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A new Recommended List by Heli N., Heli's favourite games August 31, 2023 16 items Inspired by manonamora's own idea, this list will contain my favourite games until now and will be updated in a regular basis.

A new Recommended List by Heli N., Historical Game Recs August 31, 2023 5 items The list is going to be updated with even more games as I play and review games I find from the IFDB archive.

A new Recommended List by Heli N., High Fantasy Game Recs August 31, 2023 4 items While I continue to play and review games here, I'll continue to update the list with more and more games that belong to this genre.

Heli N. reviews A Mage Reborn: "A Mage BBQ" August 31, 2023 "A Mage Reborn Book 1 is written by Adam Alamsyah and published by Hosted Games, one of the platforms where you can find some of the best..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Gorm: "Gorm - A Large Historical Time Travel Game " August 31, 2023 "Gorm, written by Chris Allen for which he was paid the princely sum of £40 and appearing as a cover disc on a 1994 edition of Achimedes..." - See full review

A new listing for Gorm, by Chris Allen

Andrew Schultz reviews Collision: "Once there was this player who got into an accident" August 31, 2023 "This is one of those "something's up" games. I hope to avoid spoilers in the review proper, but you are in a car, and there is, as the..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Unseemly Virus: "Two full games in one, in under 500 words" August 31, 2023 "Of course, viruses have been a big thing since 2020, what with COVID. It almost made us forget those other viruses that sprang up back in..." - See full review

Passerine reviews Stay?: "An expansive life simulator with magic school" August 31, 2023 "When I first played this game, I’d forgotten what I’d heard about the gameplay, so the main mechanic was a delightful surprise. I..." - See full review

Heli N. reviews Hastings, 1066: Aftermath: "Long live the .... wolf? Martyr, Humiliated dog or Wolf of Freedom" August 31, 2023 "A must-play game for history genre (nerds) players. ..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews You Could Stay Here Forever: "Malls had a mystique once. They still do." August 31, 2023 "This is a story about the last night of a closed mall before it is demolished. You sneak in, hoping to find memories. It’s well done,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Scale: "Have goldfish thoughts, do goldfish things" August 30, 2023 "The Neo Twiny Jam and its word limit were good for mood pieces where, dang it, you don't have to explain yourself, and it would feel..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A/The Gift: "Any gift is better than no gift, right? Right?" August 30, 2023 "This is a short Twine about someone who receives what feels (to me) like an inappropriate, random gift and being quite confused about it...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Sprinklepills!: "It's all fun and games until YOU have to make a cold call in real life!" August 30, 2023 "I remember the author's name looking familiar, and then I realized they'd written a lot of IFDB reviews. I hadn't recalled them writing..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Paper Mache Puppet: "As the title says, you can find your own meaning" August 30, 2023 "This was an entry in Neo Twiny Jam but would clearly also have fit in the Single Choice Jam conducted by the same organizers as well...." - See full review

Laurie N reviews Stay?: "Save the world...when you feel like it" August 30, 2023 "This was a lovely game experience. Usually, when a story buries the lede it doesn't serve it well--in this case, a major hook arriving at..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Weapon: "So many buttons..." August 29, 2023 "Finally! The archeological researchers must have realised they couldn't understand this thing by themselves. After three months in the..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Windmere Estate: "Old School Treasure Hunt " August 29, 2023 "I have not played many Apple II text adventures but having downloaded the AppleWin emulator recently I thought that I would chance my..." - See full review

A new listing for Windmere Estate, by Dennis N. Strong

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for August 2023 August 29, 2023 7 items On Tuesday, August 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 even...

manonamora reviews Boing!: "Break the cycle" August 29, 2023 "This last-submitted parser for the jam is a bit of an intricate puzzle, requiring the player to read the prompts very carefully to find..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Remembrance: "Memories are what matters…" August 29, 2023 "Remembrance is an emotionally charged entry, which follows the player getting ready to put their mother’s ashes to rest. The trip..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Carmine and Charcoal: "A peculiar investigation" August 29, 2023 "In this short game, you are task to find not who but what has been stolen from your client. Following a party where many artists were..." - See full review

