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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
"EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION: Use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding. Inspired by Tabitha’s recent poll,..." - 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
74 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
sillybugs10000 reviews Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight: ">^-^<" September 30, 2025
"Fun, accessible, and satisfying little playthrough, with fun writing. Enjoyable and memorable!"
Ally reviews Wikipedia: The Text Adventure: "Clever and impressive concept for exploring real locations" September 30, 2025
"What a creative idea! This game pulls information from Wikipedia in order to build a game world for you to explore, roughly positioning..." - See full review
A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for September 2025 September 30, 2025
8 items
On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 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...
tzbits reviews Wikipedia: The Text Adventure: "Fun to explore an area you think you arleady know" September 30, 2025
"I enjoyed spending some time starting at Faneuil Hall, Boston and trying to make my way to Harvard Square in Cambridge. There were a lot..." - See full review
A new listing for Backrooms Stories, by liminal_games
Cerfeuil reviews Violent Delight: "Exceptionally bizarre videogame creepypasta" September 30, 2025
"Violent Delight hearkens back to the creepypastas I used to read as a kid about haunted videogames and cursed cartridges: games that..." - See full review
Tabitha reviews Violent Delight: "Think of the children" September 30, 2025
"Violent Delight begins with you ordering an old video game cartridge… and then waiting. For one hour, in real-time. This mechanic has..." - See full review
Cerfeuil reviews HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT: "Far better than I expected" September 29, 2025
"There are apparently two versions of this game, an interactive version and a completely linear version that shows up 1/15th of the time...." - See full review
ChanceOfFire reviews The Breakup Game: "Uplifting" September 29, 2025
"With kind and uplifting vibes, this game gently guides the player through emotional loss after a breakup, asking a series of questions..." - See full review
Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus: "I’m not just a poet, I’m a WARRIOR poet" September 29, 2025
"Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus (aka Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus, Part 1: The City of Dol Bannath) is an RPG fantasy game that follows the..." - See full review
A new listing for Sisyphe's Backspace, by Koway
Tabitha reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "An inevitable comparison" September 28, 2025
"I’ve now played all three games entered in IFComp 2025 by Lamp Post Projects (LPP; this review is going to get fairly acronym-heavy!),..." - See full review
MathBrush reviews Monkeys and Car Keys: "Difficult parser puzzler with monkeys" September 28, 2025
"I beta tested this game so I saved it for last. This is a puzzle-filled comedic parser game about recovering your car keys from a bunch..." - See full review


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