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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

A new listing for Stanley and the Battle for Terraria, by Alexander king

Andrew Schultz reviews Taste of Fingers: "Once you get it, ... eyowch!" January 7, 2022 "If you may need to play something through twice, it's best if 1) it's relatively short and 2) it gives you clear alternate paths through..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A New Life: "Awesome setting, OK game" January 7, 2022 "(This review was originally posted on the IF newsgroups immediately after the 2005 IF Comp) Bear with me through one more comparison: I..." - See full review

A new listing for Klondike Adventure, by James Bash

A new listing for Going rogue, by Ker

Mike Russo reviews BLK MTN: "Enigmatically fractured" January 6, 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 How it was then and how it is now: "There's emotional reasoning hidden behind the spatial reasoning here. I think." January 6, 2022 "HIWT promised to be interesting for me, as it described "two smart people walking to the center of many disasters." I like writing stuff..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Infinite Adventure: "An interactive feelie" January 5, 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 An Aside About Everything: "Great title but short on memorable bits" January 5, 2022 "An Aside About Everything seemed to promise a universal message and maybe didn't quite follow through on it, but it was still quite..." - See full review

A new listing for Horrors of the Mundane, by Elkie Yates

thefleet reviews swept up: "Short and Vague, In a Good Way" January 4, 2022 "I loved how this story walked on the line of not enough information and just enough to get your imagination running. I would love to read..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "A short time-travel story" January 4, 2022 "By means of the matches, you'll travel through time and space to various places, meet a handful of charming NPCs, and solve a dozen..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Kobold Crawl: "A charming mini randomized adventure" January 4, 2022 "This game includes a few dozen rooms presented in a random order. You're given a menu of options, which often invite you to take a risk..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity: "Unfair guess the verb" January 4, 2022 "The conclusion of the game is a fun crunchy arithmetic logic puzzle. The puzzles leading up to it are not as fun. There's an annoying,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The TURING Test: "Affable but philosophically unconvincing" January 4, 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 Recon: "Fast-paced, but critical parts may zoom past the 1st time" January 4, 2022 "Recon has maybe the coolest stand-alone puzzle in the whole comp: the bookcases that clue you to a computer's password. It's a funny..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Morris: "A tiny game with multiple solutions" January 3, 2022 "This game's central puzzle is to escape the pub. There are two ways out of the pub, numbered #1 and #2; when the game ends, it tells you..." - See full review

Matt Wigdahl reviews Dragon's Pass: "Strong tech and writing demo" January 3, 2022 "This bite-sized game is a very nice tech demo and a brief sample illustrating the high quality of Wade's writing. For more of an..." - See full review

A new listing for L'île Tristam, by Hugo Labrande

A new Recommended List by Jason Dockins, Games for Sarah January 3, 2022 9 items

Mike Russo reviews RetroCON 2021: "Inoffensive minigames" January 3, 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 extraordinary_fandoms.exe: "Friends + Learning CSS = healing and growth" January 3, 2022 "EFE in the big picture can be tied up pretty quickly. It's a story about someone who finds friends and relief on a Discord server. They..." - See full review

A new listing for Ever Soaring, Chapter One, by Matto

Mike Russo reviews The Spirit Within Us: "Light gameplay and minimal writing don't do justice to heavy themes" January 2, 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 Miller's Garden: "Quick, efficient motivation and reflection without philosophical cliches" January 2, 2022 "The author has labeled TMG as "experimental," and on my first play-through, that seemed like a cover for "heck, I'll throw something..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews What remains of me: "Too allegorical to land" January 1, 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 Unfortunate: "Missed opportunities--in relationships and gameplay" January 1, 2022 "Every year in IFComp there are a couple games with great ambition and obvious promise that have techincal errors, so things never shine..." - See full review

A new listing for The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder

f-a reviews Journey to Europe - An Adventure Where YOU Are the Victim!: "Poverty porn" December 31, 2021 "Poverty porn in a gamebook. Few choices, scant writing, stereotypical characters. I believe the idea is sound — if difficult to pull..." - See full review

A new listing for Journey to Europe - An Adventure Where YOU Are the Victim!, by Simon Christiansen

Fie reviews The Blind House: "Creepy horror game that plays with the idea of puzzlefests" December 31, 2021 "So, you're in a house staying with a acquaintance after an incident left you with nowhere else to go. Maybe you have some ideas of how..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews This Won't Make You Happy: "Better than its first impression" December 31, 2021 "(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 Smart Theory: "A brief work about cults where maybe I, myself, saw what I wanted to" December 31, 2021 "Smart Theory is a great title, from my view. I guessed what the game was about, and I was right. It's very slippery. You see, if you're..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Weird Grief: "A compelling but not fully successful portrait of mourning" December 30, 2021 "(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 Enveloping Darkness: "Logical but unemotinal narrative of rescuing your brother" December 30, 2021 "This is a short choice-based game with a relatively linear structure--you can try radically different things, but most of the time, they..." - See full review

A new listing for Kobold Crawl, by Aaron Steed

feamir reviews Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés: "A Zany Alien Encounter!" December 29, 2021 "This story brings to mind the Calvin and Hobbes comics and the Adventures of Spaceman Spiff! Arrival is a short game jam-packed with..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Plane Walker: "Promising puzzler with inadequate testing" December 29, 2021 "(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 Kidney Kwest: "Neat concept with perhaps the wrong tool for the job" December 29, 2021 "Kidney Kwest is a short game aimed at kids who need to take medication for chronic kidney disease. I admit I couldn't find details on the..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job: "A Twine game with many endings" December 28, 2021 "Twine can be used for storytelling: it can be poignant, sensitive and subtle. Or it can be used for gameplaying, with divergent paths..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Eidolon: "Mysterious and evocative Twine fiction/puzzle" December 28, 2021 "This is one of the most atmospheric and evocative Twine stories that I have read. The things you see and read on your mysterious journey..." - See full review

isa-writes reviews Minor Arcana: "Wonderfully evocative" December 28, 2021 "The writing is wonderfully evocative, weaving images both strange and fantastical to build the atmosphere of a sentient Tarot deck..." - See full review

Anthony Hope reviews The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes: "Best game description ever..?!" December 28, 2021 "Best game description ever..?!:..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Belinsky Conundrum: "Innovative but annoying format" December 28, 2021 "(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 Daughter: "Much lost in translation (I think)" December 28, 2021 "I got a bit confused by this one, and from other reviews, it seems like I'm not the only person. A very promising premise fizzles out..." - See full review

JonathanCR reviews Superluminal Vagrant Twin: "Tremendous fun" December 27, 2021 "I had more fun playing this game than almost any other IF title I can remember. The game is in some ways stripped to its bare bones: most..." - See full review

News on Tristam Island: Release 3 is out! December 27, 2021 Release 3 of "Tristam Island" was published on December 20th! This is likely the last version of the game. This new version fixes a couple dozens of bugs, is generally a bit faster, shrinks the file size by... - Details

Mike Russo reviews Gamlet: "A literary feat undermined by its puzzles" December 27, 2021 ""Audacious" doesn't begin to do justice to Gamlet. Harry Potter by way of Portnoy's Complaint with a soupcon of Shakespeare; kabbala,..." - See full review

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