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OtisTDog reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Yes - it's every bit as terrible as it sounds!" September 8, 2025 "The title of this review is a quote from the author-supplied blurb for Hobbiton Recall. It is, unfortunately, accurate. It's not clear..." - See full review

News on Why Pout?: Why Pout version 7 released, but play IFComp games instead! September 8, 2025 The new binary is here, with a fuller rundown of changes. There's very little different in terms of gameplay, but I added a few jokes that cropped up in my weekly file notes. To scour them without playing,... - Details

A new listing for Blood of Creation, by Jekyllstein Gray

OtisTDog reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "Barely functional interaction coupled to fundamentally anti-player design" September 8, 2025 "This game needs a lot more work before it's even worth trying, let alone entering in a competition. The intfiction.org review by B.J...." - See full review

A new listing for Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure, by GameClicks

MathBrush reviews The Path of Totality: "Go on a pilgrimage to an eclipse over standing stones" September 8, 2025 "This is the second Lamp Post Projects game that I've played this IFComp. Like the earlier one (The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens), it takes..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews You are a NYT Journalist. Can you survive Manifest and get your scoop?: "What if the Silicon Valley AI cultists made a parody game?" September 7, 2025 "This game is unusual for being a community joke game, but not for the IF community. Rather this is a game by and for the rationalist..." - See full review

A new listing for You are a NYT Journalist. Can you survive Manifest and get your scoop?, by Ben Shindel

MathBrush reviews Retrograding: "Beautiful-looking visual novel about scavenging, with two major paths" September 7, 2025 "Retrograding This is a downloadable visual novel written in Unity. It has an early branch point that essentially gives you two different..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "An absurdist scifi dystopia, a satire of puritanical repression" September 7, 2025 "[Mild ending spoilers below.] It feels like this story wasn't planned out in intricate detail, and the author wrote it off the cuff. As a..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: ""As long as politicians demand evidence that humans need food, we are fucked."" September 7, 2025 "Between this, The Burger Meme Personality Test, and Fascism - Off Topic, we're getting a lot of games about how much the US sucks these..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Darkly comedic parody of the job application process" September 7, 2025 "Bleak and relatable. The effectiveness of this one will hinge entirely on how much experience the player has with the "bullshit..." - See full review

A new competition page: French Comp 2026 - Concours de FI francophone 2026 created September 7, 2025 The 19th Edition of the French Comp. The theme of the year is "Train".

Dan Fabulich reviews The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode: "At the risk of spoiling the joke" September 7, 2025 "This game does actually contain a hidden Nazi mode. (Apparently it took quite a few years to figure this out.) You can follow David..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews PURE: "Well-written, raw symbolic story with a few bugs; part 1, with more to come" September 7, 2025 "There's a tradition in IF running through Anna Anthropy and Porpentine and carried on by others of writing body horror symbolic of the..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Detritus: "Top notch" September 7, 2025 "[EDIT: Note that the author has been in touch with me regarding the technical issue described near the end of this review, and it is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus: "First act of a combat RPG in a desert setting" September 6, 2025 "This is the author's first parser game, but lacks many of the bugs and rough edges that first games tend to have. I don't recall running..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "What do you get when you cross Counterfeit Monkey and Metamorphoses?" September 6, 2025 "The answer is a short but sweet wordplay puzzler from an author who is clearly familiar with many of the amateur era's most famous works...." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "Surreal poetry" September 6, 2025 "You visit some locations, spin some text options to your preferred option, then "seal" your choices to commit to them. I think the order..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Frankenfingers: "A parser game largely written in poetry where you play as a hand" September 6, 2025 "In this game, you play as a severed hand that has regained the sentience and motility its owner once had, due perhaps to the experiments..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Breakup Game: "Twine-based therapy workbook" September 6, 2025 "The game includes a lot of wise, well-regarded remarks on how to get through a breakup, and attempts to simulate the effect of a friend..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews A winter morning on the beach: "I don't get it" September 6, 2025 "If you dally too long in this game, a seagull poops on your jacket, and you lose. Why? Eventually, you walk. You move an average of 100..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Olive Tree: "Solid" September 6, 2025 "Interactivity makes this short story more powerful. Online, I've heard some commenters ask, mostly in bad faith, why Palestinians who had..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Operative Nine: "Have fun with 1981's "most advanced portable espionage microcomputer"" September 6, 2025 "Long ago, in a review of Zombies (1999), I wrote: >I was struck by the way this piece is framed -- it made me think about the..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Star Crystal Warriors Go!: "Fighting evil and going to school" September 6, 2025 "You are a Stelleria, with the power to transform yourself, wield magic and enter dreams. Still, all is not well. Nightmares, led by the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Anne of Green Cables: "Cyberpunk version of Anne of Green Gables" September 6, 2025 "Adaptations are a fraught area of interactive fiction. How close do you stay to the original? Do you introduce choices by allowing people..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews You Cannot Speak: "A decent start" September 6, 2025 "There's not a lot to this game as yet. I think it would have been a decent entry into IntroComp. You click around, escape your bedroom,..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Uninteractive Fiction 2: "Not as funny as last time" September 6, 2025 "Last time, I gave Uninteractive Fiction 4 stars. It was a joke game, funny, worth the ten seconds it took to play. Jokes have to be..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Island Of Rhynin: "A pointless colonialist story" September 6, 2025 "You and an appointed "dark-skinned" English crew member are appointed to explore the Island of Rhynin. " - See full review

