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Rovarsson reviews Roofed: "Spizz." January 8, 2023 "You love your big brother Anton very much. Wouldn't know where you'd be, how you'd survive without him. That said, Anton's not exactly..." - See full review

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Games with a limerick (or more) in them created January 8, 2023 10 votes for 7 games They may be all over the place Or just one, but it's hard to trace Well-known or obscure Games? Each, my joy's pure You've helped to boost this knowledge base. Any limerick can be in the game. Maybe in its...

Jim Nelson reviews Death by Lightning: "A raw and searing experience" January 8, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org This browser-based game uses a 1980s color scheme and pixelated typeface, with a rather small..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Prism: "Subterfuge and escape in a fantastic city" January 8, 2023 "Prism was the last of the IFComp entries I played. There was a mix of anticipation and fear. I believe it was the last of the IFComp..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Traveller's Log: "FRPG Lite. Like, Helium Lite." January 8, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I don’t know what to make of this entry. It presents as a super light, highly randomized FRPG kind of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Star Tripper: "A slow-paced space trading sim with a well-written intro" January 8, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. Star Tripper was an entry in that..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Save Bigfoot's Christmas!: "Detective work, North Pole style" January 7, 2023 "The enjoyment I got from Save Bigfoot's Christmas was well worth the struggles I had with the parser. This seems to be more a case of the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Trenchline: "Winter TADS Jam Review: Trenchline" January 7, 2023 "A trope in WWII movies/games that always sparks a feeling is, pinned down on the beach, the guy lugging along a bulky radio unit,..." - See full review

A new listing for Trenchline, by JJ McC

A new competition page: NarraScope 2020 Game Jam created January 7, 2023 NarraScope 2020 Game Jam is an unranked game jam, overlapping with the NarraScope 2020 Online Conference. The theme for the jam is Growth.

A new competition page: sub-Q Magazine Love Jam 2018 created January 7, 2023 subQjam is a jam about making short interactive story games- fiction, art, or poetry that is enhanced by or can only be presented through interactivity. The subject for this jam is LOVE.

Rovarsson reviews Old Jim's Convenience Store: "A hatch? How quaint." January 7, 2023 "Magnificent! Terrible! Fabulous! Abysmal! It's a real pity that there aren't any good superlatives to descrive something that is really..." - See full review

News on 4x4 Archipelago: Advanced start update January 7, 2023 In the 1.2.2 update to 4x4 Archipelago I added the "Advanced start" menu option. It lets the player pick their class and input a custom name for their character, as well as select optional silver/EXP bonuses... - Details

A new listing for OpenCola, by William Moore

Andrew Schultz reviews The Thirty Nine Steps: "Classic spy novel, adjusted to three flavors you can customize" January 7, 2023 "I used to have a ton of Dover Thrift edition books. They were $1 at a mom-and-pop-ish bookstore. I bought up whatever I could. There were..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "Far more than a typical derelict-spaceship game" January 7, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Stop me oh stop me if you think..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Inspector Bull, Chinashop PD" January 7, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Can you like a game for pointing out how shallow you are? Cause I kinda really do. When I get in a IF..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Terrible beer, terrible lives, great profit potential" January 6, 2023 "Does anyone really like Applebee's? It's a pretty easy target. Maybe it deserves to be. Nobody likes working there. The food isn't great...." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews PataNoir: "A metamorphical scheme" January 6, 2023 "(Adapted from an intfiction.org post) You are Douglas Reilly, a detective for hire. One day, you receive a notice from the Baron: his..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews For a Change: "Surrealism at its finest" January 6, 2023 "(Adapted from an intfiction.org post) For a Change has a dreamlike quality to it. All of its unusual logic comes together and really..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Dinner Bell: "I've been training like a Pavlov dog" January 6, 2023 "Dinner Bell is a one-room game full of silly humor. Your goal is, from inside your test chamber, to find 16 food items. You instinctively..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews The Mary Jane of Tomorrow: "Train a robot with ridiculous material" January 6, 2023 "The Mary Jane of Tomorrow has a cute, low-stakes story with a really creative core mechanic: procedurally generated text. You're training..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews In a Manor of Speaking: "Pun-filled hilarity" January 6, 2023 "In a Manor of Speaking is one of the funniest games I've ever played. Every line in this game is some sort of pun, and the writing style..." - See full review

