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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

A new listing for The Seven Doctors, by David Burke

P/o Prune reviews The Dragon Diamond [modern versions]: "Not bad little game." January 25, 2023 "Dragon Diamond is the first Adrift game from this author. It's not a bad little game and if you have an hour or two to spare you would..." - See full review

A new listing for One Day, by Daigua Lizi

Andrew Schultz reviews Under the Bridge: "So, how much sympathy do you think you deserve?" January 25, 2023 "The description left me worried Under the Bridge might be an exercise in a monster finding different ways to maul people. Thankfully, I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Admiration Point: "A nuanced workplace-antiromance " January 25, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Welp, much like with No One Else..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Alchemist: "New QBasic Parser? Hold my Beer." January 25, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Alchemist is a homebrew parser game, with a retro font and block-graphics sensibility. Retro puzzle-heavy..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes: "Oh, God! You delegator!" January 24, 2023 "BR:BF is a fun game, if some of the puzzles misfire. It's a jokey retelling of Jesus feeding a crowd with bread and fish. You, as Jesus,..." - See full review

A new listing for Le Morte D'Arthur, by Chris Crawford

A new listing for Island, by Kevan Thurstans

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Knight of the Living God: "??!?!?!?!?!?...Not sure" January 24, 2023 "This is a tough game to play. And I don't mean the forgiveness rating, which is Merciful, thank you. This morning I go on IFDB and see..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Frustration: "Very big, expansive game designed to be played a long time" January 24, 2023 "This game is a classic in the style of the period between Infocom and Inform. Those few years in the 90s saw the rise of several gigantic..." - See full review

A new listing for Italianate, by Andy McDermott

A new listing for Locked In!, by Simon D. Allan

A new listing for The Mystery of Markham Manor, by Edward P. Toovey

A new listing for Knight of the Living God, by Rudy Johnson

A new listing for WATER LEVEL, by Rudy Johnson

A new listing for The World Ends Today, I Think..., by Diego Lucano (broadwaydude)

Brittany SV reviews Abusive Relationship Simulator: "Sad And True" January 24, 2023 "As others have stated, it's not really a game but very accurately portrays the cyclical and destructive nature of these types of..." - See full review

IFDB site news January 24, 2023 New this week: Improvements to IFDB Polls: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Anonymous Polls Locked Polls

IFDB site news January 24, 2023 Locked Polls: When editing a poll you've created, you can now "lock" the poll, preventing anyone from adding, removing, or editing votes.

IFDB site news January 24, 2023 Anonymous Polls: When creating a poll, you can now choose to make the poll "public" or "anonymous." In public polls, everyone can see who voted for each item in the poll. In anonymous polls, you can only view the number of votes for each poll item. (IFDB administrators can see who voted for what.)

Andrew Schultz reviews CHASE THE SUN: "Apocalypse in several flavors" January 24, 2023 "Ah, the end of the world. I've had nightmares about it. About what I'd do at the end. A feeling of helplessness, a sudden hope there is..." - See full review

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