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MathBrush reviews Dr Horror's House of Terror: "A big, polished, funny horror parser game with a lot of complex puzzles" October 11, 2021 "This long game is set on a movie set for a company that makes cheap horror films. After a harrowing experience with your boss, you have..." - See full review

News on Cygnet Committee: Linux version released October 10, 2021 A Linux version of the game has been released on itch.io. The initial competition release was only compatible with Windows.

Wynter reviews 9:05: "Quick, fun, and surprising!" October 10, 2021 "A short game about getting up in the morning and going to work, but with a twist ending. Plays with your expectations - there are some..." - See full review

kaemi reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Kaemi's IFComp 2021 Reviews" October 10, 2021 "The hardest part of the day is the alarm, the moment when an internal world shatters under the invasion of a contingency of compromises,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 4x4 Archipelago: "A long, complete Twine RPG with multiple classes and quests" October 10, 2021 "Last year, the author released a game called 4x4 Galaxy, where you played a star fighter visiting 16 planets (arrranged on a grid),..." - See full review

A new listing for Zork 285, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling

MathBrush reviews Ghosts Within: "A sprawling city and mystery with multiple opening and endings" October 9, 2021 "This is a TADS game entered into IFComp 2021. It is a very large game, with dozens of locations and requiring many hours to play through...." - See full review

ChrisM reviews The Miller's Garden: "Potamological potterings" October 9, 2021 "Curious, impressionistic piece about time, impermanence, and ‘net channel incision’ (to use a technical term concerning the effect of..." - See full review

ChrisM reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "The private lives of plugins" October 9, 2021 "I went into this game not expecting to get out of it as much as I did - its blurb doesn't do it justice. But I found it completely..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews How the monsters appeared in the Wasteland: "A post-apocalyptic road chase in Twine" October 9, 2021 "This is a pretty fancy-looking Twine game with options for play in Russian or English. It features custom CSS styling with changing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hercules!: "Big, funny linear parser game about a nerdy Hercules" October 8, 2021 "In this game, you're a clueless, weak and nerdy Hercules who's cousin assigned him 10 impossible tasks. There's a pretty big map,..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Finding Light: "Foxy... *Jimi Hendrix distortion solo* ...Familiar" October 8, 2021 "A band of raiders kidnapped your human! As his familiar, you are bound to rescue him. Find your way into the enemy base to do so. Finding..." - See full review

A new listing for Adventures in NMR I, by Douglas P. Burum

A new listing for Detention, by Inkybus

A new listing for Warlock, by Christopher Cole

A new listing for The Wingman, by Dark Horse

MathBrush reviews Funicular Simulator 2021: "Meet 4 characters on a supernatural mountain" October 8, 2021 "This is a game about riding a Funicular (basically a tram that is rope-powered instead of track-powered) up a mountain that has several..." - See full review

SongoftheWolfy reviews Winter Break at Hogwarts: "Map Too Big, Story Too Small" October 7, 2021 "I do love this story as a Hogwarts Walking Sim, I really do. The amount of effort and detail put into mapping the world is phenomenal...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Enveloping Darkness: "A somewhat linear fantasy story about helping your family" October 7, 2021 "This is a Squiffy game in a generic fantasy setting. Your town is raided by orcs that are mind controlled by white worms, and your..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Recon: "A science fiction twine game with unique puzzles" October 7, 2021 "This is a game originally written Spanish and translated for the competition. You play as a kind of rebel against an all-powerful..." - See full review

Dean Edolas reviews And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One: "Nostalgic game with a bit of emotion" October 7, 2021 "Going into this game, I really didn't know what to expect. I started playing it, going through the different games. I got stumped a few..." - See full review

AKheon reviews Taste of Fingers: "A taste for horror" October 7, 2021 "Taste of Fingers is a choice-based game by V Dobranov, published in 2021. You are a business man hiding in a cafe somewhere in Hong Kong..." - See full review

SongoftheWolfy reviews The Hunting Lodge: "Nice, Quick Little Game" October 7, 2021 "Cool piece of coding!"

SongoftheWolfy reviews Research Dig: "Much Too Short" October 7, 2021 "I was hoping for a longer game, got this done in about 5 minutes. Good for beginners, I suppose. "

A new poll by Canalboy, Games With Unfair Beginnings created October 7, 2021 23 votes for 16 games By this I mean games that can be made unwinnable near the start or have hellish opening puzzles.

