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MathBrush reviews Defrosted: "Man-shaped mushrooms make me maniacal" November 11, 2022 "This is a relatively brief twine game with three endings, two bad and one good. The idea is that global warming exposed a layer of..." - See full review

A new listing for Defrosted, by Riyadth

MathBrush reviews Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick: "Mad scientist time-loop game written in 4 hours" November 11, 2022 "This is a game with a fun little idea for the speed-IF portion of Ectocomp. It's hard to write a parser game at all in 4 hours, let alone..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Haunted Carnival: "Low-key haunted fun at a carnival" November 11, 2022 " The Haunted Carnival is a two-word custom parser game. While strolling through the woods you find yourself following a strange path that..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews God is in the Radio: "A tarot- and cult-influenced Halloween Visual Novel" November 11, 2022 "This is an impressive game for one made in 4 hours. It features a kind of cult or religion that has 22 members, one for each of the major..." - See full review

A new listing for God is in the Radio, by catsket

A new listing for The Dark Secret of Calming Creek, by Ededo Entertainment

MathBrush reviews Escape from Hell: "Big, puzzly hybrid parser game about possession and archdemons" November 10, 2022 "This is a complex, rich game written using a custom parser-choice hybrid system similar to Robin Johnson's Gruescript, in which you have..." - See full review

A new listing for Private, by ShameGames

MathBrush reviews Nowheresville: "An expansive city with sparse puzzles and creepy atmosphere" November 10, 2022 "This is an interesting game; there is a large city that is literally part of hell, with tons of streets and cross streets. Each area..." - See full review

A new listing for The Haunted Carnival, by Joe Lesko

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Something Blue: "A short horror story via mail" November 9, 2022 "The protagonist of Something Blue is Helen, a young woman recently married to an affluent man named Henry Compton. Great match. The..." - See full review

A new listing for Upheaval, by Alex Leone

Rovarsson reviews Escape from Hell: "Belphegor didn't want to play." November 8, 2022 "Blegh! You came so close last time! So close, but then Satan caught you escaping and threw you back. Stuffed in the body of a lowly..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Lost Coastlines: "It’s time for a nap" November 8, 2022 "This game looks at what could happen when you fall asleep and dream. Overview I want to keep myself from going on a tangent of Lost..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews MARTYR ME: "If you are going to kill me, at least do a good job" November 8, 2022 "This is an EctoComp game. Had I not known that when I first saw the swirly bleeding-heart cover art, I would have guessed that I was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy: "A goofy over-the-top short combat game speed-IF" November 7, 2022 "This is a parser game written for the Petite Mort version of Ectocomp 2022, written in 4 hours or less. The game is intentionally silly;..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer: "Undercooked" November 7, 2022 "You are a zombie reviewing a meal. I was not anticipating an undead connoisseur penning comprehensive reviews after sampling a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews There Those Dare Doze: "Quick and short wordplay game centered around rhyming pairs" November 7, 2022 "This is the the first Petite Mort game I've played this year (games writtern in 4 hours or less) and the fifth entry in Schultz's series..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Spectators: "Complex and rich historical tragedy with multiple perspectives" November 6, 2022 "This game is a fine game, one of the most complex and deep I've seen during Ectocomp. I may be making this up but I swear I heard the..." - See full review

A new listing for The Spectators, by Amanda Walker

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Campus Invaders: "You've got this" November 6, 2022 "Oh no! Aliens have arrived and the fate of the city is now in your hands. Campus Invaders is a comedic sci-fi peril story about a..." - See full review

