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Drew Cook reviews Spellbreaker: "Sticks the Landing" August 24, 2023 "I suppose many people think excellence is a zero sum game. It sometimes seems that one must pick between Trinity and A Mind Forever..." - See full review

Plotalot reviews Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition: "Totemally magic" August 24, 2023 "I haven't played the Balderstone game from which Skuga Lake has been upgraded, so I can say that this definitely shines as a standalone..." - See full review

Nomad reviews The Awakening: Prologue to the Saturn Chronicles: "Meh." August 24, 2023 "Story: The prologue of the The Awakening series (that never came to life) doesn't have much of a story. You start in an every day..." - See full review

A new listing for The strange case of Walter Donovan, by Antonsimone Donato

manonamora reviews Mirror Girl: "Consequential Choice?" August 24, 2023 "Unlike most entries in the Single Choice Jam, Mirror Girl offers the player the choice at the start of the game. A binary choice before..." - See full review

manonamora reviews "I am inventing all this and it is about to disappear, but it does not”: "A somewhat meta meditation…" August 24, 2023 "My first thought after playing this game was: “what the frick did I read?” Then: “I wonder what the other soda do…” And..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Ranaway: "A short kinetic parser" August 24, 2023 "I think this was the first time I’ve ever encountered a kinetic parser. Following the Single Choice rules, you can only do one specific..." - See full review

A new poll by Kastel, Games exploring trauma and other messy subject matter created August 24, 2023 36 votes for 27 games Looking for, as Nathalie Lawhead puts it, art caught between “everything is horrible”, “everything is survivable”, and “this is too hard to talk about”. I'm interested in how people explore the...

manonamora reviews Knight With a Message: "The only way I will play chess" August 24, 2023 "I like things with logics and rules, and doing things strategically, so you’d think chess should be right up my alley. But nope… the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Goncharov: "A small taste of unreality" August 23, 2023 "While this was probably one of the shortest entry of the Single Choice Jam, its subject matter has a special place in my heart (having..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Zenith: "A climb of faith…" August 23, 2023 "Before you is a seemingly neverending tower, a mark of a different time, rising up the the heavens. Few can claim they’ve reached its..." - See full review

manonamora reviews A Beef with the Chimichurri Steak: "What a twisted meal…" August 23, 2023 "Your relationship with your husband is at best rocky, and at worst… Tonight won’t be as different, and yet, nothing will ever be the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!: "Martian Sunrise" August 23, 2023 "Don't you hate it when you've let yourself be captured by your nemesis, got into his latest death-trap for his amusement (and that of the..." - See full review

A new listing for Le Lyon de la révolution, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for À la recherche de la fleur en or, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for À la recherche de ton ballon perdu, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for Drôle de Samedi !, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for Une visite au Zoo, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for Comment devenir un héros, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for La sorcière du temple maudit, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for La maison du docteur Folibus, by Thierry Gangloff

A new listing for Le mystère des lunettes, by Thierry Gangloff

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold: "A mirror to the fire inside of me" August 23, 2023 "Each Little Match Girl game has been getting more and more elaborate, so inevitably The Little Match Girl 3 is a giant, open-world..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens: "Fire and forget" August 23, 2023 "A traditional sequel in the Hollywood style: everything people liked about the original but more and bigger. Locations are more..." - See full review

jakomo reviews How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires: "Burn baby burn" August 23, 2023 "The Little Match Girl: Wordle Edition. No fetch quests this time, just variations on the en vogue Hangman-meets-Mastermind word games...." - See full review

