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A new listing for Winter in June, by Katie Moses

Andrew Schultz reviews The Job: "Don't clockwatch on this job!" May 26, 2021 "(NOTE: this is a review of the comp version of the game.) The author redacted themselves from the competition they created, but The Job..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Founder's Mercy: "Alone at Lagrange 5" May 25, 2021 "Founder's Mercy is very unclear about its backstory, but there are some hints to be gleaned from a Holy Book left on an altar, some..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Arthur's Day Out: "A respectable first effort" May 24, 2021 "Arthur's Day Out isn't the first game to give a tip of the cap to Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's got a bit more humor than..." - See full review

Asmodius33597 reviews Eat Me: "Wow! I was so wrong about this game!" May 24, 2021 "At first I thought this game was stupid. How much fun can a game possibly be when the only thing you can do is eat? Oh but it is much..." - See full review

f-a reviews Constraints: "A very interesting experiment in IF" May 23, 2021 "I agree with the other reviews, the game is interesting because it explores something new (inaction, inanimate bodies, impossibility to..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I.: "As if particle physics wasn't weird enough on its own..." May 23, 2021 "As I was reading the lengthy and funny prologue to Dr. Dumont's P.A.R.T.I. I was quickly drawn into the backstory to this game. Allthough..." - See full review

autumnc reviews normal_fantasies.exe: "A lot of unrealized potential..." May 23, 2021 "This game belongs in the nascent genre of "games about online relationships that simulate a computer interface", along with stuff like..." - See full review

autumnc reviews consciousness hologram: "An actual legit review (I liked this game)" May 22, 2021 "I'm still thinking about "consciousness hologram" days after I finished playing it. Which means that it was probably a success. This game..." - See full review

A new listing for Notable Neighborhood Garbage, by Rickey Rivers Jr.

Rovarsson reviews Whom The Telling Changed: "The truth of the story is in the listener..." May 20, 2021 "Whom the Telling Changed is a different kind of IF. I was enthralled by this story within a story on multiple levels. Superficially, this..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Lost Children [2016 ADRIFT version]: "Duke Alaric dukes it out with the trolls." May 20, 2021 "It had been a long time since I ventured into Hecate, the land of Alaric Blackmoon. I was immediately drawn back in. I love the..." - See full review

A new listing for normal_fantasies.exe, by Storysinger Presents

gildedSnail reviews Hunger Daemon: "WONDERFUL and also FANTASTIC" May 19, 2021 "First of all this is an extremely flavorful game that does worldbuilding very well, and the characterization of the player character is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews For a Dream of Innocence: "A darker story about Rubbery Men and an experiment gone wrong." May 19, 2021 "This is an Exceptional Story for Fallen London. In this exceptional story, you are drawn into the story of a scientist experimenting with..." - See full review

fos1 reviews A day in the life of a writer: "An exercise in procrastination." May 18, 2021 "I guess it is a game. Every choice leads to another form of procrastination. I procrastinate too much but I'm retired. I need goals and..." - See full review

