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IFDB site news March 29, 2021 HiDPI cover art: On high-resolution screens, we now show the cover art at a higher resolution, so it looks sharp and crisp.

IFDB site news March 29, 2021 Mobile improvements: We fixed a number of bugs on mobile, including adding back the Play Online button, and adding back the missing links in the navigation bar at the top of every page.

IFDB site news March 29, 2021 Search by playlist and wishlist: You can now use new search operators to search games that you've added to your "I've played it" playlist, your wish list, and your "not interested"/"won't play" list. Use played:yes|no willplay:yes|no and wontplay:yes|no for these searches. (The operators have no effect when you're logged out.)

A new listing for Stilstand, by Ida Hartmann & Niila Games

A new listing for 文字獄 | Prison of Word, by Jia-Ho Jian

A new poll by Paxton, Games where the player must draw their own map created March 29, 2021 26 votes for 14 games Ideally these are games whose puzzles/challenges involve the map in some way (hidden connections, layout analysis, &c.) and aren't just games which could be mapped. I'm especially interested in games which...

Wynter reviews Babyface: "Atmospheric multimedia fiction" March 28, 2021 "In this Twine short story, a great sense of atmosphere and suspense is created, not just by the use of images and sound, excellent as..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews I Should Have Been That I Am: "Great atmosphere, weak pointe" March 28, 2021 "I Should Have Been That I Am is a short game, but it has a surprising amount of variability in its text: as the robot protagonist follows..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Anno 1700: "With more polish, a fun pirate romp" March 28, 2021 "Anno 1700 is clearly a labour of love. It is the story of a guy who really loves pirate stories written by someone who, I suspect, really..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Time Passed: "Unassuming and enriching" March 28, 2021 "This is the third game I played in the 2018 IF Comp in which the protagonist’s not being (strictly) heterosexual is important, making..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Nightmare Adventure: "Home-brew parser" March 28, 2021 "Nightmare Adventure comes an an executable file that has to be opened, at least under Linux, in the terminal. A bit weird, but it works...." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Pegasus: "Should have been longer!" March 28, 2021 "In Pegasus, we play a commando on a mission gone horribly wrong: you and your team mate are trapped and she will sacrifice herself so you..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Junior Arithmancer: "Brilliant game about integers" March 28, 2021 "In Junior Arithmancer, we play a prospective student of magic doing an entrance examination in arithmancy, which is more or less the..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Birmingham IV: "Unsolvable puzzles" March 28, 2021 "Birmingham IV is quite polished; nothing wrong with it in terms of basic craft. A couple of things soon rubbed me the wrong way, though,..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Space Punk Moon Tour: "Seems ambitious, but let down by implementation" March 28, 2021 "The pictures are nice, that’s for sure, but three things made Space Punk Moon Tour hard to play for me. First, the immense number of..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews smooch.click: "Light but recommended" March 28, 2021 "A game of smooch.click consists of three to four small vignettes, each of which ends when you make one of three choices; and then… a..." - See full review

A new listing for Scions of Troy, by PyrrhaIphis

A new listing for Superstition S2, by 13Leagues

Victor Gijsbers reviews Campfire Tales: "The merest game that I have ever played" March 27, 2021 "As far as I could determine by playing through the game twice, Campfire Tales is an extremely short horror story in which a few bits of..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews I.A.G. Alpha: "Memorable use of debugger" March 27, 2021 "Institute for Advanced Genetics or Incomplete Adventure Game: I.A.G. Alpha presents itself as an unfinished alpha version of a game set..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Dungeon Detective: "A fresh take on dungeoneering" March 27, 2021 "Dungeon Detective is a game with a lot of promise, but it doesn’t quite live up to it. Let’s start with the promise. The idea of..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Haywire: "Feels like a fragment" March 27, 2021 "Our protagonist is a street illusionist, but one whose illusionism is true magic: she can really make people see things that don’t..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews + = x: "As mysterious as a blank card" March 27, 2021 "[Note: this review was written in 2018 during the competition. I have now played more Chandler Groover games, especially the brilliant..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Railways of Love: "Surprisingly moving and surprisingly deep" March 27, 2021 "One of the questions that kept nagging me as I played through Railways of Love was whether the game really had a Russian vibe, or whether..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Escape from S.S.A.D.B.: "Bare-bones and you'll need a walkthrough" March 26, 2021 "Escape from S.S.A.D.B. is a very primitive adventure game in every respect: prose, story, puzzles, parser. Although it is a very small..." - See full review

