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Mike Russo reviews Smart Theory: "Superficial polemic" November 26, 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 What remains of me: "Surreal "your apartment and neighborhood" game in an interesting engine" November 26, 2021 "I'm not sure if I've ever seen such a conflict between an author's name and a title. Here, we have someone allegedly happy claiming they..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Deer Trail: "Strong story, fixable issues (for comp version)" November 25, 2021 "The Deer Trail may not be perfect, but it certainly left a good impression on me despite some technical flaws. It starts out as a deer..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Xylophoniad: "Fun parser mashup of Greek myths." November 25, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during Spring Thing 2016.) The Xylophoniad is a joking, mashup take..." - See full review

A new listing for Escape From Them, by Robert Patten

autumnc reviews The TURING Test: "Philosophical Dilemmas" November 25, 2021 "The TURING Test is a game with some interesting ideas, but I thought the implementation left some room for improvement. The game starts..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A Ghost Story: "Circling around a mysterious tower" November 25, 2021 "A Ghost Story is a relatively simple eight-room game where you may have to cycle around everywhere a bit before you find what's going on...." - See full review

A new listing for Elsinore: After Hamlet, by Lapin Lunaire Games

Wade Clarke reviews Pre-Marie: "An Introcomp taster of a non-Pre-Marie." November 25, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during Introcomp 2020.) Pre-Marie was the first Adventuron game I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Enveloping Darkness: "Meat and potatoes fantasy adventure" November 25, 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 This Won't Make You Happy: "It did make me smile a bit." November 25, 2021 "This Won't Make You Happy (shortened to THIS) is a short meta-humor game where your goal is explicitly to find a jewel of happiness. It..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Historias de la familia Ferrosa: "Four tales of a family curse" November 24, 2021 "This is a Spanish Twine game that is an anthology of 4 stories of a cursed family. It's contained in a framing story where you're in an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Visita de Año Nuevo con jizo: "A beautiful story set in Japan inspired by a vintage photo" November 24, 2021 "There is a photo called New Year's Visit with Jizo, Niigata Prefecture by the photographer Hiroshi Hamaya, that shows three young..." - See full review

A new listing for Visita de Año Nuevo con jizo, by Mariela 'Scullywen' and Ruber Eaglenest

MathBrush reviews Museo de curiosidades: "A heartfelt story of a woman's life told through Twine and Texture" November 24, 2021 "This game is really creative. Similar to the latest Castle Balderstone game, it uses Twine to create a 'hub' that you can play other,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Tránsito: "A short parser game with a brutal story about airport survival" November 24, 2021 "This is a Spanish parser game entered in Ectocomp 2021. In it, you start as a passenger in a bathroom with a dead body on the floor and a..." - See full review

Cyberneticist reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "A worthy winner!" November 24, 2021 "Wow! This was a fantastic game! Not too long, or too hard to complete, and a really really well written story! "

autumnc reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "Life on the internet" November 24, 2021 "This game is incredible. It almost invokes the same kind of energy that playing SPY INTRIGUE for the first time did. It doesn’t quite..." - See full review

autumnc reviews Goat Game: "A workplace drama with many endings" November 24, 2021 "First of all, I love the art and the animated gifs. This game probably has the best art of all the games I've seen at the comp. This is a..." - See full review

autumnc reviews BLK MTN: "Dark Americana road trip story" November 24, 2021 "This belongs to a certain genre of twines: literary-inclined, mostly linear twine game that uses text and choice aesthetically? This is a..." - See full review

Richard Cuddy reviews Savage Island, Part I: "First game to have a cheat code?" November 24, 2021 "A cool game but very hard. I managed while recompiling a fixed savage1.inf (z source code file), made by me, to stumble upon a seafaring..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Navigatio: "Medieval Introcomp intro has me keen for more." November 24, 2021 "(This is a review of the 2020 Introcomp version of Navigatio. The review is edited from a blog post I made during the competition.)..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Weird Grief: "When funerals go wrong" November 24, 2021 "This sort of entry does seem to get hammered in IFComp because it is, well, linear, and also because the characters may be part of a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Kidney Kwest: "Too-ambitious parser for a simple educational game" November 24, 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

MathBrush reviews Intruso: "A parser-like choice game about exploring a strange family's house" November 23, 2021 "This Spanish Ectocomp game uses the Kunludi engine, which (at least in this game) means there are in-game links as well as a menu of..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews The Castle of Hornadette: "It Was Never Like This For Bond" November 23, 2021 "This old DOS game written in 1987 has the temerity to ask for a payment when you quit from it, which if you are like me will be fairly..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Letters: "Well-judged Twine letting you explore a teen relationship through letters " November 23, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2016.) In Letters, you're a teenaged girl reading,..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Goat Game: "The best designed game at IF Comp 2021" November 23, 2021 "This is in my opinion the best-looking and most cleanly designed game from IF Comp this year. The illustrations give the game a storybook..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Plane Walker: "Several parts come off flat" November 23, 2021 "I played Plane Walker through with a walkthrough during IFComp. It was pretty wild and confusing, and yet, I thought there was something..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Snake's Game: "Weird imagery attacks repeatedly across mulitple short plays that are encouraged" November 23, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2016.) Snake's Game is an exotic, pretty inscrutable..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Daughter: "Promise unrealized" November 23, 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

A new competition page: Adventuron Treasure Hunt Jam created November 22, 2021 This was the third Adventuron jam. The challenge was to build an old-school treasure hunt text adventure game with no graphics and minimal text.

A new listing for Delver, by TWIB Productions

A new listing for Time Trip, by Sanjuro

A new listing for Late to the Party, by PapaQuark

A new listing for Doodley the Duck, by Rigachupe

A new listing for Submission, by solairemaria

A new listing for Burgle, Burgle, by Phantosler

A new listing for Lost Gadgets, by skanejohan

A new listing for Opposite Edge of Slumber, by Artem Flo

A new listing for TastyBuns Burgers, by VerdantTome

A new listing for The Perfect Gem, by DarkBlueMonkey

A new listing for Untitled Bowerbird Game, by benzado

A new listing for Treasures of Hollowhill, by John Blythe

A new listing for Face Your Fears, by Shawn Sijnstra

A new competition page: PunyJam #2 created November 22, 2021 A jam where you write a text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you haven't heard of PunyInform before, the fastest way to get started is probably by reading the articles and tutorials which are...

A new listing for A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity, by Elias Ramsberg (as Interpied)

A new listing for Morris, by Dee Cooke

Robin Johnson reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "Weird, sweet, nostalgic, metafictional" November 22, 2021 "Firstly, I wish I'd played this before reading any reviews of it; even a few lines gave something away that would have been an amazing..." - See full review

autumnc reviews 4x4 Archipelago: "A wonder of twine and procedural generation" November 22, 2021 "This game was really addicting. I didn’t expect to finish it in one sitting (nor should I have, given the hour), but I did so anyway...." - See full review

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