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Mike Russo reviews The Breakup Game: "50 ways to leave your lover" November 12, 2025 "Last month my wife and I celebrated our ten-year wedding anniversary – it’s been an eventful decade, but still, it kinda snuck up on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Retrograding: "Epicycles upon epicycles" November 12, 2025 "Friends, we are just a week out from the end of the second-biggest Comp in history, and while I’m on pace to complete my reviews just..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Marshmallow Nights: "Marshmallows. Stargazing. Pizza. Blankets." November 11, 2025 "What comes to mind when someone says that a game is "cozy?" There is no single answer to this question, but Marshmallow Nights certainly..." - See full review

A new listing for Lewd Mod: No Butts, by HHRichards

kqr reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "Well-polished, amazingly deep environment" November 11, 2025 "I only hand out five-star ratings when a game has truly blown me away. This one did. I don't know where to start. I am so impressed by..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Tabula Rasa: "“The Chosen (by A.I.) One”" November 11, 2025 "You are an A.I. of a maternity ward. You’ve calculated that humanity is on the verge of being wiped out by human-driven climate..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Masks: "More than a mask" November 11, 2025 "You were only a courier until you agreed to run deliveries for the resistance and even then, you had no further involvement. And yet,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Not so Happy Easter 2025: "Czech your assumptions about parser games" November 11, 2025 "This is maybe just an example of I-wouldn’t-want-to-belong-to-a-club-that-would-have-me-as-a-member preciousness, but despite playing a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Island Of Rhynin: "ColoniAIlism" November 11, 2025 "Exploring a mysterious island from whose bourn no traveler has returned is an appealing trope with deep roots in the pulps and Victorian..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dead Sea: "At sea" November 11, 2025 "You never get a second chance to make a first impression, they say, before blushing in shame from having wasted their first impression on..." - See full review

A new listing for A Knight at the Opera, by Adam Hendine

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Individual Action Simulator: "Strong topic, weak implementation" November 10, 2025 "You are concerned about THE ENVIRONMENT, and want to do your part! Individual Action Simulator is a brief Ink game that considers the..." - See full review

Queeves reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Artwork/Story" November 10, 2025 "The artwork drew me in, and the story kept me engaged. Took me a bit longer than most, about 3 hours.. but that 3 hours was worth it for..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mooncrash!: "Crash into you" November 10, 2025 "In the very first IF review I wrote after coming back from a 15-year hiatus, I talked about the alienating associations anime tends to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan: "Inverted heists" November 10, 2025 "I’ve been in the tank for the Lady Thalia games pretty much from the minute I first encountered them: I love a heist and a period..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews My creation: "Babies and monsters" November 10, 2025 "Reviewing a chunk of games all at once through the course of the Comp can be a blessing and a curse. On the plus side, there can be..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Castle Warlock: "How To Get More From PAW" November 9, 2025 "Castle Warlock was the third of five games written by the admirable Ken Bond; it is one of the best examples of the castle/dungeon romp..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Bat: "A valet's work is never done..." November 9, 2025 "Take, for instance, tonight's entertainment. A fundraiser for the orphans, wealthy people demanding the highest standards of service, the..." - See full review

A new listing for Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator, by David Eastman, Shahid Ahmad

A new listing for Floor 13, by Shahid Ahmad, David Eastman

ChanceOfFire reviews Path to Knighthood: "Spaghetti and cotton candy" November 9, 2025 "Despite the blurb and the warning, the writing in the game itself did give me the impression of a setting which doesn't take itself too..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Detritus: "We're trash, you and me" November 9, 2025 "When I’m playing video games as a civilian – i.e., when I’m not blasting through IF so I can meet the review quota before a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer: "Plumbing a career in game development" November 9, 2025 "Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer has comfortably the most bizarre setup of any game I’ve played so far in this year’s Comp –..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter: "Slop feeding on its own slop" November 9, 2025 "Every once in a while the question of “what is IF?” comes up, and I have a couple of stock answers: one is that “IF” is a..." - See full review

