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Victor Gijsbers reviews Hyper Rift: "Complex sci-fi puzzler for mobile platforms" March 23, 2021 "Hyper Rift is a choice-based interactive fiction for mobile platforms (Android, iOS, and perhaps also Windows Mobile). It's partly..." - See full review

Spooky reviews rendition: "A monument to poor understanding" March 23, 2021 "Till Lindman of Rammstein was once asked why he sang so many dark songs in the first person. His response, to paraphrase, was that if he..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Assignment 46: "BOOM! Your mission is a failure" March 23, 2021 "In Assignment 46 (a sequel to Assignment 45: A Harry Flynn Adventure) you take on the role of captain Harry Flint, who has to save the..." - See full review

Blake reviews Portcullis: "Putting the "Good" in the "Good Ol' Days"" March 23, 2021 "This game is awesome. The prose is just right: simple, evocative, but never terse. The puzzles are very solvable; I needed no hints to..." - See full review

Asmodius33597 reviews Earth and Sky: "This game should be rated five stars" March 23, 2021 "This game should be rated five stars I’m not really sure why it doesn’t have higher ratings"

A new poll by Greg Frost, Games with detailed descriptions of art works created March 22, 2021 31 votes for 20 games I am looking for games which use the literary technique of ekphrasis: "a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined" (Wikipedia).

Blake reviews She's Got a Thing for a Spring: "Simply Beautiful" March 22, 2021 "This is a lovely, much-acclaimed game that seems to have been slightly forgotten. It's a shame, because outside of a few frustrations,..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Basilica de Sangre: "Demonic fun with some implementation issues" March 22, 2021 "You’re a demon and you have to save your mother from an unconventional convent. Luckily, while security is tight, you have the power to..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Time Quest: "Time travel for the sake of pacifism" March 22, 2021 "Time Quest is in many ways an old-school parser game. We explore a relatively large but sparsely described world; solve some puzzles;..." - See full review

A new listing for Castlequest, by Michael S. Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt

Blake reviews Futz Mutz: "A Rotten Apple" March 22, 2021 "What an oddity this game is. At first, it seems pretty good. It's coded well, and makes use of multimedia, with a title screen, music and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Hero Project: Open Season: "The conclusion of the Hero Project. More policy than power" March 22, 2021 "This game is the end of the Hero Project duology, which comes after the Heroes Rise trilogy (and has connections to " - See full review

A new listing for The Hero Project: Open Season, by Zachary Sergi

Victor Gijsbers reviews Post-Christmas Letdown: "Charming post-Christmas SpeedIF" March 21, 2021 "This is a very fine example of SpeedIF. Post-Christmas Letdown is very short, but well-implemented, with easy puzzles and a lot of charm...." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Room: "Supposedly exploring depression" March 21, 2021 "The little game Room is supposed to be an exploration of depression. You wake up, have to face the new day, and then make choice like..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Lost Islands of Alabaz: "Ten Pearly Isles" March 21, 2021 "The Lost Islands of Alabaz is a fun and energetic travel-adventure. It's aimed at children and has the feel of the "boy's..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Nerd Quest: "Not much to recommend itself" March 21, 2021 "Nerd Quest ended up placing 33rd out of 35 in the 2008 IF Competition, which means that it is least better than The Absolute Worst IF..." - See full review

Olaf Nowacki reviews 77 Verbs: "a joy to play!" March 21, 2021 "I really enjoyed playing this game. It is fast paced and as close to an action game as you can get with text adventures, I'd say. It..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews The Courier Who Missed Me: "A single illogical puzzle" March 20, 2021 "I always find it tricky to rate SpeedIF games. They were written under very tight time limits; so should we rate them for what they are,..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Triune: "Femininity, magic and maleness" March 20, 2021 "I came across Triune while playing ten random games from the IFDB; and this fact itself is somewhat astonishing. For here we have a game..." - See full review

Fenix reviews Creatures Such As We: "Space Love" March 20, 2021 "tldr: An enjoyable IF despite a bit of rail-roading. I love space and seeing this setting made me think of something that could quite..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Hero Project: Redemption Season: "A strong superhero story with restricted interactivity" March 20, 2021 "This is a somewhat controversial game, but it was only able to achieve that controversy by being popular in the first place. The author..." - See full review

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Lots of changes: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Improved sort by rating Dark mode Updated default list of IF systems You can now unvote on reviews Fixed Baf's Guide links Farewell, IFDB browser plugin Narrow design

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Improved sort by rating: When sorting games by Highest Rating, we now use Evan Miller's formula. We used to sort by average rating, but this would tend to rank games with just one perfect 5-star rating above games with dozens of 5-star ratings and a few 4-star ratings. Evan Miller’s formula sorts by our confidence in the game, by adding five “fake” ratings to the average (one 1-star, one 2-star, one 3-star, one 4-star, and one 5-star rating) and subtracting the standard deviation from the result.

