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A new listing for Loose Ends, by Daniel Stelzer and Anais Sommerfeld

A new competition page: IntroComp 2023 created September 28, 2023 IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product.

A new listing for Luna Gardens, by Justin Kim

A new listing for CARPETAS: Simulador de Ciencia Forense y Física, by Vicente Torres

Trant Heidelstam reviews Endless, Nameless: "Not for everyone" September 27, 2023 "I had great expectations for this highly-rated game written by a celebrated author, but unfortunately the playing experience was very..." - See full review

Trant Heidelstam reviews Imprisoned: "Freewheeling fantasy" September 27, 2023 "This game is naive, juvenile and with a lot of rough edges. And yet, I had a ton of fun with it. You start as a prisoner being..." - See full review

A new competition page: One Room Game Competition 2007 created September 27, 2023 Nine games in contest: 4 in italian, 5 in english. Authors: thanks very much to all, guys.

A new listing for The Garden Party, by Larry Horsfield

MathBrush reviews Threads of Snow: "A linear narrative of a time traveller in love" September 26, 2023 "This game was entered in several minimal jams, including the Single Choice jam. It is the author's first game. It's a visual novel with..." - See full review

butts frankie reviews Scene Kid Simulator: "it's pretty funny" September 26, 2023 "you'd do well to play it the game is good "

davidinark reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "Still Early in, but 5 Stars for the Laugh!" September 26, 2023 "I love games with and about wordplay, and this has been a joy so far! I am not very far into it yet, but far enough for me to have faced..." - See full review

News on DOL-OS: DOL-OS Remaster and Translation! September 25, 2023 DOL-OS has just been remastered, and is now available in English! It also received quite a bit of polish and added new content... Come dive into the archive of this strange antique computer. Full Devlog

Denk reviews Marika the Offering: "Brief atmospheric horror with good puzzles" September 25, 2023 "(Played online with Parchment) Inspired by Rovarsson's review, I decided to try this old game from 2007. This is an atmospheric 1-room..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Soul in the Stone: "A visual novel about contacting your deceased wife" September 25, 2023 "This visual novel was entered in the Single Choice jam. My overall impression of it varied over time, as at first I thought the story was..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Five Scarabs: "Good interface proof-of-concept" September 25, 2023 "Agnieszka Trzaska is well-known, perhaps even famous, for using choice-based text interfaces to recreate styles of gaming that are more..." - See full review

