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Andrew Schultz reviews INK: "The opposite of blotting out grief" January 16, 2023 "The author's two entries in IFComp are interesting bookends: in US Route 160, you're fleeing a dislikable fiance, and here, well, someone..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews i wish you were dead.: "Breaking up is hard to do" January 16, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). There’s this episode of The..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Witchfinders: "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" January 16, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Very short work, giving you the role of witch in 1800’s Scotland trying to do good while evading..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Tin Mug: "A moment of silence for Young Me's favorite cup, bowl, pen and ball..." January 15, 2023 "I've had people tell me I should drop acid, or that I'm missing something by not doing so. Oh, the things you'll think! Oh, the walls..." - See full review

A new listing for ENGLAND ON FIRE, by Stanwixbuster

Rovarsson reviews Lost New York: "Jump Forward..Fall Back." January 15, 2023 "The train got you to New York right on time as scheduled... Which means you now have an entire afternoon's worth of time to kill before..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1: "Touchtone gloom" January 15, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). This is the last of the Texture..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Approaching Horde!: "Braaaaains. And Speed!" January 15, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Zombies have had quite the cultural arc, haven’t they? From their racist beginnings, to Romero’s..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Feathery Christmas: "Makes you wonder why Santa didn't use pigeons in the first place" January 14, 2023 "Feathery Christmas replaces Santa's sleigh and reindeer with, well, pigeons. It's a cute, small story, and the puzzles are mostly..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews SANTAPUNK 2076: "What if Santa got twisted for corporate greed? Okay, even more twisted?" January 14, 2023 "SANTAPUNK 2076 is a short, cute cyber-dystopian game with a few interesting puzzles. This seems like a contradiction, but it's handled..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Pantheon, Party On: "Brief and amusing" January 14, 2023 "Jupiter's forcing you to set up a party for Chuck D. Schmendiman, a man entering the pantheon for his newfound immortality. To get..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews My Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch: "Waste of time" January 14, 2023 "My Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch is, first and foremost, a wilderness survival management simulator. I realize this genre appeals to some..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Colour Beyond Time: "Classic horror adventure" January 14, 2023 "The first time I played Colour Beyond Time, it was on the unfinished Adventuron version. I found a bug that prevented me from finishing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Glimmer: "Points of light" January 14, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). These days it’s easy to take a..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Hanging by threads: "Brief branching city exploration with intrigue and instadeaths" January 14, 2023 "Recon, the author's entry last year, had a lot of moving parts and a backstory that took a few playthroughs to put together. HbT is..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Hidden King's Tomb: "Parsers, like ancient trapped tombs, are tricky..." January 13, 2023 "Writing two entries for IFComp is hard, especially when they're different in scope or tone or setting. There's so much bouncing back and..." - See full review

hg reviews Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: "Please explain the title of this game!!" January 13, 2023 "I remember playing this game decades ago, and loving it! I don't recall too many details at this point, but as a word lover I found it..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "Just the ticket for those who yearn for the IF of yesteryear" January 13, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org As a TADS writer myself, I was happy and relieved to see another TADS game make it into IF Comp..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Lottery Ticket: "An innovative gamble" January 13, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. I also beta tested this game,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews An Alien's Mistaken Impressions of Humanity's Pockets: "An enjoyable, if done-before, "Humans are weird" diversion" January 13, 2023 "AMIHP is a short and purposeful game about, well, aliens discovering things in humans' pockets and guessing what they're for. It's..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Am I My Brother's Keeper?: "Sibling Scares" January 13, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This is an uneasy marriage between a paranormal adventure and a sibling relationship drama. Let me start..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Northpole: "Two-stage game of an elf's redemption" January 12, 2023 "Northpole's graphics helped carry me through the rough bits for a really enjoyable experience. It's not the only game in the Adventuron..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Admiration Point: "Genre-busting" January 12, 2023 "Admiration Point is a genre-busting story, a Mormon slice-of-life “anti-romance” (author’s description) set in a near-future..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Death by Lightning: "Surreal but maybe too personal" January 12, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). In a forum conversation about..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Headlights: "A somewhat paint-by-numbers dreamscape in a custom engine" January 12, 2023 "The first two games with the Perplexity engine, Kidney Kwest and Baby on Board, were ... well, a bit different from this. Those were..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Pool: "The Despair of Davey Jones" January 12, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Another default(?) themed Twine entry, this one set on a research vessel out at sea with a crew of young..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Un-4-2-itous" January 11, 2023 "This one's really short by IFComp standards. I mean, it's shorter than The Lift, which I like to point out as something someone slapped..." - See full review

