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Tabitha reviews Retrograding: "Compelling but confusing" September 28, 2025 "Originally posted at intfiction.org on September 25, 2025 This is a visual novel that drops you straight into the life of the PC with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "An all-too-real sci fi story about applying for government benefits" September 28, 2025 "I felt a strong connection to a lot of the material in this game. You are an alien visiting the Human Resources Administration to sign up..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews One Step Ahead: "Short twine game about use of AI for school" September 28, 2025 "This is a brief Twine game about someone who becomes addicted to the use of AI. It felt pretty realistic (until its turn in later..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "A mockery of those job personality tests" September 28, 2025 "This was a salient game for the current job environment. It presents a fake version of an AI-run personality test (no real AI is used)..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Your Very Last Words: "Unity game with IF and 3d elements; Mexican revolution firing squad" September 28, 2025 "This is a downloadable Unity game. In it, you stand before a firing squad, about to be killed during (I believe) the Mexican Revolution..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Saltwrack: "IFComp 2025: Saltwrack" September 28, 2025 "Humanity’s inescapable tragedy is falling asleep to an eight hour train engine POV. Squinting through room’s dark at a screen, stem..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews valley of glass: "Short game inspired by an old story" September 28, 2025 "This is a small Inform game that seems unfinished in some sense. It has a small map with one central area and four spokes. Travelling in..." - See full review

Denk reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "Funny and sad" September 27, 2025 "Being an alien disguised as a human isn't always easy. In this game you must study humans. You get a few choices where I recommend to do..." - See full review

sillybugs10000 reviews Thornfell Manor: 1984: "WHY DIDN'T I BRING A FLASHLIGHT TO A HAUNTED HOUSE AT NIGHT?" September 27, 2025 "Other than this review's title, I have a few main qualms with this game. Two are a bit nitpicky, and one is more substantial. This review..." - See full review

sillybugs10000 reviews What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: "Masterpiece." September 27, 2025 "This is a work of art. It feels very polished to play, and the puzzles are intuitive and satisfying to solve. The polish and unique..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews A winter morning on the beach: "Those darn seagulls" September 27, 2025 "You’ve been told to keep your blood pressure under control. One way to do this is by walking. Fortunately, the air is crisp, and you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Transformations of Dr. Watson: "Brief illustrated twine game about a body-hopping Watson from Sherlock Holmes" September 27, 2025 "This game is a brief, mostly-linear story (with occasional parallel branches) about being Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Rain Check-in: "Short parser game with multiple endings " September 27, 2025 "This game is a parser game where you end up parked at the end of a lonely road, ready to check into a room. Unfortunately, the airbnb (I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Temptation in the Village: "Short adaptation of Kafka story" September 27, 2025 "This author has been making solid parser games for decades now. This game is an adaptation of a Kafka work, one I had not read before,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Escape the Pale: "Stark resource management game with intermittent horrific moments" September 27, 2025 "This is a meaningful game written about a Jewish person escaping persecution from the Eastern Europe/Russian part of the world (in the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "Complete surrealism" September 27, 2025 "This is a surreal game set in the desert where you examine eight different objects and make various choices concerning them, which are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Not so Happy Easter 2025: "ZX Spectrum file about a twisted easter egg hunt" September 27, 2025 "This is a ZX spectrum game that I played on an online emulator. It worked great; the only issue I had was that I have the habit of typing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dead Sea: "A minimalist puzzly melancholic poetic game in the afterlife" September 27, 2025 "I enjoyed this game. Its intentionally minimalistic, with simple styling, short sentences, and brief paragraphs. I thought for a bit..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Dead Sea: "Item A, item B, story moves forward" September 27, 2025 "With directional choices as well as an ultra-simple inventory system and puzzles along the way, Dead Sea reminds me of a parser game, but..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Transformations of Dr. Watson: "A mystery... and some art matters" September 27, 2025 "In this tale, you play as Dr. Watson, working together with our Detective Holmes to solve a mystery. While this is a choice based IF, it..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews One Step Ahead: "Relevant themes, but is more like a draft" September 27, 2025 ""Welcome back, is there anything I can help you with?" One Step Ahead is a dystopian story about the temptations of A.I. and the erosion..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Horse Whisperer: "Under construction " September 27, 2025 "Assigning a star rating to this game was tough. As others have pointed out, this game is very very incomplete. The description mentioned..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "Bureaucracy, inefficiency and all that good stuff" September 27, 2025 "This is a pretty linear entry, with a couple of small choices with some impact on the following text, although this story is largely a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Breakup Game: "A game coaching you through a breakup" September 27, 2025 "This game has good styling and coding. I think the author will do well in the future. I believe this game was written with a specific..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A murder of Crows: "Twine game where you play as a group of crows" September 27, 2025 "This is a Twine game designed to be played in a relatively short time (I think someone mentioned that it will end after a certain number..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Errand Run: "You got me" September 27, 2025 "When I first read the description, I was expecting a game where you are given a fixed amount of money and then have to make choices on..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Island Of Rhynin: "Shoot the unstable bridge to cross it" September 27, 2025 "Despite the game’s description, this story is largely linear. You travel to an island with a companion, dealing with some challenges on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fired: "Take revenge against an awful boss" September 27, 2025 "Olaf Nowacki is a popular figure in both English and German IF, with games like Schief/Wry and Fischstäbchen/Eat the Eldritch having..." - See full review

