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MathBrush reviews Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires: "A heist game in 3 acts with puzzles and conversational mechanics" April 9, 2021 "This game does a lot of good things, and really drew me in. You play as a nouveau-riche socialite who is also a catburglar/art thief...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mean Mother Trucker: "Keep on trucking" April 9, 2021 "The setting and protagonist of Mean Mother Trucker are pretty novel for parser IF – you’re a transwoman big-rig driver in a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hand of God: "Less buggy, still a bit ugly" April 9, 2021 "NOTE: The first part of this review was written about an earlier version of the game, which had a game-ending bug; read on for an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Copper Canyon: "An Ink game about saving a mining town after an earthquake" April 9, 2021 "This is a Spring Thing game written in Ink. In it, you play a young man in a mining town where a disaster has struck. There are several..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Copper Canyon: "A mine-r pleasure" April 9, 2021 "I didn’t have “Old West YA adventure” on my Spring Thing bingo card – and wasn’t shedding tears over its absence since neither..." - See full review

ZenGarden reviews CYBERMONKEY: "Short and Sweet Action" April 9, 2021 "This story is very well written, with a lack of typos and grammatical errors. The action scenes in particular are visceral, captivating,..." - See full review

A new listing for CYBERMONKEY, by hetero malk

Mike Russo reviews Queenlash: "Cleopatras Wake" April 8, 2021 "There’s a bit midway through the Bell Jar where the protagonist – a top-of-her-class college student with incipient mental health..." - See full review

A new listing for It's Fine Stress Relief Segment, by Team 3: It's Fine

Rovarsson reviews Take the Dog Out: "Exactly what it says on the tin." April 8, 2021 "This was FUN! There's really nothing to the "game"-part of this game, but my-oh-my the fun there is to be had by trying to do all the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Mean Mother Trucker: "I love the smell of armadillo in the mornin'" April 8, 2021 "You're a big trucker with a soft spot for the waitress in a rundown truckstop. You'll have to prove to her you can safely take her..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eyewear Cleaner 2077: "An unfinished demo for a long twine game set in world of Cyberpunk 2077" April 8, 2021 "Like many of the Back Garden Spring Thing games, this is a demo for a much longer game in the future. As in Bez's other games, the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Eleanor: "Eleanor Riddle-by" April 8, 2021 "NOTE: The first part of this review was written about an earlier version of the game, where I got stuck on a puzzle; read on for an..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Dissection of a city district." April 7, 2021 "A sick goblin, bleeding from his eyes, is brought into the clinic and dies on the operating table, right before the eyes of Marid, a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job: "Take this job and kick it" April 7, 2021 "Ned Nelson really needs anger management classes, was the sense I got when the option "punch Mr. Jett directly in his face" popped up at..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Heroes!: "IF just for one day" April 7, 2021 "Pure enthusiasm will get you pretty far in life, and Heroes! is proof this applies just as strongly to IF as it does anywhere else...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Take the Dog Out: "A lovely chill-out game" April 7, 2021 "In the last few comps and festivals I’ve played, for some reason the first game that’s come up in the randomizer has been something..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Space Diner: "A python-based diner game" April 7, 2021 "I don't think I would have played this game if I hadn't been committed to reviewing all the Spring Thing games. Downloading Python 3 was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest: "A short spy game with fun puzzles but a bit undercooked" April 6, 2021 "This game describes itself well on the Spring Thing page, where it says: "I’ve entered it in the Back Garden section because it is not..." - See full review

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 New this week: New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Search for game tags Sort by "Newest listing" submission date Search by submission date Updated navigation bar Clickable genres

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 Search for game tags: You can now search for tags by name.

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 Sort by "Newest listing" submission date: You could always sort the Browse page by "Newest listing," but for some reason you could never sort search results that way. Well, now you can!

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 Search by submission date: You could always search by publication date with published: but now you can search by the date the listing was added with added:

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 Updated navigation bar: We've changed the "Your Page" link to "My Activity" and changed "Edit Profile" to "Settings."

IFDB site news April 6, 2021 Clickable genres: The genre on each game (e.g. "Science Fiction") is now a clickable link to search results for that genre.

A new poll by Bentabnick, Medium-hard puzzle and adventure games created April 6, 2021 8 votes for 8 games If you made or can find a medium-hard adventure game, puzzle game, or both, please respond.

