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autumnc reviews The Last Night of Alexisgrad: "It still works in single-player" November 22, 2021 "I didn't play this game correctly. I played this as a single-player game, playing both sides of the story. Maybe much of the experience..." - See full review

autumnc reviews Beneath Fenwick: "Act 1 of a puzzly horror game" November 22, 2021 "First impression: The PC’s name is Jennifer Hedgerow and she’s a botany student. Wow. This is a comedy right? Checks blurb oh...." - See full review

autumnc reviews Universal Hologram: "A game about being extremely online" November 22, 2021 "Universal Hologram is a game about becoming unmoored from reality, about how living your entire life on the internet turns you into a..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Night House: "Spooky and mildly confusing, with a lot of old Quest stickiness" November 22, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2016.) Night House is a mystery-horror parser..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Belinsky Conundrum: "Fun adventure if you choose the right path midway through" November 22, 2021 "The Belinsky Conundrum is a Facebook Messenger app about a top-secret mission to take out a spy who's managed to avoid his kids being..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Vaults: "A card game without much to offer IF fans" November 22, 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

Wade Clarke reviews The Golden: "Some folks love this short pre-apocalypse CYOA, but it's too elusive for me." November 22, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during Spring Thing 2020.) The Golden is an elusive, faintly..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cygnet Committee: "Innovative sound-based explorathon" November 21, 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: Spooky Sokpop Community Jam created November 21, 2021 This is a ~1 month game-making marathon for anyone who'd like to make a game with the theme, with any game-making tool they like(as long as it's playable on windows, web or mac in some form).

P. B. Parjeter reviews Walking Into It: "Tic-tac-toe subversion" November 21, 2021 "I played this game in the hopes that I would be better at understanding tic-tac-toe than the author's chess-based offerings. Reading..." - See full review

Fie reviews Shambles: "Short and sparse twine game where you play as a penned zombie" November 21, 2021 "The link is broken, but can be found at the creator's itch.io. The writing is sparse and describes only the essentials. As a zombie,..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Living Puppet: "Minimal interactivity doesn't underwhelm a fundamentally good horror story." November 21, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2017.) The Living Puppet is a creepy and..." - See full review

A new listing for Shambles, by Mona Lloyd

Wade Clarke reviews Tentaculon: "Impressive squid simulation, somewhat annoyingly delivered." November 20, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2016.) This review is entirely spoilery. Tentaculon..." - See full review

Clever Screen Name reviews De Baron: "So much potential" November 19, 2021 "My experience with this game went something like this: " - See full review

Clever Screen Name reviews 9:05: "Unsatisfied" November 19, 2021 "I don't get why this game gets such high ratings. First play: Figure out the twist... it's a trick. There's information you as the player..." - See full review

Clever Screen Name reviews Death off the Cuff: "Highly Enjoyable and Interesting Game Play" November 19, 2021 "So sort of like Galatea, the plot here is driven by conversation. You notice things and have the protagonist ask people about things and..." - See full review

Fie reviews Tenth Plague: "Disturbing game about being the curse of the plagues of Egypt" November 19, 2021 "A grotesque and morbid short story where you find ways to murder the first sons. I did not find it to be an experience that I would find..." - See full review

Fie reviews Grooverland: "Fun and spooky romp through a strange amusement park" November 19, 2021 "As a fan of Chandler Groover's writing, the setting of this game was nice. There are references to many of Groover's games that were fun..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews You are standing in a cave...: "Meat-and-potatoes adventuring with enthusiasm." November 19, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2016.) You are standing in a cave... is a..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Insect Massacre: "Mystery on a space station that requires multiple short playthroughs." November 19, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2015.) The Insect Massacre is a Twine hyperlinks game..." - See full review

Clever Screen Name reviews Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis: "You Must Play This All the Way Through" November 18, 2021 "This game has the greatest ending I've ever seen! Yes, we all know that this game displays a depth of knowledge about the culture,..." - See full review

Clever Screen Name reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "Clever Use of the Medium" November 18, 2021 "This is my favorite IF of all time. Much of the gameplay involves converting objects from one thing to another by altering their..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fiesta Mortal: "A high school party murder mystery with tons of 3d illustrations" November 18, 2021 "This is a pretty weird game. It's a horror game written for the Spanish division of Ectocomp, and it has tons of illustrations that are..." - See full review

