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Mike Russo reviews 4x4 Archipelago: "A full-featured CRPG" January 28, 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

Jade68 reviews Locked Door III: Crate Expectations: "Growing up the game.... hi Bob!" January 27, 2022 "Well, this is a good way of spending my time. I am expectate about how the game will go on growing. At this moment it is a 3 minutes..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Locked Door II: Fair Trade: "Going on unlocking doors." January 27, 2022 "This game seems to be part of a growing up series where every new episode impulses the development of the story a bit forward. I like..." - See full review

Jade68 reviews Locked Door: "Short beyond lunch time." January 27, 2022 "As Mathbrush said: "This game is essentially one of the coding examples from the Inform manual. It consists of two rooms, one with a..." - See full review

A new listing for Florence, by Anamika

Joey Acrimonious reviews Baggage: "Pithy parable" January 27, 2022 "What I liked: This is a short but effective tale about someone - let's call them a positive role model - who examines and questions their..." - See full review

A new listing for Excellence Corporation: Roombat, by Aliizi

A new listing for Pairidaeza, by Mostafa Haque

Joey Acrimonious reviews An Amical Bet: "Why so salty?" January 27, 2022 "What I liked: -There's a clever twist waiting at the end. What I didn't like: -Poor grammar. -The main task is rote: walking through..." - See full review

A new listing for Locked Door VIII: Enemy Mine, by Cody Gaisser

Mike Russo reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Ambitious but unfocused" January 27, 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 You are SpamZapper 3.1: "I admit, I preferred the shallower parts. Which weren't really shallow." January 27, 2022 "There's a study showing that judges give harsher sentences when they're hungry. Or that's the claim. Causality hasn't been established,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for January 2022 January 26, 2022 11 items On Wednesday, January 26, 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...

A new listing for Contrition, by A.K. Fedeau

A new listing for Bring Back A ██████ For Me, by ghostchibi

A new listing for The Diplomat, by Nakade

MathBrush reviews Cygnet Committee: "Audiovisual puzzle game investigating a rogue Joan of Arc AI" January 26, 2022 "I beta tested this game. This is a pretty long choice-based game with an expansive map. Each room has about 1 puzzle on average. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Best Man: "A chilling, well-written character study" January 26, 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 At King Arthur's Christmas Feast: "I'd read more branching interpretations like this of classical works" January 26, 2022 "I imagine a lot of us have heard of Cliff's Notes, those dreary little pamphlets that helpfully summarize plays and novels and poems..." - See full review

archcorenth reviews Cannonfire Concerto: "Good writing hampered by too simple of a plot." January 25, 2022 "This is the first game of this sort I've ever played. I suppose it's a bit like CYOA, but it keeps track of more things about your..." - See full review

A new listing for Dragonchoice - You Choose: Candidate, by Faye Upton

JonathanCR reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "A masterclass in innovative game design" January 25, 2022 "There's not much I can say about this masterpiece that hasn't already been said, but I'll give it a go anyway! I think the most..." - See full review

archcorenth reviews Excalibur: Sword of Kings: "Extremely short and simple game." January 25, 2022 "This is an extremely short and simple text adventure that you can play online in an authorized remake at adventuron.itch.io (which is why..." - See full review

A new listing for Locked Door VII: Out Of Line, by Cody Gaisser

Joey Acrimonious reviews the eternal adventures of tits magee: "The grit is palpable." January 25, 2022 "Noir drips from every pore of our hero, Tits Magee. She inhabits a world of pure style where sprezzatura is the only virtue - a gritty,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Sting: "Memories built around an unexpected nuisance" January 25, 2022 "Sting, which I beta-tested, is a slice-of-life game that never really intrudes on you or forces you to empathize. It never portrays the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Funicular Simulator 2021: "Sublime" January 25, 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

MathBrush reviews Locked Door IV: Safety In Numbers: "A compact but tricky multi-stage puzzle to open a door" January 24, 2022 "This series of games starts with a simple puzzle in the first entry (just a locked door) but adds puzzles every time. This entry is quite..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door III: Crate Expectations: "The third iteration of a minimalist game, with a real puzzle" January 24, 2022 "This version of the Locked Door series (which adds more and more puzzles to the original) introduces the first real puzzle, although its..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door II: Fair Trade: "Slightly more complex than the first game" January 24, 2022 "This game is part of an iterative series, where every new episode builds on the last. This one adds an NPC and requires a single somewhat..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Locked Door: "Almost the smallest game possible with a locked door" January 24, 2022 "This game is essentially one of the coding examples from the Inform manual. It consists of two rooms, one with a locked door and a key...." - See full review

A new Recommended List by almondmilk, Need to finish January 24, 2022 5 items Games I started at one point and never got around to completing.

A new listing for Locked Door VI: It Takes Two, by Cody Gaisser

Mike Russo reviews we, the remainder: "A parade of horribles" January 24, 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 Fine Felines: "Many meaningful choices, no bad endings. Oh, cat pictures, too." January 24, 2022 "I worried about failing to do full due diligence in replaying Fine Felines before sending my final IFDB review. It's not the game's..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Finding Light: "Shapeshifting fantasy adventure" January 23, 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 The House on Highfield Lane: "Nice-and-creepy showcase for Quest 6" January 23, 2022 "The House on Highfield Lane is a neat demonstration of Quest 6 and JavaScript. I beta-tested it, but I unfortunately wasn't able to add..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Smart Theory: "A criticism of fast-and-easy sloganistic political theories" January 22, 2022 "This is a fairly abstract Ink game (and one that I helped beta test). In it, you play as a college student roped into a demonstration..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews chiaroscuro: "An artist seeks for balance between light and dark" January 22, 2022 "This is an ink game in six chapters, each around 4 or 5 choices long. Each choice gives a page full of material. You are an artist filled..." - See full review

archcorenth reviews The Hobbit: "A relic best left in the past." January 22, 2022 "This was one of the first text adventures I ever played, maybe the first, and it taught me that text adventures were bad. I wanted to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Witchcraft U: "A promising but ultimately flawed high school magic/mafia game" January 22, 2022 "This is a recent game from Choice of Games set at a magical university. You are an adopted scion of a powerful mafia figure, and you have..." - See full review

A new listing for Witchcraft U, by Jei D. Marcade

A new listing for Locked Door V: Switched On, by Cody Gaisser

Mike Russo reviews The Last Night of Alexisgrad: "A multiplayer experiment that doesn't live up to its promise" January 22, 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 Silicon and Cells: "Cute pastel-colored text, seedy cyberverse, successful Unity effort" January 22, 2022 "I've known Unity was powerful for a while, yet maybe it was too powerful for a regular-style text adventure. There've been Unity games in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by hecuba, Text Adventure Tuesdays January 21, 2022 13 items

A new Recommended List by Ray Leandro, Hypertext-like parser IF January 21, 2022 9 items 1. Doesn't use typical parser commands. 2. Difficult to port to a hypertext system like Twine 3. The keywords you can type are usually not hinted, or the keywords are not necessarily in the text. 4. No...

Mike Russo reviews Goat Game: "Too many endings" January 21, 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 D'ARKUN: "atmospheric mystery/horror game in Dialog" January 21, 2022 "As D'ARKUN combines horror and mystery, which are two of my least preferred genres, I'll mention I still enjoyed it, because it gave me..." - See full review

A new listing for The Amiable Planet, by Yoon Ha Lee

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