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MathBrush reviews Paradox Factor: "Intricate time loop puzzle game" August 1, 2026 "This unique game uses the Choicescript engine for an entirely different kind of game. There is only one chapter. You play as a grad..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Incident at Galley House: ""Type Help" has a better, creepier frame story" August 1, 2026 "The Incident at Galley House is a much more approachable game than Type Help. You probably won't get too stuck right at the start of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Magikiras: "Million-word mech game that's mostly chilling with your buds" August 1, 2026 "To adapt a copy pasta that's been around for a while: >looking for a new hosted game >ask people if its plot, simulation or OCs smirking..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Untitled (Underground): "Seeing and being seeing" August 1, 2026 "These days, the phrase “significant other” is probably most familiar from a period around the 90s when straight people were flailing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews the lamp of your body: "A dry heat" August 1, 2026 "(Spoilers for this short game, which is very much worth a play). About a third of the way through the lamp of your body, I squinted at..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Maddie Teases: "Ho hum boobs" August 1, 2026 "Folks, we’ve had a good run. Across five Lewd Mod reviews, I like to think I’ve provided some insight and entertainment, from the..." - See full review

Passerine reviews Trenchline: "Slice of life-threatening danger" July 31, 2026 "Trench Line is a stealthy/actiony/parsery vignette that takes place on an active battlefield, a setting I’m not at all familiar with,..." - See full review

A new listing for on thursdays we make video games, by Els White

aluminumoxynitride reviews My Friends the Monster Trainers: "A blast of nostalgia!" July 31, 2026 "I love Obra Dinn-likes, and I love Pokemon, so this was a delightful way to spend 45 minutes. The characters were note-perfect archetypes..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews My Friends the Monster Trainers: "Delightful!" July 31, 2026 "My relationship with Pokemon is a bit of an odd one; I never played the games as a child, despite being surgically attached to my..." - See full review

EJ reviews Swigian: "Swigian review" July 31, 2026 ""Swigian" is an Old English word meaning "pause", and this story indeed takes place during a pause or lacuna in a more famous tale. I..." - See full review

A new listing for Rivals, by Tim Sheinman

RainbowDarter reviews The Case of the Dungeon Descent: "Another Jamwitch Gem" July 31, 2026 "I get so giddy every time I see this team post something new. I don't always love their games, but I can always count on them to be..." - See full review

A new listing for My Friends the Monster Trainers, by Jamwitch

RainbowDarter reviews Violet: "An Okay One-Room Puzzle That Read Me for Filth" July 31, 2026 "Feel free to scoff at this, veterans of Interactive Fiction, but I found a lot of the puzzles in Violet pretty obtuse. None are outside..." - See full review

A new listing for The Case of the Dungeon Descent, by Jamwitch

RainbowDarter reviews The Red Pearls of Borneo: "A History Mystery That Ends With Some Misery" July 31, 2026 "...Is it blasphemy to say I like The Red Pearls of Borneo more than Type Help? Well, if it is, then darn me to heck, because I like The..." - See full review

RainbowDarter reviews What Happened to the Crew?: "Fun and Frustration, Together at Last" July 31, 2026 "This game makes me desperately wish IFDB allowed half-stars in their ratings, because What Happened to the Crew? is my textbook..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews The Enchanted Cottage: "A Cast Of Seven " July 31, 2026 "The Enchanted Cottage comes from the most creative and well-crafted section of the prolific Jack Lockerby's text adventure Curriculum..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Would you like to make some tea?: "Can't see the tea" July 31, 2026 "A charming and relaxing game. You get a choice of what tea to pick, and how you plan to enjoy it. The game might not be happy with......" - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Visions of an End: "What did I see?" July 31, 2026 "A battle is coming. You obtain something with prophetic properties. Something which could show you bits of the future. Unfortunately, it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Edge Valley Bigfoot Society: "Cryptid breakout" July 31, 2026 "There is a host of well-meaning, and actually quite wise, advice for first-time authors of parser games. This ranges from emphasizing the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Uncle Sam Atrium: "Urban renewal" July 31, 2026 "Hot on the heels of Blossom, NY comes the author’s other local-history game focusing on upstate New York. But while the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Isekai: "Internal explorations" July 31, 2026 "(No star rating since this is just a write-up of the preview) Exactly at the midpoint of my combined ParserComp/Review-a-Thon list,..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Plant: "The Plant review" July 30, 2026 "The Plant is a classic puzzlefest, of a substantial length few modern games try to match. The PC is a nameless corporate drone who, along..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Incident at Galley House: "Don't you (forget about me)" July 30, 2026 "This commercial remake of Type Help doesn't make changes for changes sake: fans of the original will experience the same story, with the..." - See full review

A new poll by RainbowDarter, Research 'Em Ups created July 30, 2026 42 votes for 21 games Games where progress is primarily made through discovering and cataloging information, rather than traditional puzzles.

