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A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for April 2022 April 29, 2022 8 items On Thursday, April 28, 2022, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even...

MathBrush reviews Baby on Board: "Voice-activated interactive fiction game about taking a baby to daycare" April 28, 2022 "I helped beta-test this game. This game uses a custom parser first developed in Kidney Kwest, but with a twist: it's intended to be..." - See full review

A new listing for Les choix de Wyn, by Julien Falconnet

JonathanCR reviews Lord of the Rings: Game One: "Frustrating, strange, uneven in tone, but weirdly gripping" April 28, 2022 "It puzzles me somewhat that Melbourne House's The Hobbit remains one of the best-remembered games of the 1980s (that's all games, not..." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews The Master of the Land: "Something is always happening somewhere" April 28, 2022 "Truly feels like being at a festival - the overheard gossip, the dancing with strangers, the drama and fights you might witness, and the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Beneath the Stones: "A woman falls into a strange complex under standing stones" April 28, 2022 "This is a mid-length Twine game where you play as a visitor to some standing stones who is sucked into the ground and deposited in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bigfoot Bluff: "A sort of cryptid sandbox game where you try to photograph bigfoot" April 27, 2022 "P.B. Parjeter is an author best known for complex twine works, usually long and intricate. This seems to be the first parser game by this..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Tavern Crawler: "Fun, accessible hypertext adventure" April 27, 2022 "I used to play a lot of RPG's for console systems (e.g. Final Fantasy and the like), though I fell off of them because they tend to be..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Fyleet: "Monumental Mainframe Masochism" April 27, 2022 "Stone the crows, the missus'll never believe this 'un! I have destroyed the evil Demnos and his temple, raized the fort to the ground and..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure: "Off the Leash" April 27, 2022 "This is one of the best Adventuron games I've played, from the author of last year's The Faeries of Haelstowne, which I also enjoyed. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Box: "A literal puzzlebox written in a custom engine" April 27, 2022 "I beta tested this game. The Box is written in a new parser engine designed by Winters, which includes a hybrid form (like Dialog or..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Computerfriend: "Bad therapy from a computer 'friend' in a dystopia" April 27, 2022 "I have a bit of trouble writing a review for this game, as the first couple of times I started it I realized I hadn't retained any..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Good Grub!: "Q: What do you call a blood-sucking, barbecued insect? A: A Mesquite-o." April 27, 2022 "This is a short lecture on the merits of eating insects, written as if delivered by an annoyingly self-righteous person who has cornered..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Bright Blue Ball: "A cute but dramatic story about a dog and his ball " April 27, 2022 "This is a story intended for beginners, and I believe may be the author's first published game. It's a brief parser game with a dog..." - See full review

Felix Pleșoianu reviews The Wizard's Castle: "A genre-adjacent cult classic" April 26, 2022 "I'm not sure The Wizard's Castle counts as interactive fiction. Rather, it's a text-based RPG with a keyword parser. If anything, it has..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Good Grub!: "Buggy" April 26, 2022 "Bugs are delicious! Really! I’ve tried them and they are! (mealworm burger and barbecued grasshoppers if you’re curious) Good Grub is..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Filthy Aunt Mildred: "A Twisted History" April 26, 2022 "When I read the title of this game I assumed that the word "filthy" was meant in the sense of "sexually offensive". Surely everyone has..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Alone: "Fill 'er up." April 26, 2022 "In the near future, you are a survivor of the plague. And you have just run out of gas. Fortunately there's a gas station nearby... Alone..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Fairest: "*Achichooo!* now where's that feather blown to?" April 25, 2022 "The intro of Fairest places the player firmly in well known fairy tale territory. You're a prince with two stepbrothers. Now blow on this..." - See full review

jdh reviews Beautiful Dreamer: "Wanted More" April 24, 2022 "The world I liked a lot. I liked the feeling of exploring it and wondering what strangeness would come next. Intriguing ideas. I wasn't..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Crow Quest: "A short, amusing story of a crow with nice graphics" April 23, 2022 "This is a visually very nice game, and funny, too. It's a short twine game where you play as a crow with an attitude and intentionally..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews externoon: "Thoughtful musings on life and running away, with game-breaking bug" April 23, 2022 "This is a game written in Squiffy, which is based on the engine that Quest uses but is choice-based. You play as someone who walked away..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Fall of Asemia: "Archaeology and translation game with audio and glyphs" April 23, 2022 "This is an interesting experiment, reminicscent of Heaven's Vault or Short's First Draft of the Revolution, but I think it falls a bit..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Filthy Aunt Mildred: "A tale of a dark and twisted family, told through twine" April 23, 2022 "This is a Twine game with few options, more of a kinetic fiction than a game per se. It's also one of the most effective uses of such a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews fix it: "OCD/anxiety/sensory processing simulator" April 23, 2022 "This is a compact twine game where you attempt to go about your day despite a minor annoyance. The bulk of the game is a long loop about..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews George and the Dragon: "Fantasy game with some 3d graphics and required login" April 23, 2022 "This game requires you to create an account with an email and name and to accept cookies, which felt like a lot. I used a burner email..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Good Grub!: "Smugness simulator: Edutainment about eating bugs" April 23, 2022 "This game's tone reads like a game parody of Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'well, actually' twitter posts (like when he pointed out that leap day..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Graveyard Shift at the Riverview Motel: "Six horror stories told through real-time mechanisms" April 23, 2022 "This game is an interesting experiment in involving real-time in text games. Basically, there are several storylines going one in..." - See full review

