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MathBrush reviews A Walk Around the Neighborhood: "A charming compact game about getting everything ready to go outside" October 20, 2022 "This one-room parser game has about 20 endings, of which I found 3 (one significantly more difficult to achieve than the others). You are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews INK: "Surreal, abstract game about loss and ink" October 20, 2022 "This is a Texture game, involving dragging commands onto nouns, one of several written in a writing group and entered into IFComp. This..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "scavenger hunt-style game with a dark undertone" October 19, 2022 "CWs as given in the starting screen: violence, implied murder, and implied animal cruelty You are assistant to baker Benoit in this small..." - See full review

A new listing for Reclamation, by groggydog

verityvirtue reviews Under the Bridge: "the monster under the bridge finds a home" October 19, 2022 "CW: gore, violence You, the narrator, are the monster under the bridge. Prowling in the night to catch unwary travellers. There is gore;..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews JELLY: "Fun and memorably weird" October 19, 2022 "I love Chandler Groover's stories, and this one is no exception. It's minimalist but makes great use of what detail exists. Each location..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "brief vignette of a psychic for hire" October 19, 2022 "You are a psychic for hire at this grungy late night diner, and you have one job: make people buy Schtupmeister beers. There seems to be..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews You are Standing at a Crossroads: "Old favorite" October 19, 2022 "An old favorite, so I had to give it five stars. I like "trapped in a strange world" stories, and this one delivers. The repetition,..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews The Pool: "fight the monster of our own making, but self consciously" October 19, 2022 "The storyline is a familiar one, of course. The narrator remains generic throughout, without a place on the lab team, and in fact so do..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews The Lottery Ticket: "Chekhov short story adaptation described as “stateful narration” " October 19, 2022 "The Chekhov story is framed as something someone is reading on her phone - this results in a whole lot of text, and multiple parallel..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews i wish you were dead.: "Well-written, but buggy game" October 19, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a heart-broken and suspicious off-again-on-again girlfriend. Your girlfriend is texting with..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews CHASE THE SUN: "How will you handle the apocalypse?" October 19, 2022 "In this choice-based game, you play as a woman fleeing from a massive storm that is sure to wipe out everything in its path, somehow..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "Explore an abandoned ship with a faulty AI" October 18, 2022 "This is a Twine game with a significant world model. In it, you explore a ship you've crashlanded on which is empty except for an AI..." - See full review

A new poll by Kinetic Mouse Car, Globe-trotters created October 18, 2022 11 votes for 8 games This is for games where the PC travels to different countries. The focus of the gameplay is on the travel part, the experience of not just the destination itself but also the mechanic of reaching it. ...

RadioactiveCrow reviews Prism: "A world of mysterious and unplumbed depths, in more than one sense" October 18, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a former street kid turned courier, scraping out an existence delivering packages to those much..." - See full review

walktothesun reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "A profoundly inspiring and deeply moving experience" October 18, 2022 "Though I have considered myself a fan of gaming, broadly speaking, for most of my life, I see myself as essentially brand new to..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Choice of Robots: "A sweeping sci-fi tale with emotional resonance" October 18, 2022 "I absolutely love this game. I've been exploring more and more Choice of Games as I really like their balance of game-like elements..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lazy Wizard's Guide: "A custom web-parser game about completing a magical examination" October 18, 2022 "There's a long tradition of games about completing a magical education, including early games like Enchanter and more recent games like..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by MathBrush, Games where you fix a broken spaceship October 17, 2022 22 items A lot of games are about being in a broken spaceship and having to fix it. Here's a list! Some games don't really fit, or only have a few parts involving fixing a ship. I left a lot out where you woke up in...

MathBrush reviews Crash: "A fix-the-broken-spaceship game with plenty of hints and multiple npcs" October 17, 2022 "This game is a fairly hefty parser game where a spaceship is sent spiraling off into space with only one person, you, in it. You have a..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Witchfinders: "Making a living while trying to live" October 17, 2022 "In Witchfinders, you learn what it means to be an empathetic witch at the wrong place at the wrong time in history. Or any type of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lost at the market: "A surreal gruescript game about being lost in life and playing music" October 16, 2022 "So I have to shout out this author for being the first person to release a Gruescript game in a competition outside of Robin Johnson..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Tin Mug: "Meant for children but can be appreciated by adults" October 16, 2022 " The Tin Mug is a short game about working together to pull off a celebration. The protagonist is Tin Mug, and today is its birthday. The..." - See full review

kaemi reviews i wish you were dead.: "IFComp 2022: i wish you were dead. by Sofia Abarca" October 16, 2022 "Relationships are innately allegorical, a liturgy of symbols the deify manifold particulars into universal abstracts; the thousand..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Star Tripper: "Rescue your sibling and dominate as starship captain" October 16, 2022 "You are blissfully working in your home lab when an urgent message from your older sibling arrives. They have been kidnapped by pirates..." - See full review

A new listing for Purpose, by Christopher M.

