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Mike Russo reviews The 9:00 AM Train: "Tourist trap" November 10, 2026 "The 9:00 AM Train is either a thriller or a meditation on grace; I’m tempted to say that I’d like it more if it made up its mind, but..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dreamteller: "Dreaming of killers" November 10, 2026 "For the better part of two decades, I’ve enjoyed making fun of Downton Abbey for naming its sole Turkish character “Kemal Pamuk”..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Two Seasons: Encounter With A Vampire: "Encounter with a Vampire review" November 9, 2026 "This is a pretty classic parser game about two dorky teens, Maddy and Matty, who discover one of their high school teachers is a vampire..." - See full review

EJ reviews Tales of Nivea: GRIP: "GRIP review" November 9, 2026 "Most people might compare this fascist bureaucracy/complicity simulator to Papers, Please, but the first comparison that came to mind for..." - See full review

EJ reviews TOITŪ: "TOITŪ review" November 9, 2026 "Something I've noticed about some more arty, literary IF works is that they'll often incorporate interactivity in a way that's..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Hampton Manor: "An Awkwardly Manored Work" November 9, 2026 "Hampton Manor was the first of two DOS mysteries authored by Art LaFrana in the early nineties. The intriguing back story has you as a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Copper Tavern: "Snark hunt" November 9, 2026 "All good game reviewing is subjective, in my view, but sometimes that gets tricky because the subjective experience of playing a game can..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Demonstration: "Spy intrigue" November 9, 2026 "Belying its title, Demonstration isn’t a game overly concerned about selling you on anything. This short parser game is made up of four..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews SCAVS: "Streamlined survival" November 9, 2026 "There aren’t a lot of One Simple Tricks in IF. There are so many different kinds of experiences text games can provide, so many..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El Día Después: "Small Ink game with dice about politics" November 8, 2026 "This was a brief game made in Ink with some dice-rolling mechanics, made in 4 hours or less for the La Petite Mort division. You're..." - See full review

Stewart C Baker reviews I Just Gave Your Game a Low Rating on IFDB: ""Anyone is free to rate this game 1 star for any reason." -- Well, okay, but..." November 8, 2026 "This game (is it a game?) is set up as a google form in which you respond to somebody who has given your game a 1-star rating on IFDB...." - See full review

Doug Egan reviews Type Help: "Following a breadcrumb trail of clues" November 8, 2026 "“Type Help” is an ambitious, enjoyable, and unique interactive mystery. The player character reviews old audio recordings to piece..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Pattem6, Word Games November 8, 2026 1 item Word games from the 80's

A new poll by Denk, Choice based IF where you actually learn something created November 8, 2026 3 votes for 3 games If you feel you learn something about life or a topic from a choice based work, please add it to the poll. I do not include parser IF here as I would recommend it to people not familiar with IF. Thanks :)

Mike Russo reviews Invasive Species: "Incomplete metamorphosis" November 8, 2026 "I haven’t gone back and checked, but it feels like there are more explicitly-incomplete games in this year’s Comp than usual. For the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews High School Reunion: "Don't look back in anger" November 8, 2026 "There are a ton of stories about high school reunions, and basically none about college reunions, because of course there aren’t. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Gambler's Quest: "Snake eyes" November 8, 2026 "I have a little ritual I follow at the beginning of every parser game I play: I turn on transcripting, I type ABOUT, I type CREDITS, I..." - See full review

A new listing for La Abuela, by Tiny Lobby November 7, 2026 You're the grandma, and a scammer is calling. Your job is not to hang up: listen, pick your answers and catch him in his own lie. Seven fully voiced calls, each one a real phone scam that circulates today:...

Dan Fabulich reviews First, Second, and Third Persons: "A charming game of murder" November 7, 2026 "I love Bruno's writing voice in general, and here specifically. There seems to be a bug, or something I didn't get, about the UI. After..." - See full review

TheBetterStory reviews De Baron: "Well, All Right" November 7, 2026 "I don't think this was a bad game, but I'm a bit baffled by all the praise and high ratings. The prose is serviceable, although there's a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews NODE [7,3]: "Explore data files on a computer to uncover a crime" November 7, 2026 "I almost didn't play this game, since it mentions lewd ascii art and strong profanity, but I found it not really objectionable at all (in..." - See full review

A new listing for Why Don't You Dance, by Lucian Frost November 7, 2026 An interactive fiction adaptation by Lucian Frost, after the short story by Raymond Carver (from "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," 1981). Written in Inform 7.

Mike Russo reviews The Very Last Night I Spent at Ethelred Estate: "Poe-taster" November 7, 2026 "More than any other genre – yes, I’m including you, hard sci-fi – horror depends on rules. This is maybe a counterintuitive..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tableaux Vivants: "Still life with puzzles" November 7, 2026 "I have a lot of admiration for IF authors who come to the scene via one of its two main branches – choice-based and parser – and then..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Pegasus Crew: "Flashback drawbacks" November 7, 2026 "Here’s a typology of CRPGs, take it or leave it: some are epic sagas where the main character is deeply tied into the business of the..." - See full review

A new listing for Starling, by Kevin Flanagan November 6, 2026 A Zeroth-person braindeath. Feat. Lawrence Stern.

