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A new listing for The Cursed Traveller, by zachary kernick

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Redstone: "Custom choice-based murder mystery in a casino" August 11, 2022 "You are a deputy summoned to investigate a murder in a casino. The game begins when you arrive at the casino. The manager tells you that..." - See full review

A new poll by Andrew Schultz, Games where the enemy/game fourth-walls big-picture meta-commands created August 11, 2022 14 votes for 12 games Which games say something extra for quitting or save/load/restore? I'm thinking largely of parser commands, but Twine is welcome, too. For instance, a "ha ha, you're scared," when facing the big, bad...

Andrew Schultz reviews Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings: "Amusing MacGuffins and long title make for a fun brief exploration" August 11, 2022 "Long titles always give me pause. Will they indicate a long, sprawling game? Or will the game have a tight focus, as sort of a reversal..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Desrosier's Discovery: "An awkward, jokey hybrid" August 11, 2022 "In other recent reviews, I’ve banged on about one of the more interesting trends in contemporary IF, which is a breakdown in the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Anita's Goodbye: "Fit for a Jam, not a Comp" August 11, 2022 "An interesting consequence of hosting ParserComp on Itch has been the collision of traditional IF competition/festival culture with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Desrosier's Discovery: "An amusing adventure with a custom engine about a lodge" August 10, 2022 "I've been playing Parsercomp games in the reverse order of their placement. This one is pretty low on the list, but I actually had fun..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Kondiac: "A demo for a game about searching a database for visual images" August 10, 2022 "This game seems a lot like Her Story (a popular game where you search tons of short video clips interviewing a woman about a crime, and..." - See full review

A new listing for Celestial Tear Experince, by White Guardian Studios

Wade Clarke reviews SOUND: "A very short Twine two-hander about communication problems" August 10, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2020.) SOUND is sufficiently small (for me, a few minutes per play)..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Place: "Too small and non-specific existential piece with closed exercise element" August 10, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2020.) Due to this Twine's size, my whole review below must be..." - See full review

Fie reviews So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest: "Breezy puzzlefest that you should probably consult a walkthrough for" August 10, 2022 "I liked the puzzles! They fit the sort of casual, escape room atmosphere, but it felt a bit guess-the-verb and it was difficult to figure..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Muse: "A short personal essay on why I regret playing this game" August 10, 2022 "(In what follows, I thoroughly spoil this game, because I don’t think there’s any other meaningful way to discuss it. Ordinarily..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Uncle Mortimer's Secret: "Traipsing through time" August 10, 2022 "Sometimes I read a game’s blurb and it feels like it’s inviting me into an exciting adventure, or to settle into a warm, comforting..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews ConText NightSky: "A unity game with text-completion parser set in Antarctic base" August 9, 2022 "This game was originally written in Godot and ported to Unity. You play as a researcher in an Antarctic base. You need to get up, shower,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews python game: "A basic sketch of an adventuring system written in Python" August 9, 2022 "This game was entered into the recent 2022 Parsercomp. This is a python game. When it begins, it has a neat little loading animation,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Kinetic Mouse Car, Wow, it's cold in here: Waking up in cryopods August 9, 2022 8 items Stasis. Frozen solid. On ice. Cold sleep. In suspension. There are a handful of games out there that begin with the player in a cryopod (or other similar concept) at the start of the game, almost always on a...

Mike Russo reviews ConText NightSky: "Incomplete proof-of-concept for an arctic adventure" August 9, 2022 "It’s hard to write a true review of ConText NightSky, because the game’s blurb reveals that what’s been submitted falls well short..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews October 31st: "Old-school monster mash" August 9, 2022 "Welp, that’s done it. Having likened ADRIFT afficionados to sex deviants in my Euripides Enigma review, sniggering through my sleeve..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Euripides Enigma: "Some like it painful" August 8, 2022 "With its enthusiastic space-adventure opening crawl, including a prominently-featured “Chapter 4”, The Euripides Enigma makes a fun,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Kondiac: "Searching for More" August 8, 2022 "Although you’re only told it in the blurb, rather than in the game proper, Kondiac has a neat premise: there’s been some untoward..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Piracy 2.0: "Lots of fun despite a lack of "Arrr!"" August 7, 2022 "The shame! The humiliation! Tasked with escorting an infamous Space Pirate captain to justice, you now find yourself locked in the brig..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires: "A Vampire:The Masquerade game focused on motivation and emotion" August 7, 2022 "To be up front, this is probably the VtM Choicescript game I’d be least likely to recommend to the general public. This game is very..." - See full review

A new listing for Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires, by Natalia Theodoridou

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Dry Winter Alpha 1.0: "A draft of a post-apocalyptic story about strife following global warfare" August 6, 2022 "The game starts with an intro that explains the post-apocalyptic circumstances. In 2017 a short global war turned the planet into a..." - See full review

