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Mike Russo reviews Lazy Wizard's Guide: "A satisfying off-brand Hogwarts adventure" January 24, 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, but..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Crash: "I Am Not on this Game's Level" January 24, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I am bad at puzzle IF, this is what I have learned. I got stuck in a 5 room spaceship for almost two..." - See full review

A new listing for Trouble From the Past, by Michael Kennedy

Andrew Schultz reviews Pascal's Wager: "What if God was one of six? Play this game and get your fix. Bleebleebloo" January 23, 2023 "Pascal's Wager is an odd one, for sure. But it looks into something I dared to think when I was younger: if there are a bunch of gods,..." - See full review

A new listing for The Salt Keep, by Small Gray Games

Lance Cirone reviews An Artist and an Idea: "You're an idea, time to be realized" January 23, 2023 "An Artist and an Idea is a cute little Twine game. You take the form of an "idea" inside an artist's head; no emotions, no physical form,..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Haiku: "Try your hand at writing some haiku" January 23, 2023 " Haiku was submitted to the Twiny Jam (hosted by Porpentine, yay!) where the rules were simply to make short Twine game with no more than..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews No One Else Is Doing This: "A bottom-up view of political activism" January 23, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). I spend a lot of time in my..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews [IFComp 22 - Beta] Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency: "Overbearing at first but stops horsing around soon enough" January 23, 2023 "So. The bad stuff up front, first. There will be good stuff. But I want to list stuff you may want to zone out to appreciate the strong..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Into The Sun: "Looting the Nostromo" January 23, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review You’re a space scavenger, see? And it’s slim pickins, behind Mercury. Lucky day! A hulk ambles by,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Present Quest: "A few unrelated, odd puzzles that come together at the end" January 22, 2023 "So about two-thirds of the way through Present Quest, I was baffled as to how and why it had won the Adventuron 2020 Christmas Jam. The..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Nose Bleed: "Oh hey! A metaphor I think I got! One I could apply to life, too!" January 22, 2023 "Nose Bleed was my clear favorite of the Texture games I played in IFComp, and I feel it is likely very worth the relatively little time..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Der Angstbaum: "Character-driven fantasy drama about chicken murder" January 22, 2023 "This game has been on my wishlist for years, as it was constantly recommended to me by IFDB's old algorithm. But it's in German, and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "Appealing but underbaked" January 22, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Let Them Eat Cake lulls you in..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lost Coastlines: "IF by Avalon Hill" January 22, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review In a bout of review Deja’ Vu (Deja reView?), I said this about Lost at the Market: "Dreams are..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are: "You Won't BELIEVE What This Reviewer Thought!" January 21, 2023 "Everyone's familiar with this kind of personality quiz. You take them for fun, or because you're bored and need to kill three minutes,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Bible Retold: The Lost Sheep: "Simple game with cute auto-walkthrough feature" January 21, 2023 "Lost Sheep entered in the first IFComp where I judged. I was kind of shocked to see that, yes, a lot of IFComp games could be both..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: "A long and rich mystery game with wide variety of locations" January 21, 2023 "I don't know why I forgot to review this one when it came out. This is one of the best Adventuron games I've played and also one of the..." - See full review

