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MathBrush reviews Et il fallut donc: "A brief game reflecting on unity vs individuality" March 29, 2025 "This is a short French game in Ink. There are always two choices: "nous" [us] and "je" [we]. It tells the story of a burgeoning..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews La Zizanie: "Play-die-restart type Ink game trying to survive zombies" March 29, 2025 "This was a fun game with a short playtime but some replay value. You are in a village in a post-apocalyptic, bucolic life. Unfortunately,..." - See full review

cudsys reviews Mayor Mystery: "yes" March 28, 2025 "peak twine storytelling :D :3c"

MathBrush reviews Le comte et la communiste: "Very long, complex French communist spy laundry game with extensive ASCII art" March 28, 2025 "I intended on playing all of the FrenchComp 25 (or, more properly, the Concours de Fiction Interactive Francophone) games in a week or..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for March 2025 March 27, 2025 8 items On Thursday, March 27, 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...

A new listing for Baretegi, by Alex Meltsner

A new listing for Loadstone, by rosetinted

A new listing for Hell Ride, by Dana Montgomery

A new listing for The Coming of the Mirthful Messiahs, by Matt Weiner

A new listing for DNA Polymerase, by Lynnea Glasser

Wanderlust reviews A Man Outside: "Disconcerting" March 25, 2025 "Litrouke excels at creating horror scenarios from mundane situations. As with Please Answer Carefully, the game makes use of..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Please Answer Carefully: "Unsettling " March 25, 2025 "Please Answer Carefully is an effective, realistic horror piece. A seemingly innocuous survey about Internet habits turns into an..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details: "The Devils in the Details" March 25, 2025 "I was quite charmed by the first installment of Dungeon Detective and was a little worried this second game would disappoint. I..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Elsinore: After Hamlet: "Hamlet self-insert fanfiction? Never say never" March 24, 2025 " “We aren’t in Denmark! This is not Hamlet!” “We are in Denmark,” Horatio speaks up stonily, meeting your irate gaze. “I have... " - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale: "Mischief and Mix-Ups, Capes and Capers" March 24, 2025 "On a scale of 1-8, I would rate this game outstanding. Strong replayability with a highly branching storyline and all the characters are..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Fields of Asphodel: "Spring in the Underworld" March 24, 2025 "Cozy, slice-of-life retelling of the Persephone myth. I've followed this game's development since the first release of its demo, and I'm..." - See full review

A new listing for The Last Oath, by Narkhos

A new listing for The Rot of Witchwood, by Rotting Ink

Cerfeuil reviews the train will always pass you by: "A Polish story" March 23, 2025 "Disclaimer: extraordinarily rambly and somewhat offtopic review. I hope I am not offending Polish and/or European and/or non-European..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Abbey: "Part of the primordial soup of the hobbyist era" March 22, 2025 "In 1993, everyone knew that "text adventures" were a dead genre, but, as has been lovingly documented by Jimmy Maher and others, a few..." - See full review

News on The Corridor: Minor Update. Check your Watch! March 22, 2025 The main purpose of this update was technical. To update the UI wrapper and, in turn, address the way the music cues work. Hopefully, all the sound cues are working correctly now. I thought, however, I would... - Details

OtisTDog reviews Winter Storm Draco: "Slice of life meets magical realism in a snowy wasteland" March 22, 2025 "In my limited experience, works by Ryan Veeder never fail to delight on some level; if nothing else his signature wit is always good for..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews te/ra/to/ma: "Harrowing tale of tumors and of growing up" March 22, 2025 "This game is structured like a linear visual story, with black and white hand-drawn images. It won the Short Game Showcase. Here are the..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Everybody Dies: "Great illustrations but unenlightening story" March 22, 2025 "This game made a notable splash upon its debut, taking 3rd place in IFComp 2008 and garnering high profile reviews by top author Emily..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Bible Retold: Following a Star: "Almost certainly *NOT* what you're expecting" March 22, 2025 "Let's be honest: You're probably assuming that this game is a low-quality (if sincere) effort riddled with technical problems and poor..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews the train will always pass you by: "Compelling narrative about a passing train" March 21, 2025 "Naarel is a prolific author who has a great back-catalogue. Because of that, I think I've been spoiled a bit with their back-catalogue...." - See full review

