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archcorenth reviews The Wizard of Oz: "Great for new players and fans of the books." January 20, 2022 "In The Wizard of Oz text adventure, you move through a story rather than explore an area, like in most interactive fiction games. I think..." - See full review

A new listing for Locked Door IV: Safety In Numbers, by Cody Gaisser

kaemi reviews Past Present: "Winter TADS Jam Review: Past Present" January 20, 2022 "We have a conception of ourselves that lives like we do, in the present, open to each new moment, brimming with our mornings, redolent..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg: "Achievement-hunting fun" January 20, 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 Universal Hologram: "Pain of loss/scrambling for survival in a sim, same/different as real life" January 20, 2022 "UH was tough for me to get to replay. I thought it was mainly due to the snark of the main character, as well as Ged, the person..." - See full review

A new listing for Locked Door III: Crate Expectations, by Cody Gaisser

A new listing for Locked Door II: Fair Trade, by Cody Gaisser

Mike Russo reviews Mermaids of Ganymede: "An enticing bouillabaisse" January 19, 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 Beneath Fenwick: "Parser-feeling Twine horror with innovative features" January 19, 2022 "I have a low tolerance for horror. I see enough bad things going on in life, and realizing they are not confined gives me enough horror...." - See full review

A new listing for Codname Kitten, by Silverwing1994

fos1 reviews Past Present: "Past / Present - A Winter TADS Jam Game" January 18, 2022 "The author this story is one that might have been a Twilight episode. Very true indeed. The opening intro starts immediately in first..." - See full review

A new listing for Past Present, by Jim Nelson

A new listing for Cyberpunkdreams, by Late Night Games

A new listing for The Thirst Frontier, by Firky

Mike Russo reviews Ghosts Within: "A big mystery to get sucked into" January 18, 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 Closure: "Clever and cute, but I'm just glad it's not TOO immersive" January 18, 2022 "Closure is a potentially unsettling take on the whole escape-the-room genre, but it still has wisdom and humor. Your friend has just..." - See full review

A new listing for Locked Door, by Cody Gaisser

Mike Russo reviews A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat: "Horrible but lacking in avoirdupois" January 17, 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 Waiting Room: "Effective nursing home/geriatric wing horror" January 17, 2022 "In TWR, you're a new hire at a nursing home, and the patients seem to be dying more painfully than you'd expect. There are unexplained..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Crystal Caverns: "Enjoyable Large Old School Sprawler Of Intermediate Difficulty" January 16, 2022 "This rather large and well crafted text adventure was originally written for the Apple II in 1982 and then re-programmed for the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Unforgotten: "A character-driven adventure with some bumps along the way" January 16, 2022 "(This review was posted on the IF newsgroups immediately after the 2005 IF Comp) Clearly, I haven't sufficiently internalized the tropes..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews How the monsters appeared in the Wasteland: "Very quick and effective" January 16, 2022 "The author, like me, put two entries into IFComp this year. I think I see eye to eye with their methodology, too: don't make anything too..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Second Wind: "A grown-up but rather punishing post-apocalypse" January 15, 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 Cyborg Arena: "You've played this before, without all the technology--well, sort of" January 15, 2022 "Cyborg Arena has an unusual symmetry you will probably see if you play through a few times, and it's not hard to. On the surface it's a..." - See full review

Shadowcutie reviews The Soul Stone War 2: "The fun continues with a lot of paths to explore" January 14, 2022 "Book 2 is a great follow up to an already fun story. Book 1 felt a lot more straightforward, though admittedly it could just be me being..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hercules!: "A mythological romp that's childish in a good way" January 14, 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 After-Words: "Brevity: Wit-soul. Layout: inventive. Experience: absorbing." January 14, 2022 "After-Words is the sort of sharply designed and presented game that takes a while to get used to. It's almost too slick to adjust to at..." - See full review

A new listing for The Soul Stone War 2, by Morgan Vane

A new listing for chiaroscuro, by Kim Berkley

Rovarsson reviews Blighted Isle: "A True Adventure" January 13, 2022 "A loyal seaman of His King's Fleet, thrown off his ship in a terrible storm, thrown off his ship and into an indefinite time on an..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Dungeon Detective: "Upside down and straightforward at the same time" January 13, 2022 "Some IFComp entries give you a "why didn't anyone do this sort of thing before" feel, and Dungeon Detective definitely falls into this..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews I Contain Multitudes: "A wonky game wedded to an enticing setting" January 13, 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

Wade Clarke reviews Dawn of the Mummy: "The adventure game of the first mummy gore film." January 12, 2022 "Dawn of the Mummy is a treasure hunt adventure written in BASIC for the Commodore 64, and broadly based on the 1981 horror film of the..." - See full review

A new listing for Dawn of the Mummy, by Patrick Wullaert

Mike Russo reviews The Corsham Witch Trial: "A grounds-eye view of a bureaucracy failing a child" January 12, 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 Last Doctor: "A too-brief moral dilemma" January 12, 2022 "This quick effort provides a few moral dilemmas a doctor faces but doesn't explore them as much as I had hoped, given the strong good..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Castlequest: "A Real Trip Back To The Heady Days Of Mainframe Sessions In Messy Computer Rooms" January 11, 2022 "I have always been a sucker for old text based puzzlefests and a double sucker for old Mainframe puzzlefests (viz. my efforts at getting..." - See full review

Greg Frost reviews The Saint's Tomb: "Bring Your Character Sheet" January 11, 2022 "This is a fun little solo D&D module implemented in Twine. I played through it in about 40 minutes, and it was nice to get some of that..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Starbreakers: "A satisfying grab-bag of puzzles with a soupcon of mystery" January 11, 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 Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame: "Several grades above scrap metal, for sure" January 11, 2022 "So I was worried this game would be much darker than it actually turned out to be. Well, perhaps heavy-metal-hating adults from my youth..." - See full review

A new listing for The Daughters of the Moon, by ShaniT8

Mike Russo reviews The Library: "Disorienting and literary" January 10, 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 My Gender Is a Fish: "Self-exploration in 15 minutes or less" January 10, 2022 "I was glad I wasn't the only person worried this was a troll entry along the lines of the "clever people" who write "gender: attack..." - See full review

A new listing for Moonlight Grove, by Dax Fugue

Jade68 reviews Lost Pig: "A must play for every adventurer." January 9, 2022 "I am playing the top rated adventures. When I started to play this game I thought this was a poor one, but afterwards I enjoyed it a lot...." - See full review

Draxxar reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "Be-vare" January 9, 2022 "I got stuck three times in a row and the hints file didn't help. So I'm pretty shocked this got 1st place for a contest, unless that..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Flattened London: "An uplifting volume" January 9, 2022 "Flattened London, from the cover and title, provides a mashup of Flatland and Fallen London. It's far more the second than the first,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Brave Bear: "Bear-ly there" January 9, 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

Mike Russo reviews Wabewalker: "Buddhist adventuring that somewhat betrays its themes" January 8, 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 Dead Account: "Death, social media, and burial in/by social media" January 8, 2022 "The Dead Account closes some of the loose ends for Weird Grief (WG), the author's other entry in IFComp 2021. You work at HiveKind, a..." - See full review

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