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Inbrovert reviews ...: "4/5" July 21, 2021 "Fair warning: I've only played the first game. Loved it- it is EXACTLY what you expected from the title. Couple clever digs at the..." - See full review

Inbrovert reviews Witness to the end: "2, 3/5?" July 21, 2021 "G'day, I read it. First off- check your inconsistencies! You've used ';' wrong, and have some commas followed by capitalised words, When..." - See full review

A new competition page: 2021 New Media Writing Prize (12th Annual) created July 19, 2021 We are looking for good storytelling (fiction or non-fiction) written specifically for delivery and reading/viewing on a PC or Mac, the web, or a hand-held device such as an iPad or mobile phone. It could be...

A new listing for ナツノカナタ | natsuno-kanata, by Kazuhide Oka

jakomo reviews Worldsmith: "Epic multimedia space opera: Arthur C Clarke meets Asimov meets Frank Herbert" July 18, 2021 "Pay-what-you-want text adventure that runs in a browser and includes images, video and music. An amazing opening puzzle: build a world..." - See full review

A new competition page: Infocom Tribute Jam created July 18, 2021 In April 2019, the world of interactive fiction was turned on its head when the source code to every Infocom text adventure was released to the general public. In honor of the games and the legacy of the...

A new listing for Sergeant Guffy's Day, by TheDefiant

A new listing for A Potion Labeled 'Time', by Finn Fabish

News on The Big Fall: Release 2 July 17, 2021 Release 2 of The Big Fall is now uploaded to the IF archive. The second release is intended to address bug reports, make some of the puzzles more fair, and implement a new ending.

eljorge reviews Cryptophasia: "the link to the story no longer owrks" July 17, 2021 "any idea how to get to the story"

Nomad reviews Jäger der heiligen Steine - Ein Abenteuer in Raum und Zeit: "Meh." July 17, 2021 "You enjoy your house with garden when things happen and you got to find five special stones or else. Seen even worse stories. The..." - See full review

A new listing for Ghost, by beecadee

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A new listing for Crimson Rose & White Lily, by manonamora

A new listing for Legend of the Sword, by Karl Buckingham

A new listing for ..., by Kungfuspacebarbarian

News on The Tree That Touched The Moon: First major update released July 14, 2021 I released a major udpate for the game, which adds new content and fixes many issues reported by the players. A detailed changelog can be found here:... - Details

P. B. Parjeter reviews You Are the Doctor: "An obscure audio-based choose-your-own adventure game" July 11, 2021 "Big Finish gained the license to classic Doctor Who several years after the series ended in 1989, and it began to produce audio dramas..." - See full review

A new listing for You Are the Doctor, by John Dorney

MathBrush reviews Sea of Graves: "A work-in-progress horror romance Twine game about a supernatural agency" July 11, 2021 "This game is part of the list of great twine/ink games on itch that I found here. This game has a setup that is partly a personality test..." - See full review

