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kaemi reviews One Way Ticket: "IFComp 2022: One Way Ticket" November 6, 2022 "Midway through this our mortal life: “The train seemed to be slowly moving towards its goal. To my goal, to be exact. The iron car,..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews CHASE THE SUN: "Texture engine drives a roadtrip apocalypse story" November 6, 2022 "A woman is driving away from her wedding and the end of the world. I played through twice and got two very different endings. They were..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews U.S. Route 160: "Surreal narrative about a woman reflecting on three major figures in her life" November 6, 2022 "You play as a woman running not only from her wedding, but also her own identity and upbringing. I played through it three times, and I..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Good Ghost: "An outstanding short story that conveys much emotion" November 6, 2022 "This is such a gem. You a ghost. A friendly, benevolent one. No one can see you or acknowledge your presence, but that does not deter you..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Emerging tech; not enough game to show us its full capabilities" November 6, 2022 "Determining if a word is positive or negative from a blank input is a much more difficult task, computing-wise, than having the player..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Pumpkin: "A spooky halloween text adventure" November 6, 2022 "This game is the first released by fos1, a long-term supporter of IF through helping to organize ParserComp and other IF writing..." - See full review

A new listing for A Pumpkin, by fos1

A new listing for The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato

MathBrush reviews This Old Haunted House: "Multiple choices for making a truly terrifying haunted house" November 6, 2022 "This Inform games looks very polished and refined, unusual during Ectocomp, which often features quickly-written games. Also unusually..." - See full review

A new listing for This Old Haunted House, by Jason Love

f-a reviews You're In Deep: "very short horror" November 5, 2022 "This game was made for ECTOCOMP 2022, it is very simple and even shorter. Despite that, I still think it is a good production, the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Quintessence: "A lovingly illustrated short horror story based on Slavic folklore" November 5, 2022 "This game has really high production values. It's even got a custom loading icon! There are nice custom-styled fonts and colors and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You're In Deep: "Branching supernatural disaster game during Hurricane in Louisiana" November 5, 2022 "This game has you play as a well-prepared Louisiana resident hunkering down during a category 5 hurricane. Fortunately, you have an attic..." - See full review

A new listing for You're In Deep, by Xuelder

MathBrush reviews Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming: "Rhyming pairs in a strange parser dream" November 5, 2022 "Andrew Schultz has made many wordplay and chess games which are a lot of fun. There is a series of games now (I think the first was Very..." - See full review

A new listing for Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for The Haunted Help Desk, by Deborah Sherwood

jakomo reviews ZIT: "Get outta my face" November 5, 2022 "Another one-puzzle, one-room parser game about battling a terrifying body part, like Zombie Eye. This time it's the horror of a face spot..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Zombie Eye: "A tight cornea" November 5, 2022 "Tiny Adventuron parser adventure in which you try to rid the world of the titular monstrosity. A one-puzzle, one-room game, nicely..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt: "It’s a [spoiler]?" November 5, 2022 "An old acquaintance named Edward Harcourt writes an unexpected and peculiar letter to you stating that he inherited a title to his..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Giving self to a selfless woman" November 5, 2022 "I love the concept of this game--that a woman has lost her own identity in selfless service. The idea that we should erase our..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet: "Twine romance game about a genderfluid alien trying to fit in" November 5, 2022 "This is a prototype Twine game entered in the Ectocomp 2022 Grand Guignol competition. It is kinetic fiction, which means it currently..." - See full review

A new listing for Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Escape from Hell: "An excellent escape game from the depths of the underworld" November 5, 2022 "Here's another EctoComp (or should I say ECTOCOMP?) review. Escape from Hell is about the escape efforts of Zgarblurg, a demon spirit..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Las Cartas de Mery: "Branching Twine Tarot game written in 4 hours" November 4, 2022 "This was a fun game to finish on while playing through Ectocomp games. You are at a party that is winding down when your friend Mery..." - See full review

A new listing for Las Cartas de Mery, by Mery

MathBrush reviews Exoplaneta: "A nice, brief spanish visual novel about crashing on a planet" November 4, 2022 "I liked this short spanish Ectocomp game entered in the '4 hours or less' part of the competition; it's brief, but longer than you'd..." - See full review

A new listing for Exoplaneta, by BlueTeapot

A new listing for Der kleine Halbling, by Ingo Frick and Frank Gerbig

jakomo reviews THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD.: "Worse things happen at sea" November 4, 2022 "Choicescript tale of the nautical and the supernatural. You're a Byzantine-era ship captain at a party (where everyone talks in rhyme),..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Cell 174: "NKVD Blue" November 4, 2022 "You're a shrink talking to a murderer in a Russian prison: initially about himself, then moving on to his murders, and then his own..." - See full review

A new listing for Bionic Crystal Fever, by Leafeon247

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Staycation: "Horror? Slice of Life?" November 4, 2022 "The concept behind The Staycation is straightforward yet murky. The general premise is that the protagonist's housemate Claudia is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Siluetas: "A trippy Spanish binksi game about visiting a small town" November 4, 2022 "This game was complex and difficult to understand at first. It's a binksi game, similar to bitsy (the game system with minimal sprites,..." - See full review

A new listing for Siluetas, by Fran_Kane

MathBrush reviews La escalera de la bruja: "An unfinished Spanish witchcraft horror game with promise" November 4, 2022 "I was very excited by the beginning of this game but soon found that it was fairly unfinished. The opening is very mysterious: you and..." - See full review

A new listing for La escalera de la bruja, by binary-sequence

A new listing for Fragment d'une vie, by Laura Crossheart

A new competition page: ECTOCOMP 2022 created November 3, 2022 ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and...

MathBrush reviews Estado Profundo: "A well-implemented small scenario with thriller and occult elements" November 2, 2022 "As a non-native speaker, I appreciated this game, since it was well-implemented, suggested verbs in the text that can be used (like..." - See full review

jakomo reviews You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer: "When there's no more room in Taco Bell, the dead will walk the earth" November 2, 2022 "Does exactly what it says on the tin. You're a surprisingly high-functioning zombie, who speaks like Grunk in Lost Pig, munching on human..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Halloween: "A cool custom engine used for a creepy murder game" November 2, 2022 "This game was interesting. I thought it was Twine, but it seems like a custom engine made by the author on github. It has regular links..." - See full review

A new listing for Halloween, by baltasarq

A new listing for There Those Dare Doze, by Andrew Schultz

jakomo reviews origin of love: "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me" November 2, 2022 "Hypertext poetry. A portrait of obsessive, excessive, limitless love. Or is it? The vivid, lascivious imagery offers an interesting..." - See full review

A new listing for Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy, by Caranmegil

A new listing for origin of love, by Sophia de Augustine

jakomo reviews One More Page: "Necrotelecomicon" November 2, 2022 "Text message interactive fiction: chat with your mum, and with your pal Ash with whom you've been reading Ancient Tomes, while a..." - See full review

jakomo reviews HSL Type Ω MEWP Certification Exam: "Pitchforklift" November 2, 2022 "I'm now officially HSL Certified! Just passed an online health & safety exam for Haunted Scissor-Lift operation with a score of 28/35,..." - See full review

A new listing for One More Page, by PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé

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