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Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Swedish Dads: "Catchy start on an important topic but sadly incomplete" August 20, 2022 "Paid parental leave in Sweden has led to a change in parenting methods. Many fathers are now considered as "Stay-At-Home" dads, a concept..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Winograd Matrix: "The Winograd Matrix" August 20, 2022 "Richard Holeton, John Barth of the Eastgate Systems era, is known for Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, one of those pioneering twentieth..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Space Cruiser Panic: "Panic at your own risk" August 20, 2022 "You are a passenger on a ship called the Space Cruiser DONTPANIC. It is just a basic business trip until an alarm goes off while you are..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews FIELD WORK: "Fascinating" August 19, 2022 "This is a surreal game about a branching train of thought inspired by field research in a rainforest. Everything is sensory. The smell of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Won't Get Her Back: "A single challenging chess puzzle" August 19, 2022 "This is the latest in Schultz's series of chess puzzles, some of which have a series of increasingly difficult simple puzzles, some of..." - See full review

News on The Impossible Stairs: Dialog Source Code Available August 19, 2022 The Dialog source code for this game is now available on the game page.

MathBrush reviews October 31st: "Monster hunter extraordinaire in haunted house" August 19, 2022 "This is a detailed Adrift game set in a haunted house. You encounter many classic monsters (werewolf, ghost, vampire, mummy, etc.) and..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Naughty Neural Net: "A sci-fi take on Santa gift-giving" August 19, 2022 "It is the near future. Earth’s population is nearly 10 billion and the old days of flying in gifts via reindeer have become obsolete...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Recess At Last: "...yay?" August 19, 2022 "The school year is currently in the dead of winter. Most recesses have been spent indoors but today's sunshine changes that. Today will..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Snowed In: "Underdeveloped but nice suspenseful atmosphere" August 19, 2022 " Snowed In is a cat-and-mouse-get-eaten-by-a-grue game. While on vacation the protagonist visits a forest and becomes stuck in a blizzard..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Seastalker: "Is this the bottom?" August 18, 2022 "To start: I love Nancy Drew, and I had high expectations for an Infocom partnership with Jim Lawrence. Seriously! Seastalker was authored..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Sorcerer: "The Sagging Middle of the Enchanter Saga" August 18, 2022 "I've learned that my disappointment with Sorcerer is a minority opinion, but it has garnered its share of ambivalent reviews over the..." - See full review

Hendursaga reviews Sheep Crossing: "Your Grandma's River Crossing Puzzle" August 18, 2022 "This is the standard "Wolf, Sheep & Cabbage" river crossing puzzle, but with a few minor twists. Beyond the source code and Easter eggs..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "Elegiac and affecting" August 18, 2022 "I beta tested this game. My game Sting is also listed in the author’s note as one of its inspirations, a paragraph ahead of such lesser..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Anonymous Connection: "Making anonymous connections in the strangest of situations" August 17, 2022 "This game is about the feasibility of forging human connection during extreme and anonymity-strict reality with special attention on how..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise: "Fun but insubstantial" August 17, 2022 "The story behind this game is that you are board of your cushy job. You work as a commodities trader at a bank. It pays well but the most..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Won't Get Her Back: "A narrative chess puzzle" August 17, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a series of impressions than a full review – and full disclosure, I don’t even get to the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: "A very strange, very British mystery" August 17, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a short series of impressions than a full review) One of my favorite games of last year was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Euripides Enigma: "An epic-sized space adventure with a complex path to victory" August 16, 2022 "This is the 14th game by Larry Horsfield, counting all the ones listed in the credits, and is so think the fourth or so I’ve played...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Impossible Stairs: "An impossible follow-up" August 16, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a short series of impressions than a full review) If ever there was a tough act to follow, The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lantern: "Lost and gone forever?" August 16, 2022 "A couple days ago as of this writing, Sylfir’s games vanished from itch, without so far as I know any explanation. I’ve seen..." - See full review

A new listing for The Winograd Matrix, by Richard Holeton

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Impossible Stairs: "Delightful puzzles, easy gameplay, and a touching ending" August 15, 2022 "You are CJ, a young man standing outside of the family house surveying the damage from a storm when a mysterious woman throws a paper..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cost of Living: "A promising experiment that doesn't pay off this time" August 15, 2022 "We’re getting close to the end of the Comp now (of the remaining five games, I’ve beta-tested four of them, and the remaining one has..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "Funny title, stripped-down game" August 14, 2022 "Hey, python game, you still around? I know I said some mean things about you, but it wasn’t anything personal; just a little tough..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Radio Tower: "Aesthetically pleasing, basic design" August 14, 2022 "A game gains a lot by its setting, especially, perhaps, parser IF – back when dinosaurs ruled the earth in the early aughts, I remember..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Escape from Cluster Zeta: "Creative concept but lacking in design" August 13, 2022 "You are an Ensign on a ship called the Invisible Hand. Its mission is to ferry goods to different locations, but the last job ran into..." - See full review

Raven1 reviews I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!: "ok, this is just a 6 years old kid game." August 13, 2022 "Welp, all of the good review like 5 start is just clone account or it's just a trolling comment, This game is TRASH, boring and nonsense."

