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Vivienne Dunstan reviews Red Door Yellow Door: "Intriguing parser game of young girls playing a "let's imagine" game" May 16, 2023 "This is described as a short game in the competition listings, but I’d say it’s medium length at least, and possibly longer. It..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Aesthetics Over Plot: "Short Twine job-hunting piece set at a party" May 16, 2023 "This is a short but entertaining Twine piece set at a party where through social interactions you need to try to get a job. It’s..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia: "Witty crime heist accessible to newcomers to the series" May 16, 2023 "This is a Twine game, that’s a mix of historical, crime and social niceties. It’s the latest in a series featuring gentlewoman thief..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Etiolated Light: "Long gothic horror Twine piece" May 16, 2023 "This is a moderately long (I wouldn’t say “short” as the game card says) Twine piece, that is gothic horror and very spooky. When..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Your Post-Apocalyptic To-Do List: "Wacky mutant hog farming simulation" May 16, 2023 "This is a very wacky short Ink piece, where as the opening says: "Today is your first day as a mutant hog farmer in the wild wastelands..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Marie Waits: "Tense time-limited parser game" May 16, 2023 "This is a time-limited parser game where you have to escape from a very dangerous situation. It is briskly written, with lots of..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Repeat the Ending: "Metatextual, experimental, narrative stretching and moving parser game" May 16, 2023 "Wow. I’m not quite sure what to say about this. It’s a parser piece, which can be played to an extent as a traditional parser game,..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Mirror: "Intriguing set of 4 micro Twine games on the theme of "mirror"" May 16, 2023 "This is a set of 4 game books by students in a creative writing event in Slovakia. In this quick review I’m treating each one..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Mamertine: "Short game showing experimental new engine, Twine/parser combo" May 16, 2023 "This is a Twine piece where you try to escape from a cult. It feels more like a parser game than Twine generally does, with geographical..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Sacred Shovel of Athenia: "Short beginner friendly parser game" May 16, 2023 "This is a short and beginner friendly parser game, set in a quasi fantasy world, with a very cute cat that you have to get to know..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Roads not Taken: "Experimental parser game implemented in Twine" May 16, 2023 "This is a curious parser/Twine combo. I admire the author’s bravery for trying to implement a parser in Twine. Though I found it more..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark: "Branching narrative amusing game about insomnia" May 16, 2023 "This is a short Twine game with multiple endings. I liked the intro explaining (especially for newcomers to Twine) how the interactive..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Familiar: "Delightful fantasy-themed illustrated parser game" May 16, 2023 "This was a delightful parser game, where you, a witch’s crow familiar, have to save your mistress. There’s a light touch to the..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King: "Branching elf hero quest" May 16, 2023 "This is a Twine piece with branching narratives where you are a legendary elf hero, tasked with saving a kingdom. The writing is amusing,..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Stygian Dreams: "Greek myth parser/click combo" May 16, 2023 "This is a combined parser/click game, where you can interact with elements of the text as well as type in parser commands. The game is..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Beat Me Up Scotty: "Star Trek themed word puzzler" May 16, 2023 "This is a fun spoof version of - no it isn’t, yeah right! - Star Trek The Original Series, where you are presented with a series of..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Write or Reflect?: "Python numerical puzzles and reflections on writing combo" May 16, 2023 "This is a Python piece, that combines ruminations on the process of writing (which could be any form of writing, but in this piece is..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Secret of the Black Walrus: "Fun Victorian-set detective hunt with a female protagonist" May 16, 2023 "This choice-based piece is a Victorian-set detective hunt, where you play a female detective. The writing is strong, the mystery..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark: "Funny and technically/narratively worthy" May 15, 2023 "As a fellow Spring Thing 2023 author, I was amused to note a similarity between Insomnia and Write or Reflect–well, WoR in helpful..." - See full review

A new listing for Avventura nel castello, by Enrico Colombini, Chiara Tovena

A new listing for The Castle Of Diavolul - The Count Must Die, by DBT

kaemi reviews Protocol: "Spring Thing 2023: Protocol" May 14, 2023 "Protocol is lyrical, Protocol is declarative; every quality in its symmetry, so you’ve been told: “For each differentiable symmetry..." - See full review

Juuves reviews Mirror: ""Mirror, mirror on the wall"" May 13, 2023 ""Organizer's note: This is a special entry, with four games presented as one. These games come from a classroom in Slovakia that..." - See full review

Juuves reviews The Mamertine: "Another Twine-ized parser" May 13, 2023 "The Mamertine is a Twine-ized parser game supposedly about you (the player) escaping a cult. I say "supposedly" because I barely saw any..." - See full review

