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IFDB site news April 12, 2021 Show top five games on author's user profiles: For prolific authors, we now only show the top five games on their user profiles, sorted by highest rating, with a link to see the rest of their games.

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jakomo reviews The Blue Lettuce: "Lettuce prey" April 12, 2021 "You're a hungry groundhog looking for things to eat in a garden. This is Inform, not Adventuron, so the visual presentation is a bit..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Barry Basic and the Quick Escape: "Back in the summer of '69" April 12, 2021 "The most ambitious game I've encountered so far in the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, Barry Basic and the Quick Escape features 3 playable..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Manor on top of the Hill: "Manors Maketh Man" April 12, 2021 "A very traditional entry in the well-trodden "explore your eccentric relative's mansion" genre. The Manor on top of the Hill (I feel like..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Please do not the cat: "Cool for cats" April 12, 2021 "A strange cat has entered your home and fallen asleep on top of you. Find a way to wake it up, get it to trust you, then get it back to..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Sentient Beings: "Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto" April 12, 2021 "Control a friendly robot on alien world collecting specimens. Requires a thorough exploration of everything in the environment to dig out..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews An Amical Bet: "A short uncompiled Quest file about stealing stuff" April 12, 2021 "This is a short Quest game about theft in a very unpolished state. The game is a raw quest file. There are a few objects scattered around..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Perihelion: "Not for the impatient" April 11, 2021 "Perihelion is a well-done game that I admired more than enjoyed. It’s got a compelling, hypercompressed and occasionally poetic prose..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Blank Page: "A short game about getting the courage to begin writing" April 11, 2021 "I found this game somewhat stressful, as it reminds me of writing my big novel. In this Twine game, you sit down and have to focus and..." - See full review

A new listing for Some Sword / Some Play, by Moniker Ersatz

Mike Russo reviews Sunny's Summer Vacation: "Vacation shouldn't be this much work" April 11, 2021 "I really dig the premise of Sunny’s Summer Vacation – you play a Very Good Dog (a corgi) whose person, Emma, is headed to the beach..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Heroes!: "A purely branching Quest choice game with fun art" April 11, 2021 "This game has some great art, and played smoothly in the downloaded version. This is a pure time cave, i.e. a game where every choice..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Sandcastle Master: "Here comes the sun" April 11, 2021 "A really pleasant, relaxing experience. Soothing background music, a calming yellow and blue colour palette, a seaside ambience that is..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Adventures Extraordinaire: "Mike Hammer's Adventures in Wonderland" April 11, 2021 "You play as Mickey Spillane's character Mike Hammer P.I., but the concept is abandoned as soon as you take a taxi to the English..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Dungeons of Antur: "Is it wrong to try to pick up spiders in a dungeon?" April 11, 2021 "Graphically impressive D&D-styled dungeon-crawl for beginners. The English is not perfect but understandable. The turn-based combat is..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Excalibur: "A rumination on memory, in wiki form" April 11, 2021 "Excalibur is somewhere between odd duck and rara avis. Created by a murder’s row of talent, it’s a Twine game built as a fan-wiki for..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Rotten Wooden Room: "The Rotten Wooden Game" April 11, 2021 "In the very first location, the word "wooden" is highlighted in red. Normally you would highlight interactable nouns, not adjectives, so..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!: "A graphical game packed with tons of endings" April 11, 2021 "This game is an unusual format for IF, so it makes sense it was put in Spring Thing, a competition known for its interesting experiments...." - See full review

jakomo reviews Reflections: "I'm starting with the evil queen in the mirror..." April 11, 2021 "An entry in the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, a competition for entry-level parser games for kids. Reflections goes out of its way to hold..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Fie, Easy Puzzles April 11, 2021 5 items This is my attempt at creating a player's needs focused list of puzzles. Puzzle games at approximately the same difficulty will be grouped together, so that someone who plays one game on this list will be...

A new Recommended List by Fie, Medium Puzzles April 11, 2021 8 items This is my attempt at creating a player's needs focused list of puzzles. Puzzle games at approximately the same difficulty will be grouped together, so that someone who plays one game on this list will be...

