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Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Belief: "A brief journey through limbo" August 30, 2022 "This is a short game about limbo and the afterlife. The protagonist's backstory is vague. All we know is that they died from falling from..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Vespertines: "Has all the potential of being a high-quality urban fantasy game" August 30, 2022 "This is an urban fantasy Twine game about seeking refuge in a new city. On your first day in Bareport you make a monumental discovery:..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Dining Table: "A plain dating sim with an eerie twist" August 30, 2022 "This is a story about an unusual and awkward dinner date. Actually, “unusual” and “awkward” are grave understatements. A woman..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews What are you wearing?: "Not much substance to it but a lighthearted topic" August 29, 2022 "This is a Twiny Jam game of less than 300 words about a parent casting a critical eye over you and your possessions before you leave on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand: "Text input, graphics output: a short stickman adventure" August 29, 2022 "One thing I've learned from writing IF is that it's impossible to please everyone; you can make something that some people love and some..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "A touching and descriptive riddle game with beautiful text art" August 28, 2022 "This game was entered in the 2022 Parsercomp, and I helped beta test it. It came in second, but only by a fraction of some points, and is..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for August 2022 August 28, 2022 8 items On Saturday, August 27, 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 Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "A supernatural experience at a menial job" August 28, 2022 "This was an interesting game, with a mix of features that I'm not really used to seeing. It's an inform game, and it's written fairly..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews I've Attached My CV And Cover Letter: "Brilliant visual design, okay gameplay" August 28, 2022 "This appears to be a somewhat autobiographical story about a game designer creating a cover letter for a job interview. It is a familiar..." - See full review

A new listing for Esto no es a lo que se refieren por comida flameada, maldita sea, by Ironic Lark

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Second Floor: "A choice-based zombie game with fantastic visual effects" August 27, 2022 "It is the midst of an ongoing zombie apocalypse. Night has fallen and your best option for shelter is a small hotel, perhaps one with..." - See full review

A new listing for Révolution Diabolique, by Chris Conley

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews A Walk in the Country: "A search for a horsehair extension in the countryside" August 26, 2022 "You are strolling along the countryside with the intention of finding a horsehair extension. Apparently, horsehair extensions are made..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Orpheus: A Tragicomedy in Six Parts: "A humorous Twine take on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice" August 25, 2022 "Review title: A humorous Twine take on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice This game is a fanciful retelling of the Greek story of Orpheus..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Kinetic Mouse Car, Twine games with gorgeous gradient backgrounds August 23, 2022 12 items These are Twine games that make heavy use of gradient backgrounds. This excludes Twine games that use a variety of single colour backgrounds. Those too are wonderful but do not fit this list. There is...

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Star Hunter: "An absolute marathon of an empty game" August 23, 2022 " Star Hunter begins with "You wake up, ready to make yourself incredibly rich in the forgotten ruins of the Tartuest sector." Sounds like..." - See full review

A new listing for Malefactor, by adeptus7

A new listing for The Hallowed Halls of Archenjuld, by Westley Kossuth

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Pageant: "A unique take on a beauty pageant with a complex protagonist" August 22, 2022 "Our protagonist is Karen Zhao, a high school junior from Massachusetts. Her full name is Qiuyi (Karen) Zhao, but she goes by Karen. One..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Afflicted: "Mm-mmm (or maybe not)" August 21, 2022 "You are a health inspector conducting your rounds in the city’s dining establishments. Today on the list is Nikolai’s Bar and Grill,..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Ataraxia: "A notably polished RPG Twine game about joining an island community" August 21, 2022 "The story is one of finding a place in a welcoming community. You have been granted a cottage in a town on a new island and have access..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Swedish Dads: "Catchy start on an important topic but sadly incomplete" August 20, 2022 "Paid parental leave in Sweden has led to a change in parenting methods. Many fathers are now considered as "Stay-At-Home" dads, a concept..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Winograd Matrix: "The Winograd Matrix" August 20, 2022 "Richard Holeton, John Barth of the Eastgate Systems era, is known for Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, one of those pioneering twentieth..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Space Cruiser Panic: "Panic at your own risk" August 20, 2022 "You are a passenger on a ship called the Space Cruiser DONTPANIC. It is just a basic business trip until an alarm goes off while you are..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews FIELD WORK: "Fascinating" August 19, 2022 "This is a surreal game about a branching train of thought inspired by field research in a rainforest. Everything is sensory. The smell of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Won't Get Her Back: "A single challenging chess puzzle" August 19, 2022 "This is the latest in Schultz's series of chess puzzles, some of which have a series of increasingly difficult simple puzzles, some of..." - See full review

News on The Impossible Stairs: Dialog Source Code Available August 19, 2022 The Dialog source code for this game is now available on the game page.

