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N. Cormier reviews Under the Bridge: "Survival of the Creepiest" November 20, 2022 "In Under the Bridge you’re a (small) eldritch abomination, one of the last of your kind, and you’ve taken shelter under a bridge in a..." - See full review

anjchang reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "enjoyable premise and easy to play" November 19, 2022 "It brings back memories of going to chain restaurants and some of the people you might see. I thought it was well written and fun to..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews Lost at the market: "Dreamy but buggy" November 19, 2022 "Lost at the Market is the first game I’ve ever played in GrueScript, and from the author’s notes I think it’s the first one..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews Witchfinders: "Helping people by day, brewing potions by... also day" November 19, 2022 "Witchfinders is a short twine game that is, as you may have guessed, about people who find witches. The twist is, you’re not a..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Being Andrew Plotkin: "A postcard from Zarf's insides." November 18, 2022 "Quick recap: the protagonist of the movie/game finds a magic door that leads into John Malkovich'/Andrew Plotkin's mind. Shenanigans..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews The Counsel in The Cave: "All The World's A Stage" November 18, 2022 "I was excited to see a magical realist game show up in the Comp as it’s something I like but don’t see often, especially in video..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Nineteen: "An earnest look into transgender identity and personal growth over time " November 17, 2022 " Nineteen is about the author’s experience with gender identity during an important milestone: Turning 19. The story looks at personal..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews [IFComp 22 - Beta] Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency: "Two detectives, no brain cells" November 17, 2022 "Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency is a game you can get a very accurate read on from just the title and summary. You’re an amnesiac..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "Saturday Morning Superhero Action" November 17, 2022 "A Matter of Heist Urgency bills itself as “An Anastasia the Power Pony Story”, although as best I can tell this is the only..." - See full review

PaulieWog reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Hilarious and Very Re-Playable" November 16, 2022 "The hilariously intriguing title definitely sells the promise of this very well-written and laugh-inducing choice-based game. Incredibly..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Cutthroats: "The Second Game in Infocom's "Bad Nautical Games" Duology" November 16, 2022 "Infocom released both Seastalker and Cutthroats in 1984. These two back-to-back releases reviewed poorly (relatively speaking, as Infocom..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews The Grown-Up Detective Agency: "What's past is prologue " November 16, 2022 "This game is the latest in a series that includes Bell Park: Youth Detective and Birdland. Birdland in particular is a special game to me..." - See full review

N. Cormier reviews Star Tripper: "A Space Trading Sim" November 16, 2022 "Star Tripper is a game that’s not trying to sell itself very hard. The summary consists of a single sentence, describing itself as..." - See full review

ccpost reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Haunting story with inventive gameplay" November 16, 2022 "This is a deeply affecting game that grabbed me from the beginning with an eerie atmosphere, and then continued to enthrall me with..." - See full review

ccpost reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Ingenious take on post-apocalyptic fiction" November 16, 2022 "There's a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction out there across all mediums -- comics, books, movies, games, etc. -- and there's a lot of..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Glimmer: "Brief game with a simple but powerful message" November 16, 2022 "This is an earnest, vulnerable game with a powerful message. The game proceeds as the player progresses through a series of quietly..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Nose Bleed: "Short Story IF with an interesting conceit and play mechanics" November 16, 2022 "Nose Bleed is an unsettling short IF work that explores the themes of social anxiety and debilitating self-doubt through an interesting..." - See full review

A new listing for Grandma, by Oliver Lomax

Andrew Schultz reviews Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick: "Groundhog Day for kids" November 15, 2022 "One of the things you have to face when you are writing a SpeedIF is, what should I leave out? It's stuff you'd rightly get destroyed for..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Grounded in Space: "Naughty Spaceboy" November 15, 2022 "You should think your parents would be proud of your advancements in rocket science and pyrotechnics, what with all the effort you put..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer: "A light snack of a game about reviewing zombie brains" November 14, 2022 "This game has a pretty simple concept and executes it well. You are a zombie who has just completed a tasty meal of brains, and so you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Starlight Shadows: "Assemble your super team and fight" November 14, 2022 "This is a speed-IF written in 4 hours or less. It's written using Dendry. Basically, you're at a party and need to assemble a party of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews BLACKOUT: "It's the end of the world. What do you want to do?" November 14, 2022 "This is a speed-written IF game using the Twine system. In it, the singularity has happened, but technology is giving humans exactly 7..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews origin of love: "Love poem about romantic encounter with a husband" November 14, 2022 "This brief game is essentially a poem about physical love between the main character and their husband. It is simultaneously explicit and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews ZIT: "A brief, pustulent game about a horrendous zit " November 14, 2022 "This is a surprisingly polished game for 4 hours (I've said that a lot this comp, I wonder if this shows that I don't use my time as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt: "Excellent gothic horror choice game, currently a WIP" November 14, 2022 "I loved the part of this game that is currently complete. It's a well-style gothic horror game involving you and an old acquaintance,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Kinetic Mouse Car, Storybooks for young audiences November 14, 2022 6 items There are already several polls about games for kids, but I wanted to narrow it down a bit. This list is for games with artwork that, regardless if it were the author's intent, give the impression of reading...

