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Mike Russo reviews 5e Arena: "A gamebook simulator with a little too much bookkeeping required" June 18, 2022 "5e Arena is neither fish nor fowl, straddling the gap between choice-based IF and a combat-focused gamebook. I’m only glancingly..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Confessing to a Witch: "A nice teaser, but no gameplay yet" June 18, 2022 "So much like Adrift, this is a teaser for a yet-to-be-completed game; much like Adrift, it made a favorable impression on me and I’d..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A D R I F T: "Alternate-history space teaser" June 18, 2022 "(So the annoying title is actually clever, because the added spaces indicate the letters are drifting apart from each other – get it,..." - See full review

A new listing for Shelter, by Lucas Fox

A new listing for Evangelical Escape, by JamesAggression

A new listing for Stonequest, by David H. Strelitz

A new listing for Dragon Quest, or A Twist in the Tail, by Ed Churnside

A new listing for Portrait Dungeon, by Paul Coppins

A new listing for Advent X-5, by J. D. Casten

A new listing for House of Secrets, by David Blease

A new listing for The Ecdysis demo, by Hari Prasath S

Mike Russo reviews The Bones of Rosalinda: "She's a skeleton. He's a mouse. They fight necromancers." June 17, 2022 "Oh, what a lovely way to wrap up the main festival (I beta tested the remaining quartet of games)! After a rewarding but, I have to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews externoon: "Character-driven roadtrip in need of a tuneup" June 17, 2022 "On paper, externoon should be the kind of thing I dig. It’s a grounded look at a woman trying to externalize her feeling of being..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Fall of Asemia: "The spoils of war" June 17, 2022 "An arty, experimental piece, The Fall of Asemia engages with timely themes: I wish its melancholy story of an occupying army destroying a..." - See full review

A new listing for Holography, by Emily Short

A new poll by Fredrik Ramsberg, The most enjoyable Z-code games created June 16, 2022 74 votes for 28 games I'd like to compile a list of some of the most enjoyable games available in Z-code format (blorbed or not). Please add games that you thoroughly liked, and vote for games already on the list. Everything from...

A new listing for The Eighth Continent 2: The Chasm, by Ben Garrett, Patrick Garrett

A new listing for The Eighth Continent, by Ben Garrett, Patrick Garrett

A new listing for Mysteries of the Cave, by Tyler Johnson (Ya Boi Tyler)

A new listing for Mysteries Beyond the Arch, by Bryce Mino

MathBrush reviews Heaven's Vault: "A graphical exploration and archaeology game " June 16, 2022 "This game is by Inkle, a studio that has made numerous interactive fiction games. While this game has many non-textual elements, the text..." - See full review

A new listing for Heaven's Vault, by Inkle

Mike Russo reviews Hinterlands: Marooned!: "Live. Die. Repeat." June 16, 2022 "Has an IF sub-genre ever gone from the ridiculous to the sublime to the ridiculous as efficiently as the one-move game? To my knowledge..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Baby on Board: "Underimplemented, awkward, and confusing" June 16, 2022 "Baby on Board’s blurb foregrounds what sounds like a cool idea – its Perplexity engine aims to create parser games playable entirely..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip: "An intriguing multiplayer test-bed" June 16, 2022 "What with parenting a teething baby whose sleep schedule is as high-stakes as it is random, my life right now is not especially conducive..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sweetpea: "Bad dad" June 16, 2022 "I’ve always thought that it must be really tricky to write in the gothic mode. Play it too straight, and you get a standard horror..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Darkness of Raven Wood: "Darn Werewolf!" June 15, 2022 "A disturbing letter has come from your old friend Raynard, the blacksmith in the town of Raven Wood. A new lord has come to inhabit the..." - See full review

