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MathBrush reviews The Crew: "A micro-story in space with growing horror" November 9, 2021 "This is a fairly short horror story set in space. You wake up in a food storage area of a ship with all the food running out. You have to..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews The Last Doctor: "Treat ‘em and street ‘em" November 9, 2021 "This game is super-short, but your choices absolutely matter. You play as a doctor in a post-apocalyptic setting, struggling to treat..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Dead Account: "A view of grief through a dead person's messages" November 9, 2021 "In this game, you are a moderator of a social media site who looks through messages to a social media account for a user who is suspected..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews This Won't Make You Happy: "Fourth-wall-breaking humor" November 9, 2021 "This game has a self-consciousness of game tropes and fourth-wall-breaking that I probably would have found very deep fifteen years ago...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Haunted Mustache Pizza Delivery: "Pictures of pizza. Lots of them." November 9, 2021 "Haunted Mustache Pizza Delivery is a heck of a title, that's for sure. It reminded me of an article I read long ago, about a college..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The River of Blood: "Neat retro feel and appropriately scary/fun for EctoComp" November 9, 2021 "I always enjoy seeing more Adventuron games, because it's a good new system, and the Adventuron community is serious about producing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Deer Trail: "A long Quest horror game with good story but rough edges" November 9, 2021 "This game is fabulous plot-wise: you encounter a mysterious deer beast in the forest and track it back to a farm. There you discover a..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Kidney Kwest: "Designed for children with kidney failure" November 9, 2021 "The "Kidney Kwest" game was developed to give something to children to play while they are on dialysis. It is meant to teach them about a..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Corsham Witch Trial: "Heartbreaking tale about protecting children and the failures of bureaucracy" November 9, 2021 "In this work you play a junior lawyer, at the office late going over an old case file, while chatting online with a co-worker. As a rite..." - See full review

Ann Hugo reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "Amazing Game" November 9, 2021 "Man, this game was fun. I was completely drawn in, left me a bit dazed as I found myself in the real world once again when the game came..." - See full review

Ann Hugo reviews Fine Felines: "Wonderful Game" November 8, 2021 "Being that it’s been a while since I played this one; this won’t be a particularly detailed review. I found it to be a fun sort of..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Avon: "Avon - If Shakespeare Had Been A Stand Up" November 8, 2021 "Avon, the 1982 game from the Phoenix stable which released fifteen very challenging pieces of old school adventuredom between 1978 and..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews John's Fire Witch: "A dream of ice and fire." November 8, 2021 "It's been too long since you and John got together for some heavy liquor sampling. For some reason however, he didn't show up. When you..." - See full review

A new listing for The New World:HousemasterB:, by Kwon B.Y, Son J.Y, Lee E.S, Kim E.J.

MathBrush reviews Jack: "A horror/action parser game spread out over many locations" November 8, 2021 "This is an entry in Ectocomp 2021, in the Grand Guignol section. You play as a young person who is able to see ghosts, or at least a..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Massive effort" November 8, 2021 "There is so much to this game. I don't know if I would have had more success if I was familiar with Tumblr or had been active in an..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Shade: "Tight, well-crafted piece of short IF" November 8, 2021 "Playing through Shade felt like reading a finely-crafted short story. The game environment is small, though precisely described so that..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Off-Season at the Dream Factory: "You're the Dream Operator" November 8, 2021 "D&D fantasy elements mixed with Lewis Carroll imagery? Why not! Your character is an orc who is hired to battle adventurers that have..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Three Rogues Fight Death: "A gauntlet-style retelling of a Chaucer story" November 7, 2021 "This game, entered in Ectocomp 2021, is a brief Twine game in which you recreate the Chaucer story The Pardoner's Tale as one of the main..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Skillick's Bride: "A horror game inspired by experiences in Utah culture" November 7, 2021 "I was interested to see a game described as 'Mormon horror' on the IFDB feed. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews How it was then and how it is now: "Time has passed" November 7, 2021 "This game is very short. It is categorized in the 2021 IfComp as "Fantastic." It is surreal and abstract. The main character is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone: "A grab bag of innovative parser/choice hybrid games" November 7, 2021 "It's become increasingly hard to review Ryan Veeder's games because they're generally all the same: 'This game does something very..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives: "Fighting, politics, romance, mystery solving as a vampire" November 7, 2021 "I've enjoyed all of the Vampire the Masquerade titles from Choice of Games. The first game in the (loosely-connected) series, Night Road,..." - See full review