MathBrush reviews Zombie Eye: "A brief but frightening Adventuron game about a zombie eye" November 14, 2022 "This is a pretty surreal Adventuron game with images and a little music about confronting a giant Zombie eye in the London Underground...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Something Blue: "A riff on gothic horror and folk tales through letter rewriting" November 14, 2022 "This is a charmingly complex game for one written in less than 4 hours for a speed-IF. You are essentially a protagonist in a gothic..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Blood Island: "What could possibly go wrong?" November 14, 2022 "In a nutshell: Slasher horror + Reality TV + Dating sim = Blood Island This is the only ChoiceScript game in the 2022 IFComp. Blood..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Restitution: "A classic story with a small addition involving reader response" November 14, 2022 "This game is part of a group of similar stories. Other such games by this author have consisted of a classic short story with modern..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews HSL Type Ω MEWP Certification Exam: "A multiple choice certification quiz with extensive manual (but spooky)" November 14, 2022 "This gave me a chuckle, especially as a high school teacher. The game consists of two parts: a 1000-line text manual and a 35-question..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cell 174: "Grimdark prison interview" November 14, 2022 "This game, written in Ink in 4 hours or less, has you, apparently a psychologist, interviewing a cold, emotionless killer. You have to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews MARTYR ME: "A torture/religious game written in 4 hours or less" November 14, 2022 "(I discuss some body horror stuff in this post, so squeamish may want to skip) This is a speed-IF made for Ectocomp. In it, you play as a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD.: "A brief Choicescript tale about a troubled ocean voyage" November 14, 2022 "This is a speed-IF written in 4 hours or less, written using Choicescript (which is a hard engine to do speed-IF in). It features a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Untitled Ghost Game: "A time management game where you make your house as creepy as possible" November 14, 2022 "I had a lot of fun with this game. Modeled on Untitled Goose Game, your goal is to cause trouble. Specifically, you have 6 hours before..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews One More Page: "A text message horror game written in 4 hours or less" November 13, 2022 "This is a relatively brief choice-based game with an interface written in Ink that mimics text messages. You are texting your mom and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Nightmares Within Nightmares: "A series of cyclical nightmares with inter-connected puzzles" November 13, 2022 "This is a Twine game where you have three dreams in order, over and over again, about dying. Each dream is fairly brief, with 2-3 or 4..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey: "IFComp 2022: Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey" November 13, 2022 "Andrew Schultz has a nervy knack for swervy snacks that train take you to a brain break, and if all the play’s pain slays sane, then at..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Good Ghost: "A lovingly written short story about a ghost protecting a family over time" November 13, 2022 "This game is written with Twine and takes place in five acts, each of which is brief but meaningful. You play as a ghost that finds..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Vivienne Dunstan, Viv’s top 10 favourite IF games November 12, 2022 10 items This is a list of my top 10 favourite IF games, in chronological order of release. There are many other games that I think are fantastic, but this is trimming the list down to just my all time top 10, as of...

MathBrush reviews The Sun Doesn't Shine Here: "Untold horrors in a changing labyrinth with giant story twist" November 12, 2022 "This game is based on cosmic horror. You and two companions have been trapped in a shifting labyrinth for days, trying to find your way..." - See full review

Ifaddict reviews To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1: "To Persist/Exist/Endure/Give Up" November 12, 2022 "A part of the game description goes: Agency Of Neverending Happiness and Clearing Out Monsters From Under Your Bed! We offer assistance..." - See full review

Ifaddict reviews Inside: "Strange Tour On A Witch's Mind " November 12, 2022 "Inside, in a nutshell, is an INK-written game about exploring and finding the way out of the witch's mind which is filled with memories..." - See full review

A new listing for Warsim: The Realm of Aslona, by Huw Millward

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Esther's: "Mice are nice" November 12, 2022 " At Esther's cafe your adorable host / Served cheese to the mice when they wanted toast! / That won't bother Harold's robust appetite, /..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Enigma of the Old Manor House: "A pleasant, methodical ghost-hunting parser game" November 12, 2022 "This game was made in 4 hours, but has about a dozen beta testers, and it makes sense, as it is very polished. This is a game where you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Haunted Help Desk: "A maze full of whacky horror-fied coworkers" November 12, 2022 "This is a Twine game with a neat little map in the corner showing all the rooms in a kind of maze. You navigate around with a score..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Defrosted: "Freezer burn horror" November 11, 2022 "In the far future, climate change has done a number on planet Earth. Glaciers are melting. After a particularly large melt scientists..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Zombie Blast 2023: "Zombie defense minigame written for Ectocomp" November 11, 2022 "This is a fun little whack-a-mole game written in Choicescript for Ectocomp in the Grand Guignol division. In this game, you have a..." - See full review

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