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Andrew Schultz reviews Escape From Summerland: "You'll like the emoticons here. No, really." September 11, 2023 "I feel Escape from Summerland may be underrated because it didn't get the IFComp reception it could have -- the authors were in a time..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Remembrance: "A science fiction musing on death and family relationships" September 11, 2023 "This game in the Single Choice Jam focuses on a single emotional moment. You are on a space station and are preparing for your mother's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Carmine and Charcoal: "An alchemical riddle mystery" September 11, 2023 "This game was entered into the Single Choice jam. It's a long choice-based game with an elaborate setup and worldbuilding. You are part..." - See full review

dubya_a reviews Alco's Infinity: "cool world-building, futurism" September 11, 2023 "Very cool world-building. Very cool use of voice, of non-audible communication. If you're looking for something that is innovative,..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Small World: "He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon..." September 11, 2023 "That's odd... The miniature globe you got from your great-aunt for your tenth birthday is stuck. It doesn't spin anymore. You lean in..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Changes: "Great story, tough start, tough end" September 11, 2023 "Changes may have the most creative story from IFComp 2012: you wake up in the body of a rabbit, but with the mind of a human. This isn't..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Purple Pearl: "Teamwork in a fishbowl" September 11, 2023 "Milo van Mesdag opened the Pandora's Box of two-player interactive fiction. It explored themes of oppression and war, pitting two..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Bug Hunt On Menelaus: "A nice intro to the Horsfieldverse. Wish there were more!" September 11, 2023 "I confess I've never really gotten into Larry Horsfield's work. Based on this, perhaps I should, or at least try to chip away at one of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Paint!!!: "Madcap humor, worth poking through if nothing else" September 11, 2023 "There are some jokes which are Not Your Thing but still give you a chuckle. David Whyld's games are like that for me. I prefer my humor..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Real Me (Neo-Twiny Jam 2023): "Quick reflections on being oneself" September 11, 2023 "The author wrote two vignettes for Neo Twiny Jam, and although A Crown of Ash was a more evocative title, The Real Me lasted with me a..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Molesworth: "Save the world, but not from the Mekon" September 10, 2023 "On reading that there was a text adventure called Molesworth I held out high hopes that it was about Nigel Molesworth, hero of Geoffrey..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Solarium: "Nuclear holocaust with a side dose of spiritualism" September 10, 2023 "Solarium struck me as immediately technically impressive when I saw it rolled out in IFComp. It presents itself as a sort of alchemy..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews King Arthur's Night Out: "In which Arthur does not channel Sir Galahad" September 10, 2023 "Mikko Vuorinen's The Adventures of the President of the United States was about a president who just got bored of the responsibilities..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Chasing: "Show hidden virtues, find hidden horses" September 10, 2023 "The Chasing is remarkably low-key for a game with such a title--there's no way to lose the chase! And it's unusual without being weird...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews World Builder: "Memories of ClubFloyd, but more" September 9, 2023 "From 2011 to 2012, I remember ClubFloyd being a very busy and welcoming place when I managed to visit. There were the Apollo games and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Zyll: "Not quite ex-Zyll-erating" September 9, 2023 "When I wrote guides at GameFAQs, I had this silly goal of writing one guide for each letter. Z was always going to be a toughie. I'd seen..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Danger Mouse in the Black Forest Chateau: ""Jolly Good Show, DM." / "Actually, Colonel, it's a jolly good computer game."" September 9, 2023 "Danger Mouse was, and still is, a wonderfully spontaneous cartoon that can be appreciated by kids and adults alike. I always hoped one..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Tough Beans: ""my lousy job, apartment, *and* relationship" ... is not lousy" September 9, 2023 "While I enjoyed the author's work Mite enough to wonder about her other works, the name Tough Beans made me cringe. It's not offensive or..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Life of Puck: "For those of us who'd never want a rat as a pet" September 9, 2023 "Neo Twiny Jam was a good time to explore and try things quickly, without going into the weeds. And many authors did, often exploring..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Hunting Lodge: "Lodge hunts you, sort of" September 9, 2023 "The Hunting Lodge was a shocking shift from the author's IFComp 2012 entry In a Manor of Speaking, submitted for EctoComp one month..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews metastasis: "No confetti or surprise party awaits." September 9, 2023 "metastasis shows that retro or bare-bones feel, a fixed-width font as you describe things clinically, the cursor slowly moving left to..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Bored of the Rings: "Not high art, despite chunks of drug humor" September 8, 2023 "The Commodore 64 text adventure Bored of the Rings (BotR) is an offshoot of Harvard Lampoon's great satire book of the same name. It..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Grue: "So that's how the other side feels!" September 8, 2023 "You actually didn't kill too many grues in the Zork games. Maybe none. You just shone a light on them, and they scattered. Here, you are..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews 50 Shades of Jilting: "Wearying near the end, fun until then. Like the relationship!" September 7, 2023 "Aisle clones have been done before, of course. I did one I'm glad I did, but I'm not going to show it to anyone as an example of my..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Frog: "One way to keep under 500 words? Axe the dialogue!" September 7, 2023 "Neo Twiny Jam inspired quite a few entries where protagonists interacted with pets, or where you were an animal. It's not hard to see..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Impostor Syndrome: "These things happen, and we really can't just say "these things happen."" September 7, 2023 "Reading this back in 2013, I felt this piece was a bit too rough or raw. But I couldn't put my finger on what I would do better. It feels..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Machine of Death: "I wouldn't want to know. I think." September 7, 2023 "We've all read a story about someone who was told how they were going to die, took steps to avoid it, and had it happen anyway. Or that..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A boat ride.: "Ah, so THAT's what's REALLY funny about the whole situation..." September 7, 2023 "At the start this just looks like another story about meeting a shade rowing a boat on a river. The river and the shade's identity will..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews On the Farm: "The lonely windmill." September 7, 2023 "It's been ages since you went to visit your grandparents on their old farm. Old, as in barren and empty. Old age and debts forced them to..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Red Door Yellow Door: "Like a David Lynch film in its most unsettling moments" September 7, 2023 "Looking over my review of the last Charm Cochran game I played, You May Not Escape!, I now think I may have lowballed it: While I..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!: "Not a Ren and Stimpy tribute, but plenty absurd" September 6, 2023 "I'd have played Yak Shaving sooner, but for whatever reason, I fixated on that Ren and Stimpy episode I remembered that wasn't one of my..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews the happiness jar: "You can't bottle happiness, or can you?" September 6, 2023 "THJ is a short reflection on what it means to be happy, or at least to try to be. Of course there are people who will pontificate "don't..." - See full review

