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Cory Roush reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "Not a long way to a masterpiece!" May 21, 2023 "The game is written in a superb style, with descriptive prose and realistic dialogue. The writing balances between humorous and poignant,..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Moquette: "An accurate ride through the London Underground that should've had more" May 21, 2023 "Moquette is an interesting title that is best described as a sparse simulation with a rather confusingly written narrative slapped onto..." - See full review

A new listing for Their Time in This World, by Kastel

A new Recommended List by doodlelogic, My Personal Fave Twine Games May 20, 2023 13 items Just a list of Twine games that I rated 4 or 5 stars, in alphabetical order.

A new Recommended List by doodlelogic, My Personal Fave Parser Games May 20, 2023 20 items Just a list of parser-based games that I rated 4 or 5 stars, in alphabetical order.

Denk reviews The Life of a Lone Electron: "Puzzly comedy in the early 90s UK hobby style (PAW / DAAD)" May 19, 2023 "I was intrigued by the title of this game in the 90s Adventure Probe but couldn't play it because I did not have a ZX Spectrum. Now, many..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Denk, Best criminal investigations May 19, 2023 12 items Usually whodunits but any criminal investigation fits on this list. These are my favorites.

Heli N. reviews The Rye in the Dark City: "Something smells fishy or rather cakey in Dark City" May 19, 2023 "The Rye in the Dark City is a game entry for the Seedcomp that was organized this year. It's yet to be finished as of the time of this..." - See full review

Hikari Starshine reviews Prison Blues: "A product of its time" May 19, 2023 "IFDB spelunking fed me this game, so I went on a journey to find it and play it. It turns out that Simon Avery released all of his early..." - See full review

A new listing for Where is everyone?, by Gareth Meyrick

A new Recommended List by lyda01, Finished Games May 18, 2023 3 items

News on Repeat the Ending: Post-Festival Content Now Live at IFDB! May 18, 2023 The latest version of Repeat the Ending, along with all extra content, is now available from the game's main page. Additionally, the "play online" button is operational. Here's an inventory: - Release 3 of... - Details

News on The Archivist and the Revolution: Update: version 2.0, postmortem May 18, 2023 Version 2.0, the post-competition version, has been released on itch.io. See the updates here. A postmortem is also available here.

Hikari Starshine reviews I am sorry for destroying the world: "Uncomfortable and minimally interactive" May 18, 2023 "This is the only one of Kronosaurus's games that still exists in a 'public' and playable state, having been backed up on Archive.org..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Magic Circle: "Very short with 1.5 puzzles" May 18, 2023 "This surreal sci-fi game is very short and straight forward except the main puzzle but it would be a spoiler to say more. Fine for a 5..." - See full review

A new listing for The Magic Circle, by Patrick Crosmun

A new listing for Antarctica, by Daniel Revenga (DaReInt)

Wynter reviews Structural Integrity: "Will the building fall apart, or your relationship?" May 17, 2023 "This falls into the genre of slice-of-life relationship-based stories, centring on a disagreement between a couple and how it ties into..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Red Door Yellow Door: "Creepy gameplaying with an innovative narrative style" May 17, 2023 "Four girls are playing a kind of Bloody Mary-style psychological/supernatural game, in which one of them enters another world: just how..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Etiolated Light: "Well-lit Gothic" May 17, 2023 "A short/medium-length Twine narrative about being pushed into an early marriage with the child of a strange, wealthy couple, and going to..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark: "Not one story but many" May 17, 2023 "This is a solid branching-narrative Twine story which begins with trying (and mostly failing) to get to sleep at night. It’s got a kind..." - See full review

A new poll by Marco Innocenti, Parser games with WOW moments. created May 17, 2023 33 votes for 22 games Vote for parser games (in all of history) that had incredible Wow moments, twists, or whatever made you think for ages or left you seriously amazed. As an example “that moment” in Spider and Web. Please...