A new listing for Explore Nocta, by NocturnNo9

Rovarsson reviews Marika the Offering: "Count down..." September 24, 2023 "Immediately upon pressing any button to start, Marika the Offering throws the player into the suspense. A meticulously described room, an..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Jesse Stavro's Compass: "A tedious middle chapter" September 22, 2023 "In one review or other I know I mentioned a game I used to play with my college friends, where we’d try to determine the smallest..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Purple Pearl: "Dual escape" September 22, 2023 "The past couple of years have seen a mini-trend of multiplayer IF, kicked off I think by Milo van Mesdag’s 2021 IFComp entry Last Night..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Finn's Big Adventure: "Endearing but (formerly) buggy" September 22, 2023 "Starting the last of Larry Horsfield’s trifecta of ParserComp entries, I was energized by my success in Bug Hunt on Menelaus – could..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Murder Most Foul: "Funny Wodehouse-y game, shame about the crimes against humanity" September 22, 2023 "I am a sucker for a good Wodehouse pastiche. So when Murder Most Foul introduced its English country house murder plot with prose that..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Late-Imperial Sky Witches Star In: Meet Cute: "An incomplete Gruescript two-hander" September 22, 2023 "Late-Imperial Sky Witches (I guess the short title is more properly “Meet Cute”, but come on, between that and “Late-Imperial Sky..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dream Fears in a nutshell: "Dreamweaver" September 22, 2023 "I’m fairly certain that in some review of some ParserComp game past, I’ve had occasion to muse on the difference between a jam..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cheree: Remembering My Murder: "A robustly built-out chatbot game" September 22, 2023 "Having seen me heap 1,500 words of scorn on The Fortuna for the various crimes arising from its use of AI tools, the reader with a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hinterlands: Delivered!: "One interesting package" September 22, 2023 "I’ve tried to write this metaphor three times now, but it keeps getting away from me. Part of me would love to keep tuning it until I..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Underoos that Ate New York!: "Atomized Inzanity!" September 22, 2023 "In a bid to outperform the silliness of the classic SciFi B-movies from the era of "The Attack of the 50ft Whatever From Outer Space",..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bug Hunt On Menelaus: "Victory!" September 22, 2023 "Folks, I am too excited to bury the lead on this one – after trying and failing with seven or eight of them, I’ve finally won a Larry..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Between the Lines of Fire: "Never trust a writer" September 22, 2023 "The RNG has been getting its laughs in – after putting the two games starting with X together, it also gave me the duo of Adventuron..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Last Mountain: "Run for your life" September 22, 2023 "Here’s one of my pet theories of IF that I’m not sure I’ve written down before: there should be more parser games about sports...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Steal 10 Treasures to Win This Game: "Hunt and peck" September 22, 2023 "Judging from the title, you’d be forgiven for thinking this game would be a forgettable throwback, puzzler where you wander around an..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Xenophobic Opposites, Unite!: "Episcopal puzzling" September 22, 2023 "Andrew Schultz has by this point created quite the collection of IF chess puzzlers – this is I think the fifth one I’ve played and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Xanix - Xixon Resurgence: "Lost in the desert" September 22, 2023 "This is one of three ParserComp entries by the author, which is the kind of work ethic that I feel like I can’t directly comment on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Fortuna: "I for one welcome our new AI overlords" September 22, 2023 "For the past year or so, the IF community has seen numerous conversations about the ethics, efficacy, and prospects for using AI tools..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Search for the Lost Ark: "It belongs in a museum" September 22, 2023 "Here’s one of the iron laws of interactive fiction: you are in good hands with Garry Francis. There may be a few other contemporary..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom: ">Z 'You pause in manly contemplation.'" September 22, 2023 "A good while ago, while sipping frothy ale in a local tavern, I got into a conversation with a large and manly man of the barbarian..." - See full review

A new listing for Gassy Encounters (1.2), by Gassyhentaiboi

pieartsy reviews Something Blue: "Cet homme était unique parce qu’il avait une barbe bleue..." September 21, 2023 "As someone who's a fan of a certain folktale and tabletop roleplaying game riffing off of it, this was a lovely and creepy take on the..." - See full review

A new listing for titanic tourist, by dizzee

A new listing for Isolda's Eyes, by Shadowchaser

A new listing for Spymaster of Tyria: The Thief and the Sorceress, by Stormcage1

A new listing for WWE - RAW's new GM, by A. Bomire

A new listing for Obsolete Stars, by anandra

Tabitha reviews Highnoon: "Quick, fun, clever" September 20, 2023 "I played this because of Porpentine's recommendation in her 2012 interview with Emily Short. To quote her: "Highnoon is a remake of a 42..." - See full review

Paddythemic reviews Party Foul: "Mini Infocom Style" September 20, 2023 "Fun little romp. Manages to feel like a complete game (despite very few rooms) because of it’s lively non-player characters. The..." - See full review

RonFromPgh reviews Violet: "Highly creative and humorous" September 19, 2023 "A super-fun, single-room, relatively short story filled with creative humor and a strong character development (reveal?) that warms your..." - See full review

A new listing for The End is Neigh, by Troels Pleimert and Bjørn Okkels Birk Sundgaard

verityvirtue reviews DEVOTIONALIA: "light a candle for me" September 19, 2023 "play time: 15-20 mins The reader plays the last remaining priest devoted to an unnamed being, whose worship takes the form of daily..." - See full review

A new listing for Try not to die ft. Tibib, by GreenSkunk06

A new Recommended List by Denk, 2023 Alternative Top 100 September 18, 2023 100 items (18sep2023) This is an alternative to other rating based lists with pros and cons in that it allows for games with fewer ratings (5 ratings required) to reach the top of the list which obviously makes their...

GL reviews At The Beach: "Review" September 18, 2023 "my teacher is awesome "

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