A new listing for Quest for the Serpent's Eye, by Lazygamedesigner82

Victor Gijsbers reviews Shore Leave: "Juvenile and hard to play" March 26, 2021 "After playing two random Spectrum adventures (the very good Celtic Carnage and the decent Time Quest), I was perhaps getting unrealistic..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, My new walkthroughs for March 2021 March 26, 2021 8 items On Friday March 26, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more...

Shadowcutie reviews Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two: "Are vampires down to clown or is this just some funny business" March 25, 2021 "I wrote about the series as a whole on my Book One review so I won't bore you by repeating it all again. Just know I love TWC, it's a..." - See full review

Lazygamedesigner82 reviews Lost Pig: "One of the most intuitive games I've ever played" March 25, 2021 "Lost Pig was my first exposure to interactive fiction in many years, and I continue to be stunned at how immersive, expansive, and..." - See full review

ganymedejane reviews The Wizard Sniffer: "A fresh take on fantasy" March 25, 2021 "This witty puzzle game has such a unique charm! As others have pointed out, the humor is reminiscent of monty python or Blackadder, but..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Thing That Came In From The Fog: "A charming story of mist and mystery" March 25, 2021 "This Fallen London exceptional story is pretty good. Fog has encroached on London, and out of it steps a bizarre foggy figure that walks..." - See full review

bigboycity reviews Climax: "Perfect execution of a perfect idea" March 25, 2021 "It’s hard to think of a movie this idea would’ve worked better for. Climax is an unstable, non-linear nightmare, and user DIGITGOD..." - See full review

A new listing for For a Dream of Innocence, by Nigel Evans, Failbetter Games

A new listing for The Thing That Came In From The Fog, by Harry Tuffs, Failbetter Games

A new listing for Climax, by DIGITGOD

MathBrush reviews Sky Pirates of Actorius: "A miniature, procedural pirate infiltration game" March 25, 2021 "This is the only game out of Choice of Games 123 existing titles I've played that I'm giving 3 stars to. Most titles are the result of..." - See full review

A new listing for Sky Pirates of Actorius, by Kyle Marquis

neroden reviews Truth: "Enjoyed far more than I was expecting" March 25, 2021 "You go around "finding untruths" while trying to "find the truth". Slightly underimplemented (but bug-free!) and very short, but somehow..." - See full review

neroden reviews 9:05: "A comment on reading conventions" March 24, 2021 "This is a one-trick game which makes an insightful comment on the conventions which the player uses to interact with the game. The twist..." - See full review

neroden reviews +=3: "Fails at its stated goal due to poor execution" March 24, 2021 "The puzzle is not, in fact, logical. " - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews 9/21: My Story: "Raw, intense, and no longer available" March 24, 2021 "My review of 9/21: My Story must start with an explanation of how I came to play it, especially since readers of the review will most..." - See full review

A new listing for Zombie World, by Joe Anderson

A new listing for The Matrix, by Joe Anderson

A new listing for Bog Beast, by Joe Anderson

A new listing for Angry Dragon, by Joe Anderson

MathBrush reviews Grand Academy II: Attack of the Sequel: "An entertaining sequel focused on a school competition" March 24, 2021 "Grand Academy of Villains is a game I first played years ago. I found the writing funny and the class interesting, but I wasn't satisfied..." - See full review

A new listing for 霍桑探案集 貓兒眼, by 程小青 and IFforL2

Victor Gijsbers reviews Hippy's Quest: "Surprisingly awful shareware" March 23, 2021 "In Hippy's Quest you play a young man trying to become a hippy. This reminds me of Frank Zappa's satirical album "We're Only in It for..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Three Mile: "Powerful multi-media horror Twine" March 23, 2021 "For the first minutes, Three Mile is utterly unremarkable. You and some friends are on a midnight trip towards a haunted road. There's..." - See full review

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