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A new listing for Divertimento Parte 1. La Gorra del Abogado, by José Manuel Rosado

A new listing for NOOK: Uncharted Journey, by Idepark

ACute Disease reviews Dawnfall: "No nuance" May 6, 2021 "To put it simply, I felt bullied and abused in this game. You discover that the few people you thought you had something special with..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Pub Adventure!: "Distilled spirits" May 5, 2021 "Like another PunyJam entry Arthur's Day Out, Pub Adventure is very bare-bones. Lots of nouns that are described but cannot be interacted..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Death Number Four: "High strangeness" May 5, 2021 "An intriguing demo that ends just as it's getting started. The player-character is a fascinating enigma: you "crackle into existence" in..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Closet of Mystery: "Trapped in the Closet " May 5, 2021 "The least ambitious game I've encountered so far in PunyJam (the competition for Inform games using the slimmed-down PunyInform..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Arthur's Day Out: "Doesn't know where its towel is" May 5, 2021 "The titular Arthur is none other than Arthur Dent, complete with gown and analgesic pills, in what seems to be a pastiche of Hitchhiker's..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Captain Cutter's Treasure: "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" May 5, 2021 "A puzzle-filled pirate-themed adventure: the local publican's daughter has been kidnapped by nasty pirates. To rescue her, you'll need to..." - See full review

A new listing for The Missing Witch, by dmarymac

A new listing for The Castle of Death, by Dark Blue Monkey

A new listing for The Witch's Apprentice, by Garry Francis

A new competition page: Adventuron Halloween Jam 2019 created May 5, 2021 Use Adventuron Classroom to make your own spooky illustrated text adventure game using Adventuron Classroom.

Greg Frost reviews Amazing Quest: "Well, you see an amazing sky" May 5, 2021 ""My uncle who lived in New York got me on the Howdy Doody Show when it was at the height of its popularity... and I was in the peanut..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Pub Hubbub: "Scrub, Bub, Scrub!" May 4, 2021 "With a title like Pub Hubbub, you'd expect a few cheap jokes, and they're the good sort of cheap, the ones that give good return for..." - See full review

NMCannon reviews Never Date Werewolves: "Reading equivalent of being burrito-ed in the comfiest blanket" May 4, 2021 "A side-effect of writing a werewolf romance novel is one becomes addicted to the concept and craves more. Zahabi's Never Date Werewolves..." - See full review

NMCannon reviews A Player's Heart: "Fantastical and vivid!" May 4, 2021 "After enjoying Never Date Werewolves, I decided to play other titles in the Heart's Choice app, and Melissa Scott's A Player's Heart..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Barry Basic and the Quick Escape: "A compact game with reasonable puzzles and interesting characters" May 4, 2021 "This game pulls off a difficult feat: there are 3 characters you can play as and you can swap between them at will. That's fairly..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Time: All Things Come to an End: "I want to see this movie!" May 4, 2021 "Really. If there was a blockbuster version of this game starring a young Harrison Ford (or even Nicholas Cage, I've often thought the..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Cragne Manor: "So I guess I should try Anchorhead some time, huh?" May 4, 2021 "I'm too close to Cragne Manor to give it five stars officially. I tested a bunch of rooms and wound up emotionally invested in it. I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Blue Lettuce: "Cute inform/vorple kids game about eating magical plants" May 3, 2021 "I beta tested this game. In this vorple/inform game with illustrations of plants, you play as a young creature eager to eat every magical..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Djinn on the Rocks: "Swap my wheelbarrow got me a horse" May 3, 2021 "You're a genie in a bottle, but thankfully nobody needs to "rub you the right way". You have the power to SWAP any object in the game..." - See full review

A new listing for Death Number Four, by Dave Footitt

A new listing for Pub Hubbub, by Christopher Drum

A new listing for Pub Adventure!, by Robin & Tom Edwards

A new listing for Buccaneer's Cache, by Wilfried Elmenreich

A new listing for Closet of Mystery, by Michael Cox

A new listing for Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Arthur's Day Out, by Jason Oakley

A new listing for The Job, by Fredrik Ramsberg

A new competition page: PunyJam #1 created May 3, 2021 This was a text adventure jam where all the games had to be written using Inform 6 and the PunyInform library. The first room (the broom closet) was provided and could not be changed. Everything else was...

A new listing for Djinn on the Rocks, by Joshua Wilson

A new listing for Zox The Zombie: Neighbourhood Mayhem, by Joanne Sylver

MathBrush reviews Dungeons of Antur: "A dungeon crawl with randomized loot and monsters" May 2, 2021 "This game was pretty fun, although I think it could use a bit more hints or subtle nudges for incorrect actions. It's made using..." - See full review

A new listing for Breathless at CEH: A curious case of Christmas party, by Ebrahim Afyounian

MathBrush reviews Sentient Beings: "A very solid graphical treasure hunt game that requires careful attention" May 1, 2021 "I found this at first to be one of the best games in the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, and one of the better games released this year, but..." - See full review

Shadowcutie reviews Superstition S1: "An exciting supernatural adventure" May 1, 2021 "Superstition is such a good supernatural series. It's dark and tense though it has lots of moments of levity--playing a..." - See full review

ACute Disease reviews Superstition S2: "Isn't tailored for trans mc despite the option" May 1, 2021 "Superstition is overall fun and generally good in giving the player characterisation autonomy. But there's a scene here where you're..." - See full review

A new listing for Orunge, by Jennifer Reuter and Jessica Moore

MathBrush reviews Please do not the cat: "Creative, short adventuron game about dealing with an unexpected cat" April 30, 2021 "This game has a cute theme: you wake up with a strange cat on your chest and must deal with it. The name of the game changes: it starts..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sandcastle Master: "A fun bite-sized exploration game with graphics and sound" April 30, 2021 "Someone's been talking on the IF forums recently about games that don't have involved puzzles or deep narratives, and I think this is a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Rotten Wooden Room: "A collection of random genres and puzzles with some fun parts" April 30, 2021 "This was part of the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. It starts off in a creepy, horror-type room, then moves into more fantasy or..." - See full review

ACute Disease reviews Superstition S1: "Reads like a tv show" April 30, 2021 "Writing's pretty good. It reads like a tv show so it's easy to binge. There's one weasel word that annoyed me to no end though;..." - See full review

Joshua Wilson reviews RLCraft: "Less is more!" April 29, 2021 "While I do agree with my esteemed colleagues that the complete absence of a game here is a daunting obstacle, it raises an intriguing..." - See full review

Chin Kee Yong reviews RLCraft: "No game?" April 29, 2021 "There doesn't appear to be a website or download link associated with this game."

A new listing for Rough Velvet, by Alexander Clarke

MathBrush reviews Adventures Extraordinaire: "A detective game that could use some more bug fixes" April 28, 2021 "This is a game for the text adventure literacy project. It has some nice art and is written in adventuron. I struggled a lot with this..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Reflections: "Find 5 reflections in a cozy puzzle game" April 28, 2021 "This game is part of the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. You are tasked with finding 5 reflections of yourself. There is a helpful tutorial..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Reflections: "Lots of light, little glare" April 28, 2021 "The danger of relying on the old fairy tales is that you don't wind up saying or doing anything new, or you wind up getting too wild and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Dungeons of Antur: "DoA is definitely not DOA" April 28, 2021 "It's been done before, combining an RPG with a text adventure, but Dungeons of Antur (DoA) wound up performing much better than other..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, My new walkthroughs for April 2021 April 27, 2021 8 items On Tuesday April 27, 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...

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