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Rovarsson reviews Eric the Unready: "Eric the ultimately unsatisfactory" February 6, 2022 "The Legend game Eric the Unready takes the damsel-in-distress trope and uses it as a framework for a grand tour of wacky silliness and..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews The Secret of Nara: "A branching story about a deer" February 6, 2022 "The Secret Of Nara is a pretty little twine game about a day in the life of a deer, told from the deer's perspective. The story branches..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Don't Push The Mailbox 2 And Aisle: "Layers of parody and imitation" February 6, 2022 "Don't Push The Mailbox 2 And Aisle is an homage to a game called Pick Up The Phone Booth And Aisle (itself an homage to the joke game..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Don't Push The Mailbox: "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die knock-off" February 6, 2022 "Don't Push The Mailbox is an homage to the joke game Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die. Mailbox is more complex than Phone Booth, with more..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Pick up the phone booth and Cry: "Parody of a parody of a joke game" February 6, 2022 "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Cry is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Dye, which itself is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye: "Parody of a joke game" February 6, 2022 "This is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, which itself was a simplistic joke game. The puzzle is slightly (and I do mean..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die 2: "I dunno." February 6, 2022 "This is an expanded version of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die. There's more to do, but I couldn't figure out what to do to solve it......" - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle: "What it says on the tin..." February 6, 2022 "What if the simple two-joke game Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die worked like the one-turn multi-ending game Aisle? What if, instead of..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die: "A simple joke game" February 6, 2022 "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die is based around one simple joke (see the title). There are two endings, each funny but neither hilarious...." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews 9:05: "A humorous short game with multiple endings" February 6, 2022 "9:05 is a game with a deceptively simple premise: You're asleep. The phone rings, waking you up. It's time to get cleaned up and go, and..." - See full review

A new listing for ADVII, by TerraCottaFrog

A new listing for ADV, by TerraCottaFrog

P. B. Parjeter reviews A Light in the Snow: "A retro-styled choice-based game for ZX Spectrum" February 5, 2022 "This is straightforward but well-executed short game. Even if you aren't familiar with the fairy tale the game is based on, it quickly..." - See full review

A new listing for A Light in the Snow, by Sequentia Soft

MathBrush reviews Locked Door IX: Under Obstruction: "An iteration adding a strength-based puzzle" February 4, 2022 "I think this will end my journey through the iterative puzzle games in this series. I hesitated last game due to some graphic material (a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door VIII: Enemy Mine: "Much bigger game with dwarven subplot and some disturbing parts" February 4, 2022 "I suppose I should say that this game might need a warning for either suicide or lynching, depending on how you interpret it (there is a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door VII: Out Of Line: "Some fiendish puzzles with implementation problems" February 4, 2022 "This iterative game series (each building on the one before it) has gotten to some pretty clever puzzles. I especially enjoy the puzzle..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door VI: It Takes Two: "Bigger and fancier but messier" February 4, 2022 "This edition of the iterative series (each adding new material to the previous game) adds quite a few new rooms and makes previous..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door V: Switched On: "The sage continues: multiple npcs and bigger spaces" February 4, 2022 "This edition of the iterative game series (each one building on the code of the last) improves on the premise by including a new reactive..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews D'ARKUN: "Lengthy Lovecraftian horror game in the vein of Anchorhead" February 4, 2022 "There is a long tradition of big Lovecraftian games in IF (Theatre, Anchorhead, The King of Shreds and Patches, Lydia's Heart, Ecdysis,..." - See full review

A new listing for Microworld, by Arti Haroutunian

A new listing for Locked Door X: The Workprint, by Cody Gaisser

A new listing for Bury me, my Love, by Dear Villagers

Cody Gaisser reviews Aisle: "Short story about shopping for pasta" February 1, 2022 "The premise of Aisle is simple: You're standing in the pasta aisle of a grocery store. You've got one turn. What will you do with your..." - See full review

dvs reviews Spellbreaker: "A remarkable but less entertaining conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy" February 1, 2022 "Spellbreaker is a much larger puzzle (by sheer number of rooms) than the previous two games in the trilogy. However, there are many rooms..." - See full review

IFDB site news February 1, 2022 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Exclude editorial reviews from member reviews "Play On-line" button works for zipped games Removed Download Adviser

IFDB site news February 1, 2022 Exclude editorial reviews from member reviews: In a few places, we were miscounting off-site ("editorial") reviews as "member reviews." (If you see the number of reviews has decreased, that's almost certainly why.)

