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cgasquid reviews And the Robot Horse You Rode in On: "I may have liked this a little too much ..." February 18, 2022 "one of the problems with IF erotica is that it's generally written in a vacuum. minimal descriptions of anything but sexual acts, shallow..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Nowhere Near Single: "A horrible, inaccurate presentation of polyamorous relationships" February 18, 2022 "Coming at this from 18 years of being polyamorous and year 15 of a committed polyamorous relationship. Okay. I'm not giving this game one..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cher journal,: "A unique concept involving a journal and a strange mechanic" February 17, 2022 "This is a French IFComp game. I think a lot of the interesting parts of this game come from the first few moments, so I'll put most of..." - See full review

A new competition page: French Comp 2020 created February 17, 2022 The 13th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Cycle" and "Révolution".

MathBrush reviews Sylvar: "Cool new system, but lots of rough edges in this brief fantasy game" February 17, 2022 "This French IF Comp game has you sent as a spy to an alchemists lair to search for evidence of misdeeds. You are equipped with a camera..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Past Present: "A game about divorce and loss told through shifting perspectives" February 16, 2022 "This is a well-coded TADS game about coming to grab your things from an empty house after a divorce. Play primarily revolves around..." - See full review

JonathanCR reviews The Chinese Room: "So... many... words..." February 16, 2022 "I'm a philosopher by profession, so I really had little choice but to play this. It does mean that I'm one of the few people (according..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Cis Gaze: "A Hyperlink Diary About Being Transgender In Public" February 16, 2022 "Cis Gaze is a short diary-like hyperlink story told from the perspective of a trans woman who experiences rude glares and misgendering..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews One Eye Open: "A beautiful gory palace, built on sand" February 15, 2022 "i'm going to come right out and say it: the writing in this game is gorgeously disgusting. the horror is real and visceral, and as you..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Cis Gaze: "Yep ... that's what it's like." February 15, 2022 "this is not a piece of interactive fiction, or even really interactive at all. it's a completely linear narrative that uses some..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Ultimate Escape Room: IF City: "Very lightweight" February 15, 2022 "There's not much to this one. A small number of rooms, shallowly implemented, many of them either empty or containing exactly one object...." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Rainbow Bridge: "Short, sweet, and somewhat lacking" February 15, 2022 "a very short treasure hunt in which you, the angel Gabriel, must return to heaven but cannot until you have collected the seven colors of..." - See full review

JonathanCR reviews The Impossible Bottle: "Brilliantly ingenious mechanic" February 15, 2022 "This is an excellent game, with a really strong central premise that opens up a whole world of intriguing possibilities. Playing this..." - See full review

A new listing for La Princesse spéculaire, by Nathanaël Marion

A new listing for Così fan tutte (prologue), by Julien Zamor

A new listing for Une Histoire, by berty44

A new listing for Les Androïdes, by Atozi

A new listing for Le secrétariat des aventuriers, by KorWeN

A new listing for Retrospection, by Hel @HelFarewell, Mylène Caillon, Cobb

A new listing for Entre le vin et le dessert [Démo], by Tristan Bruneau - Gavroche Games

A new listing for Malédictions, by Fabrice G

A new listing for Cher journal,, by dunin

A new listing for Sylvar, by KrisDoC

A new competition page: French Comp 2022 created February 14, 2022 The 15th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Reflet" ("reflection") and "Masque" ("mask").

