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TurnipBandit reviews Accelerate: "Accelerate Review" November 11, 2020 "Since I don't usually enjoy reading a story without leaving some kind of feedback, I guess it's time to do just that. And I guess I have..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Toadstools: "A game heavy on worldbuilding with a sense of decay and wonder" November 11, 2020 "This game reminded me of Princess Mononoke crossed with Hybras from Sunless Skies. You are essentially a gig worker trespassing in a..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Abbey: "Holy Relics!" November 11, 2020 "Wow! That was really really really cool! The year is 1347 AD. You, a renowned scholar and theologian, have been summoned by King and..." - See full review

A new listing for Older, Not Wiser, by Olivia Wood, Failbetter Games

MathBrush reviews Ritus Sacri: "Translate Latin on a spooky evening" November 10, 2020 "This is a charming short parser game in which you read a text in Latin in your room at night, translating each line as you go (provided..." - See full review

Zack Kline reviews Alias 'The Magpie': "Delightfully SIlly" November 9, 2020 "This game was a remarkably fun and polished piece of slapstick humor. It clearly takes inspiration from the Pink Panther movies, among..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Better than Alone: "A meaningful story about lockdowns and aging" November 9, 2020 "Like Will Not Let Me Go, this story is a well-written long Twine game about the effects of old age and Alzheimer's/dementia on an elderly..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Imposter: "Man is the warmest place to hide" November 9, 2020 "Tiny Twine scifi-horror: well-written, with very effective descriptions of the 'kills'. The twist in the tale has been done before, 20..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Very Dangerous Criminal: "A gory Choicescript game made for Ectocomp" November 9, 2020 "This is a Choicescript game made for the Grand Guignol division of Ectocomp. It's a bloody and violent game about a confrontation in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Social Lycanthropy Disorder: "A well-designed, timed Twine game about social anxiety and more" November 9, 2020 "This game in the Grand Guignol part of Ectocomp 2020 was pleasant to play and looked good. It's written in Twine (I assume), but it's..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Rovarsson, Uncle Rov's Beginner's Must-Plays. November 9, 2020 10 items

A new poll by Rovarsson, Best parser games since 2017 created November 9, 2020 114 votes for 46 games When browsing for good recent games, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of Twine and Choice games. Add to that a great number of games with five stars and only one rating, many of which are also, yes, Twine and...

Dawn S. reviews You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf: "Like being in the tornado from the Wizard of Oz" November 8, 2020 "I enjoyed this, and was content to let the music wash over me, and the associations cohere and dissolve as I clicked through the story...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Wolfsmoon: "Under a pale moon..." November 8, 2020 "Wolfsmoon is a chilling text adventure with graphics that unquestionably add to the pleasure of playing. You play as an unnamed explorer..." - See full review

A new listing for The Imposter, by Carter Gwertzman

A new listing for Two Braids Girl, by Evanrianus

A new listing for The Quest for the Philosopher's Stone, by Hew

A new listing for Escape from the Wizard's Castle, by Elizabeth Bernhardt, Kristin Servoss

Dan Fabulich reviews Ritus Sacri: "Charming" November 7, 2020 "The core mechanic of this game is a latin translation mechanic. Once you get the hang of it, you can perform it by rote. But " - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Curse of the Scarab: "A surprisingly rich and complex but difficult optimization games" November 7, 2020 "I beta tested this game briefly. I usually think of Ectocomp games as being quick and simple, but the Grand Guignol games have been..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Lifeline: Flatline: "Bring back Taylor" November 7, 2020 "Unlike Taylor, the fun protagonist you talk to and advise in Lifeline, Silent Night, and Halfway to Infinity, Wynn in Flatline is an..." - See full review

seguso reviews Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba: "Indiana Jones style game" November 7, 2020 "This is a very nice Indiana Jones style game, set in the jungle. The focus is on the puzzles, which have just the right difficulty. It is..." - See full review

