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A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Player's Choice created January 30, 2023 58 votes for 19 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the most underappreciated game of 2022. Voting is...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Author's Choice created January 30, 2023 35 votes for 15 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best short game of 2022, with the definition...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Player's Choice created January 30, 2023 61 votes for 15 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best short game of 2022, where the definition...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2022 - Author's Choice created January 30, 2023 25 votes for 12 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best game of 2022 with over 2 hours of...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2022 - Player's Choice created January 30, 2023 34 votes for 10 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best game of 2022 with a playtime of over 2...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Author's Choice created January 30, 2023 17 votes for 8 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best game of 2022 by a new author. Voting is...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Player's Choice created January 30, 2023 56 votes for 13 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best game of 2022 by a new author. Voting is...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Author's Choice created January 30, 2023 44 votes for 13 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best overall game of 2022. Voting is...

A new poll by MathBrush, Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Player's Choice created January 30, 2023 88 votes for 25 games This poll is part of the 2022 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best overall game of 2022. Voting is open to...

Andrew Schultz reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "An odd not-quite-friendship, big picture tech-futzing, deep-diving anthropology" January 30, 2023 "I left some really good entries for the end of IFComp 2022, and LWNS was one of them. I confess, I bumped it to the back, because the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "A nicely-curated collection of limited parser puzzles" January 30, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Arthur DiBianca is surely among..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "So Much Cleverer Than Me" January 30, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review “The world is ending, and you are still paying rent.” Ah game, you had me at tagline. This piece..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Seeker of Magic: "A solid, no-frills, linear magic treasure cave jaunt" January 29, 2023 "It's weird, stumbling on Adventuron late and still having a backlog of stuff I really want to see. I've seen writers' more mature works..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Cave of Hoarding: "The reverse of a treasure hunt" January 29, 2023 "It's always amusing what authors can come up with when given a theme for a jam. I mean, some of us (like me) will probably play it safe..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Century: "Avoid the bugs, and it's a quick affair. Neat graphics." January 29, 2023 "So, okay, I went to Garry Francis's walkthrough up at CASA/Solutionarchive.com pretty quickly for this one. Which is sad. The graphics..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Astronauturon: A Mission in Time: "Explore forest, avoid beast, find relics" January 29, 2023 ""Astronauturon" feels like the sort of word a native thinker couldn't figure out, or that we might dismiss as too odd. But it works, a..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for January 2023 January 29, 2023 8 items On Sunday, January 29, 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...

Dan Fabulich reviews According to Cain: "I wanted to enjoy it more than I did" January 29, 2023 "I like a lot of the ideas in this game, and many of the puzzles were solid, but I became totally dependent on the in-game HINTS command,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews According to Cain: "Alchemical Biblical story, hold the excess moralizing" January 29, 2023 "So I was worried AtC would go heavy on the Biblical stuff. Fortunately, there's more alchemy than Bible verse grinding. On the surface,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "A lovely puzzle smorgasbord" January 29, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. I beta tested this game and didn't..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews January: "Ack! I am Betrayed!" January 29, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This is definitely an interactive novel, not a game. It is structured as a series of irregular calendar..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Witch's Apprentice: "Peak Adventuron" January 28, 2023 "I played Santa's Trainee Elf recently before playing WA, so my cynical first reaction was "Wait! Garry's already done this before, but..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Missing Witch: "Short semi-spooky game with a funny instadeath" January 28, 2023 "I'm really impressed by how unironically good last-place games can be in Adventuron jams, and The Missing Witch is no exception. Perhaps..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Mansion: "Short game about skeleton is comfortable in own skin" January 28, 2023 "The Mansion definitely recognizes it's close to cliche. It recognizes it probably isn't going to shake you out of your chair. But it's..." - See full review

JasonMel reviews According to Cain: "Hadean Lands meets Worlds Apart" January 28, 2023 "My favorite thing about this game is the genre: Games that take philosophy seriously. Be Not Afraid: While this game does deal with a..." - See full review

Andrew Rump reviews Midnight Snack: "A very short or very long game :-D" January 28, 2023 "I've played the game and been in contact with the developer which were very forthcomming when I suggested some changes or showed him how..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape From Mystery Mansion, by CityXen