MathBrush reviews October 31st: "Monster hunter extraordinaire in haunted house" August 19, 2022 "This is a detailed Adrift game set in a haunted house. You encounter many classic monsters (werewolf, ghost, vampire, mummy, etc.) and..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Naughty Neural Net: "A sci-fi take on Santa gift-giving" August 19, 2022 "It is the near future. Earth’s population is nearly 10 billion and the old days of flying in gifts via reindeer have become obsolete...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Recess At Last: "...yay?" August 19, 2022 "The school year is currently in the dead of winter. Most recesses have been spent indoors but today's sunshine changes that. Today will..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Snowed In: "Underdeveloped but nice suspenseful atmosphere" August 19, 2022 " Snowed In is a cat-and-mouse-get-eaten-by-a-grue game. While on vacation the protagonist visits a forest and becomes stuck in a blizzard..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Seastalker: "Is this the bottom?" August 18, 2022 "To start: I love Nancy Drew, and I had high expectations for an Infocom partnership with Jim Lawrence. Seriously! Seastalker was authored..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Sorcerer: "The Sagging Middle of the Enchanter Saga" August 18, 2022 "I've learned that my disappointment with Sorcerer is a minority opinion, but it has garnered its share of ambivalent reviews over the..." - See full review

Hendursaga reviews Sheep Crossing: "Your Grandma's River Crossing Puzzle" August 18, 2022 "This is the standard "Wolf, Sheep & Cabbage" river crossing puzzle, but with a few minor twists. Beyond the source code and Easter eggs..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "Elegiac and affecting" August 18, 2022 "I beta tested this game. My game Sting is also listed in the author’s note as one of its inspirations, a paragraph ahead of such lesser..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Anonymous Connection: "Making anonymous connections in the strangest of situations" August 17, 2022 "This game is about the feasibility of forging human connection during extreme and anonymity-strict reality with special attention on how..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise: "Fun but insubstantial" August 17, 2022 "The story behind this game is that you are board of your cushy job. You work as a commodities trader at a bank. It pays well but the most..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Won't Get Her Back: "A narrative chess puzzle" August 17, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a series of impressions than a full review – and full disclosure, I don’t even get to the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: "A very strange, very British mystery" August 17, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a short series of impressions than a full review) One of my favorite games of last year was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Euripides Enigma: "An epic-sized space adventure with a complex path to victory" August 16, 2022 "This is the 14th game by Larry Horsfield, counting all the ones listed in the credits, and is so think the fourth or so I’ve played...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Impossible Stairs: "An impossible follow-up" August 16, 2022 "(I beta tested this game, so this is more a short series of impressions than a full review) If ever there was a tough act to follow, The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lantern: "Lost and gone forever?" August 16, 2022 "A couple days ago as of this writing, Sylfir’s games vanished from itch, without so far as I know any explanation. I’ve seen..." - See full review

A new listing for The Winograd Matrix, by Richard Holeton

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Impossible Stairs: "Delightful puzzles, easy gameplay, and a touching ending" August 15, 2022 "You are CJ, a young man standing outside of the family house surveying the damage from a storm when a mysterious woman throws a paper..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cost of Living: "A promising experiment that doesn't pay off this time" August 15, 2022 "We’re getting close to the end of the Comp now (of the remaining five games, I’ve beta-tested four of them, and the remaining one has..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "Funny title, stripped-down game" August 14, 2022 "Hey, python game, you still around? I know I said some mean things about you, but it wasn’t anything personal; just a little tough..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Radio Tower: "Aesthetically pleasing, basic design" August 14, 2022 "A game gains a lot by its setting, especially, perhaps, parser IF – back when dinosaurs ruled the earth in the early aughts, I remember..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Escape from Cluster Zeta: "Creative concept but lacking in design" August 13, 2022 "You are an Ensign on a ship called the Invisible Hand. Its mission is to ferry goods to different locations, but the last job ran into..." - See full review

Raven1 reviews I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!: "ok, this is just a 6 years old kid game." August 13, 2022 "Welp, all of the good review like 5 start is just clone account or it's just a trolling comment, This game is TRASH, boring and nonsense."

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews A Day for Soft Food: "Not your typical housecat" August 13, 2022 "You are a housecat hungry- no, ravenous- for soft cat food. Usually, you turn to your owner for such things, but he has not been himself..." - See full review

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