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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

MathBrush reviews 9:05: "The most-reviewed game on IFDB" March 25, 2023 "As of writing, this game has 54 reviews on IFDB, more than any other game on the database. I had a review of this game years ago that was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Thousand Words: "A dark satire of art criticism" March 25, 2023 "This Seedcomp game is based on artwork submitted to the first chunk of the competition, and this game focuses heavily on the art. It..." - See full review

A new listing for Conflicting Histories, by Siobhan McGuinness

A new listing for Special Family, by Black_Flame

News on A1RL0CK: A1RL0CK Release 3 is out! 28 systems ready! March 24, 2023 A1RL0CK has reached Release 3.0 (probably the last) and now comprehends a formatted Parchment version and 28 vanilla systems (all need original machines or emulators).

MathBrush reviews The King's Ball: "A short puzzle-heavy game about sneaking into the King's Ball" March 24, 2023 "This game has you as a humble baker who has a chance of a lifetime: a sponsorship from a King. If only you can get into the ball! The..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Wychwood: "Bull's Manor" March 24, 2023 "Recidivism isn't a character flaw to you, it's a matter of pride. No sense in honing those burglar skill just to let them go to waste..." - See full review

Juuves reviews Darkness: "There's light at the end of the tunnel" March 22, 2023 "A game centered on the pursuit of light and finding your way out of the darkness. The interface was very smooth, and I liked the idea of..." - See full review

marbledRye reviews 9:05: "short, sweet, with high replay value" March 22, 2023 "what a great little beginner's masterpiece! This could be a great intro to IF, and a springboard for so many IF opportunities. I really..." - See full review

dogdennings reviews All Alone: "it’s coming" March 22, 2023 "You are home alone, but not entirely alone. ..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Escape From the Deep: "Oceanic research base investigation goes haywire" March 22, 2023 "For this game, we jump ahead to the year 2055. You are part of a team sent to investigate Neptune Base, a research and mining station at..." - See full review

iris reviews What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: "Innovative and clean, but falling flat emotionally at times" March 22, 2023 "By far my favorite part of What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed was the mechanics, which struck me as exceedingly clever and well-fitted to..." - See full review

A new listing for Stars Arisen, by Abigail C. Trevor

thesleuthacademy reviews Happyland: "Body was unsearchable :(" March 21, 2023 "I was not able to examine or search the victim's body. It just kept saying the body was not there " - See full review

Kastel reviews Toby's Nose: "Time to Be a Good Pupper" March 21, 2023 "What makes or breaks a mystery title for me and many others is the investigation. One can craft the most intricate mysteries with clever..." - See full review

A new listing for Gonzague, by Oscar Arcane

MathBrush reviews His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook: "As a bureaucrat play hide and seek with documents" March 20, 2023 "This was a refreshingly well-designed game. There were a couple of things that didn't work out for me, but this game had the kind of..." - See full review

ArgyleLyle reviews Eon of the Green: "Interestingly Meh" March 19, 2023 "The visuals are largely there for the ADHD crowd. For me, they do not enhance the experience. The choices have consequences, but the..." - See full review

A new poll by Denk, Games with "recipe puzzles" created March 19, 2023 14 votes for 11 games Any game where "recipe puzzles" are a big part of the game, whether it is alchemy, potion brewing, cooking etc. I came to think of this as I am currently playing "According to Cain" and realized the puzzles...

Rovarsson reviews A1RL0CK: "Whale Song to Soothe?" March 19, 2023 "(This review is for the PunyJam version of the game) This is a game which takes a tried and true adventure setup and squeezes the best..." - See full review

marbledRye reviews What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: "I'm an idiot but this game is great" March 19, 2023 "This was my first IF foray. That being said, it has ignited a love of these games for me. I found the storytelling immensely immersive,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Burglar!: "House exploration treasure hunt" March 19, 2023 "Burglar! is a simple treasure hunt. You're a burglar invading someone's wealthy estate, and you have two hours to explore and rob it..." - See full review

A new poll by Dawn S., "Weird and Eerie" interactive fiction created March 19, 2023 31 votes for 20 games I’m reading and really enjoying The Weird and the Eerie, by critic Mark Fisher. In this book, Fisher explores the sense of something’s being simultaneously unsettling and fascinating. “Weird” and...

kaemi reviews Submarine Sabotage: "PunyJam #3: Submarine Sabotage" March 18, 2023 "Deep beneath the frigid waves, a plucky submariner is in dire straits: “The USS Ibis is currently on a training exercise in the North..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Eon of the Green: "Not the most accessible fiction." March 18, 2023 "Eon of the Green shows you a bunch of trippy visuals and then asks you to interpret them through a sequence of dialogue options. There..." - See full review

A new listing for Eon of the Green, by Miky Kray

MathBrush reviews In the Deep: "A choice-based story about an underwater dive gone bad" March 18, 2023 "This game reminds me of bits of a lot stories--Armageddon, Sphere, Alien. But it's it's own thing. This is a choice based game where you..." - See full review

ArgyleLyle reviews Harasho: Love Live Yuri Dating Sim: "Short, Empty" March 17, 2023 "Very little content. Images hosted off-site. What's is not explained. There is no means to check progress. Not great."

deathbytroggles reviews Demon's Forge: "In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?" March 17, 2023 "I played this as a child and never got out of the first area. I figured I was young and impatient and decided to revisit this with..." - See full review

ArgyleLyle reviews Sexual Service Act: Going To Work: "Wow, Bad." March 17, 2023 "Uninteresting in the extreme. Dull, repetitive writing. 'Choices'. This barely qualifies as a game."

ArgyleLyle reviews Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis: "Pretentious" March 17, 2023 "I genuinely have no interest in playing through some dude's Google search results for 'classical literature and history' and 'bad porn..." - See full review

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