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AKheon reviews The Best Man: "Slightly elusive but rich" October 4, 2021 "The Best Man is a choice-based game made by Stephen Bond, published in 2021. The suspenseful cover art and non-existent blurb both give..." - See full review

Carlos Pamies reviews Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg: "Good idea, bad execution?" October 4, 2021 "The game caught my attention at first but lost interest as I played. While the basis of the story is original and creative, the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The TURING Test: "A classic-style Twine game about creating and detecting robots" October 4, 2021 "This game feels like it would fit well in the early era of Twine. It's standard white text on black with blue hyperlinks, uses a couple..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Walking Into It: "A wholesome game about tic-tac-toe with kids" October 4, 2021 "I was playing through all the IFComp games that are in inaccessible formats, and I thought I got them all. But then I saw this game and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Plane Walker: "Surreal puzzler that seems unfinishable" October 4, 2021 "Instead of giving a review, I'd like to give a description of my experience playing. I start the game. I try 'X ME', and get the standard..." - See full review

A new listing for Rachel Has a Bad Day, by Sly

MathBrush reviews I Contain Multitudes: "Detective game on a boat with great concepts but some execution issues" October 3, 2021 "This is Wonaglot's third IFComp game, the other two being the well-received Dungeon Detective games, both placing in the top 15 and both..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Mermaids of Ganymede: "Fun story that utilizes multimedia elements to really set the atmosphere" October 3, 2021 "If you threw Europa Report, Aquaman, Abyss, The Core and maybe a touch of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets into a witch's..." - See full review

AKheon reviews The Last Doctor: "A slightly bitter pill" October 3, 2021 "The Last Doctor is a choice-based game by Quirky Bones, published in 2021. You are an impoverished doctor in a conflict-ravaged,..." - See full review

AKheon reviews The Waiting Room: "Still waiting..." October 3, 2021 "The Waiting Room is a choice-based game by Billy Krolick, published in 2021. You are a new employee at the Shady Oaks Nursing Home and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Last Night of Alexisgrad: "Play-by-mail co-op twine game with the death of the revolution" October 3, 2021 "This is a 2-player Twine game. Every time you make a decision, you are given a code, and asked for the code of your partner. This means..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Universal Hologram: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" October 3, 2021 "Neural network image generators, with their dreamlike quality of semi-figurative outputs that have been processed through deeply uncanny..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Second Wind: "A post-apocalyptic game about helping a baby's birth" October 3, 2021 "I enjoyed Matthew Warner's last IFComp game, Tombs and Mummies, but I think this represents a substantial upgrade. The author makes..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews AardVarK Versus the Hype: "Funny misadventure while under the influence of a psychedelic soda" October 3, 2021 "This is a weird game. Not so much in that the gameplay itself is weird, more just that everything that happens is weird. These leads to a..." - See full review

A new listing for Gifts of Phallius 1: The Baron's Plot, by GoblinBoy

A new listing for Dear Diary 2: Prom Night, by Wotan-Anubis

A new listing for Dear Diary, by Wotan-Anubis

A new listing for Becky, by Optimus

A new listing for SilverWolf, by Wotan-Anubis

A new listing for Ginger's Island, by SlaveDragon

A new listing for Encounter 4: Mrs. Parker, by Christopher Cole

A new listing for Encounter 3: Lynn's Sleepover, by Christopher Cole

A new listing for Camp Windy Lake: Part 2, by Christopher Cole

MathBrush reviews The Vaults: "A F2P-mobile app-style fantasy card game with a variety of quests " October 3, 2021 "One of the games I've put the most hours to in the last few years is a lesser-known Hearthstone clone called Plants vs Zombies Heroes...." - See full review

Passerine reviews Off-Season at the Dream Factory: "A well-written, skillfully implemented parser-based adventure" October 3, 2021 "A nostalgic yet fresh adventure game set in an unusual world with unfamiliar problems that nonetheless felt very real. Light on puzzles,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews What remains of me: "A retro-parser-aesthetic choice-based game about helping others" October 3, 2021 "This game defied many of the categories I tried to put it in. It looked like a parser game, Adventuron specifically, but appears to be..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Infinite Adventure: "Procedurally generated mini-adventures in DOS" October 3, 2021 "This game is intended to run in a DOS emulator such as DOSBOX. It has a nice aesthetic; there was a guy a few years ago who would..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Spirit Within Us: "A custom executable game about pedophilia and violence" October 3, 2021 "I'll be frank and say that I don't enjoy playing games about pedophilia in any way; I don't find them fun, and I have yet to play one I..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg: "Are you playing a parser game, or are you the parser?" October 3, 2021 "So what can you say about this game? I'm not sure. It is the second year in a row that the author has entered IFComp with a weird game..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "Charming!" October 2, 2021 "We played this at the Bay Area IF Meetup. It's an incredibly fun zany meta-adventure. (We found the good ending, but for all I know, I'm..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews extraordinary_fandoms.exe: "Linear game about how quickly strangers can become friends online" October 2, 2021 "This piece strikes me as a very personal story from the author. Nothing at all like their entry in last year's IFComp (which I very much..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Wabewalker: "A custom parser puzzler in Java with Japanese and Buddhist themes" October 2, 2021 "This is a long parser game in the form of a Java .jar file (a very recent version of Java is used and older versions are incompatible)...." - See full review

kaemi reviews Sting: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" October 2, 2021 "In this fragile world, how can we cling to our seams, hold everything together? Falling to pieces in the absence of the smile that used..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Kidney Kwest: "Assemble a Halloween costume while learning about phosphate binders" October 2, 2021 "This game is an educational game about kidneys made for kids using a custom engine that reads full sentences. The game itself has..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Silicon and Cells: "Fight God in Cyberspace" October 2, 2021 "This is a pretty long download-only unity game that is choice-based with an interactive map, quicktime events and a specialized..." - See full review

Grane reviews Dark Hospital: "Good text adventure game in a modern style. " October 2, 2021 "It is a text-based and interactive fiction game, in a modern book-style, quite long, with background music, and as the author says, based..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Library: "Explore classic literature and combine their objects" October 2, 2021 "This game is written in a custom parser-like engine (similar to Robin Johnson's Gruescript and also to Texture) where you can click on..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Sting: "Auto-biographical parser game that should have been a choice-based game" October 2, 2021 "First let me say that this game would have been much better if it had been a choice-based game. I think the author learned Inform 7 to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Belinsky Conundrum: "A Facebook messenger game about a cyborg spy thriller" October 2, 2021 "This game is played on Facebook messenger, and requires you to be logged into Facebook to play it. This is a choice-based comedy spy..." - See full review

kaemi reviews BLK MTN: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" October 2, 2021 "Putting together a resume is soul crushing, literally, it crushes your soul into one page of paper which in ink which may as well..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews In the Service of Mrs. Claus: "Fun game about mythology and Christmas" October 2, 2021 "IFDB helpfully informed me recently that this is the only game that I've rated, but not reviewed. Time to remedy that, though apologies..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Stay?: "A wonderful game that has it all, lots of choices, a good story and puzzles too!" October 2, 2021 "This is a truly wonderful game. I don't give out five star ratings often and when I do it means that I'll be voting for it in the next IF..." - See full review

A new competition page: 27th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2021) created October 2, 2021

A new listing for You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott

A new listing for What remains of me, by Jovial Ron

A new listing for What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker

A new listing for Weird Grief, by Naomi Norbez

A new listing for we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran

A new listing for Walking Into It, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for The Waiting Room, by Billy Krolick

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