New on IFDB

Lance Cirone reviews The Mary Jane of Tomorrow: "Train a robot with ridiculous material" January 6, 2023 "The Mary Jane of Tomorrow has a cute, low-stakes story with a really creative core mechanic: procedurally generated text. You're training..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews In a Manor of Speaking: "Pun-filled hilarity" January 6, 2023 "In a Manor of Speaking is one of the funniest games I've ever played. Every line in this game is some sort of pun, and the writing style..." - See full review

A new listing for WWII Elevator Escape, by Kenneth Pedersen

Rovarsson reviews Fish!: "Plastic Castle in my Bowl" January 6, 2023 "Someone over at Magnetic Scrolls must have though "Hey, if we can get the players on board with the most ridiculous premise right at the..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Suveh Nux: "Engaging and fair magic puzzler" January 6, 2023 "Suveh Nux lets you work out what it's all about just by experimentation. Once I got my book, I started off by typing all the spell names...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Alchemist: "Custom parser, classic fantasy" January 6, 2023 "This is the author's third effort with a custom parser, and if you've played the previous two, you probably have a feel for what it is...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews According to Cain: "A masterful alchemical mystery" January 6, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. I beta tested this game, but did a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "Bureaucratic Botworld" January 6, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review This is another nifty little puzzle game. You are a 'bot squashing bugs via a series of unlocking-style..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A Christmas Quest: "Elf needs transport, does chores" January 5, 2023 ""Elf helping Santa" seems like a good idea for a Christmas theme in text adventures. Being Santa would require the sort of big-picture..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Rites of a Mailmare: "Fight dreams, sail the open sea" January 5, 2023 "Not only does this game have illustrations, it also has sound design! And the illustrations are great. Very moody black-and-white images,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Not the Lord of the Rings: "Not a Good Parody, Game, or Anything Really" January 5, 2023 "Not the Lord of the Rings is an embarrassingly shallow game. It's full of immature "adult" humor. You'll run into characters such as..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Crash: "Sabotage, with a question of who did it, and oh, space chores too" January 5, 2023 "Crash is commendably ambitious both narratively and technically. It doesn't mess around to start. You're given some trivial tasks to fix..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Princess of Vestria: "Well-done whitebread fantasy" January 5, 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, and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "Shopping is Hard" January 5, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Aaaah, TADS. Like slipping my feet into a warm bath. This is the parser-based IF experience I look for...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Usher Foundation XI: The Lonely: "Survive the aftermaths of a fire in a lonely watchtower" January 4, 2023 "This is the 11th in a series of games based on the entities from the Magnus Archives Podcast. This one focuses on The Lonely, or the fear..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Jimmy's Christmas Foul: "Hope the coal next year's worth it, kid!" January 4, 2023 "Jimmy's Christmas Foul brings some self-awareness to a simple goal: get Santa to give you more presents than you deserve. Kids would all..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Into The Sun: "Spaceship scavenging maximizer with randomness and a deadly enemy" January 4, 2023 "I can't help but link Into the Sun with two other IFComp entries that take place in space: Crash and A Long Way To the Nearest Star...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blood Island: "A meta reality-tv/slasher movie mash up that goes too heavy on the meta" January 4, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). We are all, every one of us,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Chinese Room: "[redacted] the [redacted] Out of This" January 4, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review I had been low-key looking forward to this one for a while - both due to the philosophical connotations..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Twelve Days, One Night: "A good small game that turns an annoying song on its head" January 3, 2023 "Back in college, chain email jokes had started to be a thing. There was one Christmas joke about the twelve days of Christmas where, in..." - See full review

RonStone reviews Spring Cleaning: "Thought it would be more about cleaning but still fun" January 3, 2023 "I was looking for a game about cleaning because I worked for a cleaning company called Wee Window Cleaning here for many years but..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews You are a Chef!: "Hilarious from start to finish" January 3, 2023 "You are a Chef! is flat-out one of the silliest games I've ever played. Stuff randomly falls from the sky and you have to put it in a..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Junior Arithmancer: "Super fun math puzzler" January 3, 2023 "(Adapted from an intfiction.org review) You are the first ever candidate in Arithmancy – a field of magic involving manipulating..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Pytho's Mask: "Romantic and beautiful" January 3, 2023 "Pytho's Mask is graceful and sophisticated. Everything from the theming to the characters has such a high-class charm and works to make..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Cragne Manor: "A masterpiece" January 3, 2023 "I had been working at this game for four months. I cannot believe how it turned out. It is one of the longest games I have ever played...." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Opening Night: "Your storyline, all decided before the curtain rises" January 3, 2023 "Opening Night is so much more than it appears. It's a short game, taking me around 40 minutes, so please give it a try. You are attending..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Limerick Heist: "Pulled off well" January 3, 2023 "After I had fun with Nord and Bert, I thought, more word games couldn't hurt! I had high expectations, and with little hesitation, went..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Lost Coastlines: "So many things unexplored, like a dream half-remembered in a good way" January 3, 2023 "LC is way too big for two-hour IFComp's judging frame, but it still belonged there. It's a work of pure imagination and love, and its..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Arborea: "An elusive tree-focused puzzlefest" January 3, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp. Also, I beta tested this game and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Santa's Trainee Elf: "2 years later, still a great holiday present" January 2, 2023 "STF intimidated me a lot the first time I played through it. The map is not small. But fortunately, when I sat down to take another shot..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: "Play half, skip the rest" January 2, 2023 "Nord and Bert was the first piece of interactive fiction I ever played. I read about it and it sounded right up my alley. Looking back,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Savoir-Faire: "Difficult but memorable" January 2, 2023 "Savoir-Faire is, first and foremost, a difficult game. What kept me going was the mystery, the atmosphere, the incredibly versatile and..." - See full review