A new listing for Noir Nights - Vampyr, by Chris Godber

Jim Nelson reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "Tall, dark, and delicious" January 11, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org I’m a sucker for hard-boiled gumshoes…but when the detective’s shoes are literally made of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Grown-Up Detective Agency: "Are you there, future me? It's me, former you!" January 11, 2023 "I'll start by discussing a comment I saw on a forum about Matthews and Linehan and how I don't want to be that sort of person. M&L were..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "Underdeveloped but enthusiastic fairy-tale-ish riffs" January 11, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Many years ago, I was on a family..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Staycation: "Sisyphus Wept" January 11, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This was my first exposure to Texture pieces. Maggie H’s use of it, including formatting, color choice,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Day of the Sleigh: "Stuck with Santa and your little sister" January 10, 2023 "Day of the Sleigh hits several holiday notes for nostalgia and hits them well: it's the 80s, and you are a teen with a babysitting job...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Usher Foundation XII: The Flesh: "Body horror with skin/flesh, last of unfinished series" January 10, 2023 "I hadn't realized when I started this series of games based on the Magnus institute that it would just end. As far as I can tell, the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Rite of the Druid: "A Druid's Path" January 10, 2023 "An aspiring Druid nearing the end of your apprenticeship, you stand before a final daunting task. You must imbibe the dream-potion and..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews You May Not Escape!: "A random maze and an interesting premise" January 10, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org Best I can tell, You May Not Escape! is a parser-based IF built around a random map generator and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "finding meaning and relief in future dystopia + COVID + doomscrolling" January 10, 2023 "Some self-indulgence, first: last year, while I was playing A Paradox Between Worlds (the author's 2021 entry,) it just so happened that..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews HOURS: "Demented and incomprehensible (mostly but not entirely in a bad way)" January 10, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Before you embark on a journey of..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lost at the market: "Can a UI Hate You?" January 10, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Dreams are certainly useful settings in IF. When used effectively, they can explain and justify any of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Solstice Sovereigns of the North: ""But what if the days DON'T get longer this winter?"" January 9, 2023 "SSoN's title does sound a bit ponderous, but fortunately, that doesn't carry over to the game, which has a great premise. The Summer..." - See full review

retroprogrammez reviews Chateau Gaillard: "C version available" January 9, 2023 "This is an old game from 1983 with educational purpose, since the aim of the book was to teach how to code adventure games in BASIC. I've..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews En Garde: "Extraordinarily clever control scheme" January 9, 2023 "This story is great. I would go in with as few spoilers as possible. But another review I read before playing spoils the central concept,..." - See full review

A new listing for Crown of Exile, by Ramona G

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Ainimus: "Has relevant modern day-themes but the gameplay is a mess" January 9, 2023 "There’s some explaining I should do first. Clicking the “Web Site" link brought me to a website that had a link saying “Play” in..." - See full review

Passerine reviews One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World): "A grotesque, disorienting, engrossing story about basically everything" January 9, 2023 "This game is not like anything I’ve encountered before. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I finished the final branch weeks..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens: "Dream-hopping assassination through assorted vignettes" January 9, 2023 "This game is a sequel to The Little Match Girl, a game that was about hopping through various fantasies to solve problems in each of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews January: "Zombie stuff, hold the annoying zombie tropes" January 9, 2023 "IFComp has a bunch of works that subvert expectations, some in-your-face, some trying it under the hood. January is one of the latest..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tower of Plargh: "Not a lot rhymes with Plargh" January 9, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). (With apologies to Leonard Cohen)..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Jungle adventure: "Parser Problems Punish Potential Players, Piss Away Pleasant Playground" January 9, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I was cautiously looking forward to this one. Looking forward, as my fondness for early text adventure is..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Deck the Halls, Gieves: "A welcome lost episode of Jeeves and Wooster" January 8, 2023 "Wodehouse is one of those authors it seems easy to make a tribute to. The main problem seems to be avoiding too-well-trodden paths or,..." - See full review

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