thesleuthacademy reviews Río Alto: Forgotten Memories: "Immersive mystery but very buggy" November 8, 2025 "The narrative and mechanics were engaging enough to draw me in after the first few minutes. There are multiple endings. I only realised..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Sims 2 Corruption Creepypasta: "thought-provoking, substantial, eerie" November 8, 2025 "If you've played The Sims 2, odds are you have been freaked out by stories of how easy it is for the game to get corrupted, and the crazy..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "The garden or the forest" November 8, 2025 "I’ve since moved away, but for a long time I lived just a few minutes away from the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, CA. They’re a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews INPUT PROCESS: "Building a ghost in the machine" November 8, 2025 "It’s getting on towards October, so my four-year-old son is enjoy the advent of his favorite holiday. He enjoys everything that makes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Crescent Sea Story: "A sea of troubles" November 8, 2025 "The 2023 Comp was notoriously a festival of murder-mysteries and boats, and while we’ve seen our share of the former this year,..." - See full review

Nell (Lamp Post Projects) reviews Stage Fright: "Stage Fright" November 7, 2025 "A theatrical game that manages to make script memorization and workplace safety hazards surprisingly fun! This Ectocomp entry was..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews To Ashes You Shall Return: "Undead love" November 7, 2025 "Full Disclosure: I am a credited beta tester for this game. To Ashes You Shall Return breaks many 'rules' of making a choicescript game...." - See full review

A new listing for Executive Suite, by Armonk Corporation

A new listing for Yes, Prime Minister, by John Wood, Richard Yapp, Richard Horrocks

Mike Russo reviews The Little Four: "At home with Poirot" November 7, 2025 "I think a lot about The Sorrows of Young Werther. Let me rephrase: relative to most Americans born in 1980, I think a lot about the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Day in a Hell Corp: "Imp-erfect" November 7, 2025 "It’s a sign that a writer has reached their decadent phase when they turn their critical eye upon themselves and begin to obsess over..." - See full review

A new listing for Cheese, Go Home!, by C. "Sparky" Read

A new listing for Nuntalyli'u, by William Crowther and Donald Woods

A new listing for Wedding Speech, by Galvan

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Texture: "The truth is coming for you" November 6, 2025 "You open your eyes and slowly stand up. Trees surround you. It seems you woke up in a forest. You try to remember. Who are you and what..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Cannot Speak: "Arrested development" November 6, 2025 "I’ll give credit to You Cannot Speak for an interesting opening – sudden-onset aphasia, intrigue on a Martian colony, and sleep..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews One Step Ahead: "ChatGPTerror" November 6, 2025 "Probably the most interesting thing about the rise of LLMs (a low bar) is that it’s given us a new AI story. When I was growing up,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews valley of glass: "Sitting in the gaps of a fairy tale" November 6, 2025 "On thing that I never fully appreciated until I started writing some of my own fiction is just how full of holes most narratives are. I..." - See full review

A new listing for The Magician's Nephew, by Mister Flibble

A new listing for Cruise, by Pierre

A new listing for Weekend, by Pierre

A new listing for Remnants of The Past - Book 1, by Domakir

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The bloom: "…and afterwards, we set out." November 5, 2025 "The bloom is a submission to Bare-Bones Jam 2025. Told in first person from the perspective of a former staff member, the game describes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Temptation in the Village: "Recovering a fragment" November 5, 2025 "I don’t mean to be controversial here, but I’m going to go ahead and say it: Kafka was a great author. Oh, I know some might disagree..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "A dog that didn't bark" November 5, 2025 "Context, they say, is king, and here is proof number nine hundred: I enjoy testing IF, and will gladly spend hours cataloging typos,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Operative Nine: "Boxed in" November 5, 2025 "I’m continually amazed by how Arthur DiBianca is able to write at least one or two highly-polished games a year working in an..." - See full review

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