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A new Recommended List by Jerce, Glitch Horror Interactive Fiction November 23, 2025 6 items A curated list of interactive fiction that uses glitch effects, system corruption, unstable narration, or AI malfunction themes to create psychological horror. Includes Twine games, parser games, and short...

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Kinophobia: "A rather unique ghost exorcism game set in an old movie studio" November 23, 2025 "Founded in the mid-1970s by Gregory Korda, Armature Studios produced a wide variety of films, many of which received high praise from..." - See full review

A new listing for Fairy Godmother, by stiggzz22

A new poll by MathBrush, Games set in a base in Antarctica created November 22, 2025 15 votes for 7 games If I had a nickel for every game set in a base or lab in Antarctica...I'd have a few nickels.

MathBrush reviews The Hallway Phantom: "Short branching game made in pure html" November 22, 2025 "I was searching through my wishlist looking for the lowest-rated games and this popped up, an old Ectocomp game from 2013. This is..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Endymion: "Fantastic short sci-fi puzzler with an inspired and superb mechanical design" November 22, 2025 "Endymion is a work in the best tradition of science fiction, with a narrative concerning a not-quite-first-contact scenario and puzzles..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Untitled Relationship Project: "Simple yet Effective Passages" November 21, 2025 "You get to choose how a relationship started and how it ends by cycling through dozens of small stories written by different authors...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews six of cups: "A well-rounded slice-of-life narrative + good use of the system it's made with" November 21, 2025 "Described as a "sad divorced man fic," six of cups is a series of six scenes from a man's life that include a rocky marriage, a divorce,..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Willy's Manor: "Good-natured parser puzzling-in-a-house." November 20, 2025 "(This review is an edited version of one originally posted to my blog during IFComp 2025) Willy's Manor is a good-natured..." - See full review

A new listing for Mindware, by Jerce

A new listing for six of cups, by christine mi

A new listing for You Got 4 Wishes, by Joinplay Khawaja

japh reviews Violet: "Charming one-room-puzzle to fall in love with" November 19, 2025 "I absolutely fell in love with this game, or maybe with Violet, or most likely with the writing. Very witty and endearing. There really..." - See full review

A new listing for Oedipus Nix, Reluctant Plaything of the Gods, by S. C. Marchere

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Traveller: "A heartfelt, ambitious, and illustrated sci-fi story that lacks cohesion" November 19, 2025 "Earth is a war-torn world. A surviving faction decides to build a ship to travel into space in search of a new home. Our protagonist is a..." - See full review

japh reviews Type Help: "Amazing puzzle solving in a story of mystery and death" November 18, 2025 "This game features a very unique mechanic that prevents you from reading the next part of the story until you've understood what you've..." - See full review

EJ reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Phobos review" November 18, 2025 "The Galaxy Jones games are a pulpy sci-fi series starring an action heroine with a super-suit, some sort of an energy weapon, and the..." - See full review

EJ reviews Backpackward: "Backpackward review" November 18, 2025 "Backpackward is about a put-upon wage slave who finds that when he wears his trusty backpack, the cellar at his neighbor Jan’s house..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "Visit to the HRA review" November 18, 2025 "I was on SNAP (colloquially known as “food stamps”) for a number of years. That I’m not anymore is a matter of luck and not..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews valley of glass: "More a folkloric stub than a folkloric game." November 18, 2025 "(This review is an edited version of one originally posted to my blog during IFComp 2025) valley of glass, a lyrical-leaning and..." - See full review

oscar-78 reviews Haunted House: "Original and fun mecanic with good narrative" November 17, 2025 "A simple an short game with a lot of charming details. The way the puzzles solve by themselves with the characters moving around the..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Endymion: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" November 17, 2025 "A collision with an alien spaceship leaves you stuck on a planet, your ship destroyed, the alien ship still semi-functional. Explore it,..." - See full review

