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Mike Russo reviews A Murder in Fairyland: "Anything but form-ulaic" December 9, 2020 "All through the Comp, I’ve been waiting for a specific kind of game to show up in my queue: a choice-based game that incorporates..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Move On: "As it says on the tin" December 9, 2020 "Move On has an interesting gimmick, which is that, playing as the director of a political advocacy organization you must choose where..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mother Tongue: "A moment of connection through a language lesson" December 9, 2020 "Mother Tongue is a small thing, but oh, it does a lot with its fleeting play-time, boasting a grounded take on issues of identity,..." - See full review

Dean Edolas reviews Violet: "Violet- A great introduction to IF. " December 9, 2020 "As someone fairly new to IF, and even newer to this community, this is my first review. I believe Violet is quite a wonderful game, with..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Moon wed Saturn: "A relationship, viewed through a kaleidoscope" December 9, 2020 "Points for best title in the Comp to The Moon Wed Saturn, which is a clever pun as well as, I believe, an astrology reference. That same..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Minor Arcana: "Minor but enjoyable" December 9, 2020 "For all that Minor Arcana is very clearly a fantasy game – you “play” a half-sapient deck of Tarot cards changing the fates of all..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Magpie Takes the Train: "All-time great parrot" December 9, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) I have given the randomizer a lot of grief over the course of our five weeks together, bemoaning its..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl: "Presto puzzle-o" December 9, 2020 "Despite the name prompting me to think this might be an anime-inspired visual novel type thing, LA:MG puts some stage-magic theming on a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lore Distance Relationship: "Affecting even if you've never had a Neopet " December 9, 2020 "I am I think of the last generation to grow up without deep social relationships in online spaces being a thing, so there’s something..." - See full review

Denk reviews How The Elephant's Child Who Walked By Himself Got His Wings: "A slightly interactive series of fun "origin stories"" December 9, 2020 "I'm not sure if "origin stories" is correct to apply on this game, since not all of the included stories result in how things really are,..." - See full review

A new listing for The Open Door (remake), by The Glass Fractal and Tom D. Frost

A new listing for 10 Lost Boys, by Mark Sample

DoctorFury reviews Vain Empires: "Challenging game with demonic and delightful protagonist" December 8, 2020 "I think of Ian Tregellis' Something More Than Night mixed with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as the premise for this adventure: a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Little Girl In Monsterland: "Unconventional and scatalogical but endearing" December 8, 2020 "(While the first part of this review notes I was only two hours into it when I wrote that section, I later went back and finished it,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Limerick Quest: "Careful what you wish for" December 8, 2020 "Like everyone who played last year’s Limerick Heist, when I saw there was a sequel in this year’s Comp I was chomping at the bit to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Last House on the Block: "Some promise, but very frustratingly implemented" December 8, 2020 "Despite a little bit of ethical wonkiness (and the title cueing me to expect a horror game), the setup here really drew me in – the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Por Una Cabeza: "A complex and moving slug racing story" December 8, 2020 "This the third Exceptional Story of Groover's that I've played, and I definitely liked this one more than most Exceptional Stories. In..." - See full review

Denk reviews Sheep Crossing: "Not very original" December 8, 2020 "I don't mind short games if they have something original and if they are interesting or ingenious or hilarious etc. But I didn't think..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Land Down Under: "A paper chase" December 8, 2020 "I dunno – on this one I’m slack-jawed, don’t have much to say. …sorry. Anyway, The Land Down Under, which I’m going to call LDU..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Just another Fairy Tale: "Pixel-hunting in text form" December 8, 2020 "Much like Hansel and Gretel, this one needs a bit more time in the oven, I fear. The overall setting and structure for JAFT are nothing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos: "Wackiness with some heart" December 8, 2020 "If you’ve played other games by these authors, you probably have a reasonable sense of what you’re in for in JSEC: an off-kilter..." - See full review

autumnc reviews Fallen Hero: Rebirth: "One of the pinnacles of Hosted Games" December 8, 2020 "Fallen Hero is one of the most popular Hosted Games, and it deserves its popularity entirely. Fallen Hero came during a glut of superhero..." - See full review

A new listing for LouveSystems' ADVNTURE, by Louve Hurlante

Mike Russo reviews INFINITUBE: "Intentionally alienating, unintentionally buggy" December 8, 2020 "Oof, this one just didn’t work for me. There’s obviously a lot that went into Infinitube – a lot of work, a lot of writing, and a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Incredibly Mild Misadventures of Tom Trundle: "Anything but mild" December 8, 2020 "OK, I’m going to assign several Pinocchios to the “incredibly mild” tag, because while there are a lot of things you could say..." - See full review