A new listing for The Darkness of Raven Wood, by John Blythe

Mike Russo reviews The Legend of Horse Girl: "Weird Western puzzler" June 15, 2022 "Confession time: I recognize that there’s some real heft to the complaint, stated forcefully by A Single Ouroboros Scale and by many..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Super Mega Tournament Arc!: "Sometimes more is less" June 15, 2022 "Folks remember Indigo Prophecy, right? It was Quantic Dream’s breakthrough game, a studio which later gained even more attention for..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Single Ouroboros Scale: "On legacy, forgetting, and IF communities" June 15, 2022 "Immediately after playing Hypercubic Time-Warp All-go-rhythmic Synchrony, I came across another game with challenging bleed-through..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Older, Not Wiser: "A meditation on mortality; also, older women steal things" June 14, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story, a part of Fallen London that is available to subscribers or purchasable separately at a higher price. In..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fading to a Coda: "Help a revolutionary attack the sitting powers" June 14, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story, an additional piece of content for Fallen London that is available to subscribers, or for purchase for an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Codename: Sugarplum: "A supernatural spy thriller" June 14, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story for Fallen London, an extra piece of content that subscribers receive and which can also be purchased..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hypercubic Time-Warp All-go-rhythmic Synchrony: "Unsettling" June 14, 2022 "Ooof. This is a tough one to get to grips with. Partially that’s down to the content of HTWAS: it’s a cut-up series of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Computerfriend: "Blisteringly powerful imagery" June 14, 2022 "Computerfriend is hard to describe, but as I was searching for ways to communicate what it’s about, a shorthand popped into my mind and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tours Roust Torus: "Compelling man saga" June 14, 2022 "I’ve played and enjoyed a bunch of Andrew Schultz’s recent games riffing on board games, but have to confess that I’ve often found..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Queen of the Elephants: "Solve a bizarre string of robberies " June 13, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story for Fallen London. Exceptional stories are chunks of additional content for subscribers which can also be..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Totentanz: "Hold a dance to kill the dead " June 13, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story from Fallen London, a piece of additional content for subscribers that can also be purchased separately. In..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Stretch in the Sky: "A jailhouse drama with three odd characters" June 13, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story for Fallen London, a kind of additional content that subscribers get. This story features a prison with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mistress of the Skies: "Class warfare through magic makeup" June 13, 2022 "This is a Fallen London exceptional story, a chunk of additional story-focused content available to subscribers (or on its own, for a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Haudrauf-Battleboo: "A german game book about combat and economy" June 13, 2022 "This is the final German IF Grand Prix 2022 game I played. It's a static pdf that's a gamebook. You keep track of an inventory, health,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Roger's Day Off: "Friendly vibe, punishing puzzles" June 13, 2022 "Roger’s Day Off wants to be a lark. A parser-choice hybrid, it has an entertainingly zany premise (use a time machine to do some..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Wry: "A lightly-ribald farce" June 13, 2022 "Well, this is a funny one – funny odd and funny ha-ha. The premise of this one-room-parser game is, uh, slightly novel: as an insurance..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Bright Blue Ball: "Teaching a dog new tricks" June 13, 2022 "Most of the Spring Thing games I’ve played so far have been relatively intense, so it was kind of nice to get another low-key entry..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Die Polarstation: "A short german Commodore 64 game about crashing in antarctic" June 12, 2022 "In this game, you crash-land near an abandoned arctic station and have to find your way to civilization. I was worried at first, as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The House of Silk and Flame: "A spider-centered Exceptional Story" June 12, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story, a bonus piece of content for subscribers which can also be purchased by itself at a premium. This story..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Adornment: "Trapped in an elevator with a smuggler, a golem, and the God of bling" June 12, 2022 "This is an Exceptional Story for Fallen London, a kind of content that comes out once a month to people with a subscription, or can be..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Orbital Decay: "Easygoing hard sci-fi" June 12, 2022 "For all that its plot hinges on a lone astronaut’s attempt to escape a doomed space station before it falls out of the sky, Orbital..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews New Year's Eve, 2019: "Chilly but compelling" June 12, 2022 "I don’t usually second-guess myself when I have a review that’s out of line from the main thrust of opinion on a game – different..." - See full review

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