Canalboy reviews Somewhere, Somewhen: "A Lovely Slice Of Nostalgia Pie" October 7, 2021 "Somewhere, Somewhen is the latest in a fairly long line of very large puzzlefests written by Jim Macbrayne, starting with two efforts for..." - See full review

jsnlv reviews You are SpamZapper 3.1: "If only zapping real spam were so rewarding..." October 7, 2021 "It is the year 2000, and you are a mailbox plugin whose purpose is to eradicate annoying and malicious emails. Whether an email is..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews How it was then and how it is now: "Weird and surreal story about two former lovers at the end of the world" October 7, 2021 "At least I think I got the info in the title right, though honestly I might not be understanding the story correctly. You play one member..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Experience a fictional version of the Tumblr Potter fandom and JKR" October 7, 2021 "This is a pretty hefty Choicescript game that consists of two parts: a young person browsing Tumblr that's part of a fandom for a..." - See full review

AKheon reviews Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame: "The power of metal compels you!" October 6, 2021 "Codex Sadistica is a parser-based game by grave snail games, published in 2021. You are Scream, a metal vocalist at a tightly packed..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Starbreakers: "A bunch of logic-type puzzles in one big Twine game" October 6, 2021 "This, like Retrocon 2021, another entry in this year's IFComp, is a collection of puzzles thrown into one big story. However, this game..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The House on Highfield Lane: "I can see my house from up here." October 6, 2021 "On Highfield Lane stands a creepy house. Its windows seem to watch Mandy everyday as she walks past on her way home from school. As..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Universal Hologram: "Multimedia, nonsensical story with few choices and formatting bugs" October 6, 2021 "I really feel like there was the seed of a good story here, but I just didn't get it. Most of the time I couldn't tell what was going on...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Unfortunate: "A complex and vivid parser game with active NPCs but parser hangups" October 6, 2021 "This is a game with solid writing and design but shaky implementation, what one would expect from someone with a good writing background..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fourbyfourian Quarryin': "More chess puzzles with more complexity" October 6, 2021 "Andrew Schultz recently release Fivebyfiveia Delenda Est, a fun small game with chess puzzles that was one of his higher-rated games...." - See full review

SongoftheWolfy reviews Bradford Mansion: "Excellent!" October 5, 2021 "A solid game all the way around. Only criticism is that I couldn't figure out how to " - See full review

MathBrush reviews Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame: "A heavy metal parser puzzler with colors and a couple rough patches" October 5, 2021 "This was a genuinely fun game. You are part of a heavy metal band whose set is being taken over by a glamrock band. You have to assemble..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews RetroCON 2021: "A bunch of mini games wrapped up in Twine" October 5, 2021 "This game is unapologetically just a bunch of mini games wrapped up in Twine with an ultrathin story applied. The minigames include: -A..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews An Aside About Everything: "Short surreal adventure that lacked something to tie it all together, YMMV" October 5, 2021 "I feel like surreal pieces, perhaps always, but especially in the case of this game, are really more about the author expressing..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Daughter: "I never had a clue what was going on" October 5, 2021 "I feel like if you don't read the blurb on the IFComp website, then you will never have a clue what is going on in this story. Even if..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Finding Light: "A parser game about a magical fox-human" October 5, 2021 "This is a fantasy parser game where you play as a human/fox creature that can switch between forms at will. You are a guardian to a young..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews we, the remainder: "Surreal horror game with religious themes in a compound" October 4, 2021 "This game features a hungry young protagonist in a wheelchair that explores a large world in Twine. This game is very..." - See full review

SongoftheWolfy reviews Keepsake: "Interesting Little Vignette" October 4, 2021 "Don't want to spoil too much, but I'd love to see a longer game in this style! Fascinating look at storytelling in the IF genre. "

AKheon reviews The Best Man: "Slightly elusive but rich" October 4, 2021 "The Best Man is a choice-based game made by Stephen Bond, published in 2021. The suspenseful cover art and non-existent blurb both give..." - See full review

Carlos Pamies reviews Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg: "Good idea, bad execution?" October 4, 2021 "The game caught my attention at first but lost interest as I played. While the basis of the story is original and creative, the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The TURING Test: "A classic-style Twine game about creating and detecting robots" October 4, 2021 "This game feels like it would fit well in the early era of Twine. It's standard white text on black with blue hyperlinks, uses a couple..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Walking Into It: "A wholesome game about tic-tac-toe with kids" October 4, 2021 "I was playing through all the IFComp games that are in inaccessible formats, and I thought I got them all. But then I saw this game and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Plane Walker: "Surreal puzzler that seems unfinishable" October 4, 2021 "Instead of giving a review, I'd like to give a description of my experience playing. I start the game. I try 'X ME', and get the standard..." - See full review

A new listing for Rachel Has a Bad Day, by Sly

MathBrush reviews I Contain Multitudes: "Detective game on a boat with great concepts but some execution issues" October 3, 2021 "This is Wonaglot's third IFComp game, the other two being the well-received Dungeon Detective games, both placing in the top 15 and both..." - See full review

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