A new listing for After the Storm, by Luiza Alves

Denk reviews The Incredibly Mild Misadventures of Tom Trundle: "Excellent first hour followed by Bullhockey-like puzzlefest" December 8, 2020 "I liked the beginning of this game a lot. The story is on rails with a puzzle here and there, which increases immersion. After 1-2 hours..." - See full review

DoctorFury reviews The Eleusinian Miseries: "Alcibiades, you old rogue ... " December 7, 2020 "Isn't it funny how the AAA Assassin's Creed: Odyssey brought Alcibiades back to the minds of modern players, and now he appears..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Impossible Bottle: "Simply magical" December 7, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) As modern video games get more and more complex, and the hardware gets more and more powerful, AAA games are..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews How The Elephant's Child Who Walked By Himself Got His Wings: "Interactive Just So stories" December 7, 2020 "This is a delightful set of fables, done in what sounds to my ear at least a note-perfect ventriloquizing of Kipling’s Just So Stories..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews High Jinnks: "Storytelling niggles mar a solid story" December 7, 2020 "There are certain stories that only really snap into shape once you’ve reached the end. Obviously there’s your Memento-type puzzle..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Rat-Catcher: "Encounter bizarre creatures and meet friends (?)" December 7, 2020 "This is the first of four Chandler Groover exceptional stories I purchased for research for my new game (I've played his other story..." - See full review

DoctorFury reviews Tavern Crawler: "D&D for IF" December 7, 2020 "Much enjoyment to be had with this low fantasy RPG-lite Twine adventure. Well written, campy, and while no characters had serious depth,..." - See full review

Denk reviews Entangled: "Well implemented old-school game with lots of conversation" December 7, 2020 "This is a very well implemented game, old-school in the sense that you need to examine and search a lot. But modern when it comes to the..." - See full review

QTpye reviews Cure for Death: "Interesting" December 7, 2020 "It was a very interesting game, I played it a while ago and forgot to make a review. I remember there was one part where the wording..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Happyland: "A mystery that's a pleasure to unravel" December 7, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) A confession, dear reader: I am awful at IF mysteries. I like them in theory, and I’m pretty good at figuring..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ghostfinder: Shift: "More ghoulish than ghostly" December 7, 2020 "Ghostfinder offers a strong hook: modern urban horror crossed with procedural-show sexmurder. I can see a significant audience for this..." - See full review

DoctorFury reviews Babyface: "Creepy or not, here I come, you can't hide. " December 7, 2020 "As experimental interactive fiction written in Twine, this is a work of genius across several elements: the ambient music and sounds, the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews For a Place by the Putrid Sea: "An exercise in estrangement" December 7, 2020 "The randomizer gave me an interesting, meaty game to start out with. FoPPSA, as I’m going to call it because I can’t resist a silly..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Flattened London: "The opposite of falling flat" December 7, 2020 "I try not to bang on about my own entry in the Comp in these reviews, but for y’all who haven’t played it, it’s an Ancient Greek..." - See full review

News on Alien Research Centre 3: Footprints In The Snow: Walkthrough published for PunyInform version December 7, 2020 A walkthrough has been published for this very short PunyInform game.

Denk reviews Captivity: "Nice puzzlefest with a few implementation problems" December 7, 2020 "This game is a pretty good puzzlefest, where you have to escape from the Duke's castle, otherwise, something terrible will happen to you...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fight Forever: "Insane in the MMA-game" December 7, 2020 "I am not convinced this is not a joke. Fight Forever is a maximalist MMA simulator, and it leans hard into every dudebro cliché you can..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ferryman's Gate: "Not just for grammar nerds" December 7, 2020 "The curse strikes, as it inevitably must: in the opening text of Ferryman’s Gate, a game whose stated purpose is to inculcate good..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Equal-librium: "Unbalanced" December 7, 2020 "I think many of us have had the experience of being on one side or another in a conversation where someone’s trying to communicate an..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Entangled: "Unique setting, straightforward gameplay" December 7, 2020 "The Comp randomizer giving me two solid but slightly underdeveloped parser games involving time travel back to back must surely be as..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Elsegar I: Arrival: "A first game showing promise" December 7, 2020 "There’s some Hemingway quote that I’m not going to bother to look up (look, hopefully it’s clear by now that with these reviews you..." - See full review

Sobol reviews Practical Astrology: "After wrestling with Suspended, try this" December 7, 2020 "A small, silly parody of Suspended where you turn dials and observe, via monitors, how your settings affect the planet. I think Admiral..." - See full review

Denk reviews Elsegar I: Arrival: "A few puzzles and a big maze" December 7, 2020 "This game seems to be a test game for someone who is just starting to learn Inform. It doesn't appear very bugged, but there is almost no..." - See full review

Denk reviews Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder: "Time travel to solve puzzles" December 7, 2020 "This time travel puzzle game has some original mechanics and nice puzzles. You have to save the world from the Order of the Fiery Doom...." - See full review

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