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Joey Acrimonious reviews Vampire Ltd: "Just Straight-Up Solid" December 6, 2020 "Vampire Ltd has the quintessence of a solid parser game. In many ways, it feels like an exercise in moderation. The humor is neither too..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf: "A Foray Into Nonsense" December 6, 2020 "You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf is a collaboration between the human author and a neural network that generated new..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee: "Atmospheric Murder Mystery" December 6, 2020 "The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee is a murder mystery which, in many ways, feels like it takes cues from the walking simulator genre. It..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Popstar Idol Survival Game: "Here's How to Play the Whole Thing" December 6, 2020 "As others have pointed out, Popstar Idol Survival Game cuts off at the end of the first challenge, just a few minutes into gameplay...." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews The Turnip: "An Odd, Mildly Surreal Way to Spend a Few Minutes" December 6, 2020 "The Turnip takes place in a world almost like our own, but just different enough that it seems impossible to fully grasp the nature of..." - See full review

AKheon reviews Phantom: "Phantom considerations" December 6, 2020 "Phantom is a choice-based game by Peter Eastman, published in 2020. It’s a story-driven 30-minute experience about an aspiring opera..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews #VanLife: "Great Concept, Extremely Frustrating Gameplay" December 6, 2020 "#VanLife is a day-to-day personal economic simulator with some interesting mechanics, but sparse writing. You live in a van with..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Tangled Tales: "Oldschool, For Better or Worse" December 6, 2020 "The first thing I noticed about Tangled Tales is the ambition of its presentation: it’s a multimedia experience with a parser,..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Fight Forever: "The Bones of an Intriguing RPG" December 6, 2020 "Fight Forever is a martial-arts RPG that focuses primarily on stat-building - you’re trying to train a character who will be capable of..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Shadow Operative: "Smoother Than Silicone" December 6, 2020 "Shadow Operative is a cyberpunk adventure that can be played through a parser or through a sidebar with links: both options are easy to..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews A Catalan Summer: "Great Ideas, Partially Realized" December 6, 2020 "I was very interested to play this game, which is described by the author as an “historical gay melodrama.” Indeed, it does what it..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Ascension of Limbs: "Unique, Creative, and Creepy" December 6, 2020 "Ascension of Limbs is a deliciously creepy parser game that’s heavy on resource-management mechanics. Every turn, the player is..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews The Arkhill Darkness: "Goofy Fantasy Romp" December 6, 2020 "The Arkhill Darkness is a lighthearted, trope-laden fantasy romp that delights in goofy humor and breaking the fourth wall. It’s a fun..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Alone: "Clever Puzzles, Strong Atmosphere" December 6, 2020 "Alone is a gloomy exploration of post-apocalyptic survival. It has some nice, succinct writing and some implicit commentary on current..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews "Terror in the Immortal's Atelier" by Gevelle Formicore: "Rather Creative" December 6, 2020 "This entire review is a giant spoiler, so: " - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews "Incident! Aliens on the Teresten!" by Tarquin Segundo: "Pleasingly Witty" December 6, 2020 "This entire review is a giant spoiler, so: " - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews "Adventures in the Tomb of Ilfane" by Willershin Rill: "Very Clever" December 6, 2020 "This entire review is a giant spoiler, so: " - See full review

AKheon reviews Minor Arcana: "Otherworldly and ominous" December 6, 2020 "Minor Arcana is a choice-based fantasy game by Jack Sanderson Thwaite, published in 2020. You are a sentient Tarot deck with a long,..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits): "A Carefully-Constructed Vignette" December 6, 2020 "Academic Pursuits (As Opposed to Regular Pursuits) is a very smooth, very well-polished, bite-sized parser game that takes a fairly..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews (s)wordsmyth: "Compelling Prose, Less-Compelling Game Design" December 6, 2020 "(s)wordsmyth gives the impression of a quest for revenge, but it’s actually a quest for redemption. You must fight without fighting,..." - See full review

Joey Acrimonious reviews Amazing Quest: "Like, Whoa, Dude" December 6, 2020 "Not everyone is going to “get” this game. But I’m here to tell you that, to the discerning eye, Amazing Quest is a brilliant and..." - See full review

Norbez reviews Passages: "This game deserves more love!" December 5, 2020 "It's thoughtful and interesting, and I found it to be quite great. Seriously, play it!"

