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MathBrush reviews Une Histoire: "Amusing French game about getting inspiration for a spooky story" October 31, 2022 "This was a fun Petite Mort game in the French Ectocomp competition (Petite Mort here meaning a game completed in 4 hours or less, quite..." - See full review

A new listing for Une Histoire, by dunin

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews One Way Ticket: "Next time, take a flight instead" October 31, 2022 " One Way Ticket is a surreal custom choice-based game about being stuck in a strange town after your train runs into an accident… the..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Not much here" October 30, 2022 "This game is apparently about selecting parties. It is chaotic and confusing, but not in a good way. You are in a courtyard that contains..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Lottery Ticket: "IFComp 2022: The Lottery Ticket" October 30, 2022 "Inevitably, a trend that emerged during my time in academia was digital humanities. Inevitable because of the pervasive nature of..." - See full review

f-a reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "Very nice, comfortable puzzler!" October 30, 2022 "I have not yet finished the game, but this adventure resembles Inside the Facility, another DiBianca production. I love the “limited..." - See full review

A new listing for Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick, by Stewart C Baker

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews No One Else Is Doing This: "Knock on those doors…you can do it" October 29, 2022 "In this short Twine game, you play as a volunteer collecting dues for a community organization group. It is time for your shift, where..." - See full review

Doug Egan reviews SPY INTRIGUE: "Gonzo interactive fiction" October 29, 2022 "I published this review on another website in 2015. This is a game that deserves to be brought back to public attention. "SPY INTRIGUE"..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "Minimalism with robots; metroidvania lite" October 29, 2022 "This is a fun medium game. The author has a long-running series of games that feature a limited parser, where only a select few commands..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Struggle to live in a future where you extract text from bacteria for cash" October 29, 2022 "This game was played at the Seattle IF Meet-up with the author narrating the game and adding her thoughts, and then I played again on my..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Under the Bridge: "A pleasantly creepy multimedia experience" October 29, 2022 "I'd first like to say that the art, animation, and audio for this game are very well done. I loved the style, and would be happy to see..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Disharmony: "Whoa...Creepy." October 29, 2022 "I am in IFComp mode right now, so please excuse this brief intermission. I also encourage you to put this on your Halloween play list...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Use mind control for corporate profit--sparingly" October 29, 2022 "As of writing, this is tied with Esther for the most-reviewed game of IFComp 2022. It's a fun short Ink game where you have the ability..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews CHASE THE SUN: "Flee an apocalypse while connecting with others" October 28, 2022 "This is the last of the Texture games in this IFComp 2022 competition, of which there were quite a few. This one is fairly long and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Nose Bleed: "A gross game about nosebleeds and social anxiety" October 28, 2022 "I had heard rumors about this game before I played it. This is one of many Texture games entered in this competition, and it's probably..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Glimmer: "A brief spot of hope in a life that spiralled" October 28, 2022 "Katie Benson has made many games of varying length that are always well-polished, descriptive, and generally have simple, story-focused..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Esther's: "A charming story about mice with a few small puzzles" October 28, 2022 "This game is small and designed for children. It has some lovingly made illustrations of little mice and the girl who runs a cafe...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Rover's Day Out: "Good Dog!" October 28, 2022 "(warning: while I do not spoil any specific puzzles, this review talks about the underlying weirdness, for lack of a better word, of the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews No One Else Is Doing This: "Twine game about community organization" October 28, 2022 "This is a Twine game that has a brief intro followed by a large open segment where you can choose between 30 or 40 houses to knock on,..." - See full review

A new competition page: Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Contest -- 2020 created October 28, 2022 Since 1998 Saugus.net has been offering this popular free contest. While it started off fairly local in scope, now entries come from all over the world, and winners can expect to have their stories read by...