A new listing for Camping, by Tristin Grizel Dean

A new listing for A Case of Murder, by Edward P. Toovey

A new listing for Blue Wizard Adventure, by Brian Tierney

A new listing for Atlantis, by The Glass Fractal

A new listing for Achtung Panzer!, by Larry Horsfield

MathBrush reviews T-Zero: "A giant, obtuse, puzzle- and pun-filled time travel adventure" January 21, 2023 "I started going through my wishlist on IFDB, and this game has been on their longer than any other, because it was so intimidating I put..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Fourdiopolis: "A worthy sequel" January 21, 2023 "I loved Threediopolis. It's inventive, I got a kick out of seeing all the interesting places I could go, and the difficulty was..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Habeas Corpus: "Explore odd rooms in a fortress" January 21, 2023 " Habeas Corpus is a short game submitted to a jam with the rule of being no longer than 1,000 words. It is a surreal story about finding..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews 差异 // Disconnect: "A meaningful story about Chinese linguistic differences among family" January 21, 2023 "It is late morning and your mother texts you about going to a restaurant together. Spending time with your mother and eating food sounds..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews One Way Ticket: "Captivating and odd and flavorful" January 21, 2023 "The cover art biased me early. It was obviously a train on the front cover but not quite like one I'd ever seen. Quirky the right way...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "Lothlorien by way of New York" January 21, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). In this year's Comp, there’s no..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Counsel in The Cave: "Check Out My Screenplay?" January 21, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I can’t tell if I was surprised by the unusual script formatting, or surprised that I don't encounter..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Chesstopia II: "Chess and time travel, but I want more" January 20, 2023 "The author of the Peter Patzer series decided, after a long hiatus, to switch things up a bit. The Chesstopia series is a bit more..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Construction Cancellation Order: "You've become the very thing you swore to destroy" January 20, 2023 "I'm playing this game in its very early state, but I'm not sure if it'll be finished. The author says that he'll "hopefully keep working..." - See full review

A new listing for Construction Cancellation Order, by Royerson

Lance Cirone reviews Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey: "Go Game, So Same" January 20, 2023 "I played this one a bit after Very Vile Fairy File, and it's clear they're cut from the same cloth. That doesn't bother me, though,..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Green: "Gardening, anyone?" January 20, 2023 "From the yellowed plastic windows of Borok Singh's penthouse at the top of the Gardeners' citadel, I can see the whole arc of it. The..." - See full review

A new listing for El Gran Reino de Harina, by elodio

Andrew Schultz reviews Lucid: "Unnerving supernatural powers beyond being able to retry endlessly" January 20, 2023 "Loop-til-you-win Twine entries always interest me. They feel efficient and tidy. You have some feedback on what you're doing right, and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "Silly, mostly-insoluble mystery" January 20, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Props to Who Shot Gum E. Bear? –..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "Reminder: Superhero Horse!" January 20, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review When I initially wrote this, I had a feeling my review was going to say more about my age and cultural..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell: "Blasphemin' 2: Hellacious Boogaloo" January 19, 2023 "In Darkiss 2, you're still Martin Voigt, the vampire. You've taken revenge on all the peons. So who's left? Well, the people you're..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Adventures of Peter Patzer, Who Sought Masterhood and Returned Not Quite the Same: "Win at chess just once: the text adventure" January 19, 2023 "I was glad to discover a chess game of sorts. Peter Patzer isn't particularly enlightened, but it has a few good jokes, and it's..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You May Not Escape!: "A thematically resonant maze game" January 19, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). The randomizer continues to send..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book: "ransom-note thriller, book references extra" January 19, 2023 "I love a good sneaky reference to a popular work I liked, and I love getting the reference–or even forgetting the reference and saying..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Mixology Simulator, Minus Sad Alcoholism" January 19, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Ok, take two parts snarky, amusing characters, 2 parts crisp custom graphical presentation, one part..." - See full review

A new poll by OverThinking, Big, impossible houses created January 18, 2023 13 votes for 7 games Think "House of Leaves" or Aaron Reed's "Subcutanean." "Delightful Wallpaper" doesn't count as, though its map is large and complex, it does make geometric sense.

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews P-Rix - Space Trucker: "When trucking goes wrong… in space" January 18, 2023 " P-Rix – Space Trucker told in third person past tense from the perspective of a PC named P-Rix, a trucker who agreed to a sketchy..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Creatures Such As We: "Meditation on games, art, the meaning of life, and lunar bases" January 18, 2023 "This game is richly multilayered, weaving together many different fascinating narrative and aesthetic threads, while remaining incredibly..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews The Usher Foundation VIII: The Spiral: "Wish there was more" January 18, 2023 "As it happens, I've read the transcripts of the entire Magnus Archives podcast, despite not being a great fan of it, so from the start I..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Graveyard Strolls: "Ghost Healer, no supernatural trinkets needed" January 18, 2023 "I still don't particularly "get" Texture as a development system, as opposed to others: Ink, Twine, parser. However, it seems to produce..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Thanatophobia: "Chatbots: Innovative Same-iness" January 18, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Because of specific compatibility needs, this game made me install Opera. Better be worth it! It’s fine..." - See full review

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