NMCannon reviews Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood: "Eye-opening game on how vampires suck!" September 6, 2023 "This game LIT up my brain! I've played many Choice of Games and Vampire: the Masquerade titles, and my brain will dwell on VtM: Out for..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Edenia: "Do you truly want to learn why?" September 6, 2023 "Edenia is a dry sci-fi game, set on some strange planet, where you play some sort of humanoid character afflicted with strange..." - See full review

IFDB site news September 6, 2023 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Search by days Renamed “Downloads” to “External Links” Made it easier to ask the moderation team to delete games

IFDB site news September 6, 2023 Search by days: published:30d- searches for games published within the last 30 days. published:90d-30d searches for games published within the last 90 days, but more than 30 days ago.

IFDB site news September 6, 2023 Renamed “Downloads” to “External Links”: IFDB doesn’t store files, so we hope that by renaming this section, it will make it clearer what we do.

IFDB site news September 6, 2023 Made it easier to ask the moderation team to delete games: Now you can click “Delete This Page” on any game. We’ll ask you to give a reason why the game should be deleted, and IFDB will send an email to our team for review. (Our team is all volunteers, so please be patient!)

manonamora reviews Capitaine Chavire (ou les déboires d'un matou sur la Mer de Lait): "An adventure of a lifetime (literally)" September 6, 2023 "Filled with cat-puns and light humour, Capitaine Chavire ships you on an adventure of a lifetime (potentially literally). After setting..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Friar Bacon's Secret: "Oh, man. What would Miles think of a full-fledged microwave? Or computer?" September 6, 2023 "FBS was written for ToasterComp, where the rules were: implement a toaster, and don't call it that. This opens the door for, well, the..." - See full review

A new poll by Max Fog, CCTV cameras at the heart of it created September 6, 2023 12 votes for 9 games I'm looking for a game that uses CCTV cameras (or surveillance of some kind) as an important part of the game.

Andrew Schultz reviews My Evil Twin: ""I look exactly like myself."" September 6, 2023 "The review title is the response to X ME in My Evil Twin. But it also clues a roadblock later in the game. Because of your evil twin, it..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Look Around the Corner: "It's escape the room but actually there are 2 rooms" September 6, 2023 "Look Around the Corner has one gimmick, but it's an effective one, because it helps open up a bit more story. You get up from your bed,..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Marie Waits: "Truly torn" September 6, 2023 "I have a pet theory that Americans who call themselves Anglophiles are kind of like people who say they love movies: We all love movies..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Conduit of the Crypt: ""Better luck next century." = better than any timed text." September 5, 2023 "CotC dropped very late in Neo Twiny Jam. On the heels of One Word Warlock and Curse of the Bat's Tomb and Tiny Barbarian's Big Adventure,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Puddles on the Path: "It's the journey that matters. Are we on the same page?" September 5, 2023 "Anssi Räisänen's games together really mark out a lot of territory. No one is particularly big, but they range from fantasy to realism,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Moquette: "People-watching and self-reflection on public transport" September 5, 2023 "Just looking at a map of the London Underground leaves me a bit dizzy. All those colors, all those loops, all those stations! Chicago is..." - See full review

manonamora reviews La Tempête: "There is always something you forget to do before a storm" September 5, 2023 "A powerful storm is coming, and you might not have forgotten to fully prepare for it. You expect some damage, but can you avoid it? You..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews More: "A mattress landscape would've been too on-the-nose." September 5, 2023 "This feels like it might be a mood piece at first. You wade through a few rooms of dead household appliances, repeating a story about a..." - See full review

Adam Cadre reviews Delightful Wallpaper: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #15" September 5, 2023 "Alex Hoffer and I discuss Delightful Wallpaper at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXXga3fmxc&t=1058s"

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