A new listing for Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives, by Jeffrey Dean

Tito Valenz reviews Second Wind: "Life in Shelter 5" November 7, 2021 "I am glad I didn't read the description before playing this game. It really gives too much away. It's another dystopian..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Smart Theory: "Short game" November 6, 2021 "Here is a brief comedy piece where you listen to a guest speaker lecturing at your college. He is presenting his stance on the titular..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Starbreakers: "Superstars!" November 6, 2021 "The puzzles in this game are not like common IF puzzles. Most are more like puzzles you would get in a puzzle magazine. They occur in an..." - See full review

A new listing for Historias de la familia Ferrosa, by Cobra626

A new listing for La dulce compañía, by DareDoge

A new listing for Skillick's Bride, by Rachel Helps

P. B. Parjeter reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "Quirky e-mail game with an aggressive bot" November 6, 2021 "I enjoyed what I played of this Twine game. Other reviewers have noted that there were false endings; I think I quit after the first one..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews D'ARKUN: "One of the rainiest games you will ever play" November 6, 2021 "Looking at the map of this game, I thought it would be a decent length, not too unwieldy, especially given the brisk pace up to the point..." - See full review

A new listing for Do You Suppose When Robots Dance They Do "The Human"?, by Finel

mg51 reviews Junior Arithmancer: "Scratches an itch I can't name" November 5, 2021 "I have absolutely enjoyed the experience of playing this game. I'm one of those people who likes mathematical thinking, but who hasn't..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "Funny game about email" November 5, 2021 "This game had a very strong start with lots of funny spam e-mails. Some of them are even relevant to the story later on. You play as a..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews Weird Grief: "Interesting window into another world" November 5, 2021 "This game gave me an interesting a different perspective on what it would be like to be grieving a romantic partner with someone who was..." - See full review

Rachel Helps reviews The Golden Heist: "A friendly Roman romp" November 5, 2021 "I enjoyed this short game where you steal from Nero's palace. You can choose from three companions and they change the narrative..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Jack: "I see dead people" November 4, 2021 "Solve a missing person case with a ghost partner, like Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), who only you can see. Three scenes (an apartment,..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews RetroCON 2021: " No joy" November 4, 2021 "These games are hard! I was able to win poker from time to time, and I made some money sticking with the safe bet at the horse races. But..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Goat Game: "Try Everything" November 3, 2021 "On my first playthrough of Goat Game, I was really enjoying the direction the story was taking. There was a lot going on, and the game..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by mg51, RPG-style interactive fiction November 3, 2021 5 items

jakomo reviews The Fable of the Kabu: "I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality" November 3, 2021 "A 1-bit styled super-low-res graphical adventure buit with Môsi and set in "Oniria World - the world of dreams", a popular shared..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Deer Trail: "Oh deer" November 3, 2021 "Starts off very promisingly, with a tense deer hunt, even if the game is literally telling you what to type at each prompt. Things get..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Three Rogues Fight Death: "For though myself be a ful vicious man, A moral tale yet I yow telle kan" November 3, 2021 "Interactive adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, in which the titular three rogues find treasure then trouble. The 14th..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Lookout: "You are here, and it’s beautiful, and escaping isn’t always something bad." November 3, 2021 "As in Firewatch, you've volunteered for Fire Tower duty, deep in the forest, far from civilization, and far from the personal tragedy..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Wabewalker: "Live as 3 different people until you get it right" November 3, 2021 "It took a while to update Java so that it would run Wabewalker, and it was time well spent. (Note: download Java 17--you may wish to..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Weird Grief: "Sexually explicit game about grief, so I think weird is an appropriate word" November 3, 2021 "While I don't inhabit any of the same communities as the author of this piece, that hasn't stopped me from being touched by their games..." - See full review

A new listing for Study Date, by Karrek

Andrew Schultz reviews Cygnet Committee: "Custom engine uses sound-based puzzles to good effect" November 2, 2021 "This review was moved from the authors' forum, where the author helpfully pointed out some oversights: most notably, hints are written..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina: "Doll? What doll? Oh right!" November 2, 2021 "Just saying, it's pretty easy to lose sight of your ultimate objective in this game. Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina is a beast, a..." - See full review

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