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A new listing for Love, I'm not good for you (DEMO), by dmeow

A new listing for Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview, by Abbie Gonzalez

A new listing for First Kiss or can I keep cool around my crush for even a moment?!, by Blair Fujin

A new listing for Please Verify Before Existing, by inkmeteor

A new listing for MahouSho*, by EerieEmilia

A new listing for Zwei Club Mate bitte, by Henni

A new listing for Subject One, by EerieEmilia

A new listing for 3/4 spell swap, by cowboy starshine

A new listing for Fairy Nook, by Hatoge

A new listing for HEAD CLEANER, by Air Gong

A new listing for Seams and Senses (v1), by PengoSolvent

A new listing for LONER_DOG://Snuff Puppy Carnage Society, by Snek RK

Tabitha reviews Dental Issues: "A queer/vampire story" October 5, 2025 "This game was submitted to the 2024 Queer Vampire Jam, and while on the surface it’s not about queerness at all, vampirism is a clear..." - See full review

A new listing for Where Truth Lies Still, by P.Rail

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews [EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION]: "A recipe for transcendence, transhumanism, and trying the unknown" October 5, 2025 "(edit: spoiler tag fix) EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION: Use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding. Inspired by..." - See full review

Naarel reviews Cicatrix: "include Emotional Damage by Your Parents" October 5, 2025 "I remember being a teenager and bearing witness to the strange psychological war inflicted on art kids like me. In it, we were told that..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter: "IFComp 2025: Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter" October 5, 2025 "What’s the point of being alive? I’m not being flippant, genuinely, it’s hard to squint through a coffeesip at Penny Nichols,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Conversation in a Dark Room: "Let's see who you really are" October 5, 2025 "Our story begins with some slow moving timed text. Thankfully, this doesn't carry over completely to the rest of the game. Still, you'd..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Little Boxes: "Short and extremely strange surreal horror game" October 5, 2025 "I ignored this on first sight because I saw the cover art and thought it was a cozy slice-of-life game or something. Should've known..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Uninteractive Fiction 2: "You're Winner" October 5, 2025 "A troll game! Awesome. I was deciding whether to give 5 stars or -1 stars for this game. That said, I've seen better trolling efforts on..." - See full review

A new listing for An Exact Map of the Empire, by Avery Hiebert

Denk reviews Untitled Magic Escape Room: "Limited parser with exceptions" October 4, 2025 "In this Quest game you are trapped in a room, remembering a few spell names. You have to escape somehow. This game has a lot of good..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Space Mission: 2045: "Error" October 4, 2025 "I downloaded this game, read through the readme and tried to run it. There was an interesting bit of starting text and a character..." - See full review

Denk reviews Thrall: "Symbolic vampirism" October 4, 2025 "Thanks to Tabitha's poll on games with few ratings, I gave this short game a try. I haven't played many games about vampires but such..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Anne of Green Cables: "Heavy reading ahead" October 4, 2025 "I think I read Anne of Green Gables a really long time ago, like when I was really young, when my parents were trying to get my younger..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Path of Totality: "Take a walk and maybe get lost" October 4, 2025 "Third and final game from the dev which I'll be playing for IFcomp. Unlike the map exploration we had in Sylvan Gardens or the mystery..." - See full review

sillybugs10000 reviews Type Help: "Amazing. Murder mystery and more, with unique gameplay." October 4, 2025 "I was devastated when this game ended. Type Help had all the gears in my brain turning even when I wasn't playing - where was X when Y..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, Underrated (literally) games created October 3, 2025 73 votes for 42 games I want to see the games you love that have flown under the radar--add your favorite works of IF with fewer than five IFDB ratings! Hopefully this poll will help more people discover and enjoy them.

ChanceOfFire reviews Fantasy Opera: Mischief at the Masquerade: "Please stop the music" October 3, 2025 "An anonymous informant leaves a tip about an upcoming crime which will take place at an opera house. You have been brought in to..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "Four friends and several mysteries" October 3, 2025 "As far as production values go, the Secrets of Sylvan Gardens probably has the best I’ve seen in IFcomp so far, although I’ve yet to..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Grove of Bones: "These trees won’t feed themselves…" October 3, 2025 "Grove of Bones begins with an intro in the form of a campfire story. Years ago, the village was on the brink of death. No rain, no crops,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Cryptic Puffin, recs for ace! October 3, 2025 14 items recommendations for my friend ace :)

A new listing for Darkwood II: The Gryphon's Pearl, by Elise C. Boucher

A new listing for Odinshrine, by Elise C. Boucher

sillybugs10000 reviews Meena: "Polished, satisfying sand cat adventure" October 2, 2025 "Several interactive fiction games have tried their hand at having a feline protagonist who observes the world around it but doesn't know..." - See full review

sillybugs10000 reviews Who‘s that?: "Delightful" October 2, 2025 "Entries to the jam this game was a part of, the Neo-Twiny Jam, were limited to a maximum of 500 words. This game was executed perfectly..." - See full review

sillybugs10000 reviews Cat Simulator 3000: "Fun little cat game" October 2, 2025 "Fun, short, accessible and charming little cat game. Interestingly, this game uses a real countdown timer, rather than based on turns...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Escape the Pale: "Space trader in a historical setting" October 2, 2025 "It's a simplified space trader game, even if not in a space trader universe. Buy low, sell high. You get to travel around various cities,..." - See full review

A new listing for Vacation Terminal, by Gelppy

Wade Clarke reviews My creation: "Small, underimplemented but not ineffective parser vignette" October 2, 2025 "(This is an edited version of a review originally published in my blog during IFComp 2025.) my creation is a short (10 minutes) parser..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews You Cannot Speak: "It's a prologue" October 2, 2025 "You Cannot Speak isn't the only unfinished game I've tried in IFcomp. Yet, it is incredibly difficult to rate this one. You wake up in..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews *OVER*: "A looong trip to the theme park" October 2, 2025 "When a huge family takes a trip to a theme park, what could possibly go wrong? (Answer: Everything) In this story, we follow the tale of..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Frankenfingers: "Not even death will stop you" October 2, 2025 "Frankenstein is at it again… and you’re the severed hand of one of the victims he butchered to make his creation. It seems you have..." - See full review

A new listing for ColorHex, by Janos Biro

Tabitha reviews PURE: "Cut short" October 1, 2025 "I played this one a few weeks ago now, and I’m not going to talk about the puzzles or gameplay or implementation at all, because I know..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Backpackward: "Sexual assault played for laughs" October 1, 2025 "An edited version of a review originally posted at intfiction.org on September 24, 2025 I... did not enjoy this game, for multiple..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Backpackward: "Backpacking woes" October 1, 2025 "Time to leave our job to backpack in the medieval world. Well... not exactly. After getting canned from a shitty job, you sorta bounce..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Backpackward: "Behold, Rambo of Stripmallshire!" October 1, 2025 "Backpackward is a portal fantasy that sees a slacker, low-motivation protagonist in the modern world finding an alternate world where he..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by EJ, Odd spec-fic games that I love despite jankiness or other objective issues October 1, 2025 7 items ... from IFComp, specifically! Most years, I encounter one game out of the IFComp bunch that makes me go "This won't score well and that's probably fair but I can tell it's going to gnaw on my brain for a...

Tabitha reviews Crescent Sea Story: "Misalignment" October 1, 2025 "The opening of this one had me intrigued, with the PC waking up with amnesia on a boat surrounded by five shadow-selves. You have to..." - See full review

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