A new poll by Lance Cirone, Exactly What It Says on the Tin created January 2, 2023 12 votes for 9 games Titles are a complex art. Sometimes they're deep and metaphorical. Sometimes they're catchy and fun to read out loud. Sometimes they're named after a quote or item in the game. Sometimes they don't even have...

Lance Cirone reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Schtupmeister, gradual advertiser" January 2, 2023 "Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's pleasantly surprised me. The premise is that you're a psychic advertiser for Schtupmeister beer;..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Speculative Fiction: "Full of personality, so-so puzzles" January 2, 2023 "Speculative Fiction's voice and narration are full of personality. Everything is written from the perspective of wizard-turned-bird W.D.,..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Scents & Semiosis: "A joy to play" January 2, 2023 " Scents & Semiosis is a collaborative piece about a perfumer leisurely browsing through their personal collection of perfumes to relive..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews MARIO CARDS: "Nobody wins at MARIO CARDS" January 2, 2023 ""Life is meaningless, we are but players of a game, and that game is MARIO CARDS". MARIO CARDS has you being blindfolded and kidnapped by..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Virulence Protocol: "Corporate space mission gone haywire" January 2, 2023 "Everyone is on edge aboard the CSS Jonas Salk, a spaceship tasked with astrobiology research to acquire alien life forms and substances..." - See full review

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Games where you can dispose of useless items created January 2, 2023 10 votes for 5 games Mike Spivey's A Beauty Cold and Austere had a gray lady guarding a storage bin, where you could ask her if something had served its purpose. If it did, in the bin it went. If it didn't, you may've gotten a...

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Games with NPC dialogue that gives strong yet mimesis-keeping hints created January 2, 2023 18 votes for 14 games In IFComp 2022, it struck me how your partner Alex, in A Walk Around the Neighborhood and your father in The Last Christmas Present did a really good job of providing an NPC that gave hints without outright...

ccpost reviews Chronicon Apocalyptica: "Peak medieval weirdness" January 2, 2023 "I feel like this game was made personally for me. Centering around a monastic scribe who's thrust into a mission to investigate a..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Waiting for Sunrise: "Murder mystery vs. Sunrise" January 2, 2023 " The sun is below the horizon. June 21st, 4.15am, 2020, Aalborg This is a cryptic but interesting murder mystery game. You are an..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Counsel in The Cave: "Reflective post-HS piece with questions worth asking at any age" January 2, 2023 "When I was going off to college, or even just after college, I wish I'd have felt free enough to write something like this. It hits on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under the Bridge: "Spooky art enlivens a dark fairy tale" January 2, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2022's IFComp). I always feel a bit like a fraud..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Esther's: "Inner Child is not MPD" January 2, 2023 "Adapted from an IFCOMP22 Review Hey, there are IF works for new readers! This was an absolutely delightful interactive rendition of a..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "An exciting mini-whirlwind of crime, mumbling ponies, and pirate fight moves" January 1, 2023 "It's hard not to enjoy a game where you play as an animal. And in AMHU, my biggest groan was realizing I'd missed the pun in the title...." - See full review

Wynter reviews Orbital Decay: "Sinister and attention-grabbing Twine puzzle" January 1, 2023 "This is one of the most polished, multimedia-confident Twines I have ever come across. Some great graphics, particularly at the end, and..." - See full review

A new listing for Castle of Riddles Revisited, by Peter Killworth, John Chapman

A new listing for Midnight Snack, by I.F. Zerosix

Lance Cirone reviews Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!: "Uses its set piece well" January 1, 2023 "One horrific night in the 1950s, teenager Bonnie Noodleman finds her almost-boyfriend attacked by horrific brain-guzzling monsters from..." - See full review

Previous | 9851–9900 | Next