A new listing for Fiesta Mortal, by ivsaez

Wade Clarke reviews Pit of the Condemned: "A simple dodge-and-chase game." November 18, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2015.) Pit of the Condemned is a short..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Pilgrimage: "A country per move is the Pilgrimage groove." November 18, 2021 "(This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote for my blog during IFComp 2015.) Pilgrimage is an atypically macro-scaled..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Leyendas del Castillo: "An amusing and complex story about exploring a monster-filled castle" November 17, 2021 "This game was entered in the Spanish division of Ectocomp as a Grand Guignol game, meaning it took > 4 hours to complete. It is an..." - See full review

A new listing for Leyendas del Castillo, by Mery

Andrew Schultz reviews You Couldn't Have Done That: "Autism and helplessness" November 17, 2021 "YCHDT's blurb spells things out pretty quickly. The title, however, is more fungible. And I wondered: there were so many ways to say it...." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Paradise: "Interesting editable world tool, no longer online" November 17, 2021 "(A version of this review originally appeared as a blog post of mine during IFComp 2015. Paradise was withdrawn from IFComp because it..." - See full review

mg51 reviews Sugarlawn: "Fun and fast-paced with high replay potential" November 16, 2021 "I've played this game through about eight times now. The setup is something of a scavenger/treasure hunt through an old antebellum..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Lost Islands of Alabaz: "My new "go to" introductory game for children" November 16, 2021 "The Lost Islands of Alabaz has been out for more than a decade now, and, while it did make a splash by winning the Spring Thing 2011..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews What the Bus?: "Weird public transport in real life: bad. In twine: good." November 16, 2021 "In real life, we don't want our public transport to be exciting. We want it to be there and relatively on time. And in Chicago, it is...." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Cyborg Arena: "Combat as trust" November 16, 2021 "Here’s what I like most: the fact that we’re playing a variant of rock-paper-scissors where you are told in advance what the..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews A Wind Blown From Paradise: "Too-buggy short game of underground train travel" November 16, 2021 "(This review originally appeared as a blog post of mine during IFComp 2013.) A Wind Blown from Paradise is a small parser game that uses..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Bellclap: "Dear God," November 15, 2021 "Should I serve you by inquiring into Your true essence, or should I merely prostrate myself in obedience? Should I search for deeper..." - See full review

A new listing for The Tales Of Mathematica (remake), by The Glass Fractal and Karl Bunyan

A new listing for Transicosia, by Nick Mitchell

Wade Clarke reviews Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles: "An overwhelming, narratively ineffective introduction to Something" November 15, 2021 "(This review originally appeared as a blog post of mine during IFComp 2016.) Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles. Book I: The..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews All I Do is Dream: "A slice of stale life." November 15, 2021 "(This review originally appeared as a blog post of mine during IFComp 2016.) Short, existential Twine game in which you specify the..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews 4x4 Archipelago: "Lots to do" November 14, 2021 "I found this game very addicting. I had a hard time putting it down, even though there were things about it that frustrated me. First,..." - See full review

kaemi reviews we, the remainder: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" November 14, 2021 "Terseness keeps the rhythm raw: “he was probably handsome, when he had his skin.” Rawness pervades, even as this world that has..." - See full review

A new listing for Dark Powers, by Thomas Binzinger

Wade Clarke reviews The Little Lifeform That Could: "Small choice game about a blob that can evolve how you want it to." November 14, 2021 "(This review originally appeared as a blog post of mine during IFComp 2016.) I thought I recognised the 'blob of goop evolves to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The River of Blood: "Explore a constantly-flowing river of blood in adventuron" November 14, 2021 "This adventuron game, written in < 4 hours, has a couple of nice pixel art images thrown in, which I suspect was hard to do in the time..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Deep in the Spooky Scary Woods: "A short, classic-style Halloween CYOA set in the woods" November 14, 2021 "This is just a choose-your-own adventure story with a Halloween theme. You are alone in the woods with various options, and have two..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews This Person Is Not My Father: "A short, linear twine tale about a true-life parental tragedy" November 14, 2021 "This is a short Twine entry in Ectocomp 2021 and is, I believe from comments on intfiction, based on a true story. You are a young girl..." - See full review

A new poll by Cryptic Puffin, Highly atmospheric and immersive games created November 14, 2021 42 votes for 22 games I'm looking for games with effective use of location, language, etc. to really immerse you in the locale and the story, no matter the genre-- any game which you felt really taken with the atmosphere would be...

MathBrush reviews The Fable of the Kabu: "A short graphical game with text narrative about a baby nightmare" November 14, 2021 "This game is written in Mosi, which apparently is like Bitsy but for mobile. Both platforms are used to do basic pixel art and to have..." - See full review

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