ccpost reviews Choice of Alexandria: "Too-fast historical game in an extremely compelling setting" May 17, 2023 "As a librarian by day, I was extremely excited to dive into this game. I also adore Kevin Gold's other near-future Choice of Games title,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Write or Reflect?: "Working out a writing puzzle, bit by bit" May 17, 2023 "This is a Python-based game. It asked me to install colorama, which seemed to work, but then in command prompt my colors didn't show up,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Secret of the Black Walrus: "Cool new system with a victorian detective thriller" May 17, 2023 "This game uses a custom Javascript system that is similar to Twine or Choicescript in that you click from a variety of buttons to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Mamertine: "Cool twine world model demo with confusing plot/layout" May 17, 2023 "This game is a demo for a Twine engine that lets you pick up things, move around, open things, etc. The system works pretty well for me..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Stygian Dreams: "A vorple exploration of greek mythology" May 17, 2023 "This is an experimental, somewhat unpolished game entered in the back garden of Spring Thing. As an experiment, I think it works, but it..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Withering Gaze of the Earth: "An undead hybrid tries to kill their mother" May 17, 2023 "This game is heavily centered on world-building. It's a Twine game and it's focused on you, a person who is not quite alive and not quite..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Sacred Shovel of Athenia: "Learn to be kind to a cat!" May 17, 2023 "This is a cute little game made together as a family. Your goal is to retrieve the Sacred Shovel of Athenia, which is stuck in the road...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Beat Me Up Scotty: "Enter variations on a single phrase to pass through silly scenarios" May 17, 2023 "This is a wordplay game centered on the phrase 'Beam me up Scotty'. You play as Captain Kirk, and gameplay consists of the presentation..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Marie Waits: "A brief exploration- and conspiracy-heavy parser game" May 17, 2023 "The first Marie game, Pre-Marie, was the first Adventuron game I ever played, and it gave me a good impression. This one fleshes out the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark: "Branching gameplay of goofy stories" May 17, 2023 "This game is almost a pure 'time cave', a style of game structure that was popular with a lot of paper CYOA books. Basically every choice..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews I Am Prey: "Cat and mouse with varying level of difficulties" May 17, 2023 "This game has a lot more in common with roguelikes than standard IF gameplay (unless I've deeply misunderstood roguelikes). There is a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King: "An amusing over the top fantasy game" May 17, 2023 "This game pokes fun at fantasy tropes with a lot of silly dialogue and 4th wall breaking. You (Elftor the Elf) and your manservant..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Aesthetics Over Plot: "A goofy game about business networking" May 17, 2023 "This is a relatively brief Twine game with some silly/goofy humor in it. It seems like the main goal is just to get the reader to laugh,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia: "Entertaining and thrilling art thefts with expanded cast of characters" May 17, 2023 "This is the third Lady Thalia game; the series in general focuses around a three-pronged conversation system where you take different..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Protocol: "Dense, rich imagery about escaping a space station" May 17, 2023 "This game revolves around a protagonist who wakes up in what feels like a wrong body, with wrong memories, and everything hurts. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Nothing Could be Further From the Truth: "A sprawling lab, dystopian murder government, and you" May 17, 2023 "This game is a hefty Inform 7 parser game set in a bunker city in the planet of Venus, with a horribly dystopian government where the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Galaxy Jones: "A sci-fi action adventure on Mars!" May 17, 2023 "This is a well-designed parser game, with some nice visuals and a compact design that lets it be played in an hour or two. You play as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Familiar: "A sweet story about a familiar crow saving its witch mistress" May 17, 2023 "This is an Adventuron game with some good pixel art and intended for beginners. Your mistress, a witch, has been hexed by a wizard, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Repeat the Ending: "A fictional game-within-a-game with fictional metacommentary" May 17, 2023 "This is a large, ponderous game with many attachments. The image I had when starting was of a gigantic hamburger, one that you'd get at..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Your Post-Apocalyptic To-Do List: "A short but amusing pig farming simulation" May 17, 2023 "I enjoyed this brief respite while playing Spring Thing games. You play as a mutant pig farmer dealing with bikers. Life is kind of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Red Door Yellow Door: "Slumber party horror" May 17, 2023 "I was involved a bit with the creation of this game; it's part of Seed Comp, where people put game ideas out there and others make full..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Roads not Taken: "A Twine parser game about choosing your career in a futuristic society" May 17, 2023 "This games has a parser written from scratch in Twine. Making your own parser is a fraught thing, and many people have tried and failed..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Single Ouroboros Scale: My Postmortem: "An individual's life explained in autobiographical fashion" May 17, 2023 "For me, I tend to choose interactive fiction that has features of escapism, and feel like I'm taking a break from reality when I play the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Etiolated Light: "Surreal gothic horror with a spider theme" May 17, 2023 "I enjoyed this dark game. You play as a young child bartered away to be the spouse of a pale and fitful girl, scion of a rich family. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Structural Integrity: "A queer relationship in trouble" May 17, 2023 "This game definitely brought back a lot of memories. I had a long relationship where I had a lot of work-life balance issues, and it..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Repeat the Ending: "Read the first footnote first" May 16, 2023 "Don't make the mistake I made, of reading all of the written metatext material in the GUIDE before you start playing. Instead, just start..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Withering Gaze of the Earth: "End of the world and family drama combo Twine piece" May 16, 2023 "This is a short - but not too short - Twine piece of the end of the world and family relations. I expected it to be shorter than it was,..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Structural Integrity: "Narratively innovative LGBTQ Twine based piece" May 16, 2023 "This is a LGBTQ novella adapted into multiple ending Twine form. There’s quite a lot of interaction with your partner, and a lot of..." - See full review

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