A new poll by MathBrush, Games about uploading your consciousness or uploaded consciousnesses created September 27, 2025 20 votes for 8 games I'm looking for games where a human brain is put into a computer or is already in one.

MathBrush reviews whoami: "Very well-styled twine game about uploading a consciousness" September 27, 2025 "I played and reviewed the Spanish version of this game before. When I play a game in another language, it has an air of mystique around..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Cannot Speak: "Unfinished Ink game" September 26, 2025 "You Cannot Speak Hmm, this game is almost entirely incomplete. While several games in this competition are unfinished at various levels..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Constrained, one-room wordplay game" September 26, 2025 "This was a solidly coded and enjoyable game that I found just slightly under-clued. In it, you play as someone who gets drawn into an..." - See full review

Jaded Pangolin reviews The Path of Totality: "fantasy journey to see an eclipse " September 26, 2025 "this might be the last review i write this ifcomp (though ive played some games i haven't reviewed and i hope to still play more), bc im..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fable: "Intense and magical relationship drama" September 26, 2025 "I like Penthesileia by the same author, so I was looking forward to this. This is an intense love triangle (actually more like a..." - See full review

brapelo reviews Horse Whisperer: "Has potential!" September 26, 2025 "I enjoyed it a-lot and I hope the author puts in the time to finish it. "

MathBrush reviews Horse Whisperer: "Incomplete game about talking to racehorses" September 26, 2025 "This is an unfinished Twine game about you, a horse whisperer that now works for the mob. You have to talk to three horses and get them..." - See full review

A new listing for Butter Side Down, by Kalle MacDonald, Lachlan MacDonald

A new listing for Specters of the Deep, by Abigail C. Trevor

Cerfeuil reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "Plato's desert?" September 26, 2025 "You're in the Platonic realm of ideas or something, which has been utterly wrecked due to the desert of the real or something, and..." - See full review

A new listing for Morgana, by Brianna Bell

A new listing for The Archivist's Vault, by KitKatKate

A new listing for The Grief Gardens, by KitKatKate

A new listing for Marooned On Mazoomah, by Larry Horsfield

A new listing for The Vault of Stories, by KitKatKate

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Retrograding: "In retrospect, not the game for me" September 25, 2025 "You play as Ioanna Arcensis, a Recollection Officer for Waste Management, a department that seeks to destroy artifacts from other worlds...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "Cool idea that needs more testing and implementation (one-room amnesia)" September 25, 2025 "This game has a lot of interesting ideas (the phone dialing was especially interesting) but has deeply broken implementation. It's a one..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Violent Delight: "Horror on a timer" September 25, 2025 "This game uses the Decker system, which has a nice integration of graphics and interaction, similar to bitsy or binksy but with more..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Space Mission: 2045: "Currently unplayable" September 25, 2025 "This game depends on the author's api AI key, which is currently non-functioning, making this game unplayable. I'll update this review if..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Moon Logic: "Choice-based Zork parody with unusually constrained commands" September 25, 2025 "Someone in my life dislikes cheese, pickles, and mustard. If I spent a long time making a beautiful cheese-filled pickle dipped in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Under the Sea Winds: "Explore eels through three chapters of an Adventuron game" September 24, 2025 "This game is an Adventuron game, which was fun to see (haven't been very many this year). It's in three major parts after a brief..." - See full review

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