A new listing for The end of an obsession, by ebi-hime

A new listing for The Last Stand of Cole Mercer, by Ogre

Tabitha reviews The Litchfield Mystery: "Something's missing" September 6, 2025 "This is the third mystery IF game by thesleuthacademy. I enjoyed the previous ones, and I had a good time with the exploration and..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews whoami: "who i am." September 5, 2025 "(Reader note: If you don’t feel inspired to read this entire review- and I don’t blame you- please check out the Visual design..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Dead Sea: "IFComp 2025: Dead Sea" September 5, 2025 "Dead Sea sells itself immediately with aethereal wispiness echoing last night’s etude: “Rows upon rows of tombstones stretch..." - See full review

Walkyria reviews Space Ferrets: "Great start!" September 5, 2025 "It was so funny because it was so ridiculous the idea of ferret astronauts, and how it was developed. I hope i can read more of it!"

OtisTDog reviews Mooncrash!: "A poor first impression, but zoom out and be dazzled" September 5, 2025 "This game categorically defies expectations. It starts out giving every sign of being a hack job by a first-time author desperately..." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews *OVER*: "Escape from tomorrow" September 5, 2025 "A few weeks ago I visited a (comparatively) small theme park with a party of around twenty from my local trans youth group and—being a..." - See full review

iaraya reviews My creation: "Finding meaning in implementation errors" September 5, 2025 "This was a confusing experience. It began at the IFComp website listing which claimed this is both Twine and parser-based — how does..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Us Too: "Wordplay game with a theme of food and friends." September 5, 2025 "Andrew Schultz's wordplay games can be presented on a spectrum between "the wordplay puzzles are extremely hard to guess without..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews One Step Ahead: "Ends just before the interesting part" September 4, 2025 "As the description explains, this is a game about a growing addiction to asking AI for assistance. The horror begins as you " - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Moon Logic: "Short parody of Zork in a technical showcase wrapper" September 4, 2025 "On first starting this game, I was strongly reminded of Rover's Day Out, due to the split-level reality of the action taking place...." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews My creation: "Needs testers" September 4, 2025 "The #1 guideline on IFComp's Guidelines for IFComp authors is to playtest your game and credit your testers. This game credits no..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Promises of Mars: "Twine game with map and inventory and environmental message" September 4, 2025 "This was a longer, thoughtful Twine game with a clickable world map and heavy inventory use. The inventory occupies a side bar, and..." - See full review

A new listing for The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, by Sever

A new listing for Suzerain, by Torpor Games

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Fired: "Fired but furious" September 4, 2025 "You've been fired. Your boss is a jerk. And has committed acts of fraud, embezzlement, harassment and other crimes. Fortunately, you've..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mr. Beaver: "Extensive game investigating a cluttered shop after owner's disappearance" September 4, 2025 "This is my third game I've played by Mr Hoffmann. I've had essentially the same experience with all three: I encountered them in a German..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "IFComp 2025: The Wise-Woman's Dog" September 3, 2025 "In Haatti, furthest corner from the grace of Aratta, wanderers of the wastes without the light of Ashur, those Gutians driven back from..." - See full review

A new listing for Drak(c)ula, by Simen Sollihøgda

Dan Fabulich reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "A good start" September 3, 2025 "The game's premise is charming. The game is pretty short, and there are only a few choices in it. I think I would have enjoyed more..." - See full review

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