A new listing for Locked Door XI: The US Theatrical Cut, by Cody Gaisser

Jade68 reviews Masquerade: "A romantic parser novella game." February 14, 2022 "This game starts very strightforward involving us in the story. The plot is about money, legacy, love and brutality around a masquerade..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Suveh Nux: "My brain hurts" February 14, 2022 "Suveh Nux is an escape room game with a very creative system of magical language and plenty of personality. I'm giving this game the..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Conan Kill Everything: ">KILL GAME" February 14, 2022 "A short but amusing one-room joke game that is exactly what it says it is: you are Conan, you kill EVERYTHING. There's not much to..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Ninja II: "Ninja expanded (slightly)" February 13, 2022 "Ninja II is a slightly expanded version of the original Ninja text adventure by Paul Panks. It now includes introductory text that..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Ninja: "Miniature Text Adventure" February 13, 2022 "Ninja is very brief text adventure by Paul Panks, who was apparently a rather notorious creator of interactive fiction. The game appears..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz: "It's heartbreaking that THIS was the last real Zork." February 13, 2022 "Zork Zero, i hate you. i hate your massively overblown size, mostly full of empty rooms with no purpose. i hate the excessive copy..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Spellbreaker: "Tour de force" February 13, 2022 "generally, there are two types of hard games. in a game with fake difficulty, the problem is conveying to the story exactly what you're..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: "Ugh." February 13, 2022 "wordplay games have always been a tough genre to get right. on the one hand, you want to have consistent rules for word manipulation, so..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews The Temple: "A nice old-school adventure" February 13, 2022 "a small number of locations, many of them containing nothing but scenery and background. an NPC who follows you around and can be asked..." - See full review

A new listing for Learning to Be Human, by Lynnea Glasser

Cody Gaisser reviews The Cabal: "Conspiratorial in-joke" February 13, 2022 "The Cabal is a piece of satirical adventure about infighting within the interactive fiction community (I think). It blends more..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Rameses: "Teenage Social Anxiety: The Un-Interactive Fiction" February 13, 2022 "Rameses is a semi-interactive short story about a shy, insecure teenage boarding school student with too much social anxiety to act on..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Beet the Devil: "A snappy but linear excursion" February 12, 2022 "Beet the Devil primarily shines in its writing. nearly every sentence is bursting with the PC's personality, from his individual..." - See full review

dvs reviews Zork I: "The canonical IF dungeon crawl" February 12, 2022 "It was the original mainframe Zork from the 1980's which showed me that text adventures could do more than just the two word commands of..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Jade68, Spanish gemical games by INCANUS February 12, 2022 12 items Actually there are a few active hispanic authors. Incanus is one of them. He is a prolific author of simulacionist games subgenre what means you can interact with all around described in the game. His games...

Cody Gaisser reviews Anchorhead: "A classic weird horror text adventure" February 12, 2022 "Anchorhead is a gothic horror (weird fiction) text adventure inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The story focuses on a couple who..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Identity: "A small introductory game with one tricky puzzle" February 11, 2022 "this is your basic "you wake up on a spaceship with amnesia" game. the game is small but not cramped, and the puzzles are mostly easy...." - See full review

cgasquid reviews The Algophilists' Penury: "There's almost nothing here." February 11, 2022 "i think i managed an impressive 75% on understanding the game's ... creative vocabulary. but having the ability to read this doesn't..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Anchorhead: "A stunning feat" February 8, 2022 "(this is a review of the original game, not the remastered Steam version) now, i'm not the type who tends to get through games without..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews A Matter of Importance: "Learning to follow directions" February 8, 2022 "little breaks immersion more than when the protagonist of the game refuses to follow your instructions. there's a reason why so many..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Jade68, Oldest SPANISH IF titles (released before 2005) February 8, 2022 18 items This list is a compendium of IF games founded in IFDB for the games released before 2005.

A new Recommended List by Jade68, Latest SPANISH IF titles February 8, 2022 27 items I am creating this list where everyone can find the LATEST spanish games LISTED on IFDB. The purpose is only for accesibility of those games so there is some tags (castilian, spanish, español...) wrong...

Cody Gaisser reviews fin de sickleburg: "Gothic short story with multiple endings" February 8, 2022 ""fin de sickleberg" is an interactive gothic short story about a man undressing for bed after a night at the opera. It is incredibly..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "Quest through time and space, with a Hans Christian Andersen setting" February 6, 2022 "This game takes the classic, depressing/sacrifical tale of the little matchgirl and uses it as a setting for a larger story. In the..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews fin de sickleburg: "One of the shortest game ever." February 6, 2022 "This is a very short game: a ten minutes or so. It has three different endings, it's a easy game, well written, almost simulacionist,..." - See full review

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