EJ reviews The Flourishing: "The Flourishing review" November 6, 2026 "The Flourishing is a surreal, dreamlike work that appears to be about the difficulties of artistic expression and choosing the life of an..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Rat: "The Rat review" November 6, 2026 "In The Rat, you play as Fox, a sort of project manager for a group of criminals carrying out a heist at the home of a bat-themed..." - See full review

EJ reviews Out by Midnight: "Out by Midnight review" November 6, 2026 "Over the past ten years or so of IFComps, Art DiBianca has firmly established a niche of puzzle-box-style limited parser games. No..." - See full review

A new listing for Once Upon a Wound, by Xavier Carrascosa November 6, 2026 Once Upon a Wound is a personal horror game. Venture into the gloomy forest and uncover the five revelations. Can you survive the truth?

A new listing for The Seventeenth Name, by Nexa Lab November 6, 2026 A short, choice-driven browser mystery about an evacuation register and a missing name. Follow two of three leads; your choices affect which options become available later. The story has four endings and...

MathBrush reviews An Unlikely Demon: "Semi-Optimization game for killing mobsters Final Destination-style " November 6, 2026 "This game has a peculiarly interesting structure. It's kind of like the classic 'Verdeterre' gameplay style (popularized by Ryan Veeder's..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Monster at the End of This Game: "This game is messing with you" November 6, 2026 "In this game, the main character you control is your antagonist; the character is frequently messing up your plans. This is also a game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews On Repeat: "Out of the loop" November 6, 2026 "We are many years on from the times when Karl Rove bestrode the country as the dark impresario of the right, and the increasing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Purgatory: "Redemption deferred" November 6, 2026 "I don’t tend to have many unpopular opinions or hot takes, both because I’m generally a pretty easygoing let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny 4: "Mind the horn" November 6, 2026 "“Everything in war is very simple,” Clausewitz tells us, “but the simplest thing is difficult.” The same is true in the business..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Descent: "A Metroidvania with world-puzzle rules" November 5, 2026 "I'm not sure how playable/enjoyable this game is (or would be) without a lot of familiarity with other games in Veeder's Lephrea series,..." - See full review

EJ reviews Amb fang a les mans: "Amb fang a les mans review" November 5, 2026 "I don’t speak Catalan, but for a choice-based game I’m willing to stumble through most any Romance language with my knowledge of..." - See full review

EJ reviews Devils of Terminology: "Devils of Terminology review" November 5, 2026 "Devils of Terminology is a visual novel about a detective in an alternate Victorian England plagued by supernatural phenomena. The..." - See full review

EJ reviews High School Reunion: "High School Reunion review" November 5, 2026 "High School Reunion is a short Texture game about a man attending his 10th high school reunion. While standing outside feeling anxious..." - See full review

EJ reviews Everyone's Invited: "Everyone's Invited review" November 5, 2026 "Everyone's Invited is a surreal, choice-based game in which the player character is trapped in a looping nightmare of a party where..." - See full review

常谚 reviews 勇者斗恶龙: "还有更的打算吗。💔" November 5, 2026 "我喜欢这个，更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更更⊙ω⊙"

Kastel reviews No.: "Who is the one saying no?" November 5, 2026 "I can imagine writing a game about rape culture within the strict constraints of La Petite Mort could not have been easy. With only four..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Старий в темних окулярах: "Simple game with custom parser" November 5, 2026 "I used translation and the walkthrough for this. This is a game in Ukrainian with a custom parser engine. As I don't know basic commands..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Enkii: "Smells fishy" November 5, 2026 "The best thing about Enkii’s opening is the pacing. We start in medias res, having snuck into a facility that’s harming the eponymous..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under Loch: "Avoiding the obvious pun" November 5, 2026 "Under Loch gives an initial impression of being simple to the point of trollishness: a single straightforward Twine passage narrating a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Skeletrom Crew On The Loose!: "Fall down, bones scatter / spine is like a broken ladder" November 5, 2026 "You know, we’re over halfway into the Comp (this is review number 33, but I’ve played a couple more that are awaiting their reviews,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Postgrad. Chapter one (beta): "All But Diploma" November 4, 2026 "What does a work of realist fiction owe its readers? Or to put the question another way, once a game has tipped its hand that it’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Logic Land: "Atari Screenage Riot" November 4, 2026 "Two Rybread Celsius games? In this economy? You can refer back to my previous review for the backstory, but after finding Verb Noun..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Verb Noun Adjective: "What, you hate adverbs?" November 4, 2026 "Holy crap. I know 90s nostalgia is all the rage these days – a trend that I’m not super psyched about in any objective sense, to be..." - See full review

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