A new listing for A day in the life of a writer, by Gurpegui

A new listing for Keeper of the Day and Night, by Brynn Chernosky

A new listing for Waybinder, by Gemma Thomson

A new listing for Something Like Us, by Madison Rose

A new listing for Lux, City of Secrets, by Thom Bailey

A new listing for consciousness hologram, by Kit Riemer

MathBrush reviews Djinn on the Rocks: "A small game with clever mechanics: swap any similar objects" May 17, 2021 "This game is complex and rich for a small game written for a jam. You are a djinn and have the power to APPRAISE objects to see what..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Death Number Four: "A small, underimplemented puzzle game with some intriguing backstory" May 17, 2021 "This game takes the basic premise of the PunyInform jam (starting in a pub with a knife through a note in the wall) and take it in some..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Arthur's Day Out: "A sprawling and bare game made in puny inform exploring an abandoned city" May 17, 2021 "This game has you exploring an abandoned town after exiting the broom closet of a pub. Most locations are described in little detail...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Closet of Mystery: "A tiny game with some fun twists" May 17, 2021 "This game is perhaps the shortest in the PunyInform jam, and it isn't perfect, but it has a lot of distinct advantage over its..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Pub Hubbub: "A shortish pub adventure with one brilliant puzzle" May 17, 2021 "Having now played several punyinform games in a row, I now realize that many design features I thought were poor choices are actually..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Pub Adventure!: "A short and simple adventure assembling a cocktail" May 17, 2021 "This PunyInform game was made by a parent-child team, and it's pretty complex for a game made that way, but not as complex as most..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Buccaneer's Cache: "A short and fairly buggy geocache hunt" May 17, 2021 "I tend to be very positive in reviewing but almost every interaction I had with this game was troubling. Leaving the first room puts you..." - See full review

Kara Goldfinch reviews LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup: "What did I just play?" May 16, 2021 "I sat there for a few minutes in silence after finishing this game. I needed to digest what I had just experienced, and I had tears in my..." - See full review

Joshua Wilson reviews NEVER GO TO WORK: "MORE THAN ONE WAY TO GET "FIRED"" May 16, 2021 "Slice-of-life Twine adventure with a retro vibe. There is a lack of clear victory conditions and a shiftyness to the layout which may be..." - See full review

A new listing for The Burnt City, by Maede

Rovarsson reviews Augustine: "Watch out what you wish for." May 15, 2021 "An oath sworn in anger and grief leaves two men immortal, bound in their fate until one succeeds in killing the other. One of them is..." - See full review

vinceren reviews Lime Ergot: "An all-time favorite" May 15, 2021 "This is lovely in its lyricism. An excellent pick for someone new to IF as well as having a lot of replay value. " - See full review

Joshua Wilson reviews IRL: The Game: "IMO: A Good Start" May 14, 2021 "HTML-based social media simulator that probes the social intersections of digital and material realness. It complements and promotes the..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Duffadash, Danske teksteventyr May 14, 2021 53 items This is a list of Danish Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure games. More titles can be found on the CASA Solution Archive. http://solutionarchive.com/ As a game preservationist I work with registering and...

A new listing for Journey, by Steve Baker

A new listing for Alco's Infinity, by drakirby

Rovarsson reviews Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut: "Alpha radiation!" May 13, 2021 "Entering into the world of Andromeda Awakening the player's freedom is purposefully overridden by the urgency of the protagonist's..." - See full review

A new listing for Waiting for Sunrise, by Victor Selnæs Breum

Joshua Wilson reviews Secretly French: "Openly Facile" May 12, 2021 "An HTML-based CYOA diversion stitched together from non-sequiturs. Neither as cruel nor as French as the description suggests...." - See full review

Kara Goldfinch reviews She's Got a Thing for a Spring: "Beautiful writing" May 12, 2021 "My favourite kind of IF as I think I've said before on here are games where I feel emersed in the game world, and, on the whole, this is..." - See full review

A new listing for Dobrodružství Indiana Jonese na Václavském náměstí v Praze dne 16. 1. 1989, by Zuzan Znovuzrozený

A new listing for The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989, by Zuzan Znovuzrozený, Jaroslav Švelch, Martin Kouba, Jana “Yuffie” Kilianová

MathBrush reviews Captain Cutter's Treasure: "A compact pirate puzzle game" May 9, 2021 "This game is part of the PunyInform competition. It's fairly polished, and features an quest to go looking for pirate treasure. In the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Mummy is Not an Antique: "A humorous mummy game with some repetitiveness" May 9, 2021 "I purchased this game on my own recently because I wanted to explore the less-played games on the Hosted Games app on my iPhone. This..." - See full review

A new listing for A Mummy is Not an Antique, by Randy Cordon

A new listing for Rapina a casa Berluti, by Pinellos

A new listing for Altroquando, by Pinellos

A new listing for Dead by Noon, by Pinellos

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