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A new listing for The Price, by Chris Conley

A new listing for Painting the Rainbow, by Royce Odle

Avondel reviews The Gostak: "A Real Treat" April 17, 2021 "I thoroughly enjoyed this little gem. As remarked in other places, this should NOT be the first interactive fiction or adventure game you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Picton Murder Whodunnit: "Nice engine, fairly straightforward murder mystery" April 17, 2021 "This game is written using the Strand Games engine, a nice and smooth interface that was developed to 'restore' the Magnetic Scrolls..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sovereign Citizens: "A different kind of haunted house" April 17, 2021 "Sovereign Citizens managed to defy my expectations at least two or three times – which is good, I think, since those expectations were..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Take the Dog Out: "A quick 2-room parser game about walking the dog" April 17, 2021 "In this game, you have to get your dog to go outside and take a walk, solving a few puzzles on the way. It's an inform game, and I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Secret of Nara: "A deer's life" April 17, 2021 "There’s a lot of IF out there with nonhuman protagonists – monster, aliens, what have you – but Secret of Nara is fairly unique in..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews [PYG]MALION*: "Statue seeks murderer" April 17, 2021 "[PYG]MALION*'s intro sets up the scenes for a murder investigation among beings of the 4th and 5th dimension, gods if you will. They are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sunny's Summer Vacation: "A prototype for a summer fun game about dogs and divorce" April 17, 2021 "In this game, you play as a corgi who comforts a girl on a summer vacation with one parent soon after a divorce. There are many minigames..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Wintervale: "An interestingly-lumpy lump of coal" April 16, 2021 "Here’s a bit of Wintervale’s backstory that illustrates some of what makes this fantasy Twine adventure distinctive, in ways both..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!: "Ultimately entertaining" April 16, 2021 "A title (and author nickname) as over-the-top as this reads to me like a thrown-down gauntlet: will the actual game live up to the badass..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Fish & Dagger: "Plot twist anyone?" April 16, 2021 "Damn! Your old partner got themself in a pickle again. Of course you'll go and save them from the "Big Bad Plotting Schemer and the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A strange dream: "A raw quest file that is in no way finished" April 16, 2021 "This is a raw, uncompiled Quest file with a few locations and items. Many actions are built in to the descriptions and the only..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Some Space: "An alien puzzle game with codes and racial dynamics" April 16, 2021 "This game is about you, recently immigrated to an alien planet, learning to handle the customs since everyone speaks in 'puzzlespeak'. In..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Medicum Veloctic: "A gay love story between superhero and doctor" April 15, 2021 "This game is primarily about the romantic relationship between two men, a superhero and the doctor boyfriend that patches him up all..." - See full review

EnriqueHA reviews Sovereign Citizens: "Abandoned lives of the disturbingly rich" April 15, 2021 "The short but impactful Sovereign Citizens presents a dark, claustrophobic story about a couple experiencing homelessness who explore an..." - See full review

EnriqueHA reviews [PYG]MALION*: "Immersively eerie whodunit" April 15, 2021 "[PYG]MALION* is an immersive whodunit about a slain god trying to solve their murder in a luxurious inter-dimensional estate. Some of the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Budacanta: "Save your spoons for when it counts." April 15, 2021 "I pressed play, a pleasant melody started playing in the background and an in-game version of the author of Budacanta, Alianora, started..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Blank Page: "A specific take on a universal experience" April 15, 2021 "A Blank Page is an appealing game that I suspect will resonate with most folks who’ve tried to create something. It’s exactly what it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews [PYG]MALION*: "An empty plenum" April 15, 2021 "After checking out its entry page, I was looking forward to this one: choosing the mythological counterpoint to Galatea as the title of..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Those Days: "Dusk and dawn of a friendship." April 15, 2021 "Those Days is a slow-paced and thoughtful piece about life, growing up, friendship. It's nostalgic, a bit sad and a bit uplifting. As I..." - See full review

