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MathBrush reviews Loveless and listless: "Long powerful surreal Videotome game about a fictional reality show" December 1, 2025 "This is a long videotome game with custom characters and a variety of backgrounds. It is mostly linear but has some important choices and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Night Ferry: "Atmospheric game on a surreal, creepy ferry " December 1, 2025 "This is a short, atmospheric game about a ferry at night with surreal overtones. It reminds me a bit of the game Cactus Blue Motel, with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Pumpkin Patch: "A custom online parser speed-IF about wandering through a spooky pumpkin patch" December 1, 2025 "Starting up this parser game, it didn't have the usual banner text, so I wondered if it was Inform or something else. Typing VERSION..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews What is this place (by Gooseberry): "Short branching twine game about reality " December 1, 2025 "This game is by a Slovakian student as part of the One Boat Crew team. It's a branching Twine game, with very different paths depending..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ghost Hunt II: Haunted Washing Machine: "Choose the right items from many to exorcise a ghost; micro game" December 1, 2025 "I remember Ghost Hunt I, it was a fun, compact Adventuron game tracking down a ghost (unless I'm remembering it wrong). This game is one..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dual II: Cyclic: "Collection of horror poems with varying mechanics" December 1, 2025 "This sounds like it was almost a La Petite Mort game, as it was finished in 5 hours, but I’m glad the author took time to finish it,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dual I: Rhythm: "Dynamic horror poem about a dungeon" December 1, 2025 "This game boldly takes timed text and makes it the focus of the piece, using a relatively brief poem as the text with the interaction..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dusk, Airy, Does Carry: "Compact adventuron wordplay puzzle game with pixel art" December 1, 2025 "This is an Andrew Schultz game written in Adventuron. The adventuron aspect allows the use of pixel art here, which I think greatly..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Horrible Escape Room of Horror: "Compact speed-IF escape room with clever puzzles" December 1, 2025 "I was delighted by this game. It's in the author nilsf's custom javascript parser system (I believe), which has always been on par with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Idle Demon: "Demonic speed-IF with multiple endings" December 1, 2025 "This game is by a recent new IFComp entrant, and has an impressive amount of objects for a speed-IF, and even includes two endings (one..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Non-humain: "Decker game with multimedia and a short horror story with interesting verbs" December 1, 2025 "Interesting that I’d play two games within a few days of each other about inhuman creatures who gain action verbs from their..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews One Fifty-Nine: Drowned Secrets: "Choicescript military mermaid exploration horror game" December 1, 2025 "This is a military mermaid exploration horror game, a genre I didn’t know existed until now. This is also a choicescript game of around..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Oz, The Great And Terrible: "Macabre Bitsy take on Wizard of Oz" December 1, 2025 "I forgot that I never reviewed this, though I played it several days ago! This game is a Bitsy game, meaning it has two-color..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews requiescat: "A short tale of love and obsession" December 1, 2025 "This is a story-driven Twine game and is, I think, the first game I’ve seen by this author, although I’ve seem them around a lot..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Stage Fright: "As a musical automaton, gain new verbs in this polished parser game" December 1, 2025 "This game by the Stelzers follows in the footsteps of A Familiar Problem last year (maybe it’s in the same universe?). You play as a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sparks Fly: "Stalker horror with a mechanical bent" December 1, 2025 "This is a horror Twine game that plays on the fear: what if you were alone, far from society, with a man who wanted to exert complete..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: "Vampire-based game in a long series of Adrift games" December 1, 2025 "This is a Larry Horsfield game, and his games follow a pretty specific pattern. There are 32 games listed on IFDB and 20 listed in-game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews warden: a (bug)folk horror: "Bug-based parser horror game with cute bug society" December 1, 2025 "This was a great game! Both cute and genuinely creepy, with the two facets playing off of each other. It’s a parser game where you play..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game: "Fun conspiracy theorist gruescript game based on a book by same author" December 1, 2025 "This game is based on a book by the same author. It’s written in Gruescript, and is one of the better Gruescript games I’ve played; I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Detective en habitación cerrada: "Clever surreal detective game where you can only investigate yourself" December 1, 2025 "This was a tricky game for me! It’s a Spanish-language parser game that uses a lot of wordplay and clever phrases. I also had some..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El Sueño del Caracol: "Based on a short movie about a lovestruck book reader" December 1, 2025 "This was the next randomized Grand Guignol game I got. This one is interesting: a smooth and polished, mostly-linear adaptation of a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews En la Oscuridad: "Short atmospheric game about horrible torturous feelings in the dark" December 1, 2025 "This was a short, well-written game about a horrifying experience being trapped in the darkness. Most of the game is about your reaction..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Jailbreak: "Commentary on Ai with an adventurous twist" December 1, 2025 "This is a Spanish-language parser game which is (thankfully, for this non-native speaker) well-implemented and fairly brief. It has a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Más perdido que el barco del arroz: "Bitsy game about a lost ship that gets lost with you on it" December 1, 2025 "I looked it up, and the name has reference to a legend kind of like the Bermuda triangle where ships bearing rice (i.e. humanitarian..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Mititz: "Escape from strange women in the woods" December 1, 2025 "This is a Spanish language game with an engine that reminds me of the engine Moiki, but I’m not quite sure what it is. (looking it up,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Muerte de Berta Cáceres: "An environmental assassination" December 1, 2025 "I was glad to get this game in my randomized list, as Ruber is someone who’s consistently produced good games for a decade. This game..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Begscape: "You want basic necessities? Beg for it" November 30, 2025 "Begscape is a Twine game about traveling from city to city and begging for coins to afford food and shelter. Begging is nearly the only..." - See full review