Nell (Lamp Post Projects) reviews Super Halloween Horror Show: "Face your fears" November 17, 2025 "Super Halloween Horror Show has an air of unabashed campy fun in its hybrid of superhero and horror motifs, and the game’s title and..." - See full review

japh reviews The Lurking Horror: "Fun game with eerie atmosphere" November 17, 2025 "This was one of the first text adventures I played as a kid, and it stuck with me. When I finally came back to finish it years later, it..." - See full review

japh reviews Anchorhead: "Engaging story with logical puzzles" November 17, 2025 "The story is very engaging from start to finish. Exploring and learning more about the world is its own reward, not just means to..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider: "The female of the species is more deadlier than the male" November 17, 2025 "One-room romp where you play a fairy, giving suggestions to a mysterious stranger to fix an ancient machine while two more NPCs fend off..." - See full review

A new listing for Window Washer, by Galvan

A new listing for Winter Light, by Julian Grant

A new listing for Biennio Rosso: An Alternate History, by AwesDes

viv reviews 9:05: "good twist" November 16, 2025 "short but sweet"

NegSec reviews Executive Suite: "Solid game all around, funny as all hell" November 15, 2025 "The best way to describe Executive Suite would be "competent." It isn't in your face flashy, but the presentation gets the job done. The..." - See full review

A new listing for When the Jackals Came, by Julian Grant

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Drift Mine Satellite: "your guide to meaningful community life, post-apocalypse" November 15, 2025 "standing on the porch in the morning… wake up Drift Mine Satellite is a custom choice-based “maintenance text adventure” about..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Kinophobia: "Exploration/logic puzzle game where exorcist casts out 24 movie ghosts" November 15, 2025 "I’m pretty disappointed in myself; I played this game for 3 days and 5-6 hours trying to beat it without hints and only got 18 out of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews you are an ancient chinese poet in exile: "Seeing through the eyes of a poet" November 15, 2025 "(I beta-tested this game). “Where do you get your ideas?” is surely the most vapid question you can ask a writer, but spare a thought..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "Social progress goes kablooey" November 15, 2025 "(I beta tested this game) 3XXX is not a subtle game. From the moment you enter its hyperrepressed world, where tough-as-nails cops clean..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "History so real you can smell it" November 15, 2025 "I beta-tested this game) I always question my objectivity when I’ve beta-tested a game – it’s hard to figure out an appropriate..." - See full review

A new competition page: Iron ChIF (Pilot Episode) created November 14, 2025 Iron ChIF is an intfiction.org "forum show" modeled after the Japanese television series Iron Chef. Over the course of five days, two authors compete to create a working game from the same "challenge...

A new listing for Endymion, by Daniel M. Stelzer

A new listing for Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider, by C.E.J. Pacian

Mike Russo reviews Fired: "The insults of capitalism" November 14, 2025 "(I beta-tested this game) As late-period capitalism slouches its way to the trash-heap of history, to be replaced by something that’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Ill communication" November 14, 2025 "(I beta tested this game) The first Galaxy Jones game was a highlight of Spring Thing 2023, a rip-roaring sci-fi adventure that saw you..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Litchfield Mystery: "Who/how/whydunnit" November 14, 2025 "The Litchfield Mystery is the latest in the author’s series of whodunnits distinguished by their fidelity to real-world forensics. The..." - See full review

Jgesq reviews Loop of Redemption: "Online Page Not Available" November 13, 2025 "Please fix link to online playing."

Mike Russo reviews Escape the Pale: "Shtetl games" November 13, 2025 "A story I am astonished to discover I haven’t yet related in an IF review is the time I married my twin sister – she was wearing my..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Rock's Tale: "Gathering moss" November 13, 2025 "I’ve gone to the Star Trek well several times through this year's Comp reviews, so now that we’re nearing the end of the Comp,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Murderworld: "Mutant power" November 13, 2025 "Earlier in one of the reviews in this thread – I confess I don’t remember which one, I’ve written like 75 of them over the last..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews baby:OFF: "Thoughtful and intriguing but ends too quickly." November 12, 2025 "baby:OFF is a short Ink game submitted to Bare-Bones Jam 2025. It follows a protagonist who is struggling with the aftermath of a failed..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game: "No, really! The machines! They're talking to me!" November 12, 2025 "A title like this is meant to be catchy and a bit gonzo, and, well, it may be the best GrueScript game I've played that isn't by Robin..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Beneath the Weeping Willow: "(pedant voice) but but but it's (mostly) in a house!" November 12, 2025 "I missed the author's entries in IFComp because they felt like the sort of thing I wouldn't want to judge at the moment. On the strength..." - See full review

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