A new listing for Donum (English version), by BITFANS and F3M0, and Mr. Rancio

Andrew Schultz reviews The Princess of Vestria: "Well-executed medieval fantasy" January 28, 2023 "I can't remember a medieval-fantasy IFComp entry executed as well as PoV. Often people write one just to try their hand at fiction, and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Chinese Room: "A darkly compelling tour de force" January 28, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). There have been a lot of war..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Prism: "Wait, What Is "The Magic Flute" About?" January 28, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I’ve always had a soft spot for opera, but it's always been very tightly bounded spot. The music is..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M: "Love or hate your protagonist, there's a lot in here" January 27, 2023 "LDDM was, strictly speaking, too long for IFComp. But I'm glad it was in there. It was immensely demanding and rewarding, and it gave me..." - See full review

Denk reviews Wry: "I don't recall playing a better 1-room game" January 27, 2023 "Mild content warning: This game insinuates some adult situations. This game is a one-room comedy parser game with a limited number of..." - See full review

Denk reviews Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: "Atmospheric mystery" January 27, 2023 "This is a very well done game and one of the longer ones in ParserComp 2022, where you take the role of a studying teenager who is..." - See full review

Denk reviews Radio Tower: "Nice cliffhanger in custom engine" January 27, 2023 "I played version 1.1. The game has been updated later. This game is more an unfinished demo than a complete game. It ends quickly with a..." - See full review

Denk reviews October 31st: "Perhaps Finn Rosenløv's most polished game" January 27, 2023 "DISCLAIMER: I beta-tested this game months before release but not the final version. After ParserComp ended, a post-comp release became..." - See full review

Denk reviews Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "Short but entertaining surreal game" January 27, 2023 "This is a fairly simple and easy game but still entertaining. You have to carry out a list of tasks given to you by the boss at a storage..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Impossible Stairs: "A worthy sequel" January 27, 2023 "This game is a sort of sequel/prequel to the IFComp winner "The Impossible Bottle" (TIB) by Linus Åkesson. It is an authorized sequel as..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Euripides Enigma: "I may be biased but..." January 27, 2023 "DISCLAIMER: I beta-tested this game and I have a passion for old school games UK style, especially games by Larry Horsfield (found my way..." - See full review

Denk reviews Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure: "Controlling two PCs (dogs)" January 27, 2023 "This is the sort of game that Spring Thing was originally intended for: A large puzzly parser game that takes a lot more than 2 hours to..." - See full review

Denk reviews Alchemist's Gold: "Nice to play on C64 emulator" January 27, 2023 "In this game you are going to steal gold from an alchemist. This is a fun little game which experienced players can probably beat in less..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Blood Island: "Hate all the characters, like most everything else" January 27, 2023 "A confession: I don't like slasher movies, and I don't like reality TV/unscripted drama. Whichever you call it. I find it cynical and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Walk Around the Neighborhood: "A charming one-room puzzler" January 27, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). A Walk Around the Neighborhood has..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Thirty Nine Steps: "Alfred Hitchcock (Does Not) Presents" January 27, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Goot eev’ning. Before I was a horror movie nerd, I was a Hitchcock nerd. I do appreciate that the game..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Cana According To Micah: "Surprisingly touching Biblical apocrypha" January 26, 2023 "I probably wasn't ready for CATM back in 2011, the first year I really tried reviewing IFComp games. I was just trying to get through all..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Arborea: "A magical time-traveling forest, with wrongs to be righted" January 26, 2023 "In his forum new-author introduction, the author mentioned he was a recently retired software engineer. If so, Arborea's one heck of a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Esther's: "Nice mice" January 26, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). I worry that, just as with people,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "A Psychic's Work is Never Done" January 26, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review You’re selling beer WITH YOUR MIND. As one does. You can probably guess where. … … I’ve stared at..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Troll and the Teddy: "Maybe only one puzzle, but a sweet and funny one" January 25, 2023 "Here's an old one: A troll sleeps in front of his cave. There's treasure inside. The troll won't give up said treasure unless you're..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Slasher Swamp: "Surprisingly fun, with perspective and a walkthrough, at least" January 25, 2023 "We all have games like Slasher Swamp, ones that maybe aren't terribly good, but we played them and enjoyed them for what they were...." - See full review

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