A new listing for A Dangerous Journey, by stonekatt

MathBrush reviews Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone: "A grab bag of four Halloween games" November 5, 2020 "Ryan Veeder's playing a completely different ball game than most authors. It's almost like he just has fun making up things with weird..." - See full review

meadowmower reviews The Morning Tea Party: "Surreal, lovely fun." November 5, 2020 ""The Morning Tea Party" is a quick little game where you wake up and find a strange tea party being held in your house. Overall, I really..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews La noche en la ciudad: "A speed game about contemplating your sins" November 4, 2020 "This was an odd game for me. It's very possible that it being in Spanish affected my interpretation of it, because I found it difficult..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews La noche del protector: "A gripping supernatural tale about the Spanish Civil War" November 4, 2020 "I went back and forth on this story. At first, I thought it was one of the best stories I've read in a long time, but I think the second..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The WadeWars Book III: Askin: "Wade misses the spot." November 4, 2020 "The WadeWars III: Askin was published as a DOS game in 1993. The author dug it up in 2000 and transferred it to Inform. Verbatim, as far..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews De lo que aconteció a Kanwa Tathimizu: "A poetic and imaginative Texture game about Japanese spirits" November 3, 2020 "This game was entered in Ectocomp 2020. This is a Texture game, and it presented a double language barrier to me, as it is in Spanish and..." - See full review

A new listing for The Seance, by Quantum Sheep

jlmjlm reviews The Werewolf Howls at Dawn: "Very simple, and requires patching" November 3, 2020 "The version in the VMC10_073D zipfile is missing an essential initialization step, preventing the player from making progress in the..." - See full review

A new listing for De lo que aconteció a Kanwa Tathimizu, by Ruber Eaglenest

A new listing for La noche en la ciudad, by Juan Antonio Paz Salgado

Ruber Eaglenest reviews La noche del protector: "Estupenda mezcla entre la Guerra Civil Española y fantasía de leyenda." November 2, 2020 "Excelente mezcla de literatura sobre la Guerra Civil y fantasía. Recuerda a algunos cuentos clásicos,además, como las Leyendas de..." - See full review

A new listing for La noche del protector, by Cobra626

jakomo reviews Last Day: "The Earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it." November 2, 2020 "Melancholia: The Game. A comet has been forecast to strike the Earth and wipe out all life. Today is that day. A parser text adventure..." - See full review

A new listing for The Narrows, by Ash Green

A new Recommended List by citizinf, citizinf's completion dates November 2, 2020 4 items There's nothing interesting here. I'm just keeping track of the dates when I finished games.

jakomo reviews Cabin in the Forest: "Hail Pallas!" November 1, 2020 "The "Choice Of Games" house-style is to start every story with a character-creator where you define their name, gender, sexuality and..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: "Historical science-fiction with little science" November 1, 2020 "A potentially charming paradox experiment where Sir Isaac Newton must restore the timeline when modern folks somehow forget the laws of..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Sheep Crossing: "River crossing puzzle" November 1, 2020 "This is just your standard river crossing puzzle, and if you've ever solved one before then this shouldn't take you more than about ten..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Phantasmagoria: "All greek to me" November 1, 2020 "Short Choicescript game with eight possible achievements (I managed six). A dream-deity from Greek mythology (I guess Phantasos judging..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Fracture: "Conan Examine Everything" November 1, 2020 "A single-verb text adventure: EXAMINE everything to make progress. Why can't you do anything else? Because you're in your final..." - See full review

jakomo reviews A Pilgrim: "Impenetrable to newcomers, start at the beginning" November 1, 2020 "Either a sequel or a spin-off to two previous stories by the same author. There is zero on-boarding for newcomers to this series, so..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Entangled: "Competently coded, underdeveloped world" November 1, 2020 "I will play any time travel game, full stop. Knowing that Entangled has eight endings had me jazzed to dive in. Unfortunately, after..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Long Nap: "A grave error" November 1, 2020 "Parser text adventure written in Dialog: a thoroughly implemented one-room escape game, requiring careful examination of your..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Ebony & Ivory's Halloween Party: "They did the mash (they did the monster mash)" November 1, 2020 "The second werewolf-at-a-party game of EctoComp 2020, after Social Lycanthropy Disorder, but this time everyone else is a monster too. A..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Rat Chasm: "There's a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do?" November 1, 2020 "Weird choice-based story (prose-poem?) inspired by true events: falling through a manhole into rat-infested sewers and getting stuck down..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Windhall Chronicles, Volume 1: The Path to Fortune: "An Ogre, a Chameleon, a Werewolf and a Squirrel fail to walk into the inn..." November 1, 2020 "Because, strangely, there is no inn in this otherwise standard Fantasy adventure. I say standard, but it's actually a very good game...." - See full review

A new listing for Tangled Tower Tales, by Joanne Yuan

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