A new listing for Carmine and Charcoal, by tapestryjuice

manonamora reviews Blade of the Overlord: "Third time’s the charm!" August 29, 2023 "This entry is the last Visual Novel submitted to the Single Choice Jam, and quite a visual polished one at that. Starting with a short..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A Walk on the Beach: ""Winning" is not the main thing here" August 29, 2023 "Count me among the people who think Tarot cards are nonsense. Perhaps even having a game where you try and find meaning from them is..." - See full review

manonamora reviews A Meeting in the Dark: "A Raw Snippet of the Early Pandemic" August 29, 2023 "As the months pass and people seem to move on from the health crisis that changed the lives of millions, the early days of the pandemic..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Just Listen Up, Kid!: "Lightning Speed Clicking" August 29, 2023 "There’s always an age when kids will start pushing boundaries with their parents, objecting to their decision or sneakily do what they..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Robbery Reverie: "Crime really doesn’t pay…" August 29, 2023 "I will say it outright: this fantasy entry was an absolute delight to play. You are an inexperienced thief breaking in the word possible..." - See full review

manonamora reviews forever, interrupted - interactive fiction version: "An unwinnable fight, but you won’t give up." August 29, 2023 "This entry is a companion piece to "forever, an echo", a short game submitted to the Neo Twiny Jam, a sort of opposite point-of-view to..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Soul in the Stone: "What will you do for love?" August 29, 2023 "This game is a remake of Crawl Back to Me from the same author, but in a visual novel form. You play as Alastair, a gallant knight who..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Strange Geometrical Hinges: "A race against time" August 28, 2023 "Orbiting around the largest moon of our solar system, your ship is in a dire situation, and you are no better. Waking up with missing..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Last Mountain: "ParserComp entry has choice-game feel, in a good way" August 28, 2023 "In The Last Mountain, you are on a multi-day mountain race with a friend, Susan, whom you've raced with before. You're doing pretty well...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Tauvigjuaq: "Post-Apocalyptic Murder Mystery" August 28, 2023 "In a retro black and white UI, Tauvigjuaq send up into a post-nuclear winter future, following a small community of nomads trying to..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes: "Thank the Lord for this hard-won meal." August 28, 2023 "Having a huge number of followers is great when you're the prophet of a new religion, but all those people tend to get hungry and grumpy..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Clarence Street, 14.: "Lost in the shuffle with all the Neo Twiny Jam late entries" August 28, 2023 "Near the end of Neo Twiny Jam, a lot of people submitted games, and my goal of reviewing half the games before the end went kaput. On..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Another Round: "All is Game in Love and Hell" August 28, 2023 "Another Round is by far the chunkiest entry of the Single Choice Jam, clocking over 25k words. Set in a fantastical world where demons..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews vanitas: "Of the bad old days, and bad current days, of social media" August 28, 2023 "For me if something is going to be linear and use effects, it either needs a buildup or payoff. And in vanitas it has both. You can see..." - See full review

A new listing for The Elements, by Andy Lee

Andrew Schultz reviews Dimensions Guardians: The Typewriter: "Obsolescence doesn't make typewriters any less scary" August 28, 2023 "This was a relatively quick Neo Twiny Jam entry without too many choices, but what were there were quite funny. A lot of details aren't..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews letters to a friend: "Taking out the trash, with a side-dish of hope" August 28, 2023 "Bitsy has been a very valuable defense against having too much angst at once from a game. For me it reinforces that the game is not..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, Two-player games created August 27, 2023 7 votes for 6 games IF games for two players

manonamora reviews The 5-Second Simulation: "A Sysiphian Experience" August 27, 2023 "While one the short side, this parser is still much longer than its title promises. Set somewhat like an escape room, you must find three..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Trolley Problem Problem: "Actually, there might be a right answer…" August 26, 2023 "The trolley problem is as old as… well the invention of the trolley. And has plagued everyone with its ethical conundrum: do you act..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Eight Feet Under: "Exterminate..." August 26, 2023 "In Hibernated 1, the protagonist Olivia got some much-needed help in navigating the spaceship from a native extermination robot. Eight..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Seven Steps To Limbo: "A Grim Fandango-esque Concert" August 26, 2023 "In this cinematic VN, you are Player, a drunkard jazz piano player stuck in Limbo, drinking your days away. Paired with three other stuck..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince: "Electric word life" August 26, 2023 "Experimental text adventure in the mould of Heavy Metal magazine's hard-edged sci-fi stories. Crashed spaceships, alien planets,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews eurydice exhumed: "So what happens after?" August 26, 2023 "We all know the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus: man goes to rescue woman, king of the underworld agrees under conditions, rules are broken,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews I Too, Drink Alone: "A Short Poem" August 26, 2023 "This is surely the shortest entry of the jam. Composed 4(well 6) lines about drinking alone. There is a choice to reveal the last two..." - See full review

manonamora reviews My Name Is Soda: "A Conversion with a (Different kind of) Pop" August 26, 2023 "Ever met a drink or a food that could talk to you while you were ingesting it? Me either… but I feel like if I were at a low point in..." - See full review

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