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MathBrush reviews Zero Chance of Recovery: "A famous chess endgame in a puzzle format" October 26, 2022 "I've avoided playing chess most of my adult life. so I never learned about famous endgame positions and puzzles. I've learned a few..." - See full review

A new review of Drool - From the Author "When the World Wide Web first arrived in 1994, I was an admin at a university far from my home in Boston and I was delighted to see..." - See full review

News on Project Revival Jam 2: The deadline has been extended 2-days. October 26, 2022 The jam was about to meet it's end, but we're keeping it alive! The deadline has been extended 2 days. You now have about 3 days from this post to submit your jams! We don't extend jams so you can add more,... - Details

A new competition page: Project Revival Jam 2 created October 26, 2022 They know you abandoned them, and they're back for revenge. Maybe it's a project you have long-since forgotten. Maybe it's a half-finished experiment gathering dust in your lab. Maybe it's an idea that...

Fabio G reviews Flamel: "FANTASTICA" October 26, 2022 "La più bella avventura testuale a cui abbia mai giocato, ti tiene incollato dall’inizio alla fine. La frase chiave “La festa di..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Pool: "(Don't) Dive in" October 26, 2022 "All it took were the words, "research institute that studies aquatic life," in the game's description for me to tell myself, "I have to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Tower of Plargh: "A decidedly undercooked parser game" October 26, 2022 "Almost any game can be polished up and made great. This game needs a lot of polishing. This is a parser game that puts you in the middle..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book: "A conglomeration of literary references in a surreal twine game" October 26, 2022 "This is another surreal Twine game based on exploration (after just having played Lucid), but I'm happy with that since it's one of my..." - See full review

A new listing for Spooky Times, by Luke Strange

A new listing for Snowman, by M. Chamberlain

MathBrush reviews The Last Christmas Present: "A text memory of a real-life Christmas present with Harry Potter themes" October 25, 2022 "This game definitely seems like a good contender for the Best Use of Multimedia XYZZY award specifically for its map 'feelie' attached to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lucid: "Surreal imagery, time loops, and visceral images" October 25, 2022 "This is an interesting game, and kind of intimidating at first. Basically, you are in a surreal landscape, perhaps a dream. There are..." - See full review

A new listing for The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Arborea: "Starting Program Arborea..." October 25, 2022 "This game is not a mere skip through the forest, I can tell you that. The subject of Arborea is hard to summarize in a sentence. I have..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I don't feel fine" October 24, 2022 "In this choice-base game, you play as Em, an archivist in post-apocalyptic world, who just got laid-off. History is a bit unclear, but..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews [IFComp 22 - Beta] Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency: "A long and rich comedy detective game with shares-one-brain-cell duo" October 24, 2022 "This is quite a large and complex Twine game that has a lot of humor. It's about a mysterious male protagonist who wakes up and seeks the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Anton Chekhov short story with lightly interactive framing story" October 24, 2022 "This is the second 'stateful narration' game I've played. These games have an engine where you type something in a box (the game requires..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Tin Mug: "A cute, short choice-based story about a mug come to life" October 24, 2022 "This is a game intended for kids about a magic cup that comes to life, written with the Strand system, which is the system used for the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You May Not Escape!: "A procedurally generated maze with some symbolic elements" October 24, 2022 "I really enjoyed Charm Cochrans previous game, and I was surprised at how different this was compared to that. That one was a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "A decadent and grimly humorous illustrated twine game about a terrible town" October 24, 2022 "This is a lavish Twine game that has you visit a town as an apprentice baker, set on making a cake for the town's Savings Day. The real..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Admiration Point: "A blend of futuristic curation, cultural values, & personal ambition" October 24, 2022 " Admiration Point takes place several decades into the future. You play as Maria, a 3D artist at the Digital Culture Museum where she..." - See full review

kaemi reviews January: "IFComp 2022: January" October 23, 2022 "In the postapocalyptic physicalization of the shells which consume us, we wrestle life out of the myriad compounding pressures..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book: "Like an hourglass...Never mind. You are running out of time." October 23, 2022 "You wake up in an alleyway to find that someone took the liberty of performing unauthorized brain surgery on you. All you have is a key..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "A somewhat unpolished but creative candy murder mystery" October 23, 2022 "My dad use to run a video game company, and one idea he always had was to make an incredibly bloody and vicious fighting game with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Into The Sun: "An optimization puzzle set on a derelict spacecraft" October 23, 2022 "I played this game during the testing period. In this game, you run into an old, abandoned spacecraft. It's a large and confusing ship,..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "Dialogue-heavy and choice-light, but interesting story and very good writing" October 23, 2022 "In this choice-based game, you play a human in a vague, mostly fantasy, but a little steampunk, world. You happen to befriend an elf,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Matter of Heist Urgency: "A brief action-packed pony parser game" October 22, 2022 "This is a parser game where the characters are all four-legged hooved creatures. It of course reminded me of My Little Pony, similar to..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews INK: "song-like exploration of grief" October 22, 2022 "A grieving narrator finds a letter with a secret. Playthrough: 10-15 mins This short game had the cadence of song lyrics, and I found..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Am I My Brother's Keeper?: "A Texture game about a lost sister and your quest to find her" October 22, 2022 "This is a well-written texture game about a young woman who is desperate because her sister is missing. Starting with a true crime-like..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Beautiful game about finding someone who has lost herself" October 22, 2022 "Abigail Corfman has made many high-quality games in the past, so I was excited to play this one. This is a richly-illustrated Twine game,..." - See full review