A new competition page: 28th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2022) created October 16, 2022

MathBrush reviews The Counsel in The Cave: "A short surreal game about graduation and finding yourself" October 15, 2022 "This brief Ink game follows two teens, May and Jason, who are graduating soon and preparing to head off to college. They stroll through..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Headlights: "Brief, custom web parser surreal game " October 15, 2022 "This is the third game by Eric Zinda with the Perplexity engine. The first two games were intended to be played with voice, I believe,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Arborea: "A very large puzzler parser game themed around trees" October 15, 2022 "This is a very large IFComp parser game where you in a sort of simulation trying to find a 'kernel' of some sorts. The main area is a..." - See full review

A new listing for Night Train, by Evan Farris

MathBrush reviews Jungle adventure: "A custom python parser game with ascii art but fiddly interactions" October 15, 2022 "This seems exactly like the kind of game that would be made by a talented and energetic individual who had never played a text adventure..." - See full review

A new listing for By Any Magic Means, by TheMidnightMage

RadioactiveCrow reviews HOURS: "Haphazard and buggy, didn't enjoy it" October 14, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play a soldier during the Shogun era of Japan (I think? It mentions Shoguns, but also your name is Jack)..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Glimmer: "Very short and lacking in choices" October 14, 2022 "This story, hard to call it a game since as far as I could tell the game had no real choices, is about a person (you, the PC) going..." - See full review

A new listing for Black River Prison, by Sparks

Rovarsson reviews A Walk Around the Neighborhood: "Honey, where are my keys?" October 14, 2022 "Oh! I had a lot of fun with this. A seemingly simple objective that leads to all kinds of shenanigans. Who knew getting ready to go out..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews According to Cain: "A biblical tale with a dark retelling, plus alchemical magic" October 14, 2022 "I helped beta test this game. The idea of this game is that you are part of an alchemical society that possesses the ability to travel..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "Who are these people???" October 14, 2022 "For a while, this game appears to be a very straightforward quest to gather ingredients for baking. I got pretty far just using common..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Princess of Vestria: "A long, well-fleshed out fantasy adventure about saving your brother" October 13, 2022 "I beta-tested this game, so I won't post a score until after IF Comp. This is one of the longest games in the competition. It's a Twine..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Fun idea worthy of multiple playthroughs" October 13, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a psychic marketing agent for a lousy beer company. Your job on this night is to order the latest..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Nose Bleed: "This one just didn't work for me" October 13, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as... someone. A non-descript person with a desk job, whose nose continually starts and stops bleeding..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Prism: "Listen to the Staticophone" October 13, 2022 "“We’re too young for nostalgia, sparrow. Go live a life worth reminiscing about.” These are the final lines of the introductory..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Alchemist: "Ezekiel Throgmeister" October 13, 2022 "A mysterious light Burns all through the night In that house where some people say An alchemist dwells With books of his spells And a cat..." - See full review

tamburp reviews Magician's Voyage: "The feeling of a warm hug - wrapped up in a game." October 13, 2022 "Magician's Voyage brings together a vivid, eclectic cast and thrilling world building for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There's..." - See full review

A new listing for The Child Miners, by Shaquele Roberts

MathBrush reviews i wish you were dead.: "Heartbreak in twine: a relationship comes to an end" October 13, 2022 "This is a brief Twine game about a painful breakup of a relationship. I have to preface this by saying that I didn't play the actual..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "A very brief RPG-style game about being marked and fleeing" October 13, 2022 "In this Twine game, you play as someone born as a Beast, someone who is marked with a strange symbol. You have to run away to a place..." - See full review

A new listing for A Space For Flavor, by Ben Holloway

TestTubeHuman reviews Skulljhabit: "The Skulldigger Life" October 13, 2022 "No idea what Dampe the gravedigger is, but "Harvest Moon meets Ligotti" means I had to play this one. (Used Firefox, but unlike the other..." - See full review

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