A new listing for Birthright, by Xiulan

Wade Clarke reviews The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee: "A game of teen secrets with a sci-fi wraparound and some narrative trickery" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2020.) I like to kick off my IFComp experience of a year with the..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews AardVarK Versus the Hype: "Hilarious sci-fi-horror comedy about a teen band, set in the 1990s" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2021.) AardVarK Versus the Hype (AVH) is an extremely funny parser..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The House on Highfield Lane: "The first Quest 6 game is sophisticated but difficult." August 6, 2022 "(A longer version of this review appeared in my blog during IFComp 2021.) The House on Highfield Lane or The House... on Highfield Lane..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Spirit Within Us: "Too-vague psychodrama with adult subject matter and a stretched custom parser" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2021.) The Spirit Within Us is a parser-driven thriller with crime and..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Closure: "Clever presentation in texting-while-snooping parser drama" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2021.) In Sarah Willson's parser game Closure, teenaged Kira has snuck..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Bigfoot Bluff: "Highly original and funny, but underimplemented, cryptid adventure" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during Spring Thing 2022.) Bigfoot Bluff is a busy parser adventure game of bizarre..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Prairie House: "Short, highly atmospheric folk horror" August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appered in my blog during Spring Thing 2022.) In Adventuron parser game The Prairie House (I'll call it..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Hypercubic Time-Warp All-go-rhythmic Synchrony: "An extension of the extraordinary Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony" August 6, 2022 "(This review first appeared in my blog during Spring Thing 2022.) Hypercubic Time-Warp All-go-rhythmic Synchrony (HC from here on) is the..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Alone: "A zombies and survival game that's quiet." August 6, 2022 "(A version of this review first appeared in my blog during IFComp 2020.) Alone is an adventure of survival set in a sparsely populated..." - See full review

A new listing for The Keepers Hut, by CatePos

Andrew Schultz reviews Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand: "Well, you can always hook ME with stick figures!" August 5, 2022 "Gent Stickman stood out immediately for me, not just for its title, but for its stick-figure drawings. My relationship with drawing is a..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Uncle Mortimer's Secret: "ParserComp 2022: Uncle Mortimer's Secret" August 4, 2022 "If Jim MacBrayne’s previous work, Somewhere, Somewhen, was vibrant but inchoate, a messy attic riddled and riddling with draft ideas,..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Alchemist's Gold: "ParserComp 2022: Alchemist's Gold" August 4, 2022 "When Graham Nelson declared that interactive fiction was “a narrative at war with a crossword”, a group of old school enthusiasts..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Of Their Shadows Deep: "ParserComp 2022: Of Their Shadows Deep" August 4, 2022 "So fragile our lives we fear both sides of the phrase: lives, what makes them ours. Inexorably receding from this ineffable vibrancy..." - See full review

kaemi reviews The Muse: "ParserComp 2022: The Muse" August 4, 2022 "There’s an annoying pseudoclever trend in big budget games where, struggling to be both cleverly poignant as an artistic work and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Uncle Mortimer's Secret: "An entertaining old-school romp through time" August 4, 2022 "Uncle Mortimer's Secret intimidated me, but at the same time, I wanted to play it. Details leak out from a game's reviews even if nobody..." - See full review

A new listing for Fellow Traveler, by robotvampire

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews They Perished: "A surreal inventory management game about a dead city" August 3, 2022 "The game begins at the edge of a dead city called Chloe. Not much is described about the protagonist, only that you are determined to..." - See full review

A new listing for Los happy days, by paravaariar

Raven1 reviews The Dead: A Story: "A good game i guest" August 2, 2022 "This game... had story. Well i guest you are like Nihilism, yeah like that. This is the story of the dead body, how it's feel like when..." - See full review

A new poll by Amanda Walker, Games Centered Around Devices/Machines created August 1, 2022 32 votes for 18 games I'm looking for games that heavily feature learning how to use a device or machine. For instance, the machine in Emily Short's Savoir-Faire, Art DiBianca's devices in the Grandma Bethlinda games, or the box...

A new poll by Canalboy, The Most Humorous Scenarios /Characters in IF created August 1, 2022 18 votes for 18 games I was recently re-essaying Castle Ralf and if you "Cogitate" in a certain location there is a seemingly authentic sequence which appears to be formatting your C: drive. As this was a DOS game from 1987 it...

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Logged In: "A look at living in a networked society" August 1, 2022 " Intro Society is managed by A.I. created by corporations. But it has not been a seamless experience for society. Oneiri Global, creator..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Fallen 落葉 Leaves: "Reflection in cycling sonnets" July 31, 2022 "The gameplay is extremely simple. Each turn, or "act," you choose two qualities from an action list and a manner list. For example, I..." - See full review

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