Rovarsson reviews So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest: "Mmmhhhm... Chicken" April 11, 2021 "A short and breezy peek at what should be a really fun game once it's gotten a bit more substance. The author submitted it to the Back..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews An Amical Bet: "Not much at stake" April 11, 2021 "Much like Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, An Amical Bet is about a dashing lesbian thief committing crimes in a lavish setting,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires: "A delightful heist-fest" April 11, 2021 "Thalia is the Greek muse of comedy, and she’s an apt namesake for what’s the most purely fun game I’ve yet hit in the festival. It..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hand of God: "A branching Twine game about a robot apocalypse" April 10, 2021 "This game is written in Twine, and features you, a programmer, working on a secret government project when things go wrong. It uses..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Picton Murder Whodunnit: "A random mystery" April 10, 2021 "I can certainly see the appeal of the randomized murder-mystery. More than most genres of IF, once you know the solution to a mystery..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires: "Gracious theft." April 10, 2021 "You are quite the sophisticated art-thief, choosing to perform your particular art as stylishly as possible. You also can't stand being..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A strange dream: "A fragment of a dream" April 10, 2021 "A Strange Dream doesn’t seem finished. The first sign is that the game’s file name is “test.aslx” and opening it pulls up the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Wintervale: "Iterations of a snowy day." April 10, 2021 "Wintervale starts off as a run-of-the mill story about a fantasy town. This introduction was nicely done, with a history of how the town..." - See full review

Chin Kee Yong reviews The Edifice: "A high-concept game undone by poor execution" April 10, 2021 "The Edifice is a puzzly, rather sparsely implemented parser game in the tradition of Zork. It's very well-regarded, winning a XYZZY award..." - See full review

A new competition page: Text Adventure Literacy Jam created April 10, 2021 The Text Adventure Literacy Jam is a parser-based text adventure authoring competition that challenges entrants to "Create a TEXT ADVENTURE game suitable for children with no prior experience.".

A new listing for The Manor on top of the Hill, by Kalyen

A new listing for The Rotten Wooden Room, by Cat Galaxy Studio

A new listing for Adventures Extraordinaire, by ElefantinoDesign

A new listing for Reflections, by Tristin Grizel Dean

A new listing for Dungeons of Antur, by Ricardo Oyón Rodríguez

A new listing for Please do not the cat, by bubez

Rovarsson reviews Copper Canyon: "Mine" April 10, 2021 "Twenty two good men died in the mine after an earthquake. To add insult to injury, some hoodlums take control of the town and deny the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Some Space: "Thoughtful sci-fi let down by its last act" April 10, 2021 "Graham Nelson’s adage about an adventure game being a crossword at war with a narrative doesn’t fully apply to Some Space, but it..." - See full review

A new listing for Barry Basic and the Quick Escape, by Dee Cooke

A new listing for Sentient Beings, by Tristin Grizel Dean

A new listing for Sandcastle Master, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake)

A new listing for The Blue Lettuce, by Caleb Wilson

MathBrush reviews Fish & Dagger: "A multimedia wonderland of a game. Spy thriller, 4th wall breaking" April 10, 2021 "This game has truly great multimedia. I had some troubles with it (mentioned later), but I've never seen a Twine game at this level when..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Misty Hills: "Misty Hill Hop" April 10, 2021 "I feel like there are a lot of chill, hang-out-y games in this year’s Spring Thing. I don’t know if that’s a coincidence, or a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Miss No-Name: "Breezy and good-natured" April 10, 2021 "So this is the second entry from Bellamy Briks, and in a completely different development system (this one’s Twine, while Heroes! was..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Baggage: "Stepping off the gravel road..." April 9, 2021 "Baggage is set in a very evocative symbolic setting. You're on an endless gravel road going nowhere. Your only chances of getting..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Theatre of Spud: "An incomplete Python game set in a theatre" April 9, 2021 "I rarely review a game without playing it to completion. To explain my omission in this case, I'd like to describe my play experience...." - See full review

Chin Kee Yong reviews Will Not Let Me Go: "A somber story about dementia" April 9, 2021 "Growing old is one of my greatest fears. As a young person, it seems nightmarish to me that I may one day be reduced to a shadow, slowly..." - See full review

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