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mg51 reviews Superluminal Vagrant Twin: "Fun space simulator, limited puzzles" October 25, 2021 "This game was fun in a way that's common with some simple simulation-type games, but it wasn't typical for IF. It involved a lot of..." - See full review

A new listing for Hatred, by The Water Supply

A new listing for Stone Harbor (Portuguese), by Liza Daly (author), José Carlos Dias (translator)

MathBrush reviews Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg: "Random experimentation with one-word commands" October 24, 2021 "For the better part of a decade, Arthur DiBianca has been putting out limited parser games, where most commands are shut off and only a..." - See full review

kaemi reviews A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" October 24, 2021 "On the first day of the Decameron, in which the storytellers engage on the theme of the social structures of religion, one story relates..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Miller's Garden: "A short and simple game with surprisingly little feedback" October 24, 2021 "I took a lot of ballroom dance classes in college, and I remember one of the biggest problems a pair could have is noodle arms. If the..." - See full review

spindlebink reviews Hawk the Hunter: "A complex but rewarding piece of IF" October 24, 2021 "I've had the privilege of working with the author through a testing and refining period, and this game is wonderful. The puzzles are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews My Gender Is a Fish: "Gender identity through metaphor" October 24, 2021 "This brief Twine game has you exploring a forest after you accidentally . Lookin around, you try to understand and search..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Daughter: "An incomplete futuristic investigation game" October 24, 2021 "One trend in IFComp is that an unfinished game will place near the bottom of the comp, regardless of any other positive features it might..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews This Won't Make You Happy: "A quirky Twine game about exploring a fantasy-based cave" October 24, 2021 "In this game you explore a small cave with different fantasy creatures and gems and such in it. This game is part of a small genre of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews After-Words: "A minimalist map exploration and fetch quest game" October 24, 2021 "This game is a six-by-six grid of locations, each described in two words or less. Each location has something that needs resolving: a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Dead Account: "A well-put-together brief story about grief and accounts" October 24, 2021 "This game is one of two entered by Bez in this competition, the other being 'Weird Grief', and the two tie into each other. In this one,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cyborg Arena: "A brief fighting sim and relationship manager" October 24, 2021 "This is a small but polished game, one that feels like an intentionally compact micro-game. The system would be appropriate for a longer..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Last Doctor: "A short game about doctors and ethics in a future scenario" October 24, 2021 "This is a short Ink game. You are a doctor in a clinic that is almost empty. You have encounters with people and have to decide whether..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Closure: "Parser game via text-message: explore an ex's dorm" October 23, 2021 "This is a great game concept that's well-executed. It's an Inform parser game with custom CSS to look like text messages. I've been..." - See full review

ChrisM reviews AardVarK Versus the Hype: "Don’t drink the Zombie-ade!" October 23, 2021 "A crazy adventure about the four members of a high school garage band named AardVark and their antics as they try to thwart the purveyors..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews How it was then and how it is now: "Abstraction, surrealism and relationships" October 23, 2021 "There is a long history of using surreal, abstract worlds to describe relationships in interactive fiction, with Plotkin's game So Far..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Taste of Fingers: "An unpleasant man in an unpleasant situation" October 23, 2021 "I recently played through a game that used pedophilia for its shock factor, to show you just how bad the villains were. I mentioned in a..." - See full review

A new listing for Compassionate Simulation, by Rachel Swirsky, P H Lee, Aster Fialla

P. B. Parjeter reviews Barry Basic and the Quick Escape: "A good multimedia game with varying intuitive-ness" October 23, 2021 "I found this game by requesting an IF story with a character-swapping system similar to the indie horror game 'Ib.' I enjoyed the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Brave Bear: "A short and simple parser game about a child's toy" October 23, 2021 "This is a brief parser game where you play as a child's teddy bear who can walk around. Your goal is to defeat fears and gather friends...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Corsham Witch Trial: "An account of a trial with extensive fake documentation, but few choices" October 23, 2021 "This is a pretty long game content-wise but pretty short choice-wise. You are a new legal expert at a firm (I think?) and you're asked to..." - See full review

