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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

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

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