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A new listing for Tomlin's Little Life, by Coleman Andersen

A new listing for Sorry for Your Loss, by Hyuccubus

A new listing for De l'orge académique, by El Lobo

thesleuthacademy reviews The Missing Ring: "A light and heartwarming mystery" February 14, 2023 "A clean and light-hearted family mystery, with a hint of humour. " - See full review

A new listing for Dorm: Adventure at the 8-Bit Assembly, by Carrington Vanston

News on The Salt Keep: The Salt Keep is Available Now! February 14, 2023 The full version of the Salt Keep is out now! You can purchase it: - On itch.io - On iOS - On Android - The Game - The Salt Keep is a character-focused text adventure and RPG (think interactive fiction with... - Details

A new poll by Lance Cirone, Games with Replay Value created February 13, 2023 20 votes for 13 games These are games that you can come to again and again, even after you beat them. It could be a story-heavy game where you won't connect all the dots until you run through it a second or third time, or an...

MathBrush reviews Au royaume des aveugles on ne regarde pas les dents: "A novel parser game with autocomplete and inscrutable mechanics" February 13, 2023 "This game is a demo for a new type of parser. Basically, you type in the first letter or two of a noun on the screen, which brings up..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews An Act of Murder: "Excellent, never mind the few bugs" February 13, 2023 "Thoroughly enjoyed this one. A classic murder mystery. Had to rely on external hints at times, however. " - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews Color the Truth: "Interesting mechanics" February 13, 2023 "This is a fresh take on a detective mystery, where the player has to link and corroborate suspects' statements to trigger new insights or..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Lethe: "A fun choice-based remake of a 30+ year old parser game" February 13, 2023 "You wake up naked in a hotel room and have no memory of who you are. … I should provide some context first. Lethe is an Ink game..." - See full review

A new listing for Diario de una promesa, by textagames

Rovarsson reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "...in other news: Horse climbs ladder..." February 13, 2023 "With the snooping detective work at the start and the hyperactive battles later on, I felt as if I somehow ended up in a Pink..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews The Blood Lust Warrior: "Broken and underimplemented" February 13, 2023 "The most intriguing thing about this game is its title. Don't be fooled; it's a generic fantasy game with nothing notable about it, and..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Paradise in Microdot: "You'll meet a tall dark strangler" February 12, 2023 "You actually won't meet a tall dark strangler (as far as I know), but this is the message you get from the fortune teller in the game,..." - See full review

oscar-78 reviews El extraño caso de Randolph Dwight: "Impressive interactive gothic story reminiscent of Borges" February 12, 2023 "And impressive implementation in this short Lovecraftian-Borgian story about the owner of a mansion waking up in the middle of the night..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Rough Draft: "Picturing the process of writing" February 12, 2023 "In Rough Draft we take the role of Denise, an author of children's fiction who is plagued by the combination of an approaching deadline..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews La harpe du Dieu-Rouge: "The grinning one-eyed man invites you to sit at his table..." February 12, 2023 "A traveller arrives in “Les Idylles”, the most splendid city in the realm, intending to spend the night in an inn and find passage on..." - See full review

A new listing for The Spirited: Origins, by yuveim

Lance Cirone reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "Action-packed superhero silliness" February 12, 2023 "A Matter of Heist Urgency has an intriguing genre mash-up of being a heist and a brawler, and one where everyone's a horse. Some ponies,..." - See full review

A new listing for RESCATE 2019, by Ricardo Oyón Rodríguez

A new listing for Cubes and Ladders, by P.Rail

P.Rail reviews The Story of Mr. P: "Good technical execution of inform 6" February 11, 2023 "As an Inform 7 author, I was curious to explore this surreal world of Mr. P. The map for the game was straightforward enough and I..." - See full review