IFDB site news February 1, 2022 "Play On-line" button works for zipped games: Thanks to the IF Archive's new "unbox" service, the "Play On-line" button can now play games that are only available in zipped format. For example, we now have a "Play On-line" button for Worlds Apart.

IFDB site news February 1, 2022 Removed Download Adviser: The "Show Me How!" button is gone from all games. The "Play On-line" button works great now for 98 of the top 100 free games on IFDB, and individual story files have links to up-to-date IFWiki pages like https://www.ifwiki.org/Z-code_interpreters for all of the major file formats (for non-newbies who want to try a few interpreters and pick their favorite).

cgasquid reviews Spiral: "Unintuitive and opaque" January 31, 2022 "i have mixed feelings about Spiral. when i first began playing i was sincerely impressed; it opens on a very compelling and intriguing..." - See full review

A new listing for SPS Iron Hammer, by manonamora

Mike Russo reviews Dr Horror's House of Terror: "A meaty, creepy puzzlefest" January 31, 2022 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review posted to the IntFict forums during the 2021 IFComp. My son Henry was born right before the..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "A discussion of what nostalgia is and should be" January 31, 2022 "ATY (we don't need the whole acronym) quickly establishes itself as metafiction: you, Em (short for Emerson,) are playing a distinctly..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Locked Door V: Switched On: "Episode V" January 30, 2022 "Locked door V: Switched On The fift episode is here. After my problems with eposode 4th this one has been easier. The game grews up in..." - See full review

A new listing for Every Path to Purgatory, by AngelicDirt

Jade68 reviews Locked Door IV: Safety In Numbers: "The saga continues" January 30, 2022 "A new episode from this saga. Now we have some new puzzles, continuing with our adventure. I see there is no argument given. I don’t..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Slouching Towards Bedlam: "Madness and civilization" January 30, 2022 "(This review was originally posted on the IF newgroups immediately after the 2003 IF Comp). Slouching Towards Bedlam involves..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Song of the Mockingbird: "A Western for people who don't like Westerns" January 30, 2022 "Don't worry if you don't like Westerns. I don't, and I quickly stopped caring that SotM was one. The emphasis here isn't on Western..." - See full review

f-a reviews pumpkin.jpg: "good idea, a bit of a heavy handed execution" January 29, 2022 "Surveillance state simulator. The idea was very good and drew me into the game, the execution less so in my opinion: I would have liked..." - See full review

A new listing for pumpkin.jpg, by Brandon Carbaugh

A new listing for Locked Door IX: Under Obstruction, by Cody Gaisser

A new listing for woebegone., by louey

A new listing for Bharatlands, by Anshuman Mitra

Andrew Schultz reviews The Libonotus Cup: "Jolly little game where you repair your boat for a big race" January 29, 2022 "The Libonotus Cup provided a nice break from the more serious entries which certainly had their own virtues. It's a pirate race, replete..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Off-Season at the Dream Factory: "A lovely melange" January 29, 2022 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review posted to the IntFict forums during the 2021 IFComp. My son Henry was born right before the..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Lost Pig: "A must-play text adventure. Great for beginners." January 28, 2022 "Lost Pig is possibly the most beloved text adventure around. Grunk is possibly the most endearing protagonist in interactive fiction. The..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Shade: "A good but potentially frustrating short story" January 28, 2022 "I don't know that I have much to add that hasn't been said before about Shade: It's more of an interactive short story than an adventure..." - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Slouching Towards Bedlam: "Excellent sci-fi / weird fiction" January 28, 2022 "Slouching Towards Bedlam is a short work of weird fiction in an original steampunk setting. " - See full review

Cody Gaisser reviews Taco Fiction: "A hilariously weird story of a taqueria robbery gone wrong." January 28, 2022 "A desperate person sets out to rob a taco restaurant; absolutely nothing goes as planned. I won't spoil the brief plot - you should just..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Golden Heist: "Outfoxing Nero is, happily, as fun as you'd expect" January 28, 2022 "I'm always a bit leery of ancient-history or mythology entries in IFComp, because I worry I'll have to know a lot about said history or..." - See full review

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