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MathBrush reviews Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew: "A advsys game about putting together a magical potion" May 5, 2025 "While I may have given this game a lower score, I think it shows markable progression in the author's skill over time. This the fourth..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Administer Naloxone: "A game about opioid use, administrating Naloxone, and the War on Drugs" May 4, 2025 " Because I don't make enough for how I use to be called a phase or a Bay Street afternoon-pick-me-up. I don't have the economic stability... " - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Nested: "Highly intricate universe procedural generation - and nothing else" May 4, 2025 "I found this game because it was linked in another game called The end of the WORD as we know it, which was an art gallery of sorts. I..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews The end of the WORD as we know it: "Open source server-based networked chatroom created with Twine" May 4, 2025 "Found this game at random through the creator's blog. It's fascinating because it's in all appearances a Twine game, but it's also a..." - See full review

A new listing for Nested, by Orteil

A new listing for The end of the WORD as we know it, by molleindustria (Paolo Pedercini)

asparagus reviews The Time Crystals of Cythii: "Short and sweet" May 4, 2025 "This game reminds me a bit of Francis' other game "Acid Rain". Both fun little puzzlers that aren't too difficult. I got stuck a couple..." - See full review

Wynter reviews their angelical understanding: "How will you survive in the outside world without a face?" May 3, 2025 "The protagonist has fought angels and been injured in a war against them, and is now recovering in a monastery without a face, in order..." - See full review

A new listing for Make it to Ketchikan, by Squaw Dee and OPOSSUM and Theultimategergdown and Schism

MathBrush reviews Das Schneemädchen: "A short German parser game based on Japanese folklore" May 1, 2025 "It's interesting, I've seen Japanese-inspired games pop up in several non-English IF competitions in the last few years (I think Spanish..." - See full review

A new competition page: Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2025 created May 1, 2025 This is the fifth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must...

A new listing for Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew, by Robert Szacki

A new listing for The Time Crystals of Cythii, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Tempus Fugit: The Past is Yet Unwritten, by Gianluca Girelli

A new listing for Quirky Test, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for Home Party, by Zeno Pillan

A new listing for Fixing Time: A Hack & Makerspace Adventure, by Richard Pettigrew

A new listing for Fat Bear, by Charles Moore, Jr.

A new listing for WAITING FOR THE DEATH WIND, by roman_hyacinths

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for April 2025 April 28, 2025 18 items On Monday, April 28, 2025, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more...

A new listing for Macbeth, by Oxford Digital Enterprises

News on Bureau of Strange Happenings: Version 2 of Bureau of Strange Happenings Released April 28, 2025 All the same lizard people you've come to love, with fewer bugs! Submitted to Narrascope Showcase 2025.

kaemi reviews Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917: "Spring Thing 2025: Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917" April 27, 2025 "The Duma was formed after a great massacre: the embittered Tsar wanted to see if we could do it better. Now that a catastrophic world war..." - See full review

A new listing for Make a Fountain, My Chest, by SkyShard

A new listing for take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die, by Naarel

A new listing for The Court of Mac and Cheese, by Naarel

A new listing for The Art of Masquerade, by Jakub Debski

MathBrush reviews Der Finale Tag: "Short illustrated game about the afterlife" April 27, 2025 "In this German choice-based game, you play as someone who recently died and has to prepare for the afterlife. To do so, since the IT..." - See full review

News on The Corridor: Minor Update. Bunker Busting April 27, 2025 Continuing with the minor updates, this is a refresher of all the bunker scenes in the game to date – hence the title, as I am sure some of you eagle-eyed readers would have guessed, and a tidy-up on the... - Details

A new listing for 查找我的iPad, by Adam Hu

Wynter reviews Test Subject: Synaptix: "The age of human art has ended, and what came before means nothing" April 25, 2025 "This was great. A believable situation (a character desperate to earn a bit of extra money) in a future which may not be too far away:..." - See full review

A new listing for Windhammer, by Wayne F Densley

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "A complex magical game with many points of view and settings " April 23, 2025 "I played this game over about two months during lunches at work. I kept thinking I was close to completing it, only to find that there..." - See full review

A new listing for Mystic Sands: It’s All Greek To Me!, by Jason Singer

SELI-chan reviews Terra Nova - The Mystery of Zephyr's Landing: "Gorgeous art, creative puzzles, immersive soundscape" April 22, 2025 "Save often, but be rewarded for your exploration. Stunning art and sound direction accompany you (Kai) along your journey through..." - See full review

A new listing for Ja no queden flors, by Arien and Albert

A new listing for Matar al dragón, by Alan

Canalboy reviews The Dungeons of Dunjin: "A Polished Dunjin Romp Indeed" April 21, 2025 "Magnus Olsson is perhaps best known for writing Uncle Zebulon's Will, a game which won the TADS division at the First Annual IF..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient Really sort of final, final release April 21, 2025 Every time I think I'm done... I find a few more things to add or tweak just for fun. I added a "ranks" command, as well as some minor improvements to descriptions. (particularly after something has happened... - Details

A new listing for Chasse à l'easter-egg - Escape Game Quimper 2025, by BG pour l'Escape Game Quimper

JoshGrams reviews Le Morte D'Arthur: "Not a bad concept, but hard to recommend" April 20, 2025 "A linear story where your choices build stats to a big ending branch can be very effective in the right hands. But this one is poorly..." - See full review

A new listing for Hypochondriac (or Outcast), by Tomas Bok

kaemi reviews Portrait with Wolf: "Spring Thing 2025: Portrait with Wolf" April 19, 2025 "Selfaggressive collapse deferred, in Repeat the Ending, by metaslips layering baroque are beaten back flat by Portrait with Wolf’s..." - See full review

News on Repeat the Ending: Release 7 update April 19, 2025 Thanks to the innovations of the Bisquixe interpreter, the web release of Repeat the Ending has been entirely reworked to feature web styling and scalable images. While previous versions featured only... - Details

A new listing for Remembrance Of Magic - By Any Other Name, by Winding Paths

Cerfeuil reviews Succor: "Reminded me to clean my own microwave" April 19, 2025 "It's a game about depression. You wake up hungry in your dirty, cluttered mess of an apartment, and have the option to try to fix things,..." - See full review

A new listing for A Soul's Price, by Skye Rozario Steinhagen

tnsur reviews Delightful Wallpaper: "Bleak House" April 18, 2025 "This was a very, very tough game, which took me at least 6 hours to complete. I'm not a regular player of IF so that might have been the..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of the Petal Throne: "Where the heck am I?" April 18, 2025 "I first played Choice of the Petal Throne when it was first entered into Introcomp. It did fairly well there, winning third place. I did..." - See full review

SELI-chan reviews Retool Looter: "Smooth puzzling and fun, enjoyable prose" April 18, 2025 "After playing (and loving) another of Charm Cochran's games last year, I became really excited to see Retool Looter, and I wasn't..." - See full review

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