A new listing for distinctions, by Colin Post

A new listing for Ejercicio Química-física Tutoría grupal, by Alfredo Giner, Elio Rico, Nestor Guijarro, Teresa Lana

Rachel Helps reviews First Draft of the Revolution: "A new way of interacting with fiction: editing" May 11, 2023 "Very interesting method of showing character development through the way they edit their writing. I was a bit disappointed that your..." - See full review

A new listing for Causality Couriers, by David Yates

Passerine reviews Etiolated Light: "A mood and a message" May 11, 2023 "Of all the games I played from Spring Thing 2023, this one got stuck in my head the most, for a lot of reasons. In a genre that often..." - See full review

A new listing for Andromeda Chained, by Aster Fialla

Cody Gaisser reviews Eat Me: "A delicious treat!" May 10, 2023 "Eat Me is an absurd, whimsical, bizarre, and often disgusting game about a child with a bottomless pit for a stomach who lives in a..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Baluthar: "Imaginative dark fantasy adventure, plus a little jank" May 10, 2023 "Baluthar is a dark fantasy adventure about a father searching for his son, who has gone missing down a nearby well that is said to be..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Kuolema: "Dark secrets on a ship in Google forms" May 9, 2023 "This review is for the Twine version. The original review is down below. The Twine version of Kuolema was perhaps the biggest rewrite out..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Nevermore: "A good, but flawed, adaptation of Poe's The Raven" May 9, 2023 "Nevermore is a loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. You assume the role of a sad, drug-addled alchemist who seeks to..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Plundered Hearts: "A really fun pirate adventure masquerading as romance fiction" May 9, 2023 "Reports of Plundered Hearts being an interactive romance novel are slightly overblown. There are elements of that, of course (it does..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Theatre: "Spooky precursor to Anchorhead and The King Of Shreds & Patches" May 8, 2023 "Theatre is a nice, atmospheric horror game in which you find yourself trapped in an old, run-down theatre that seems to have malevolent..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Repeat the Ending: "Quarter-century look-back at a flawed game." May 8, 2023 "---> Our learned co-contributor to Intfiction and writer of the comprehensive IF and Infocom-related blog Gold Machine has unearthed an..." - See full review

ccpost reviews my father's long, long legs: "Unsettling game about the deforming power of belief" May 8, 2023 "This is a short work of interactive fiction that functions in the way of a good short horror story: the game strongly establishes its..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Thy Dungeonman II: "A frustrating, but funny, text adventure parody" May 7, 2023 "Thy Dungeonman II (a text adventure parody from the Homestar Runner site) is slightly more substantial than its predecessor. There are..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Thy Dungeonman: "Amusing, brief text adventure spoof" May 7, 2023 "Thy Dungeonman is a text adventure parody from the Homestar Runner site. It's very brief and barely a game, but it's an amusing spoof..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Funny, Hard, Canonical" May 7, 2023 "Just this morning, I witnessed two online conversants discuss the "overrated" nature of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Typically,..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews A Mind Forever Voyaging: "An interesting early attempt at political commentary in interactive fiction" May 7, 2023 "A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) is quite good and recommendable, even if it's not quite the masterpiece I was anticipating. The biggest..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Withering Gaze of the Earth: "Spring Thing 2023: The Withering Gaze of the Earth" May 7, 2023 "The Withering Gaze of the Earth wastes no time leaping for the gothic. You wander ashore a strange island as the ship the brought you..." - See full review

Lilirose reviews Perdition's Flames: "Concept affascinante, ma poco altro" May 6, 2023 "L'idea e l'ambientazione sono molto originali, tra il nonsense ed il dark humor; anche la longevità è buona ed apprezzo lo sforzo per..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Reeah, Games with great NPCs May 6, 2023 3 items Exactly what it says on the tin. These games include some of my favourite NPCs. Games are in no particular order.

Rovarsson reviews Red Door Yellow Door: "Hypnosis gone agley." May 4, 2023 "(This review is based on the Spring Thing 2023 version.) But… but… I only wanted to play a game. A childish little spooky sleepover..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark: "What did the monk say to the sleepless man?" May 4, 2023 "(This review is based on the Spring Thing 2023 version.) What a welcome surprise! I expected this to be an elaborate joke game, where you..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Gone Out For Gruyère: "Worth going out for" May 4, 2023 "Gone Out For Gruyere is a fun puzzlefest. In this one, you're stuck in a room with a giant cheese mocking you every time you move. It's..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Secret of the Black Walrus: "Locked-door murder!" May 3, 2023 "(This review is based on the Spring Thing 2023 version.) Once again, Scotland Yard is baffled and comes knocking on your door for..." - See full review

A new listing for Questprobe Number 4: X-Men, by Scott Adams

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