DB reviews Baby on Board: "In which we might better embrace conventions" April 22, 2022 "OK so this is going to be a bit of a review of my thoughts on Perplexity as experienced through this game perhaps more than it's a review..." - See full review

DB reviews A D R I F T: "In which I am certainly missing something, but will have to revisit" April 22, 2022 "OK, it has to be said: it was weird for me personally to see this as a title rather than the development system. I know not everyone had..." - See full review

DB reviews Hinterlands: Marooned!: "Interact with the Q'udzlth and die... and die... and die..." April 22, 2022 "Bare. Only interesting bit is one monster description, and that's bluntly standard Lovecraft pastiche. Hints suggest that this Spring..." - See full review

DB reviews The Box: "Short puzzlebox-escape-the-room type adventure" April 22, 2022 "The Box is a thin setup for a short puzzlebox-escape-the-room type adventure. Nothing necessarily against a thin setup, just go into this..." - See full review

DB reviews fix it: "Psychological grounding trainer best read as internal monologue" April 22, 2022 "fix it is a short practice for a psychological grounding exercise. It's earnest and admits in the end that "it isn't always easy." The..." - See full review

penguincascadia reviews Formula 1 Basics: "Broken Link" April 22, 2022 "This actually isn't a review- I just wanted to point out that the link to the game right now is broken. "

MathBrush reviews The Legend of Horse Girl: "An amusing and mostly-solid western story with grotesque humor" April 22, 2022 "Bitter Karella has been making games for many years now, but I think this is the best one I've played so far, for my tastes. You play as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hinterlands: Marooned!: "One-move game about you, an island, and a monster" April 22, 2022 "This is a short, one-move game from the author of the iterative Locked Door series. You are alone with a hideous monster on a planet,..." - See full review

A new listing for Formula 1 Basics, by Natalie Gore

Jade68 reviews Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip: "A lovely story intriguing to share in company." April 21, 2022 "MA TIGER'S TERRIBLE TRIP Congratulations Mo Travis, you have got it. I have played the game with my son twice for two hours, second..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hinterlands: Marooned!: "Thought-provoking perspective." April 21, 2022 "A short but insightful game that must be played several times to fully grasp and appreciate. Marooned! gives an in-depth..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Hole Man: "A giant game with many endings, with few rules" April 21, 2022 "This is a very large Twine game. I think of all structures Sam Kabo Ashwell mentioned in his 'Standard patterns in choice-based games',..." - See full review

DB reviews Sweetpea: "Contemporary gothic chaos with a happy ending" April 20, 2022 "It's hard not to be drawn to Sweetpea's striking cover art. It really speaks to the full level of commitment that went into the entire..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews You, Me and Coffee: "A rainy afternoon witz a coffee and an old friend." April 19, 2022 "YOU, ME AND A COFFEE The first thing I have to talk about is that “you” seems to represent many people, more than ten I presume...." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Digit: "A parser choice options game with few options." April 19, 2022 "I have played this game for a while and the scheme is, as described in documentation, a barely talk / examine game where you travel all..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Let's Talk Alex: "A bit of psychologist for an unestable couple relatonship." April 19, 2022 "So if you are Alex it is supposed I am Andra. A short and very imaginative (low cost psychology) game where we can see how a couple try..." - See full review

SkyDave1 reviews Lost Pig: "Pleasant surprise when gnome examines you!" April 19, 2022 "Yeah this was fun, I was a little rusty, and got stuck, eventually needing a peek at the walkthrough, but just a peek. "

MathBrush reviews Let's Talk Alex: "An accurate depiction of a controlling/abusive relationship" April 19, 2022 "Whew! This game brought back a lot of memories. It's a game that doesn't take too long to play. You are a person with an abusive..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews New Year's Eve, 2019: "Awkward party simulator with meta-commentary" April 19, 2022 "This is an intricate Dendry game where you spend New Year's Eve at a party with your parents, friends and acquaintances. You've burned a..." - See full review

News on Mansion: Release 2 Now Available April 18, 2022 I finally fixed the bug that prevented completion of the game. It took me twelve years but hey, better late than never, right?

TheMarlboroMan reviews Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win: "Murder in a small package" April 18, 2022 "I initially hesitated to get into this piece because it was labelled as "religion", which I thought could be rather controversial or..." - See full review

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