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Dark mode: If your browser prefers dark mode, IFDB will honor that, and adopt the "Midnight" styles from our stylesheet gallery. (IFDB still allows users to choose your own custom stylesheet.)

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Updated default list of IF systems: Say hello to Adventuron, Dialog, Ink, Texture, and Unity. (You can, as always, just type in the name of any development system; you don't have to pick one off the list.)

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 You can now unvote on reviews: Previously, once you'd voted (helpful/unhelpful), you were forced to pick a side.

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Fixed Baf's Guide links: IFDB has a number of links to Baf's Guide, the predecessor to IFDB. Baf's Guide has been offline for some time; these links have been updated to point to the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Farewell, IFDB browser plugin: Did you know that IFDB had a Windows-based browser plugin that would automatically install interpreters for you? Unfortunately, it hasn't worked in years. We've deleted it from the site.

IFDB site news March 20, 2021 Narrow design: Paragraphs are now limited to 12 words wide (60ch), and the main body of the page is limited to 100ch. This makes the text more readable, in agreement with WCAG recommendations.

A new listing for Reddex, by Phlegethon

Blake reviews Candy: "Two Grams of Magic" March 19, 2021 "This is an unfinished game from the enigmatic Rybread Celsius. The puzzle of how genuine he was has never been solved, and while some..." - See full review

Blake reviews The Commute: "Homebrew Parsing Leads to Laughs (and a bit of creepiness)" March 19, 2021 "This is clearly a programming exercise and is barely playable. It's ultra-short, and the challenge is figuring out the actions necessary..." - See full review

A new listing for Sophia or Wisdom Defined, by damageTXT

IFforL2 reviews 單色衝擊 | Monochrome Impact: "Good visual novel for intermediate Chinese language learners." March 19, 2021 "In my experience, Chinese language visual novels are often puzzle-less electronic picture books. Many stories offer few and trivial..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Choice of the Pirate: "The simple pleasures of pirating" March 19, 2021 "Alana Joli Abbott is a prolific Choice of Games author, having written Choice of Kung Fu (a very good game), Showdown at Willow Creek..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Parc: "Parc - Old Phoenix Mainframe Game From 1983" March 18, 2021 "Parc by John Rennie is one of the lesser known of the Phoenix IBM mainframe adventures written between 1978 and 1989 and also one of the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Showdown at Willow Creek: "A grab-bag of investigation, outlaws, Ute indians and science" March 18, 2021 "This is one of the shortest choicescript games sold by Choice of Games. Coincidentally, at 72,000 words, it's longer than any parser game..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Hunt the Wumpus: "Fun little logic puzzle" March 18, 2021 "First of all, my thanks to Magnus Olsson for the z-code port of this game. So much easier to load up Filfre to play this rather than..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Feather Grange Job: "Short series of puzzles that I didn't finish" March 18, 2021 "As best as I gathered, in this story you play a series of birds, I believe all pets, stealing diamonds from your owner. The game provides..." - See full review

A new listing for 單色衝擊 | Monochrome Impact, by crab11223

RadioactiveCrow reviews Beagle 2: "Not worth your time" March 18, 2021 "This appears to be a one-room game with a single guess-the-verb puzzle. No backstory, characterization, or reason to care about what is..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Adventurers' Museum: "Our favourite generic hero saves cultural heritage!" March 17, 2021 "When I entered the first room in The Adventurers' Museum, I almost breathed a sigh of relief. It was a breath of fresh air to learn that..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Daring Mermaid Expedition: "A brief and fragmented journey to discover mermaids" March 17, 2021 "This game is well-written on the line-by-line level or even scene-by-scene but doesn't know what it wants to be. It starts out seeming..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Fivetenosdhotnvi, Bear Hardness March 17, 2021 1 item Its is a really hard game I tried playing but its an awesome game made by somebody else.

MathBrush reviews Choice of the Rock Star: "On the shorter end for Choicescript, " March 17, 2021 "This one was hard to review: didn't like it at first, liked it a lot more near the end, but not sure about it overall. So I'm going over..." - See full review

TheTechRobo reviews This Game is a Dog: "Short but cute" March 17, 2021 "This game is really wholesome. It has a few life lessons too. :) Its definitely short tho, which is not a pro since it means you'll be..." - See full review

dvs reviews Enchanter: "An adventure for a first-level magic-user" March 16, 2021 "This early Infocom game seems well-designed for first-time players to explore the world of text adventures. However, to a modern player,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews HMS Foraker: "A brief nugget of nautical military history retold" March 16, 2021 "This game has a little bit of history, much of which I don't know. It's a sequel to the original Choice of Broadsides, a navy battle..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Celtic Carnage: "A deep delve into the Ulster Cycle" March 16, 2021 "Celtic Carnage (written by Ian Brown as Traveller in Black) is the fourth and last instalment in the Phoenix series. I haven't played the..." - See full review

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