticed everything, because I wish there was more" November 15, 2023 "A game about a break up. With interesting animals reflecting your thoughts. A beautiful piece, with nice writing. This game has brought..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "Not just tricky - also mesmerising " November 15, 2023 "This game I really enjoyed. Long, interesting messages in a gruescript parser, it was interesting and peaceful. I liked the story and..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Lake Starlight: "Maybe better than I considered, but still..." November 15, 2023 "This game has a nice premise, with you being sent off the camp by your grandmother. Classic. However, this one takes it differently, in a..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title: "Prince Quisborne really shook the "feckless"!" November 15, 2023 "I beta tested this game, but that doesn't change how I feel about this game! Now, this game is a massive, puzzly exploration through a..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Into The Lion's Mouth: "And what a mouth this lion has" November 15, 2023 "Personally, this was not one of my favourite games, but it was still interesting. The way you kept going forward and backward between..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Assembly: " I know everyone's at: IKEA!" November 15, 2023 "This game is very, very fun. I liked the creating of different objects in certain places to get past obstacles, and the weird cultists!..." - See full review

AKheon reviews CODENAME OBSCURA: "Old school puzzle adventuring in Italy" November 14, 2023 "Codename Obscura is a parser-based IF made by Mika Kujala, published during IFComp 2023. In this story, you are a secret agent in Italy..." - See full review

Sean Huxter reviews POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family: "Harsh reality for so many" November 14, 2023 "I was not raised by any kind of Conservative family. Ours was a church-going family, but never pushed it on anyone, including me. But in..." - See full review

Sean Huxter reviews the mountain is as it always was: "A poignant story of love and loss" November 14, 2023 "First, let me say that the one-bit art brought me back to my roots, drawing on my Commodore 64. Simple but effective imagery that evokes..." - See full review

A new listing for Roma Tenebris, by voidrim

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