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J. J. Guest reviews The Magpie Takes the Train: "A Prize of a Game!" December 14, 2020 "The Magpie Takes the Train was written for me, as my chosen prize for winning IFComp 2018, and what a prize it turned out to be! I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bring Me A Head!: "A horror Twine item-trading game with complex code" December 13, 2020 "This game is polished and well-done, but I think I admire the coding more than the game itself. You play as an executioner of some sort..." - See full review

A new listing for By Jove, by Neil Mallett

Joey Acrimonious reviews Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die: "Clever But Underimplemented" December 13, 2020 "This is certainly a minimalistic work, but the title actually undersells it. In a clever twist, picking up the phone booth and dying is..." - See full review

A new listing for You Gen #9, by Mark Sample

Linus Åkesson reviews The Incredibly Mild Misadventures of Tom Trundle: "An entertaining and puzzling tale of adolescence" December 13, 2020 "To me, there's something deeply satisfying about a text adventure set in a . It evokes a kind of nostalgia,..." - See full review

autumnc reviews Solarium: "Just an amazing work" December 13, 2020 "Solarium is one of my favorite pieces of interactive fiction, or any fiction really. It's another of those stories that I find myself..." - See full review

autumnc reviews A Catalan Summer: "A low-key drama about obligations and secret desires" December 13, 2020 "A Catalan Summer is a family drama about forbidden love and politics, taking place in a Catalonia household in the 1920s. It is told from..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf: "Thanks but no thanks" December 12, 2020 "So YWTMaFAYTaW – I feel like I need an acronym for the acronym, why don’t we just go with Thank a Werewolf – so Thank a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Couldn't Have Done That: "A focused look at a traumatic experience" December 12, 2020 "There are a fair few pieces of IF that explore feelings of constraint or paralysis by seeming to offer choices but then negating the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Where the Wind Once Blew Free: "A deep world that's a little too hard to get into" December 12, 2020 "I’m not sure what I ever did to it, but the Comp randomizer apparently has decided to punish me by stacking rock-hard games one after..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews What the Bus?: "Made me miss my commute" December 12, 2020 "Weird confession: I’ve been a public-transit user all my life, and now that I haven’t had a commute in over six months – I kind of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Wayward Story: "A story-driven game that takes some effort to enjoy" December 12, 2020 "The Wayward Story lives up to its title – this is a narrative-driven piece of IF that wends through a bunch of different characters,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Vampire Ltd: "So funny it's scary (it's not actually scary)" December 12, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) It’s an iron law of comedy that nothing’s as funny the second time around (leaving aside things like the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Vain Empires: "Prepare to feel very clever, then very dull" December 12, 2020 "This is a hard review to write – both because my transcript didn’t wind up getting saved so I’m bereft of notes, and because my..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under They Thunder: "Erwhelming Ovay" December 12, 2020 "Friends, I have a confession. I have now played two Andrew Schultz games (this one and Very Vile Fairy File from last year), and they..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ulterior Spirits: "Great main character, plodding pacing" December 12, 2020 "Ulterior Spirits has a lot going for it. There’s a well-realized setting that certainly takes inspiration from things we’ve seen..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Turnip: "Diminishing returns" December 12, 2020 "This is the second game from this author in the Comp, after The Pinecone, and it shares a bunch of similarities: it’s written with a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Turbo Chest Hair Massacre: "REMOVE CHEST HAIR [Hilarity ensues]" December 12, 2020 "As I was typing out the title of this game, I kept wanting to tag an Extreme onto the end. Try it: Turbo Chest Hair Massacre Extreme...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Trusting My Mortal Enemy?! What a Disaster!: "Good characters, slow pacing" December 12, 2020 "This one was not what I expected. Based on the overenthusiastic title punctuation, the bright, pop-art cover, and the listed genre, I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tragic: "An enjoyable deckbuilder with a good story and difficulty spikes" December 12, 2020 "This is something new: an IF/roguelite-deckbuilder mashup. In the very unlikely event that that word salad failed to effectively..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tombs & Mummies: "Low-key tomb escape, irritating to play online" December 12, 2020 "Tombs and Mummies is a cheerfully deadly escape-the-deathtrap affair; with nine rooms and really only a single puzzle, it falls well..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tavern Crawler: "Way more heartfelt than it looks" December 12, 2020 "I have a theory that the best genre stories are ones that take themselves seriously (I guess other stories too, but one generally..." - See full review

dvs reviews Trinity: "Puzzles with a Purpose" December 12, 2020 "I finally finished Trinity, a game I started 20 years ago and finally joined forces with a friend (over Zoom) to finish. The game could..." - See full review

dvs reviews Photopia: "Sweet, sad, funny fiction with few puzzles" December 12, 2020 "I first played Photopia about 15 years ago and cried at the ending. It took me a while to figure out how the different vignettes fit..." - See full review

