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MathBrush reviews Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey: "Double rhyming through a manageable surreal landscape" October 9, 2022 "This is a wordplay game by Andrew Schultz, the third in a series involving double rhymes (like the name of the game itself). I found it..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Approaching Horde!: "Dizzying at first but surprisingly fun" October 8, 2022 "The onset of the zombie apocalypse begins right as you are watching TV. With the world thrown into chaos, fellow neighbors become fellow..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Thanatophobia: "A chatbot game where you help a woman deal with a troubling figure" October 8, 2022 "This game has a fairly unusual format. Like parser games, you type in text and get a text response. Unlike parser games, it's not..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Only Possible Prom Dress: "A complex and rich puzzle game in a mall with very large map" October 8, 2022 "This game is a sequel to Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, a game a couple decades old. When I first played IF in 2010, I downloaded the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Prism: "IFComp 2022: Prism: A Tale of Heterogenous Futures" October 8, 2022 "“What am I for? How do I do what I am for?” asks the city to itself, and you the courier reply, judging the answer from the linkages..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Lost Coastlines: "An ocean sandbox." October 8, 2022 "(This review is based on the IFComp 2022 version) I’ve been on a most adventurous journey through Dream World. I visited enchanting..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "World of robots." October 8, 2022 "I played this game last sunday in IFMUD. This is a great exploring game with an original plot where we have to explore a 8x8 map and..." - See full review

ArloElm reviews One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World): "Blood and Viscera, Comedy and Romance" October 7, 2022 "This game is witty, profane, disgusting, clever, and very, very funny. It critiques the prison industrial complex, satirizes modern(-ish)..." - See full review

ArloElm reviews Esther's: "Get the Kids into Interactive Fiction Early" October 7, 2022 "Esther's is a very short game, about 5 minutes of read/play time, and that is a perfect length for a game that models itself after a..." - See full review

verityvirtue reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "comic noir: the world is candy" October 7, 2022 "In the best tradition of noir crime fiction, you are a private eye, tasked by the police to find out who murdered Gum E. Bear. The world..." - See full review

A new listing for Good day to have a good day, by Benjamin Wilcks

RaoulPersaud reviews Scene Kid Simulator: "So familiar" October 7, 2022 "I was actually a scene kid in the early 2000s and this was very well observed. Funny, quick and forgiving. A really fun little story..." - See full review

A new listing for The Squat Machine, by Roo Pescod and Hamish Adams

Rovarsson reviews Arborea: "Puzzle Tree" October 7, 2022 "The aptly named Arborea starts off as you enter a simulation of a Vast Forest. Setting a game in a simulation is a great IF trick that..." - See full review

ArloElm reviews The Thick Table Tavern: "Beautiful Gameplay, Fun Mixing Minigames" October 7, 2022 "This game has really gorgeous UI, a story mode, and several arcade modes. You play as a bartender in a fantasy universe (think typical..." - See full review

leechykeen reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Exactly What It Says on the Tin" October 6, 2022 "Short and sweet, with tons of funny and creative details! I normally just play games through once, but I felt compelled to play this game..." - See full review

G. Faregan reviews Crash: "Spaceship maintenance" October 6, 2022 "This is a well implemented puzzle game set on a spaceship. You play as a maintenance worker with a growing to-do list of things to fix,..." - See full review

G. Faregan reviews The Thirty Nine Steps: "Spy thriller" October 6, 2022 "I really like what this game is trying to do. You are dropped into a spy thriller and must choose from a list of actions when presented..." - See full review

G. Faregan reviews Trouble in Sector 471: "Robots" October 6, 2022 "This game is similar to "Inside the Facility". In this game you are a robot on a mission to exterminate creepy bugs in a facility..." - See full review

G. Faregan reviews CHASE THE SUN: "I liked it" October 6, 2022 "This is a short branching CYOA style game in which you play as a woman in a wedding dress driving away from an apocalyptic storm behind..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Into The Sun: "la, la, la, I'm not here..." October 6, 2022 "Those were the words going through my mind as I looted the storage lockers while hiding from a xenomorph monster. In this game you play..." - See full review

A new listing for The Hunter and the Hag, by leechykeen

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Who Shot Gum E. Bear?: "Sweet and sour forensics" October 5, 2022 "You are Bubble Gumshoe, a private eye tasked in solving the murder of Gum E. Bear in Sugar City. Gameplay The game begins at the crime..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews 4 Edith + 2 Niki: "Minimalist Romance" October 5, 2022 "This game is just about as brief as they come. There were so few details that I didn't really get any imagery in my mind. However, it did..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "The Mystery Unfolds..." October 5, 2022 "Somewhat of a mystery, this game has the player exploring around for clues. However, there is more going on than a run-of-the-mill..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Hidden King's Tomb: "Gloomy tomb" October 4, 2022 "(this review is for the IFComp 2022 version) Your backstabbing fellow archaeologist/explorer/graverobber pushed you down a catacomb. Find..." - See full review

Blake reviews Wishbringer: "Enchanting" October 4, 2022 "I play interactive fiction intermittently, as life often has me too busy to dig into larger games. I decided that I was tired of missing..." - See full review

A new listing for Scene Kid Simulator, by leechykeen

Rovarsson reviews Crash: "Just another day on the job..." October 3, 2022 ""♫♪♫...tum te dum te dum... ♪♫♪" While you're waiting for this airlock to cycle open, you take a look at your task-list...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Hanging by threads: "A city of webs that is tough to untangle" October 3, 2022 " Hanging by threads kicks off with an exciting and clever intro. You and a group of people are traveling to the city of Oban when the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Elvish for Goodbye: "IFComp 2022: Elvish for Goodbye" October 2, 2022 "Continuity of place records the fragments we scatter within it. Though we can never create a complete picture of the peopling into..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Zero Chance of Recovery: "Ooooh! A new challenging chess problem for brainstorming" October 2, 2022 "I played and enjoyed this game in IFMUD last week testing online with Andrew S. (Thank you Andrew). We were playing the game in the..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Reeah, My favourite games October 2, 2022 13 items These are some games that I have really enjoyed playing. If you are new to interactive fiction and don’t know where to begin, these are some games I have really liked and I think you will too. The games...

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Absence of Miriam Lane: "Seemingly gone, name forgotten. But maybe there’s hope." October 2, 2022 "You are contacted by a man, Mr. Lane, who explains that his wife is missing. For some reason, no one can remember her name. With more..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews Esther's: "A cute interactive storybook" October 1, 2022 "In this short game, you play as a mouse, with another mouse friend, who tries to communicate their brunch order to a human. There are a..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "Survive as an archivist in a hostile future world" October 1, 2022 "I loved the concept of this game, where you decode archival information from bacteria and decide whether or not to keep the information...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Afflicted: "Lend me a hand, now won't you?" October 1, 2022 "The gruesome horrors a sanitary inspector must endure on the job may be exactly what you needed to face what awaits in "Nikolai's Bar &..." - See full review

A new listing for Zero Chance of Recovery, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran

A new listing for You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book, by Austin Lim

A new listing for Witchfinders, by Tania Dreams

A new listing for Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes

A new listing for A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb

A new listing for Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden

A new listing for Under the Bridge, by Samantha Khan

A new listing for U.S. Route 160, by Sangita V Nuli

A new listing for Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca

A new listing for Traveller's Log, by Null Sandez

A new listing for Tower of Plargh, by caranmegil

A new listing for To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1, by Anthony O

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