A new listing for Law of the West, by Alan Miller, Mimi Doggett, Ed Bogas

A new listing for The Ring of Power, by Fred J. Preston, Bob McClemont

MathBrush reviews Miss No-Name: "A charming short Twine game with many endings" April 6, 2021 "This game is short but has a lot of different branches. It's not really a time cave, since some branches come together, so it's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Excellent multi-act game in gothic urban fantasy environment" April 6, 2021 "This is the kind of game that comes along only once every few years, especially recently: a polished parser game that lasts far longer..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Manikin Demo: "An incomplete murder mystery texting game" April 5, 2021 "While this game is unfinished, I found it a pleasant surprise. In format it reminds me of Lifeline, a once-popular game where you were..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Blue November: "An unfinished game about competing hackers" April 5, 2021 "This seems like it will one day be a complex game about 4 different games competing in a simulated hacking competition. For now, though,..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews The Algophilists' Penury: "Painful to play" April 4, 2021 "I don't claim to be an expert on game design. But from what I've gathered, I believe most creators and critics of IF adhere to some..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Shade: "One room, almost perfectly realized" April 4, 2021 "This is a very short and enclosed game, without a clear goal at first. After a bit of milling around, you'll realize how to progress..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Summit: "Beautiful, strange yet convincing" April 4, 2021 "What a strange and beautiful piece of interactive fiction! Summit is based on a startling idea: that human beings must periodically expel..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job: "A game that wants you to hate someone really bad" April 4, 2021 "I am so, so glad I played this game, but not for the reasons the author intended (unless it's a cool reverse pscyhology thing, then it..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Take the Dog Out: "A cute little game" April 4, 2021 "There's not a lot to it, (the game is over before you know it) but the puzzles are fair, and there's some cute stuff. I look forward to..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Baggage: "Not sure if I found everything" April 4, 2021 "There's a lot of fun poetic imagery in this piece. It ends quite abruptly, and won't take more than a few minutes if you play it as I..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Secret of Nara: "A nice little romp as a deer" April 4, 2021 "You're a deer. You do deer things. It's pretty cute. The whole game is over in 10 to 15 minutes, maybe 30 if you decide to use the back..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Picton Murder Whodunnit: "Hazelden could have solved this" April 4, 2021 "The game is pretty easy. The murderer and the alibis are selected at random. " - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Miss No-Name: "Needs one more thing" April 3, 2021 "The premise of this game is pretty zany, and I enjoyed that. But I wanted a little something more after " - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Finding Martin: "Phone booth to the stars, Microwave to the past" April 3, 2021 "A big review for a big game. Finding Martin is an extremely big and extremely difficult game. I would not have been able to finish it..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mean Mother Trucker: "The epitome of truck stops" April 3, 2021 "I am still a fairly prudish person, and happy with that choice, but growing up I rarely left the house and just read books most of the..." - See full review

Chin Kee Yong reviews Foo Foo: "A brilliant take on noir" April 3, 2021 "This is the kind of game that lures you in with twee storybook trappings before bopping you on the head and leaving you out cold in a..." - See full review

Fosforo reviews Tristam Island: "A technical prodigy" April 3, 2021 "A great, old-style (but modern) text adventure with very logical and stimulating puzzles, no dead-ends, credible setting and great prose...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Excalibur: "A fan wiki for a 'lost show'" April 3, 2021 "When I had heard that JJ and Grim had been working on a huge Twine project, this isn't what I expected, but I enjoyed this nonetheless...." - See full review

News on The Weight of a Soul: The Weight of a Soul is featured in Spring Thing 2021! April 3, 2021 After five years of development, The Weight of a Soul is now available to play from start to finish at the Spring Thing Festival!

RadioactiveCrow reviews A Blank Page: "Decent short piece about overcoming writer's block" April 3, 2021 "This is a Twine piece in which you play a writer, or at least someone who aspires to be such, trying to just get something on that damn..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Baggage: "Couldn't figure it out" April 3, 2021 "This game is very abstract, with concepts implemented as objects and I suspect able to be used in that way if the conditions are right. I..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews An Amical Bet: "An author's first game" April 3, 2021 "This game felt like the author was just learning Quest and wanted to create a whole (though very small) world to test that she knew the..." - See full review

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