kaemi reviews One Way Ticket: "IFComp 2022: One Way Ticket" November 6, 2022 "Midway through this our mortal life: “The train seemed to be slowly moving towards its goal. To my goal, to be exact. The iron car,..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews CHASE THE SUN: "Texture engine drives a roadtrip apocalypse story" November 6, 2022 "A woman is driving away from her wedding and the end of the world. I played through twice and got two very different endings. They were..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews U.S. Route 160: "Surreal narrative about a woman reflecting on three major figures in her life" November 6, 2022 "You play as a woman running not only from her wedding, but also her own identity and upbringing. I played through it three times, and I..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Good Ghost: "An outstanding short story that conveys much emotion" November 6, 2022 "This is such a gem. You a ghost. A friendly, benevolent one. No one can see you or acknowledge your presence, but that does not deter you..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Emerging tech; not enough game to show us its full capabilities" November 6, 2022 "Determining if a word is positive or negative from a blank input is a much more difficult task, computing-wise, than having the player..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Pumpkin: "A spooky halloween text adventure" November 6, 2022 "This game is the first released by fos1, a long-term supporter of IF through helping to organize ParserComp and other IF writing..." - See full review

A new listing for A Pumpkin, by fos1

A new listing for The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato

MathBrush reviews This Old Haunted House: "Multiple choices for making a truly terrifying haunted house" November 6, 2022 "This Inform games looks very polished and refined, unusual during Ectocomp, which often features quickly-written games. Also unusually..." - See full review

A new listing for This Old Haunted House, by Jason Love

f-a reviews You're In Deep: "very short horror" November 5, 2022 "This game was made for ECTOCOMP 2022, it is very simple and even shorter. Despite that, I still think it is a good production, the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Quintessence: "A lovingly illustrated short horror story based on Slavic folklore" November 5, 2022 "This game has really high production values. It's even got a custom loading icon! There are nice custom-styled fonts and colors and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You're In Deep: "Branching supernatural disaster game during Hurricane in Louisiana" November 5, 2022 "This game has you play as a well-prepared Louisiana resident hunkering down during a category 5 hurricane. Fortunately, you have an attic..." - See full review

A new listing for You're In Deep, by Xuelder

MathBrush reviews Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming: "Rhyming pairs in a strange parser dream" November 5, 2022 "Andrew Schultz has made many wordplay and chess games which are a lot of fun. There is a series of games now (I think the first was Very..." - See full review

A new listing for Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for The Haunted Help Desk, by Deborah Sherwood

jakomo reviews ZIT: "Get outta my face" November 5, 2022 "Another one-puzzle, one-room parser game about battling a terrifying body part, like Zombie Eye. This time it's the horror of a face spot..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Zombie Eye: "A tight cornea" November 5, 2022 "Tiny Adventuron parser adventure in which you try to rid the world of the titular monstrosity. A one-puzzle, one-room game, nicely..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt: "It’s a [spoiler]?" November 5, 2022 "An old acquaintance named Edward Harcourt writes an unexpected and peculiar letter to you stating that he inherited a title to his..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Giving self to a selfless woman" November 5, 2022 "I love the concept of this game--that a woman has lost her own identity in selfless service. The idea that we should erase our..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet: "Twine romance game about a genderfluid alien trying to fit in" November 5, 2022 "This is a prototype Twine game entered in the Ectocomp 2022 Grand Guignol competition. It is kinetic fiction, which means it currently..." - See full review

A new listing for Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Escape from Hell: "An excellent escape game from the depths of the underworld" November 5, 2022 "Here's another EctoComp (or should I say ECTOCOMP?) review. Escape from Hell is about the escape efforts of Zgarblurg, a demon spirit..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Las Cartas de Mery: "Branching Twine Tarot game written in 4 hours" November 4, 2022 "This was a fun game to finish on while playing through Ectocomp games. You are at a party that is winding down when your friend Mery..." - See full review

A new listing for Las Cartas de Mery, by Mery

MathBrush reviews Exoplaneta: "A nice, brief spanish visual novel about crashing on a planet" November 4, 2022 "I liked this short spanish Ectocomp game entered in the '4 hours or less' part of the competition; it's brief, but longer than you'd..." - See full review

A new listing for Exoplaneta, by BlueTeapot

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