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews A Day for Soft Food: "Not your typical housecat" August 13, 2022 "You are a housecat hungry- no, ravenous- for soft cat food. Usually, you turn to your owner for such things, but he has not been himself..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Radio Tower: "Slick-looking custom parser in Godot with sci-fi and monsters" August 13, 2022 "This game was entered in Parsercomp, and I'll admit I didn't finish it (though I got pretty far!) You play as someone in a fairly..." - See full review

A new listing for Darkwood, by Elise C. Boucher

Mike Russo reviews Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand: "More than a sight gag" August 13, 2022 "This is one for the books – a parser-based text adventure where, other than a few out-of-world commands, the only text is what the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews python game: "Some digressions about 18th Century novels " August 13, 2022 "Points for truth in advertising: this is a game, kind of, in Python, certainly, and the low-effort approach to naming – and..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Dead Meat in the Pit: "A rough-around-the-edges version of a Grimm story" August 12, 2022 " Dead Meat in the Pit is a game based off a Grimm fairy tale called "Going a-Traveling.” Grimm story background In the Grimm story a..." - See full review

A new listing for The Eight Years Revolution, by Oscar Arcane

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Crafty's Escape Room: "A nifty escape-the-room puzzler" August 12, 2022 "The premise is a familiar one: You find yourself in an unfamiliar room with no clear exit. Using the resources in your surroundings you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cost of Living: "A game allowing you to reflect on a static short story" August 12, 2022 "This game was entered in Parsercomp, then taken out, then put back in. I had a hard time engaging with this game. It's written for an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Anita's Goodbye: "A promising time travel game with some rough edges" August 12, 2022 "This game was written in four days, which is very impressive given how complex it is. This is a time travel game with 3 different periods..." - See full review

A new listing for Crafty's Escape Room, by dkmGames

Mike Russo reviews Alchemist's Gold: "A low-friction puzzlefest" August 12, 2022 "There are a lot of different qualities that can mark out a piece of IF as having old-school sensibilities – two-word parsers, Zarfian..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Improv: Origins: "A funny, buggy, hard puzzlefest" August 12, 2022 "A prequel arriving more than two decades after the original series wrapped up, Improv: Origins is a funny, deep one-room puzzler that..." - See full review

A new listing for The Tower of Eamon, by Frank Black, Thomas Ferguson, and Huw Williams

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Kitty and the Sea: "Atmospheric wandering of a seaside laced with cats" August 11, 2022 "This is surreal Twine game about wandering a seaside landscape in quiet contemplation. The world is infused with cat motifs and..." - See full review

A new listing for The Cursed Traveller, by zachary kernick

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Redstone: "Custom choice-based murder mystery in a casino" August 11, 2022 "You are a deputy summoned to investigate a murder in a casino. The game begins when you arrive at the casino. The manager tells you that..." - See full review

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Games where the enemy/game fourth-walls big-picture meta-commands created August 11, 2022 14 votes for 12 games Which games say something extra for quitting or save/load/restore? I'm thinking largely of parser commands, but Twine is welcome, too. For instance, a "ha ha, you're scared," when facing the big, bad...

Andrew Schultz reviews Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "Amusing MacGuffins and long title make for a fun brief exploration" August 11, 2022 "Long titles always give me pause. Will they indicate a long, sprawling game? Or will the game have a tight focus, as sort of a reversal..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Desrosier's Discovery: "An awkward, jokey hybrid" August 11, 2022 "In other recent reviews, I’ve banged on about one of the more interesting trends in contemporary IF, which is a breakdown in the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Anita's Goodbye: "Fit for a Jam, not a Comp" August 11, 2022 "An interesting consequence of hosting ParserComp on Itch has been the collision of traditional IF competition/festival culture with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Desrosier's Discovery: "An amusing adventure with a custom engine about a lodge" August 10, 2022 "I've been playing Parsercomp games in the reverse order of their placement. This one is pretty low on the list, but I actually had fun..." - See full review

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