A new listing for WWII Elevator Escape, by Kenneth Pedersen

Rovarsson reviews Fish!: "Plastic Castle in my Bowl" January 6, 2023 "Someone over at Magnetic Scrolls must have though "Hey, if we can get the players on board with the most ridiculous premise right at the..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Suveh Nux: "Engaging and fair magic puzzler" January 6, 2023 "Suveh Nux lets you work out what it's all about just by experimentation. Once I got my book, I started off by typing all the spell names...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Alchemist: "Custom parser, classic fantasy" January 6, 2023 "This is the author's third effort with a custom parser, and if you've played the previous two, you probably have a feel for what it is...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews According to Cain: "A masterful alchemical mystery" January 6, 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, but did a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "Bureaucratic Botworld" January 6, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This is another nifty little puzzle game. You are a 'bot squashing bugs via a series of unlocking-style..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A Christmas Quest: "Elf needs transport, does chores" January 5, 2023 ""Elf helping Santa" seems like a good idea for a Christmas theme in text adventures. Being Santa would require the sort of big-picture..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Rites of a Mailmare: "Fight dreams, sail the open sea" January 5, 2023 "Not only does this game have illustrations, it also has sound design! And the illustrations are great. Very moody black-and-white images,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Not the Lord of the Rings: "Not a Good Parody, Game, or Anything Really" January 5, 2023 "Not the Lord of the Rings is an embarrassingly shallow game. It's full of immature "adult" humor. You'll run into characters such as..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Crash: "Sabotage, with a question of who did it, and oh, space chores too" January 5, 2023 "Crash is commendably ambitious both narratively and technically. It doesn't mess around to start. You're given some trivial tasks to fix..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Princess of Vestria: "Well-done whitebread fantasy" January 5, 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, and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "Shopping is Hard" January 5, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Aaaah, TADS. Like slipping my feet into a warm bath. This is the parser-based IF experience I look for...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Usher Foundation XI: The Lonely: "Survive the aftermaths of a fire in a lonely watchtower" January 4, 2023 "This is the 11th in a series of games based on the entities from the Magnus Archives Podcast. This one focuses on The Lonely, or the fear..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Jimmy's Christmas Foul: "Hope the coal next year's worth it, kid!" January 4, 2023 "Jimmy's Christmas Foul brings some self-awareness to a simple goal: get Santa to give you more presents than you deserve. Kids would all..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Into The Sun: "Spaceship scavenging maximizer with randomness and a deadly enemy" January 4, 2023 "I can't help but link Into the Sun with two other IFComp entries that take place in space: Crash and A Long Way To the Nearest Star...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blood Island: "A meta reality-tv/slasher movie mash up that goes too heavy on the meta" January 4, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). We are all, every one of us,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Chinese Room: "[redacted] the [redacted] Out of This" January 4, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I had been low-key looking forward to this one for a while - both due to the philosophical connotations..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Twelve Days, One Night: "A good small game that turns an annoying song on its head" January 3, 2023 "Back in college, chain email jokes had started to be a thing. There was one Christmas joke about the twelve days of Christmas where, in..." - See full review

RonStone reviews Spring Cleaning: "Thought it would be more about cleaning but still fun" January 3, 2023 "I was looking for a game about cleaning because I worked for a cleaning company called Wee Window Cleaning here for many years but..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews You are a Chef!: "Hilarious from start to finish" January 3, 2023 "You are a Chef! is flat-out one of the silliest games I've ever played. Stuff randomly falls from the sky and you have to put it in a..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Junior Arithmancer: "Super fun math puzzler" January 3, 2023 "(Adapted from an intfiction.org review) You are the first ever candidate in Arithmancy – a field of magic involving manipulating..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Pytho's Mask: "Romantic and beautiful" January 3, 2023 "Pytho's Mask is graceful and sophisticated. Everything from the theming to the characters has such a high-class charm and works to make..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Cragne Manor: "A masterpiece" January 3, 2023 "I had been working at this game for four months. I cannot believe how it turned out. It is one of the longest games I have ever played...." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Opening Night: "Your storyline, all decided before the curtain rises" January 3, 2023 "Opening Night is so much more than it appears. It's a short game, taking me around 40 minutes, so please give it a try. You are attending..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Limerick Heist: "Pulled off well" January 3, 2023 "After I had fun with Nord and Bert, I thought, more word games couldn't hurt! I had high expectations, and with little hesitation, went..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Lost Coastlines: "So many things unexplored, like a dream half-remembered in a good way" January 3, 2023 "LC is way too big for two-hour IFComp's judging frame, but it still belonged there. It's a work of pure imagination and love, and its..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Arborea: "An elusive tree-focused puzzlefest" January 3, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. Also, I beta tested this game and..." - See full review

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