A new listing for The Detective's Bot, by C.E.J. Pacian

A new listing for Retorno a las mazmorras de Antur, by Ricardo Oyón Rodríguez

Nomad reviews Alcohol solves everything: "Meh." February 11, 2023 "You are in a guest bedroom. In a house. That's the story. What do you expect from a SpeedIF game? ASE is full of bugs. Error messages..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Minigolf et trahisons: "Solved by ... intuition ..." February 10, 2023 "This has got to be one of the zaniest IF-games I’ve seen yet. And I’ve played Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla! A weird..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Entre-Deux: "Ghostly eavesdropping" February 10, 2023 "This is interesting. A sort of slice-of-life with a ghost protagonist. It has a simple but versatile game mechanic: subtly manipulating..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Deux pages avant la fin du monde: "Expanding the story towards the end of the universe" February 10, 2023 "Oh but this is clever! Deux pages avant la fin du monde employs a very original mode of interaction with the text to progress through the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gent Stickman Vs la Méchante Main de Chair: "A translation into French of a game with comic-only output" February 10, 2023 "I previously played the English version of this game in Parsercomp. In it, you type in words like a regular parser game, but the majority..." - See full review

A new listing for [I] doesn't exist, by Anna-Lena Pontet, Luzia Hüttenmoser

Wade Clarke reviews Pirate Adventure: "After a fashion, it's a follow-up to Treasure Island" February 10, 2023 "I recently read Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island for the first time. As is often the case with far-reaching,..." - See full review

A new listing for Fate of the Vanguard, by Jordan Jones

MathBrush reviews Archives Culinaires Royales - Période d'Essai: "A cute but brief game about becoming a recipe librarian" February 9, 2023 "This is a pretty short Inform 7 game in French. You have been hired as an archivist at a grand library. Coming in, you are welcomed by..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews DOL-OS: "Informatics archaeology." February 9, 2023 "Sometime in the 4th millenium, you uncover an ancient computer. Buried in its databases, underneath layers of password-protection, is the..." - See full review

Adrien "Feldo" Saurat reviews InfÂmes Hellequin: "Ambiance infernale à souhait !" February 9, 2023 "Le jeu ayant été écrit pour une game jam limitée à 3000 mots, il faut bien sûr tenir compte de cette contrainte forte, qui limite..." - See full review

A new listing for La constellation des Intracines, by Adrien Saurat

A new listing for The Wolf of Derevnya: Chapter 1, by Gwen C. Katz

MathBrush reviews DOL-OS: "A complex office/historical/sci-fi twine game with colorful UI" February 8, 2023 "This is a long game in the 2023 French IF Comp, and one with an innovative take on interactivity and on the themes of 'treason' and..." - See full review

A new listing for The Toad and the Widow's Call, by Nicholas Andriani

TestTubeHuman reviews A Study in Porpentine: "Skulljhabit but worse" February 8, 2023 "This game takes both too much and too little from Skulljhabit. It copies the mechanics without copying over why the mechanics worked so..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Twine Fishing Simulator: "Had me hooked, but I was expecting a larger fish." February 8, 2023 "Gone fishing… Yes. Gone fishing. You find yourself standing before a serene lake with a fishing pole in your hand. Gameplay First..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape from Norwood, by Michaël Giraud

Rovarsson reviews Les saisons de Pippa: "A fascinating half-familiar non-existent world." February 7, 2023 "(This is an expanded version of my thoughts on Les Saisons de Pippa as I wrote them on the intfiction.org Forum. Especially the last part..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Rougi: "Investigate the mysteries of a cursed ballet production" February 7, 2023 "When I first saw Rougi, I thought it was commercial. It is not. But it is a demo. In Rougi, the Paris Opéra Ballet is getting ready to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Le Morte D'Arthur: "An unusual epic-length retelling of King Arthur with longterm choices" February 6, 2023 "I played version zeta-3 of this story. This review is a bit odd to write, as I'm approaching it from two points of view. On one side,..." - See full review

Charlotte reviews The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt: "Horror and Romance" February 6, 2023 "The normal people who have reviewed this game, have already mentioned all the important points of the gameplay, so instead of a normal..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Entre les lignes de feu: "A twisted war story" February 6, 2023 "A whack in the gut. This is a hard story. Brutal even. A soldier is broken. He succumbs to his obsession. Treason means nothing to him..." - See full review

A new listing for The Shape You Make When You Want Your Bones To Be Closest to the Surface, by Porpentine

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Last Sanctuary: "You are on top of the world. That’s not always a good thing." February 5, 2023 "Earth is inhabitable. Its ecosystem is destroyed, and high levels of radiation are everywhere. Roughly 1000 humans have been selected to..." - See full review

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