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kaemi reviews January: "IFComp 2022: January" October 23, 2022 "In the postapocalyptic physicalization of the shells which consume us, we wrestle life out of the myriad compounding pressures..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book: "Like an hourglass...Never mind. You are running out of time." October 23, 2022 "You wake up in an alleyway to find that someone took the liberty of performing unauthorized brain surgery on you. All you have is a key..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "A somewhat unpolished but creative candy murder mystery" October 23, 2022 "My dad use to run a video game company, and one idea he always had was to make an incredibly bloody and vicious fighting game with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Into The Sun: "An optimization puzzle set on a derelict spacecraft" October 23, 2022 "I played this game during the testing period. In this game, you run into an old, abandoned spacecraft. It's a large and confusing ship,..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "Dialogue-heavy and choice-light, but interesting story and very good writing" October 23, 2022 "In this choice-based game, you play a human in a vague, mostly fantasy, but a little steampunk, world. You happen to befriend an elf,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "A brief action-packed pony parser game" October 22, 2022 "This is a parser game where the characters are all four-legged hooved creatures. It of course reminded me of My Little Pony, similar to..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews INK: "song-like exploration of grief" October 22, 2022 "A grieving narrator finds a letter with a secret. Playthrough: 10-15 mins This short game had the cadence of song lyrics, and I found..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Am I My Brother's Keeper?: "A Texture game about a lost sister and your quest to find her" October 22, 2022 "This is a well-written texture game about a young woman who is desperate because her sister is missing. Starting with a true crime-like..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Beautiful game about finding someone who has lost herself" October 22, 2022 "Abigail Corfman has made many high-quality games in the past, so I was excited to play this one. This is a richly-illustrated Twine game,..." - See full review

A new listing for Glory of the Kingdom, by adeptus7

MathBrush reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "A poetical and philosophical fantasy story about the coming and going of elves" October 22, 2022 "This is an IFComp entry that is entirely focused on story, understanding and self-thought rather than gameplay or mechanics. The idea is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Blood Island: "Choicescript version of a dating show/slasher flick" October 22, 2022 "This is, I believe, an adaptation of an award-winning screenplay by the author, and I think it shows in the quality of the writing. In..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "A lengthy and somewhat heartwarming game about running a tavern" October 21, 2022 "As someone who's never tried alcohol, mixed drinks always seem intriguing; I always imagine they'd be like milkshakes or punch or other..." - See full review

reyryan reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "A Dissapointing Dating Simulator" October 21, 2022 "I have no idea if using the term "short" is even the right word to use for this game. It says dating simulator when there is no proper..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "a short fugitive monster escape" October 21, 2022 "You are a fugitive, running through the woods in search of safety. A highly branching but short story - I reached an ending in about 15..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Innovative Bartending Simulator" October 21, 2022 "A relaxing bartending game with both story and arcade mode,set in a fictional town with all kinds of characters appearing on the tavern..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Sword of Rhivenia: "Life As a Royal in Rhivenia" October 21, 2022 "A Hosted Games interactive fiction where the main character,the youngest of the four heirs to the Rhivenian throne, lives in an almost..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Admiration Point: "A future museum employee deals with desire for affair" October 21, 2022 "This game is a fusion of a couple of concepts/story threads. The first is a futuristic story where you are part of a VR museum curation..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Graveyard Strolls: "A Texture story about several ghosts in a graveyard" October 20, 2022 "I initially misinterpreted this game quite a bit. I found 2-3 bad endings early on and thought that was the whole game, and was pretty..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hanging by threads: "Exploring a city from Calvino's Invisible Cities" October 20, 2022 "This game lets you explore Octavia, a city described in the book Invisible Cities (by Italo Calvino) as a spider-web city hung on a great..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Princess of Vestria: "A Princess's Adventure and Dangerous Trip " October 20, 2022 "A nice combination of interactive fiction and old rpg games,reminding me of Magium and the Great Tournament, The Princess of Vestria..." - See full review

reyryan reviews i wish you were dead.: "Deep and Tear Jerking Final Break-Up Conversation" October 20, 2022 "I'm giving it a five-star rating for the intense,angsty and extremely deep elements in all the routes. The topic is handled very well..." - See full review