A new listing for Prisms, by Jason Warren

MathBrush reviews Those Days: "A tale of two lives in 6 acts of Twine" April 15, 2021 "This game seemed at first like many, many other Twine games I've played where someone reflects on their childhood and a person they had a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Wintervale: "Fantasy worldbuilding and surreal occurrences" April 15, 2021 "This game has some great ideas but needs some polish. In it, you play a tavernkeep in an inn inside a city built inside of a giant hill..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sovereign Citizens: "Purely exploration. A twine game about an abandoned home" April 14, 2021 "This game takes on a social problem: America has millions of empty homes but the homeless aren't allowed to live in them. In this game,..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Some Space: "A cabin in the woods...*" April 14, 2021 "First off: Some Space is beautiful. There are background images of stars and nebulas while you play, and a soothing soundtrack. I quite..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Frequently Deceased: "Search for a governess who has repeatedly died" April 14, 2021 "This was a great Exceptional Story by Fallen London. When I first wrote reviews, I wrote a lot of dumb things (a habit I have kept to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eleanor: "Custom windows executable parser surreal game" April 14, 2021 "This game has many flaws, but I like the heart beating underneath them. Where to begin with the problems? It's windows only; it requires..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Excellent if slightly lacking in avoirdupois" April 14, 2021 "I played the Weight of a Soul in two sessions – it’s a longer game than I’m used to seeing these days. After the first one, I was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Secret of Nara: "A short branching twine game about an animal in the forest" April 14, 2021 "This nice-looking Twine game is by Ralfe Rich, an author I've seen a few games by in recent years. It's a peaceful tale where you play a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Baggage: "A brief metaphorical Inform game" April 13, 2021 "This short game has you on a narrow roadway with obstacles on either side, and you have to find a way to get free. You are carrying..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Wearing the Claw: "(Dis-) Illusions" April 13, 2021 "This game was a lot better when I played it ten years ago. Or is it I who have come to expect better? Wearing the Claw is a very..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cycles (Excerpt): "The opening chapter of a family-and-memory ink game" April 13, 2021 "The Back Garden of Spring Thing this year strongly resembles Introcomp. Many of these games are just excerpts or intros into longer..." - See full review

A new listing for Sleepover Rules, by SjoerdHekking

Rovarsson reviews Misty Hills: "Waiting for your ride..." April 13, 2021 "You just missed your tram-ride and now you have half an hour before the next one. What will you do to pass the time? Misty Hills is a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Budacanta: "An intro to an autism travel game/visual novel" April 13, 2021 "I've had a lot of friends and students with autism, and they're all different, so it's nice to see a well-described point of view from a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews [PYG]MALION*: "A murder mystery in a fantasy dimension" April 12, 2021 "This game seems to have been completed as part of a university program, possibly at University of Central Florida. The game list mentors..." - See full review

IFDB site news April 12, 2021 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Updated site icon Show top five games on author's user profiles Improved performance on game details page

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IFDB site news April 12, 2021 Show top five games on author's user profiles: For prolific authors, we now only show the top five games on their user profiles, sorted by highest rating, with a link to see the rest of their games.

IFDB site news April 12, 2021 Improved performance on game details page: Individual game pages load a bit faster than they used to when you're logged in.

jakomo reviews The Blue Lettuce: "Lettuce prey" April 12, 2021 "You're a hungry groundhog looking for things to eat in a garden. This is Inform, not Adventuron, so the visual presentation is a bit..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Barry Basic and the Quick Escape: "Back in the summer of '69" April 12, 2021 "The most ambitious game I've encountered so far in the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, Barry Basic and the Quick Escape features 3 playable..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Manor on top of the Hill: "Manors Maketh Man" April 12, 2021 "A very traditional entry in the well-trodden "explore your eccentric relative's mansion" genre. The Manor on top of the Hill (I feel like..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Please do not the cat: "Cool for cats" April 12, 2021 "A strange cat has entered your home and fallen asleep on top of you. Find a way to wake it up, get it to trust you, then get it back to..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Sentient Beings: "Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto" April 12, 2021 "Control a friendly robot on alien world collecting specimens. Requires a thorough exploration of everything in the environment to dig out..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews An Amical Bet: "A short uncompiled Quest file about stealing stuff" April 12, 2021 "This is a short Quest game about theft in a very unpolished state. The game is a raw quest file. There are a few objects scattered around..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Perihelion: "Not for the impatient" April 11, 2021 "Perihelion is a well-done game that I admired more than enjoyed. It’s got a compelling, hypercompressed and occasionally poetic prose..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Blank Page: "A short game about getting the courage to begin writing" April 11, 2021 "I found this game somewhat stressful, as it reminds me of writing my big novel. In this Twine game, you sit down and have to focus and..." - See full review

A new listing for Some Sword / Some Play, by Moniker Ersatz

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