A new listing for The Package, by Julian Grant

A new review of Medusa's Gold - From the Author "Obviously, we're biased (we wrote it, after all), but we think Medusa's Gold is a great introductory IF book. Let's be clear—This game..." - See full review

A new listing for Medusa's Gold, by David Chandler

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for November 2025 November 30, 2025 8 items On Saturday, November 29, 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...

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews mr. leg needs some milk: "A sweet game that makes a strong case for “less is more”" November 30, 2025 "It’s late at night and mr. leg can’t sleep. Solution: find milk. This is an extremely short Inform game. Lunch break game? More like..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews GROWBOTICS: "Pointless and purposeful, in equal measure" November 29, 2025 "GROWBOTICS is a Twine game about a fictional product of the same name. A workbench that can craft anything using intangible and abstract..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider: "Not just a secret spider, a secret *interdimensional* spider" November 29, 2025 "I suppose that the title of this review could be considered as a spoiler, but since this fact of the game world was intentionally..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Walk A Mile In My Shoes: "It Gets Under Your Skin" November 29, 2025 "I enjoyed this short vignette in which you play a man who needs to get dressed before answering the door to some trick-or-treaters. The..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Clock Tower: "Short adventure with dynamic audio and homebrew parser." November 29, 2025 "The Clock Tower is a short and amusing parser game with dynamic audio, created in eleven days for a Lisp (programming language family)..." - See full review

A new listing for Millwater, by Julian Grant

J. J. Guest reviews Unfair Escape from Underground (by Loki): "Ladder to Nowhere" November 28, 2025 "It took slightly less than two minutes to finish this game, and I can only imagine it took the author a similar length of time to write..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Ghost Hunt II: Haunted Washing Machine: "Who You Gonna Call? A Plumber!" November 28, 2025 "This is a very simple, one-room Adventuron game with a single puzzle. You have decide what clothes to wash in order to flush a ghost out..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Sparks Fly: "Creepy Kidnapping" November 28, 2025 "Sparks Fly begins with a nightmarish scenario, you're all alone in your car which has broken down in a remote area. Your only hope is a..." - See full review

Comely reviews Detective en habitación cerrada: "Un juego de palabras que llega lejos" November 28, 2025 "Me cuesta ser objetivo con las obras de Strollersoft, representan lo que más me gusta del género. Son juguetonas, pero de temática..." - See full review

J. J. Guest reviews Beneath the Weeping Willow: "Short, Sweet and Somewhat Sad" November 28, 2025 "Beneath the Weeping Willow is a short, sweet ghost story in which you play the ghost. It's written in Ink, using a tasteful and well..." - See full review

A new listing for LC50, by Rachel Sherrick

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Martia Termina: "Martian military science fiction" November 26, 2025 "Mars and Earth are at war. Mission 193 was just another mission sent to the Red Planet. Its objective was to take control of the Martian..." - See full review

EJ reviews Endymion: "Endymion review" November 25, 2025 "(I was a judge for the inaugural episode of the Iron ChIF event, and this is the evaluation I wrote for that event. As such, it is..." - See full review

EJ reviews Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider: "Ancient Treasure review" November 25, 2025 "(I was a judge for the inaugural episode of the Iron ChIF event, and this is the evaluation I wrote for that event. As such, it is..." - See full review

A new listing for The Clock Tower, by Cecylia Bocovich and David Fifield

Wade Clarke reviews Not so Happy Easter 2025: "Quality light horror retro adventure for the ZX Spectrum." November 25, 2025 "(This is an edited version of a review originally published in my blog during IFComp 2025.) Not so Happy Easter 2025 (NSHE) is a..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Exorcist Tipline: "Easy to like, difficult to actually play" November 24, 2025 "Note: Don’t be turned off by my rating. I found it tough to rate because it feels like it should be higher, and yet, I needed to be..." - See full review

tildemania reviews Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: "Perfect." November 23, 2025 "This doesn't deserve a Game Award. This deserves a Noble Prize in Literature."

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