A new listing for HORSE, by A. Ninny

A new listing for A Goblin's Life, by Burnout and BBBen

A new listing for The Casabian Virus, by GoblinBoy

A new listing for An Afternoon Visit, by Mkj

MathBrush reviews Fine Felines: "Cat breeding, dating and disability simulator in Choicescript" October 21, 2021 "This game is a polished Choicescript cat breeding simulator. You have $10,000 and a small monthly income, and have the opportunity to buy..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Libonotus Cup: "A fancy javascript parser game about a pirate race" October 21, 2021 "This game is, as far as I can tell, written in a custom javascript engine, since you can see how its constructed in the JS and I don't..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Golden Heist: "Rob Nero blind: if you can!" October 21, 2021 "This is a choice game with some images and sound. In it, you play as a poor young thief whose father was the architect for Nero's palace...." - See full review

A new listing for الصحراء, by Taha Ataweel

FormosaFalanster reviews the uncle who works for nintendo: "Original and creepy" October 21, 2021 "One of the first Twine games I played. Interesting to play several times, genuinely atmospheric, very original in both its approach to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews extraordinary_fandoms.exe: "Friendship simulator based on a real story" October 21, 2021 "This game is meant to emulate an older teenager or young adult hopping on Discord and hanging out with friends by talking about a..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Smart Theory: "Short and funny game about being smart... in theory" October 21, 2021 "In this game you play a student at a university that stumbles into some kind of seminar, revolution and/or cult. Learn all about "Smart..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Enveloping Darkness: "Short, straight-forward fantasy game with mediocre writing" October 21, 2021 "This game feels like exactly the game I would have written in the 7th or 8th grade. The plot careens down a path that seems to throw in..." - See full review

mg51 reviews The Wizard Sniffer: "Unique, intriguing, and hilarious" October 20, 2021 "This is one of the most entertaining IF games I've played, period. The story isn't overly complicated but it's never boring, and while..." - See full review

A new listing for Amy And The Raging Hormones, by Snarfbert

A new listing for A Dream Come True, by Purple Dragon

A new listing for A Night with Dani and Liz, by Rip_CPU

A new listing for A Night With Beverly, by NewKid

RadioactiveCrow reviews Cyborg Arena: "Combat simulator with a slick interface and blunt political message" October 20, 2021 "In this game you play a cyborg, forced into pugilistic slavery by dastardly conservative lawmakers and corporations. You life involves..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Universal Hologram: "Explore layers of reality with AI-generated art" October 20, 2021 "This is a long Twine game that uses distorted sounds and AI-generated art to tell a story about a being in a world where astral..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews An Aside About Everything: "Dense allegory in a symbolic world" October 20, 2021 "This is a Twine game with multiple worlds that all seem to represent the same allegory. Each world contains 4 women, who travel with you,..." - See full review

zinze reviews Vampire Ltd: "Solid, Classic, Fun" October 19, 2021 "This is a solid, classic parser game and all-around good time. It has some fun puzzles, a clear goal, and a satisfying progression of..." - See full review

zinze reviews Stuff of Legend: "One of the best games of 2020" October 19, 2021 "This is definitely in my top 2-3 games of 2020; it's genuinely funny, the PC is well developed and endearing, the puzzles are interesting..." - See full review

zinze reviews A Murder in Fairyland: "One of the Best of 2020" October 19, 2021 "This game is definitely in my top 2-3 games of 2020 (and honestly I rarely like anything that's not a parser). The writing is lovely, the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Waiting Room: "A creepy but somewhat unpolished hospital horror story" October 19, 2021 "I recently mentioned in another review how I'm a big fan of genre fiction. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about: a classic..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat: "Short Twine game about the emptiness of medieval Catholicism... I think?" October 19, 2021 "This is a short Twine game in which you play a priest, apparently during the construction of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, with a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mermaids of Ganymede: "An underwater sci-fi game with deep worldbuilding" October 19, 2021 "Seth Paxton first entered IFComp last year as part of the writing team behind "Big Trouble in Little Dino Park", a fun dinosaur game that..." - See full review

A new listing for Deathtrap, by Deathtrap Productions

AKheon reviews I Contain Multitudes: "Mystery somewhere at sea" October 18, 2021 "I Contain Multitudes is a parser-based game by Wonaglot, published in 2021. You are an engineer on a steam boat. A murder has happened,..." - See full review

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