allieebobo reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Bar game of my dreams" October 20, 2022 "I have a thing for bar/tavern management games - not sure why - and this pives up to all my childhood-bostalgia-fuelled expectations. I..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Cannery Vale: "One of my favorite horror IFs" October 20, 2022 "Played this one a while ago and can't stop thinking about it. Didn't expect much from the description, but the start is immediately..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Hidden King's Tomb: "A short, minimal parser game about a hidden tomb" October 20, 2022 "This is a short parser game with a premise similar to Infidel. In it, you explore an underground tomb and have to discover a way out,..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Reclamation: "Abandoned spaceship puzzler" October 20, 2022 "A classic 'explore mysteriously abandoned spaceship' game: solve puzzles and figure out what happened to the crew. Rather simple story,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews An Alien's Mistaken Impressions of Humanity's Pockets: "A short Twine game with a few puzzles about aliens inspecting humans" October 20, 2022 "This is a brief Twine game that has some complex parts to it. You play as a alien technician or researcher working in a lab with a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Approaching Horde!: "A real-time resource management zombie Twine game" October 20, 2022 "In this game, you have a brief introduction explaining how zombies have caused an apocalypse, and then you become the commander of a base..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Very short Twine game about picking a partner" October 20, 2022 "From the picture, blurb, and length on the IFComp page (which I swear used to say 2 hours, but I think I must have misread it because now..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Walk Around the Neighborhood: "A charming compact game about getting everything ready to go outside" October 20, 2022 "This one-room parser game has about 20 endings, of which I found 3 (one significantly more difficult to achieve than the others). You are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews INK: "Surreal, abstract game about loss and ink" October 20, 2022 "This is a Texture game, involving dragging commands onto nouns, one of several written in a writing group and entered into IFComp. This..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "scavenger hunt-style game with a dark undertone" October 19, 2022 "CWs as given in the starting screen: violence, implied murder, and implied animal cruelty You are assistant to baker Benoit in this small..." - See full review

A new listing for Reclamation, by groggydog

verityvirtue reviews Under the Bridge: "the monster under the bridge finds a home" October 19, 2022 "CW: gore, violence You, the narrator, are the monster under the bridge. Prowling in the night to catch unwary travellers. There is gore;..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews JELLY: "Fun and memorably weird" October 19, 2022 "I love Chandler Groover's stories, and this one is no exception. It's minimalist but makes great use of what detail exists. Each location..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "brief vignette of a psychic for hire" October 19, 2022 "You are a psychic for hire at this grungy late night diner, and you have one job: make people buy Schtupmeister beers. There seems to be..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews You are Standing at a Crossroads: "Old favorite" October 19, 2022 "An old favorite, so I had to give it five stars. I like "trapped in a strange world" stories, and this one delivers. The repetition,..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews The Pool: "fight the monster of our own making, but self consciously" October 19, 2022 "The storyline is a familiar one, of course. The narrator remains generic throughout, without a place on the lab team, and in fact so do..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Chekhov short story adaptation described as “stateful narration” " October 19, 2022 "The Chekhov story is framed as something someone is reading on her phone - this results in a whole lot of text, and multiple parallel..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews i wish you were dead.: "Well-written, but buggy game" October 19, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a heart-broken and suspicious off-again-on-again girlfriend. Your girlfriend is texting with..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews CHASE THE SUN: "How will you handle the apocalypse?" October 19, 2022 "In this choice-based game, you play as a woman fleeing from a massive storm that is sure to wipe out everything in its path, somehow..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "Explore an abandoned ship with a faulty AI" October 18, 2022 "This is a Twine game with a significant world model. In it, you explore a ship you've crashlanded on which is empty except for an AI..." - See full review

A new poll by Kinetic Mouse Car, Globe-trotters created October 18, 2022 11 votes for 8 games This is for games where the PC travels to different countries. The focus of the gameplay is on the travel part, the experience of not just the destination itself but also the mechanic of reaching it. ...

RadioactiveCrow reviews Prism: "A world of mysterious and unplumbed depths, in more than one sense" October 18, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a former street kid turned courier, scraping out an existence delivering packages to those much..." - See full review

walktothesun reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "A profoundly inspiring and deeply moving experience" October 18, 2022 "Though I have considered myself a fan of gaming, broadly speaking, for most of my life, I see myself as essentially brand new to..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Choice of Robots: "A sweeping sci-fi tale with emotional resonance" October 18, 2022 "I absolutely love this game. I've been exploring more and more Choice of Games as I really like their balance of game-like elements..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lazy Wizard's Guide: "A custom web-parser game about completing a magical examination" October 18, 2022 "There's a long tradition of games about completing a magical education, including early games like Enchanter and more recent games like..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by MathBrush, Games where you fix a broken spaceship October 17, 2022 22 items A lot of games are about being in a broken spaceship and having to fix it. Here's a list! Some games don't really fit, or only have a few parts involving fixing a ship. I left a lot out where you woke up in...

MathBrush reviews Crash: "A fix-the-broken-spaceship game with plenty of hints and multiple npcs" October 17, 2022 "This game is a fairly hefty parser game where a spaceship is sent spiraling off into space with only one person, you, in it. You have a..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Witchfinders: "Making a living while trying to live" October 17, 2022 "In Witchfinders, you learn what it means to be an empathetic witch at the wrong place at the wrong time in history. Or any type of..." - See full review

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