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Andrew Schultz reviews Northpole: "Two-stage game of an elf's redemption" January 12, 2023 "Northpole's graphics helped carry me through the rough bits for a really enjoyable experience. It's not the only game in the Adventuron..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Admiration Point: "Genre-busting" January 12, 2023 "Admiration Point is a genre-busting story, a Mormon slice-of-life “anti-romance” (author’s description) set in a near-future..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Death by Lightning: "Surreal but maybe too personal" January 12, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). In a forum conversation about..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Headlights: "A somewhat paint-by-numbers dreamscape in a custom engine" January 12, 2023 "The first two games with the Perplexity engine, Kidney Kwest and Baby on Board, were ... well, a bit different from this. Those were..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Pool: "The Despair of Davey Jones" January 12, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Another default(?) themed Twine entry, this one set on a research vessel out at sea with a crew of young..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Un-4-2-itous" January 11, 2023 "This one's really short by IFComp standards. I mean, it's shorter than The Lift, which I like to point out as something someone slapped..." - See full review

A new listing for Noir Nights - Vampyr, by Chris Godber

Jim Nelson reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "Tall, dark, and delicious" January 11, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org I’m a sucker for hard-boiled gumshoes…but when the detective’s shoes are literally made of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Grown-Up Detective Agency: "Are you there, future me? It's me, former you!" January 11, 2023 "I'll start by discussing a comment I saw on a forum about Matthews and Linehan and how I don't want to be that sort of person. M&L were..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "Underdeveloped but enthusiastic fairy-tale-ish riffs" January 11, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Many years ago, I was on a family..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Staycation: "Sisyphus Wept" January 11, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This was my first exposure to Texture pieces. Maggie H’s use of it, including formatting, color choice,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Day of the Sleigh: "Stuck with Santa and your little sister" January 10, 2023 "Day of the Sleigh hits several holiday notes for nostalgia and hits them well: it's the 80s, and you are a teen with a babysitting job...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Usher Foundation XII: The Flesh: "Body horror with skin/flesh, last of unfinished series" January 10, 2023 "I hadn't realized when I started this series of games based on the Magnus institute that it would just end. As far as I can tell, the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Rite of the Druid: "A Druid's Path" January 10, 2023 "An aspiring Druid nearing the end of your apprenticeship, you stand before a final daunting task. You must imbibe the dream-potion and..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews You May Not Escape!: "A random maze and an interesting premise" January 10, 2023 "Adapted from a review on intfiction.org Best I can tell, You May Not Escape! is a parser-based IF built around a random map generator and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "finding meaning and relief in future dystopia + COVID + doomscrolling" January 10, 2023 "Some self-indulgence, first: last year, while I was playing A Paradox Between Worlds (the author's 2021 entry,) it just so happened that..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews HOURS: "Demented and incomprehensible (mostly but not entirely in a bad way)" January 10, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). Before you embark on a journey of..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lost at the market: "Can a UI Hate You?" January 10, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Dreams are certainly useful settings in IF. When used effectively, they can explain and justify any of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Solstice Sovereigns of the North: ""But what if the days DON'T get longer this winter?"" January 9, 2023 "SSoN's title does sound a bit ponderous, but fortunately, that doesn't carry over to the game, which has a great premise. The Summer..." - See full review

retroprogrammez reviews Chateau Gaillard: "C version available" January 9, 2023 "This is an old game from 1983 with educational purpose, since the aim of the book was to teach how to code adventure games in BASIC. I've..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews En Garde: "Extraordinarily clever control scheme" January 9, 2023 "This story is great. I would go in with as few spoilers as possible. But another review I read before playing spoils the central concept,..." - See full review

A new listing for Crown of Exile, by Ramona G

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Ainimus: "Has relevant modern day-themes but the gameplay is a mess" January 9, 2023 "There’s some explaining I should do first. Clicking the “Web Site" link brought me to a website that had a link saying “Play” in..." - See full review

Passerine reviews One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World): "A grotesque, disorienting, engrossing story about basically everything" January 9, 2023 "This game is not like anything I’ve encountered before. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I finished the final branch weeks..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens: "Dream-hopping assassination through assorted vignettes" January 9, 2023 "This game is a sequel to The Little Match Girl, a game that was about hopping through various fantasies to solve problems in each of..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews January: "Zombie stuff, hold the annoying zombie tropes" January 9, 2023 "IFComp has a bunch of works that subvert expectations, some in-your-face, some trying it under the hood. January is one of the latest..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tower of Plargh: "Not a lot rhymes with Plargh" January 9, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). (With apologies to Leonard Cohen)..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Jungle adventure: "Parser Problems Punish Potential Players, Piss Away Pleasant Playground" January 9, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I was cautiously looking forward to this one. Looking forward, as my fondness for early text adventure is..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Deck the Halls, Gieves: "A welcome lost episode of Jeeves and Wooster" January 8, 2023 "Wodehouse is one of those authors it seems easy to make a tribute to. The main problem seems to be avoiding too-well-trodden paths or,..." - See full review

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

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