MathBrush reviews Witchfinders: "A relatively brief game about witches in Scotland" October 28, 2022 "This game has a brief intro about the history of Witches in Scotland, and then lets you wander around several areas with an inventory of..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Nausea Quest: "Five-minute surreal horror game" October 28, 2022 "You don't know where you are. You don't know how you got here. All you know is a persistent, smothering BLACKNESS that feels at once..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Grown-Up Detective Agency: "A comedic but heartfelt game about growing up and finding yourself" October 27, 2022 "It's hard to review this game objectively. I got into IF for parser games, and it wasn't until I tried You Are Standing at a Crossroads..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews HOURS: "A short Twine game with lots of worldbuilding, short time" October 27, 2022 "The name of this game comes from the fact that you have 5 remaining hours and each big action or scene takes up one. This is a short..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Thirty Nine Steps: "An adaptation of a spy thriller" October 27, 2022 "I really am not sure how to review this one, because sometimes I think it's excellent and sometimes I think it's a bit choppy. This is an..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "Space Thievery 2022" October 27, 2022 "When I saw Space Oddysey 2001 for the first time (and the times after that, now I come to think of it...) HAL scared the brains out of..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Don't Get Spooked!: "Comedy horror filled with great art and fun monsters" October 27, 2022 "Disclaimer: I'm biased towards Bogleech since he made Awful Hospital. Awful Hospital is a fantastic interactive horror webcomic in the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1: "An exercise in futility, made in Texture" October 26, 2022 "This is one of the more polished Texture games in the IFComp 2022 competition. Texture is an engine for IF that involves dragging verbs..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Zero Chance of Recovery: "A famous chess endgame in a puzzle format" October 26, 2022 "I've avoided playing chess most of my adult life. so I never learned about famous endgame positions and puzzles. I've learned a few..." - See full review

A new review of Drool - From the Author "When the World Wide Web first arrived in 1994, I was an admin at a university far from my home in Boston and I was delighted to see..." - See full review

News on Project Revival Jam 2: The deadline has been extended 2-days. October 26, 2022 The jam was about to meet it's end, but we're keeping it alive! The deadline has been extended 2 days. You now have about 3 days from this post to submit your jams! We don't extend jams so you can add more,... - Details

A new competition page: Project Revival Jam 2 created October 26, 2022 They know you abandoned them, and they're back for revenge. Maybe it's a project you have long-since forgotten. Maybe it's a half-finished experiment gathering dust in your lab. Maybe it's an idea that...

Fabio G reviews Flamel: "FANTASTICA" October 26, 2022 "La più bella avventura testuale a cui abbia mai giocato, ti tiene incollato dall’inizio alla fine. La frase chiave “La festa di..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Pool: "(Don't) Dive in" October 26, 2022 "All it took were the words, "research institute that studies aquatic life," in the game's description for me to tell myself, "I have to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Tower of Plargh: "A decidedly undercooked parser game" October 26, 2022 "Almost any game can be polished up and made great. This game needs a lot of polishing. This is a parser game that puts you in the middle..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book: "A conglomeration of literary references in a surreal twine game" October 26, 2022 "This is another surreal Twine game based on exploration (after just having played Lucid), but I'm happy with that since it's one of my..." - See full review

A new listing for Spooky Times, by Luke Strange

A new listing for Snowman, by M. Chamberlain

MathBrush reviews The Last Christmas Present: "A text memory of a real-life Christmas present with Harry Potter themes" October 25, 2022 "This game definitely seems like a good contender for the Best Use of Multimedia XYZZY award specifically for its map 'feelie' attached to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lucid: "Surreal imagery, time loops, and visceral images" October 25, 2022 "This is an interesting game, and kind of intimidating at first. Basically, you are in a surreal landscape, perhaps a dream. There are..." - See full review

A new listing for The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Arborea: "Starting Program Arborea..." October 25, 2022 "This game is not a mere skip through the forest, I can tell you that. The subject of Arborea is hard to summarize in a sentence. I have..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I don't feel fine" October 24, 2022 "In this choice-base game, you play as Em, an archivist in post-apocalyptic world, who just got laid-off. History is a bit unclear, but..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews [IFComp 22 - Beta] Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency: "A long and rich comedy detective game with shares-one-brain-cell duo" October 24, 2022 "This is quite a large and complex Twine game that has a lot of humor. It's about a mysterious male protagonist who wakes up and seeks the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Anton Chekhov short story with lightly interactive framing story" October 24, 2022 "This is the second 'stateful narration' game I've played. These games have an engine where you type something in a box (the game requires..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Tin Mug: "A cute, short choice-based story about a mug come to life" October 24, 2022 "This is a game intended for kids about a magic cup that comes to life, written with the Strand system, which is the system used for the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You May Not Escape!: "A procedurally generated maze with some symbolic elements" October 24, 2022 "I really enjoyed Charm Cochrans previous game, and I was surprised at how different this was compared to that. That one was a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "A decadent and grimly humorous illustrated twine game about a terrible town" October 24, 2022 "This is a lavish Twine game that has you visit a town as an apprentice baker, set on making a cake for the town's Savings Day. The real..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Admiration Point: "A blend of futuristic curation, cultural values, & personal ambition" October 24, 2022 " Admiration Point takes place several decades into the future. You play as Maria, a 3D artist at the Digital Culture Museum where she..." - See full review

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