RainbowDarter reviews Excalibur: "Almost as Weird as Real 70’s Television" July 30, 2026 "The first time I tried to play Excalibur, I bounced off it hard. Surely, I thought, reading a fandom wiki shouldn't count as interactive..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Haunted House for Social Phobics: "That was an intense experience" July 30, 2026 "Okay, no, actually, that was terrifying. So many awkward situations, fired in such quick succession ... it seems like every choice you..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews The Chinese Room: "So promising, but underimplemented" July 30, 2026 "You have a surreal world based on an academic subject, with the protagonist being a practitioner of that academic field who seems to have..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Take What You Need: "You may leave when you are ready" July 30, 2026 "Alright, this one is pretty short. You enter a mysterious hut during some trying times. The sole inhabitant offers to let you take some..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Take Them Home: "My favorite part of the date" July 30, 2026 "Anothe linear IF entry. You have a pleasant date and are now making the trip home. Always my favorite part of the date. That said, the UI..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Sweet Embrace: "No escaping death" July 30, 2026 "You wake up amongst the dead. Someone calls out to you. What is happening? The story wasn't entirely unpredictable, but I still had some..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blossom, NY: "Upstate state of mind" July 30, 2026 "OK, now for the first installment in a series that we’ll occasionally dip into through the remainder of the Review-a-Thon: Wait, Did I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sleepless in the Sapphire City: "Poetic justice" July 30, 2026 "This is really very good. I know my schtick is usually to dress things up, do some tapdancing with a barely-related personal anecdote or..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews DEVIL'S LIMINAL: "Slow cooking" July 30, 2026 "I suppose I’ve played a fair number of visual novels, in an objective sense – each year sees at least a couple entered in the various..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Summer of '22: "Begin again" July 29, 2026 "A short IF where you reflect upon a past relationship which ultimately came to an end, as well as life in college. It did remind me of my..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Prodly the Puffin: "It sets out to do what it sets out to do" July 29, 2026 "Pokey the Penguin is/was a webcomic so bizarre that it may well be outsider art. Various identical-looking characters and their weirdo..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for July 2026 July 29, 2026 8 items On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even...

A new Recommended List by The Elusive9, My favorite-est games!!!! July 29, 2026 6 items I like games with magic systems so most of these involve that heheh

The Elusive9 reviews Oppositely Opal: "Fun and satisfying" July 29, 2026 "Fun, not too challenging and making the potion was super satisfying~!"

ChanceOfFire reviews Student Driver: "No honking" July 29, 2026 "The story of a young person who sees a commotion, notices something about student driver stickers and figured that it could change his..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Stolen Page: "KEEP ME SAFE" July 29, 2026 "It's definitely unique idea. You get a passage of words. You can click on the words to form a short phrase, and the game gives you a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Silent Treatment: "She can't hear me" July 29, 2026 "First things first, won't take off any stars for this, but the font color choice on the game's itch page was pretty hard to read. Anyway,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews a signal from Saturn: "Time to start fixing" July 29, 2026 "Interesting... a mini-puzzle game in a Neo Twiny Jam entry. You're flying past Saturn when you hear a distress signal. Unfortunately,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Road I Ended Up On: "The road to memories" July 29, 2026 "Another short entry for the Neo Twiny Jam entry. This is more of the short and branching variety rather than the long and linear one...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Repurposing the Past: "Time to start building" July 29, 2026 "2012 came and went without a hitch. Back to real life problems, you suppose. Anyway, there is an abandoned place which you'll have to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Krampus Case: "It's beginning to look a lot like kidnapping" July 29, 2026 "I am not at all a betting man, but if I were, I don’t think I’d ever find a safer wager than betting that somewhere, there’s a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Something in our heart: "The thing in the machine" July 29, 2026 "The paradox of linear games (by which I guess I mean non-branching, puzzleless ones) is that the best ones often give the player a lot to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews recombinatorial: "Wingless migration" July 29, 2026 "One of the things I like about my approach to reviewing IF is that it’s a prompt to think about games, to try to develop a take about..." - See full review

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