jakomo reviews How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin: "I bring you fire, I'll take you to burn" August 23, 2023 "Structurally very similar to the first game: more fetch quests, more fun NPCs, more wildly imaginative locales to explore. This..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "Twisted firestarter" August 23, 2023 "The "classic fairytale re-imagined" is one of the most heavily over-represented genres in IF, but when Ryan Veeder does it, you pay..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews 500 Word Hotel Escape: "Oversleeping's the worst, man" August 23, 2023 "500 Word Hotel Escape is about what you'd expect. It's not a huge hotel. But you overslept on the final day of vacation, and now it's..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Concerto of Life 3rd Mvt.: "Hi, Tie, Bye" August 23, 2023 "Well, you got three 500-word entries in the Neo Twiny Jam, and the moderators gave the author their blessing to write entries as sequels..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Just a normal Human: ""How do you do, fellow normal homo sapiens?"" August 23, 2023 "Ah, fitting in. All sorts of works can be written on it. How to do so. How fitting in may actually be bad. How it was nice, but you need..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Inimitable: "Would you take the deal?" August 23, 2023 "Invited to a fancy party, you are given the opportunity to take part in a strange game. One you would refuse, but which could award you..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Threads of Snow: "Monologue of recollection" August 23, 2023 "This small game is a kinetic visual novel, where, unable to find sleep, you confess your deepest secret to your resting (unconscious)..." - See full review

A new listing for Dialog for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, by Roman Komarchev

manonamora reviews Toast: "To burn, or not to burn…" August 22, 2023 "… that is the ultimate question. A slice of toast in hand, you are faced with this conundrum at the start of the game: will you cast..." - See full review

manonamora reviews If You Had One Shot: "There is no UNDO command in life…" August 22, 2023 "If You Had One Shot is my favourite kind of parser out there: simple, short, and you will always reach the end. So short even, you can be..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Yandere-chan: "Obsession and delusion" August 22, 2023 "A cosplaying fan of a yandere anime strikes up a conversation with you at a con, remarking your resemblance to a major character of that..." - See full review

A new listing for EROSTASIS, by DOMINO CLUB and candle and Beck Michalak

A new listing for Dream Tube, by Sorrowful Maiden and Australian Dave

manonamora reviews At the Poison's Edge: "Confront your… lover?" August 21, 2023 "This short VN starts with a bang… or more accurately, poison. Realising what your lover may have done, you go onto confront him, and..." - See full review

manonamora reviews THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BLOOD MOON: "Visceral and gratuitous" August 21, 2023 "You were kidnapped by a stranger, for a reason unknown to you. And you are currently strapped to a chair, while the stranger essentially..." - See full review

ElTrip reviews What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: "Incredible Gothic Horror" August 21, 2023 "The less you know about this game going into it, the better. However, I will say that the atmosphere created by the game surpassed my..." - See full review

manonamora reviews What They Don't Know: "… can still hurt them." August 21, 2023 "Setting the stage at the Highchester estate, where a widow, the Lady of the house, trains her only daughter, Chelle, to take on the..." - See full review

A new listing for Ranaway, by TrexandDrago Development

manonamora reviews The thoughts crossing my mind. And the ones stuck: "The jar that keeps on filling…" August 21, 2023 "Seeing the news, it sometimes feels like the world is a shitty place, and things keep getting worse. It’s not hard to drown in negative..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Girls' Day: "Looking down memory lane" August 21, 2023 "This short entries flips through a photo album, with the narrator commenting on the different pictures and how much has changed since the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Last Notebook: "A strange reveal..." August 21, 2023 "TLN is a kinetic piece, a sort of small sequel to the Shadow Realm, another game from this author. The story follows NBQ, a side..." - See full review

Laurie N reviews Vespertines: "Vespertines Review" August 21, 2023 "What first attracted me to this game as I browsed through the interactive fiction tag on itch was the banner art. It's dynamic--the color..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Chinese Family Dinner Moment: "A true-blue hard-core Single Choice Jam entrant" August 21, 2023 "The Single Choice Jam allowed for one actual choice of branches, with the rest being just pushing through with the equivalent of "next."..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews What They Don't Know: "Perspective gives enlightement, if not happiness" August 21, 2023 "What They Don't Know, as part of the Single Choice Jam, gives the player three options at the start: that of Lady Highchester, who..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Little Glass Slipper: "This is no happy ending…" August 21, 2023 "Do not get fooled by the pastel pink palette, and the child-like font. This game is much darker than it looks, and it is not afraid to..." - See full review

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