Denk reviews BYOD: "A very short but entertaining IT adventure" December 5, 2020 "This game starts out when you arrive on your first day as an IT intern at McKenzie & Lloyds. The game is quite original. I would spoil it..." - See full review

A new listing for All of Me: The Twine, by Caroline Horton and Alex Swift

Mike Russo reviews "Terror in the Immortal's Atelier" by Gevelle Formicore: "A knotty conundrum" December 5, 2020 "I'm putting the full review here under a spoiler block, but let me just flag two things: 1) this game is fun, and 2) if you're finding it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews "Incident! Aliens on the Teresten!" by Tarquin Segundo: "A knotty conundrum" December 5, 2020 "I'm putting the full review here under a spoiler block, but let me just flag two things: 1) this game is fun, and 2) if you're finding it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews "Adventures in the Tomb of Ilfane" by Willershin Rill: "A knotty conundrum" December 5, 2020 "I'm putting the full review here under a spoiler block, but let me just flag two things: 1) this game is fun, and 2) if you're finding it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews At Night: "Sounds like evil" December 5, 2020 "I played this after a Comp entry that leaned almost entirely in the story direction, so it's interesting that At Night takes the opposite..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ascension of Limbs: "Occultist Simulator" December 5, 2020 "Ascension of Limb applies effective horror theming to what’s mechanically a sort of card game (I think if you squint at it, it might be..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Arkhill Darkness: "Janky, old-school fun" December 5, 2020 "There are two kinds of fantasy RPGs: the bad ones, where the wizard is named something dumb like Firganzallum or Thoranor or what have..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Amazing Quest: "Questionably amazing" December 5, 2020 "Hey, a Nick Montfort game! I loved Ad Verbum! But this is, uh, not that. I saw a couple of forum threads talking about this game before..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Alone: "A foreboding puzzler" December 5, 2020 "(I beta tested this game) There are a few games in this year’s Comp that gain resonance from having been written in 2020 – Babyface,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Accelerate: "A divine inversion" December 5, 2020 "So there was this book that circulated amongst the, shall we say, less-popular kids when I was in high school and college (the mid to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits): "Lots to unpack" December 5, 2020 "Oh, I just got . Academic Pursuits is a funny, focused game with an assured narrative voice, and while..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Bronze: "Incredible atmosphere and storytelling" December 5, 2020 "I had played and enjoyed text adventure games before Bronze, but this was the first that I truly loved. Based on the fairytale of Beauty..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Jigsaw: "An enjoyable journey through the twentieth century" December 5, 2020 "It is New Year's Eve, 1999, and a mysterious stranger drops you a piece of a seemingly ordinary jigsaw. But each piece turns out to be a..." - See full review

Wynter reviews Curses: "Mystery and humour" December 5, 2020 "I came to Curses! as a relatively new, but not completely inexperienced, player of IF. I had recently completed Emily Short's rich and..." - See full review

Ann Hugo reviews The Impossible Bottle: "Wonderfully Whimsical" December 5, 2020 "This game didn't make it on to my original list of games to play (puzzles aren't my favourite thing). But I kept hearing a lot of really..." - See full review

Denk reviews The Magpie Takes the Train: "An excellent one-room puzzlefest" December 5, 2020 "In this game you play the role of Sir Rodney Playfair, a gentleman thief also known as the Magpie. The Magpie first appeared in the..." - See full review

Denk reviews Alone: "Excellent puzzles, good story" December 5, 2020 "This game is based on some standard apocalyptic tropes but it is done very very well. I don't want to ruin any surprises in the game, so..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews (s)wordsmyth: "A duel of words" December 4, 2020 "Conversations are the central part of (s)wordsmyth – hang up, we’re not doing this. Conversations are the central part of wordsmyth..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews #VanLife: "Wonkily educational" December 4, 2020 "This is one of only two games in the 2020 Comp with the “educational” genre tag and credit where it’s due, it lives up to the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eternal: "An extremely long fanfic-style dark fantasy story " December 4, 2020 "Edit: There are several alternative takes on this game available in the comments. This story is one of the main games displayed on the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews A Beauty Cold and Austere: "Non Cogito ergo Non Sum?" December 4, 2020 "First of all: A Beauty Cold and Austere is extremely well coded and implemented. Every action I tried that had even the slightest..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Stuff of Legend: "Funny game with clever puzzles and only a few frustrations" December 4, 2020 "This is a parser-based game featuring several puzzles, but also some funny scenes and dialogue. You play as Ichabod Stuff, the recently..." - See full review

A new listing for Great-grandmother and the war, by Autumn Chen

RadioactiveCrow reviews Lore Distance Relationship: "Tore my heart in two and then put it back together" December 3, 2020 "In this choice-based work you play as a kid who, in order to escape a bad situation at home, goes to a Neopets-like website called..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Shin, Inform 7 Standard Examples December 3, 2020 6 items Back in the era of I7 Build 6G60, there used to be a page on inform7.com which presented six games along with their source text. I think these still provide a useful introduction to the features and...

Spike reviews The Curse of the Scarab: "An innovative optimization game that's also a lot of fun" December 2, 2020 "It's a bit of an odd thing, reviewing a game that explicitly says it was inspired by one of your own. So I think I'll confine myself to a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Tristam Island: "A game that is a treat for retro enthusiasts. Explore a large, mysterious island" December 2, 2020 "This is an unusual parser game in that a lot of its development went into making it accessible on a variety of platforms, including Apple..." - See full review

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