Denk reviews Return to the Castle: "Excellent Z-code sequel arrives after 31 years" December 12, 2020 "(.z3 version reviewed - also available on vintage computers) It has been 31 years since the classic ZX Spectrum game "Retarded Creatures..." - See full review

A new listing for Hidden Verbiage, by Linus Hamilton

qpeedore reviews The Impossible Bottle: "Excellent gameplay mechanic" December 11, 2020 "Described as a "merciful puzzlefest", this has everything you would want from a piece of interactive fiction. Going through my randomly..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ironheart: "An expansive alternate history mech game set in the Middle East" December 11, 2020 "This game was a bit different than I thought it would be, and I wasn't sure how some parts of it would work, but it gelled well together..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tangled Tales: "Cute world, finicky parser" December 11, 2020 "There’s a cold shiver of fear that runs down my spine whenever I see the words “parser-based” and “Windows executable” in a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Stuff of Legend: "Well-implemented and charming" December 11, 2020 "Stuff of Legend is just the kind of palate-cleanser I love to come across deep in the throes of working through my Comp queue. It isn’t..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Stoned Ape Hypothesis: "Pre-board games" December 11, 2020 "I’m actually a bit familiar with the theory behind SAH, by virtue of having some entheogen enthusiast friends in college – the idea,..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Fishing-Trip - Brown Trout and Goblins: "A fun demo game with a few puzzles written with PunyInform" December 11, 2020 "This game was written to illustrate the option in 'PunyInform' to change between the main characters. It is a fun little game, though its..." - See full review

A new competition page: Thanksgiving Speed-IF created December 11, 2020 A speed-IF! A veritable feast! Using the following inventory items, based on a list of photographed items from Grocible's book-in-progress: a top hat. a dragonfly*. a small crystal ball. two optical prisms....

A new listing for The Fishing-Trip - Brown Trout and Goblins, by John Wilson

A new listing for Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, by Justin de Vesine

A new listing for To Catch A Dragonfly, by Andrew Metzger

A new listing for The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth, by "Taleslinger"

MathBrush reviews My Kingdom for a Pig: "Descend into the bowels of the bazaar" December 11, 2020 "This is the last of Groover's exceptional stories that I've played. This one is very large, taking me up to around 80 actions to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 10 Lost Boys: "A game about the wayward paths of children" December 11, 2020 "This game is thought-provoking, and I don't know quite how I feel about it one way or another. At its core, it's a character generator..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: "Tonal issues mar what could have been a charming historical send-up" December 11, 2020 "Typically when playing a game, I don't find it too hard to figure out what the author was aiming for, but I have a hard time getting a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Stand Up / Stay Silent: "A good message does not a good game make" December 11, 2020 "The randomizer giveth, with three games in a row I really enjoyed and some solid highlights immediately before that (Sage Sanctum..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews SOUND: "Worth playing for the ending" December 11, 2020 "Despite the probably-annoying prolixity of most of my reviews, I don’t have a lot to say about Sound. It’s a vignette-driven game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sonder Snippets: "A bit too obfuscated" December 11, 2020 "Another short choice-based game that didn’t quite land for me, Sonder Snippets offers a few densely-written fables, with a slight frame..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sheep Crossing: "An entertaining ten-minute diversion" December 11, 2020 "Sheep Crossing is a one-puzzle game, with no plot to speak of, and the puzzle is one that pretty much everybody has heard of and solved..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Shadow Operative: "An easygoing cyberpunk adventure" December 11, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) In my unreliable memory, cyberpunk used to be a pretty common genre for IFComp entries, but it’s become a bit..." - See full review

A new listing for Sock City, by Konrad Mampe, Jonas K. Lundbye, Massimiliano Masala, Nadia P. Larsen, Ronny S. Mikkelsen

A new listing for Beyond - Your partner, here and there, by Jakob Bang

A new listing for 差异 // Disconnect, by Kelly Weng

A new listing for The Proposal, by Intudia

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