A new listing for Glory of the Kingdom, by adeptus7

MathBrush reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "A poetical and philosophical fantasy story about the coming and going of elves" October 22, 2022 "This is an IFComp entry that is entirely focused on story, understanding and self-thought rather than gameplay or mechanics. The idea is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Blood Island: "Choicescript version of a dating show/slasher flick" October 22, 2022 "This is, I believe, an adaptation of an award-winning screenplay by the author, and I think it shows in the quality of the writing. In..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "A lengthy and somewhat heartwarming game about running a tavern" October 21, 2022 "As someone who's never tried alcohol, mixed drinks always seem intriguing; I always imagine they'd be like milkshakes or punch or other..." - See full review

reyryan reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "A Dissapointing Dating Simulator" October 21, 2022 "I have no idea if using the term "short" is even the right word to use for this game. It says dating simulator when there is no proper..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "a short fugitive monster escape" October 21, 2022 "You are a fugitive, running through the woods in search of safety. A highly branching but short story - I reached an ending in about 15..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Innovative Bartending Simulator" October 21, 2022 "A relaxing bartending game with both story and arcade mode,set in a fictional town with all kinds of characters appearing on the tavern..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Sword of Rhivenia: "Life As a Royal in Rhivenia" October 21, 2022 "A Hosted Games interactive fiction where the main character,the youngest of the four heirs to the Rhivenian throne, lives in an almost..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Admiration Point: "A future museum employee deals with desire for affair" October 21, 2022 "This game is a fusion of a couple of concepts/story threads. The first is a futuristic story where you are part of a VR museum curation..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Graveyard Strolls: "A Texture story about several ghosts in a graveyard" October 20, 2022 "I initially misinterpreted this game quite a bit. I found 2-3 bad endings early on and thought that was the whole game, and was pretty..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hanging by threads: "Exploring a city from Calvino's Invisible Cities" October 20, 2022 "This game lets you explore Octavia, a city described in the book Invisible Cities (by Italo Calvino) as a spider-web city hung on a great..." - See full review

reyryan reviews The Princess of Vestria: "A Princess's Adventure and Dangerous Trip " October 20, 2022 "A nice combination of interactive fiction and old rpg games,reminding me of Magium and the Great Tournament, The Princess of Vestria..." - See full review

reyryan reviews i wish you were dead.: "Deep and Tear Jerking Final Break-Up Conversation" October 20, 2022 "I'm giving it a five-star rating for the intense,angsty and extremely deep elements in all the routes. The topic is handled very well..." - See full review

allieebobo reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Bar game of my dreams" October 20, 2022 "I have a thing for bar/tavern management games - not sure why - and this pives up to all my childhood-bostalgia-fuelled expectations. I..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Cannery Vale: "One of my favorite horror IFs" October 20, 2022 "Played this one a while ago and can't stop thinking about it. Didn't expect much from the description, but the start is immediately..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Hidden King's Tomb: "A short, minimal parser game about a hidden tomb" October 20, 2022 "This is a short parser game with a premise similar to Infidel. In it, you explore an underground tomb and have to discover a way out,..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Reclamation: "Abandoned spaceship puzzler" October 20, 2022 "A classic 'explore mysteriously abandoned spaceship' game: solve puzzles and figure out what happened to the crew. Rather simple story,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews An Alien's Mistaken Impressions of Humanity's Pockets: "A short Twine game with a few puzzles about aliens inspecting humans" October 20, 2022 "This is a brief Twine game that has some complex parts to it. You play as a alien technician or researcher working in a lab with a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Approaching Horde!: "A real-time resource management zombie Twine game" October 20, 2022 "In this game, you have a brief introduction explaining how zombies have caused an apocalypse, and then you become the commander of a base..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Very short Twine game about picking a partner" October 20, 2022 "From the picture, blurb, and length on the IFComp page (which I swear used to say 2 hours, but I think I must have misread it because now..." - See full review

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