leechykeen reviews Thalassaphilia: "Agatha Christie Dating Sim... in SPACE" March 21, 2025 "There were many times during my playthrough of Thalassaphilia when I was deeply, pleasantly surprised. What I thought would be a fun and..." - See full review

leechykeen reviews Quiero Matarte: "those wacky lesbians" March 20, 2025 "I'm reminded of the memes about your average BL story ("b-but, we're both boys!") versus WLW/yuri stories ("i will kill us both before I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cut with Moonlight: "A very early exceptional story from Fallen London" March 20, 2025 "Exceptional stories are extra bits of bonus content in Fallen London that tell their own stories. This is one of the earliest ever put in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Shallows: "One of the most popular exceptional stories in Fallen London, about death" March 20, 2025 "Fallen London has a large number (one a month for years) of 'Exceptional Stories' that you can pay extra for to get more of a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Devil's Due: "The search for the soul of a poet" March 20, 2025 "This is an exceptional story, a part of Fallen London that requires additional money and is more self-contained than the rest of the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dernier Cri: "A story about fashion with ulterior motives" March 20, 2025 "This was a funny Exceptional Story from Fallen London. Exceptional Stories are paid stories that are more self-contained than most..." - See full review

A new listing for Dribbling Destiny, by Diego Salinas

Sven Largone reviews The Den: "A great story, in a digestible package that can be completed in a few hours." March 19, 2025 "This gave me "Silo" vibes, as the mystery of their existence in a post apocalypse underground bunker is slowly revealed as you solve..." - See full review

A new listing for Adventure Game, by William Rous

Dvstybvcket reviews CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA: "Gay people get it" March 19, 2025 "This is camp and a formative digital art experience during my BFA. Thank you for inspiring me a decade later. "

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient 2025 Update March 18, 2025 This release includes a new custom score command to show you how many points you scored for different actions, as well as an out of world command, xyzart which simply displays all of the photographs in the... - Details

A new listing for The Black Tower, by Jim MacBrayne

Canalboy reviews Stonequest: "Holy Overgrown Stone Maze Batman!" March 16, 2025 "Stonequest is an archetypal "complete quest for king and usurp evil tyrant" adventure which would pass as unremarkable but for possibly..." - See full review

A new poll by Canalboy, Games Where Moving In The Dark Is Essential created March 16, 2025 19 votes for 16 games As a compulsive map maker I recently came across two games where you have to know your location exactly as you need to move in complete darkness. This set me wondering about how many games feature this...

A new listing for To Whom It May Concern, by ParadoxRogue

Lance Cirone reviews Death By Monkey: "The ape of wrath" March 16, 2025 "Death By Monkey is the only fully original game made in the IAGE engine. The others are Alice Through the Looking Glass, Cloak of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 2/5: "Clever 3d interactive fiction game that references IF itself" March 14, 2025 "I thought this game was really neat. You're presented with two choices at first, which you can click on, but the game immediately twists..." - See full review

A new competition page: Nebula Awards 2024 created March 13, 2025 The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by full, senior, and associate members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year to...

A new listing for Expelled!, by Inkle

EJ reviews Astralily: "Astralily review" March 13, 2025 "Astralily is a first IF effort by an enthusiastic young author. It's clearly a labor of love, and gives me a pleasant nostalgia for the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Où est passé Mathieu Moreau ?: "A Google Calendar treasure hunt (in French)" March 12, 2025 "This was a really clever game. It's currently implemented in Google Calendar, which means it may be ephemeral media; but the author is..." - See full review

A new listing for Overbrook, by Ben Parrish

A new listing for Calixto Island, by Ron Krebs

monsteradmirer reviews Astralily: "Want to see more" March 12, 2025 "This is my first time reading a story in this format so it was interesting to me as a visual novel fan. All the different backgrounds and..." - See full review

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