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kaemi reviews Cozy Simulation 2999: "SeedComp 2023: Cozy Simulation 2999" April 1, 2023 "The problem with a job is that you’re paid. A series of rhetorical genuflections yielding to acts performed for the express purpose of..." - See full review

dogdennings reviews Wolfsmoon: "An atmospheric puzzlefest with beautiful pixel artwork" April 1, 2023 "There is a killer on the loose in Elmville, and unless you want to become their next victim, you better hurry up and bring them to..." - See full review

A new listing for Delegated, by S. P. Hurlsmith

Cygnus reviews Photopia: "Awesome UI." April 1, 2023 "This game was pretty!! Really pretty. I should replay it, so I can see what the commenters were talking about, but first playthrough…..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews Shade: "Pretty good for it's length, cool story, a bit vague" April 1, 2023 "Shade. A good intro to IF. Parsers work (obviously). Very polished, short though. Somewhat surreal- definitely comes under its category...." - See full review

Cygnus reviews The Dreamhold: "Alchemical intro to IF, well-built story and environment" April 1, 2023 "You play as an amnesiac navigating the mysterious halls of a Dreamhold, or a wizard’s haven. It has in-built hints, and even a voice..." - See full review

egostat reviews Midnight. Swordfight.: "kiss everyone and everything" April 1, 2023 "This is one of the most entertaining things I've come across. I'm glad that I've finally achieved my dreams of in this..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews Blue Lacuna: "really well-built, cohesive and immersive wide world " April 1, 2023 "(Bashes in the door) I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ON THIS ONE HOLY SHIT. First off- ALLLL the points for worldbuilding. Like… holy mcfuckin..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews Delightful Wallpaper: "Very puzzle-y, awesome mechanics, could use with some accessibility" April 1, 2023 "Oooh boy. This one was.. A doozy. At the start, I was incredibly pumped for this. You’ll notice that I said “at the start”, and..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: "Yeah I can't really find fault here. Very good and emotive game :)" April 1, 2023 "Another great one by Amanda Walker! Similar to Colourtura, it has really cool mechanics. Instead of interacting with objects, you get to..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews The Temple: "Lovecraftian mid-length explore-y but still very linear game" April 1, 2023 "You play as an unidentified person journeying with a man called Charles, in a nightmarish world of strange eclectic gods. A very linear..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews Bronze: "Great for beginners, smooth, and adaptive" April 1, 2023 "Bronze is an interactive fiction following a similar story of beauty and the beast, but wildly different. With mechanics and fantastical..." - See full review

Cygnus reviews Coloratura: "Beautiful and immersive, great replay value, endings galore" April 1, 2023 "(4.5/5) Coloratura is honestly one of my favourite games to ever be made. It’s got an amazing mechanic- colouring people’s auras,..." - See full review

Juuves reviews Dead Man's Hill: "Crooked but compact" April 1, 2023 "This was a dry yet thoroughly engaging exposition of the trench warfare of French-German lines at the hills of Verdun in 1916. In truth I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Magic Word: "Maddening puzzles personified" March 31, 2023 "This game really hit me in a weird spot because it coincided with an idea of mine in an amusing way. In my own game, I wanted to come up..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews VESPERTINE: "Kiss of the Balisong" March 31, 2023 "Impressionistic prose bordering on poetry. Sensuous associations brought on by a gently touching finger. Images of kissing lips and..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Castle Elsinore: "Large Puzzlefest With Pseudonymous Author" March 31, 2023 "Despite the author's name at the top of this particular game it seems to have been written by Dian Crayne, a prolific science fiction and..." - See full review

A new poll by Cygnus, long games for beginners created March 31, 2023 17 votes for 10 games so… you know how savior fair is long and awesome, but also, like, complicated? and.. cruel, as the ratings out it? I think the first thing that goot me INTO IF was anchor head. kinda that difficulty....

egostat reviews Lost Pig: "A review for my second ever text adventure" March 31, 2023 "I remember being new to text adventures and playing this after painfully crawling through the Dreamhold, and it was a well-needed break..." - See full review

egostat reviews Eat Me: "Delightful even while barely awake." March 31, 2023 "Sorry in advance for my wording. I am writing this at about 2:30 A.M. I went through this story in its entirety, starting at about 1:30..." - See full review

edgerunneralexis reviews The King of Shreds and Patches: "Wake up, recieve infodump, sleep, repeat" March 31, 2023 "--Spoilers-- Over the last two weeks (though its felt more like a month) my partner and I have been playing this game together. We're..." - See full review

A new poll by deathbytroggles, Indie games that are commercial or were commercial at one point created March 30, 2023 10 votes for 9 games So I'm not looking for games from the well-known companies like Infocom, Tellarium, Legend, etc. Looking to compile a list of: 1. Games that used to be commercial but no longer (e.g. Once and Future, The...

