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A new listing for 17776, by Jon Bois

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for August 2021 August 24, 2021 8 items On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below and at IFDB! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to...

greenbug reviews Foo Foo: "Light and Lovely Noir Romp" August 24, 2021 "A lovely noir genre item, set in "Fieldtown". Noir tropes combine with the twee nursery setting in a fun way. The hint mechanism---a..." - See full review

A new listing for Okinawa Online, by Chris Marker, P.B. Parjeter

A new listing for Malaise, by A. Ninny

News on The Party Line: The Party Line rewritten in Gruescript, source available August 21, 2021 I've rewritten my 2020 AdventureX game jam "The Party Line" in my new development system, Gruescript. The source is available in the Gruescript editor (https://versificator.itch.io/gruescript) via the... - Details

Rovarsson reviews Winter Wonderland: "A joyous Winter Solstice!" August 20, 2021 "While walking home after doing an errand in town, little Gretchen is blown off the path by a sudden snowstorm. She finds herself in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood: "A sprawling town mystery in the Vampire: The Masquerade setting" August 20, 2021 "This game is the second in Choice of Games's deluxe series of Vampire the Masquerade games. It is long (the 12th longest CoG game), has..." - See full review

A new listing for Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood, by Jim Dattilo

Drew Cook reviews Suspended: "A Tale of Six Rather Unoptimized Robots" August 20, 2021 "Of all of Infocom's folio release titles, Suspended is the least-reviewed and second least-rated here at IFDB. I have seen it referred to..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: "Some Fantastic Highlights and Regrettable Lowlights" August 20, 2021 "I desperately want to love this game, but sadly I can only sort of like it. I'm obsessed with words, odd phrases, and idioms, so I went..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Starcross: "A Highly Qualified Four Stars" August 18, 2021 "I'm trying to work my way through the Infocom catalog, posting my thoughts on a gaming forum all the while. In 1981, Dave Lebling assumed..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets: " Coulrophobia!" August 18, 2021 "We join our protagonist Lil' Ragamuffin (Rags to her friends) and her pet rat/best friend Percy while they are preparing an evening..." - See full review

Nomad reviews Winter Wonderland: "Meh." August 18, 2021 "Winter Wonderland was the first GAC adventure ever written, and the second one (after Apache Gold) to be published. The plot starts off..." - See full review

KatherineTheCurst reviews Excalibur: "Clever weird and meta" August 18, 2021 "I love this game so much. It's different, and clever, and looks like it was a lot of fun to make. It feels like one of those dreams that..." - See full review

KatherineTheCurst reviews Daddy's Birthday: "Super Adorable!" August 18, 2021 "Such a cute game. It's the little details that really make it come alive. Try singing, dancing, or jumping, and you get different text..." - See full review

A new poll by Karl Ove Hufthammer, Games that would work well as a movie created August 17, 2021 13 votes for 7 games As a contrast to games with impossible-to-film moments, which games do you think would work well if they were adapted to the big screen, either as a feature film or a short film (live action or animation)? A...

A new listing for All Hallows' Eve 1881, by Steve Dobbs

A new listing for The Alien From Outer Space, by Andrew Pickford

A new listing for Alien, by Darryll D. Reynolds

ConradV reviews Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut): "Fantastic!" August 16, 2021 "Definitely brings back memories of me as a kid playing Trinity, Planetfall, Lurking Horror and the rest. Puzzles are very fair, and well..." - See full review

A new listing for Alaskan Adventure, by Peter Kirsch

A new listing for Aladdin, by Steve W. Lucas

A new listing for Al-Strad, by Paul Gill

A new listing for Aircraft, by László Magyar

P. B. Parjeter reviews Babel: "An IF game that deserves its classic status" August 16, 2021 "I played Babel for the first time after a long break from Interactive Fiction. A lot has been said about the game's story. Though I..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Zork III: "The Most Ambitious IF Text To-Date" August 16, 2021 "I'm trying to work my way through the Infocom catalog, posting my thoughts on a gaming forum all the while. Zork III is an ambitious and..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Crème de la Crème: "A Substantial Achievement" August 15, 2021 "I played this game several months ago, curious to try out Choice of Games for the first time. I fear this may have ruined other Choice of..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Deadline: "An innovative and fascinating game" August 15, 2021 "I'm trying to work my way through the Infocom catalog, posting my thoughts on a gaming forum all the while. Deadline was, in its day, a..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Spider and Web: "The unreviewable game" August 15, 2021 "The first part of Spider and Web plays an intricate game with the expectations about the relations between player, protagonist, narrator,..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Wishbringer: "Good Game with a Major Flaw" August 14, 2021 "I'm a newcomer to IF, and so I've been working my way through some of the classics to get acclimated and learn a bit about the history of..." - See full review

News on The Tree That Touched The Moon: Second and final major update August 14, 2021 I have released the second and final content update for "The Tree That Touched The Moon", adding a fifth level, new rewards and various fixes. Detailed changelog can be found here:... - Details

Drew Cook reviews Zork II: "The troubled middle child" August 14, 2021 "I'm trying to work my way through the Infocom catalog, posting my thoughts on a gaming forum all the while. I find it hard to evaluate..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Plundered Hearts: "A Simply Fun Game with Remarkable Writing" August 14, 2021 "I had a blast playing this game. I'm not much for genre fiction of any kind (mysteries, romance, pirates, what have you), but Briggs uses..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Zork I: "Too big to judge?" August 13, 2021 "I'm trying to work my way through the Infocom catalog, posting my thoughts on a gaming forum all the while. I started with Zork I, and I..." - See full review

A new listing for Aegypten, by Lutz Reckrühm, Uwe Becker

A new listing for The Adventures of Zebedee Gonig, by Darren Thomas

ccpost reviews A Mind Forever Voyaging: "Great Introduction to IF" August 12, 2021 "As a recent convert to interactive fiction, I have been looking for good games to get started with. Although this is perhaps not a..." - See full review

ChrisM reviews Excalibur: "A ghost from the archives" August 12, 2021 "Wonderful. A fabulously detailed, beautifully written and altogether very clever tribute to the greatest TV series that Terry Nation..." - See full review

bpeel reviews Vampiro: Kronikoj de reXXe: "Intereseta" August 12, 2021 "Ŝajne ĉi tiu ludo celas esti ekzempla ludo kiun oni reverkos per diversaj motoroj por povi kompari ilin. Tial oni povas pardoni ĝin..." - See full review

A new listing for Vampiro: Kronikoj de reXXe, by Jaime Alcazo Castellarnau (Aventuras Alcazo), and Notxor

A new listing for Raiders of the Holy Stones, by Heiko Spies

A new listing for The Adventure of Hog Jowl Mansion, by Jon J. Waples

A new listing for The Adventure of Cleopatra's Pyramid, by Philip Newton

A new listing for Adventure Island, by J. B. Cattley

A new listing for Adventure in Mythology, by Scott Cabit

A new listing for Adventure Diploma, by Basil Waterton

A new listing for The Abyssal Zone, by Jeff Gray

A new listing for Ça Va Peter Zorglub!, by David Kergosien, Thierry Kergosien

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