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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

manonamora reviews Earth IQWXZS Must Die: "One illogical flick away from destruction" August 26, 2023 "As his second entry in the Single Choice Jam, Andrew proposes a maths/logical puzzle with switches. The Earth is set for destruction, but..." - See full review

manonamora reviews my heart, bared.: "A Fallen London Tribute" August 26, 2023 "This is a kinetic entry, with indulgent luscious and delicious prose - a Sophia staple - based on the lore of a specific Fallen London..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Cogito, Ergo Sum: "Are you even if you think?" August 26, 2023 "A being engages with you, creating a secure connection… well trying to. Something is chasing them through the network, trying to take..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Le plaisant jeu du Dodéchédron de Fortune: "Roll a d12 for…" August 25, 2023 "This French entry (one of two for the Single Choice Jam) digitalised and gamified Le Dodéchédron de Fortune, a 13th century book of..." - See full review

A new listing for Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian

Rovarsson reviews Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash: "Urchin Spaghetti" August 25, 2023 "Our dearest foulmouthing lionhearted street urchin Lil' Ragamuffin is in trouble. Again. A gang of maffia goons with a serious case of..." - See full review

A new listing for Epic Prose SE, by Matt Timmermans

A new listing for Epic Prose, by Matt Timmermans

A new Recommended List by manonamora, 2023 - Top 50 short list August 25, 2023 7 items Tentative list for the Top 50 IF of 2023 It will help me remember the games that really did an impact on me... bc I am terrible at remembering titles There is no ranking here. Also not complete. I will add...

manonamora reviews Chinese Family Dinner Moment: "Family Dinners, am I right?" August 25, 2023 "We’ve all been stuck in one of those dinners, the one you don’t want to be at but have to, the one where the host mainly organised it..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Thicket: "Dreams within dreams? or just Confusion galore?" August 25, 2023 "A restless night, a spotted sleep, and strange and almost non-sensical dreams. That is what this self described Twine Dream Simulator is..." - See full review

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 41 votes for 29 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

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