Lance Cirone reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "Light the fire up in the night" March 30, 2023 "If there's one series that's interested me lately, it's Ryan Veeder's Little Match Girl games. I hear about the thing so much, and the..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Kerkerkruip: "Hard to learn and hard to master, but that's why it's rewarding" March 29, 2023 "Kerkerkruip is an acquired taste, and it took me a while to warm up to it. This is a roguelike along the lines of NetHack, which I've..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Ferret: "Ferret - A Forty Year Journey Through The History Of Text Adventures" March 28, 2023 "Ferret is in some ways a unique game in the fifty-odd year history of the text adventure; in others it is decidedly old fashioned. The..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for March 2023 March 28, 2023 10 items On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even...

dutchmule reviews The Spectre of Castle Coris [2015 ADRIFT version]: "A worthy sequel, different atmosphere but puzzles are still fair" March 28, 2023 ""The Spectre of Castle Coris" is the sequel to "The Axe of Kolt" by Larry Horsfield; this ADRIFT version is also a remastering of the..." - See full review

dutchmule reviews The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version]: "Long and enjoyable old-school game" March 28, 2023 "The "Axe of Kolt" is a legendary axe that you must recover and give to King Kelson, who has been captured by the evil Xixons ; a standard..." - See full review

A new poll by Cygnus, Games with exploration (or even just games w/ secret passages and such) created March 28, 2023 37 votes for 22 games There seems to be a LOT of games where you just.. explore hidden secrets in mansions, or similar. some of them have a plot, some of 'em don't, but i'm lookin' for stuff like D'Arkun, the Manor at Whitby.. Or...

A new poll by Cygnus, Games w/ cool mechanics created March 28, 2023 18 votes for 9 games Lookin' for stuff like Colortura, What Heart Heard of Ghost Guessed, Delightful Wallpaper, etc. Just... anything that has a very unconventional and scrumptious mechanic system. Thanky!

Juuves reviews Refugee: "A bit of a hit-and-miss" March 28, 2023 "I liked the idea and premise of the whole thing, at first. The prose attempted to be pretty and it was, in some parts. However in other..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Zeppelin Adventure: "Zeppelin is an inherently funny word. (+ bonus points)" March 27, 2023 "Zeppelin Adventure takes the player into the Zeerust-filled world of classic SF. The era where there were canals on the moon, intrepid..." - See full review

ArloElm reviews System Processing: "After All, We Are All Kor" March 26, 2023 "I very much enjoyed this game. The player character is an AI named Ov, a caretaker aboard an interstellar ship orbiting a giant sentient..." - See full review

Juuves reviews a short walk in the spring: "A trailing walk through memory park" March 26, 2023 "I loved this. I've always had a tendency of railing against the traditional narrative experience in my reading and (most especially) in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cage Break: "Choicescript game about a bird escaping with other birds" March 26, 2023 "This game is based on a seed from the first round of Seedcomp about birds escaping from a cage and freeing other birds. Another game,..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews Closed Door; Key?: "Curious and curiouser" March 26, 2023 "Interesting way to craft an IF game! Short but it was fun while it lasted. Lovely colour scheme too. Would’ve been great if there was..." - See full review

Denk reviews The King's Ball: "Short parser game with easy puzzles (mostly)" March 26, 2023 "This is a puzzly parser game very much in Garry Francis' usual style. You must cheat your way into the King's Ball as that would be great..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Textos Blast from the Past: "Future lost" March 26, 2023 "Textos Blast from the Past is disposable garbage. It's unfunny, it's immature, it's unfinished, and there's nothing worthwhile about it...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Signal Hill: "Wow, but in the best way possible" March 26, 2023 "I must confess, my brain constructed an impression on what Signal Hill was going to be like when I first saw the listing on IFDB and..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Detective's Bot: "Short CYOA document, great humour" March 26, 2023 "I had never heard about this game, perhaps because there is zero coding behind. It is an old fashioned CYOA "book" - simply a page with..." - See full review

A new listing for System Processing, by Albie

f-a reviews The Tailgator: "Fun, short, hectic!" March 25, 2023 "A short adventure about being tailgated with a surprising amount of: twists, humor, action scenes, endings. I liked it!"

A new listing for 剧团, by alpacanist

A new listing for Halloween, by 阿洛

A new listing for The Tailgator, by NegSec

kaemi reviews In a dream I told my mother: "SeedComp 2023: In a dream I told my mother by Milo van Mesdag" March 25, 2023 "A yearning for prelapsarian childhood: seethefrozen destruction twisting all roads to the impossibility of return: “Boulders litter the..." - See full review

Denk reviews According to Cain: "A modern classic" March 25, 2023 "The premise for this game is excellent, whether you are religious or not. You are travelling back in time to find out what the mark of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Constraints: "A very complex-appearing game for Walkthrough comp" March 25, 2023 "Walkthrough comp was a competition that had a bizarre 'walkthrough' posited to have been sent by telegram, and each game had to be..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews While Rome Burns: "An unpolished first game about Emperor Nero" March 25, 2023 "It is clear that this game wasn't really finished. It even says so in the description, that it is a first game, rushed, etc. The idea is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Bony King of Nowhere: "A Quest fantasy adventure with a snarky attitude" March 25, 2023 "I played this game years ago but somehow never reviewed it. Luke Jones wrote several games in the mid-2010's that had a unique style of..." - See full review

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