A new listing for Sea of Graves, by House Miroe

A new listing for A Miner Problem, by Seth Jones

A new listing for Lewd Mod, by HHRichards

hooman reviews 77 Verbs: "Good game, albeit a bug." July 10, 2021 "It’s a pretty good game! Recommend. But just a small bug: " - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Faeries Of Haelstowne: "Immersive and lovely" July 10, 2021 "(I was a beta tester on this one, and as the below review will hopefully quickly make clear, you might want to take my opinion with an..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Foreign Soil: "Breaking new ground" July 9, 2021 "(I beta tested this game, so this is less a review than impressions of a version of the game no-one can currently plan, biased both..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Gruesome: "Quite agrueable (I'll stop)" July 9, 2021 "(I beta tested this game, so this is less a review than impressions of a version of the game no-one can currently plan, biased both..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grandpa's Ranch: "A great introduction to IF" July 9, 2021 "Grandpa’s Ranch stands out in the Comp for being the only ADRIFT game, and also for being initially intended for a different..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Return to the Stars: "Solid but dull" July 9, 2021 "The stereotype of parser games is that they’re lightly-comic puzzle adventures crammed with jokey responses and groan-worthy puns...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Black Knife Dungeon: "A great rou-IFalike (I'm trying to make this a thing)" July 9, 2021 "Has there ever been a pairing more obvious in theory, but more challenging in execution, than the IF/roguelike mashup? I mean I’m sure..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fivebyfivia Delenda Est: "Working on my knight moves" July 9, 2021 "If this wasn’t ParserComp but rather BadassTitleComp, let’s all take a minute up front to acknowledge that FDE would be the runaway..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Yesternight: "Flower follies" July 9, 2021 "When I was in college, I had a running conversation with a friend where we tried to determine the smallest discernable unit of various..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Arkham Abomination: "Abominably fun" July 9, 2021 "Arkham Abomination doesn’t put its best foot forward – a custom-parser game with no testers listed and a readme that’s actually..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Daddy's Birthday: "Bringing life to a transcript" July 9, 2021 "The comedy IF-transcript is a niche but venerable taste – my favorites are the DISAVENTURE series the late, lamented Scott Eric Kaufman..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grooverland: "Really groovy" July 9, 2021 "About a decade ago, I played the Lego Harry Potter video game with an ex-girlfriend. She was a fan of the franchise, but at the time it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Waiting for the Day Train: "Small and lovely" July 9, 2021 "Aesthetics predominate in Waiting for the Day Train, a game of two parts: this Adventuron amuse-bouche presents a non-interactive..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Somewhere, Somewhen: "Toilsome fantasy adventure" July 9, 2021 "Reader, a confession: I have played a large amount of IF over the last few decades, but have never been able to dip more than the tiniest..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Acid Rain: "Old-school but approachable" July 9, 2021 "The gods of randomization decided I should play both of Garry Francis’s games back-to-back, so here we are with another older-school..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Danny Dipstick: "A more polite Leisure Suit Larry" July 9, 2021 "If you are a gamer of a certain age, you will look at Danny Dipstick’s title and blurb (“You need to find a girlfriend, but all the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Loud House 'game on': "Promising first effort" July 9, 2021 "A quick disclosure to start out this review: while I don’t know him personally, Caleb Wilson was an early and perceptive tester on the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Snowhaven: "Moody in a good way" July 9, 2021 "The central business of this evocative Adventuron game is cooking, and appropriately enough, on starting up you’re given a choice of..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, My new walkthroughs for July 2021 July 9, 2021 9 items On Friday July 9, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more...

Heiks reviews Die Höhlen von Karn: "Ein Klassiker unter den deutschen Text-Adventures" July 9, 2021 "Die Höhlen von Karn ist ein Klassiker der aufkommenden deutschen Text-Adventure-Szene zu Beginn der 2000er. So finden sich Referenzen zu..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Big Fall: "A promising detective game that doesn't completely deliver" July 7, 2021 "I'm a big fan of the detective genre, and it's always nice to see a long-form game come out. This is a big game, spread over a dozen or..." - See full review

A new listing for Overboard!, by inkle

A new listing for The Tree That Touched The Moon, by Agnieszka Trzaska

Fie reviews Laika: "Cheerful, funny game about an anthropomorphized Laika" July 5, 2021 "I'll admit I got stuck on one of the puzzles. The answer to the dial " - See full review

Fie reviews Mindful: "Deeeeelicious" July 5, 2021 "An excellent short game. Great atmosphere, setting the table with the wicker-and-smiles live laugh love mindfulness and health and family..." - See full review

IFDB site news July 4, 2021 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Collapsed author list for Cragne Manor Fixed emoji handling Fixed author search results containing parentheses Fixed white background on transparent images in dark mode Fixed tags section on games with many downloads

IFDB site news July 4, 2021 Collapsed author list for Cragne Manor: Cragne Manor has 84 authors, making it appear rather ungainly in search results and other lists of games. Now, in most places where authors are shown, if the game has a very large number of authors, we'll just show the first two authors as "First Author, Second Author, et al."

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