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Tom!63 reviews A1RL0CK: "A thrilling experience" March 4, 2025 "A1RLØCK is an intense and unsettling text adventure that throws you into a cold, unwelcoming world with no explanation. As a lost child..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone: "What it says on the tin" March 4, 2025 "This game is the exact same concept as the first one, except with four more games. They were perhaps a bit less scary, but it seems like..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Tales from Castle Balderstone: "Treehouse of Horror / Tales of Interest" March 4, 2025 "In this horror anthology, my favorite story was the one about blood, which made me laugh out loud. The individual games might have lacked..." - See full review

A new listing for My Grandfather's Chattels, by Matthew Holland

A new listing for Spelunker, by Thomas R. Mimlitch

spl3tterfilm reviews Binary Star Hero: "ts shit was phenomenal" March 3, 2025 "i love, love, love everything about this vn. the art and story are well developed, and there are so many complexities to ray's character..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin: "The Little Match Girl - The Little Match Girl 2 (Chronologically)" March 3, 2025 "Chronologically, this game is the direct sequel to the first The Little Match Girl game, even though it was not released directly after..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "Funny twist on a sad fairy tale" March 3, 2025 "This is a touching and funny twist on a well-known fairy tale (at least it's well-known to me, who am a Scandinavian, although I..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Orchid Species of the Erastian: "A sketch of a game" March 3, 2025 "This is a small, unfinished game. It is, however, the only game by Ryan Veeder on IFDB that doesn't have any ratings or reviews, so I..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Crocodracula: The Enigma of Crocodracula: "A good walkthrough" March 3, 2025 "This is not a game, but a text file describing how to solve a game which sounds interesting - an old school text adventure with concepts..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sand-dancer: "Game about modern Native americans, symbolic choices and sand" March 2, 2025 "This game was apparently the tutorial game in Aaron Reed's book on writing games in Inform 7, which is pretty neat. It features a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Scents & Semiosis: "Procedural smell generation" March 2, 2025 "This game was made specifically for Emily Short by Sam Kabo Ashwell, and contains a great deal of procedural generation. The idea is that..." - See full review

A new listing for Demon Hunter: Legacy, by RetroVem

aluminumoxynitride reviews Type Help: "Clever puzzles with a great atmosphere!" March 2, 2025 "What a compelling game! It really hit that sweet spot of slowly creeping sense of dread interspersed with triumphant aha! moments. There..." - See full review

A new listing for Type Help, by William Rous

News on The Corridor: Major Update. On the Busses Update March 2, 2025 Until now, the game has been pretty linear, but at the end of the last update, the player faced a choice: either head to Mad Jack’s or continue on your way. What will you choose? No matter your choice, The... - Details

Nomad reviews EXODUS: Climate Activist: "Hilarious" March 2, 2025 "EXODUS: Climate Activist is a CYOA game about a teenager finding his meaning in life by trying to join a militant environmental group. It..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Dungeon Adventure: "Not A Tolkien Gesture" February 28, 2025 "Où sont les neiges d'antan? It must be said that I had many a Proustian moment replaying this excellent Level 9 offering. It is 42 years..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for February 2025 February 28, 2025 8 items On Friday, February 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...

Jackel reviews salting wounds: "Simple but good" February 28, 2025 "This really resonated with me, I can't say for sure the intention of the exact meaning of the story from the author but for me this felt..." - See full review

Johndalyprogrammer reviews EXODUS: Climate Activist: "I may have ended up living in a tent hounded by cops but" February 28, 2025 "As the title says I probably didn't get the best ending on my first run through but it was an absolute blast the entire time. Definitely..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "I think the point is that it's almost unwinnable" February 27, 2025 "I couldn't win this game at its easiest difficulty, following the "Beginner's Guide" walkthrough highlighted on the game's subreddit...." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Strong world-building and interesting ideas bogged down by melodrama and cliché" February 27, 2025 "This game is set in a world where souls are tangible and alchemy is the prevailing science. That alone creates fascinating moral..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Wheel Of Fortune: "Epic By Name, Epic By Nature" February 27, 2025 "This is another large and finicky Epic adventure with interminable dull paths and real-time elements; there are a whole host of winding..." - See full review

A new listing for Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright

MathBrush reviews the sea god: "Beautiful, poetic game about dying whales" February 25, 2025 "This is a Bitsy game, which uses two-color-palette minimalist pixel art and arrow controls to create a world to navigate, and text pops..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Psy High 2: High Summer: "Impressive Addition to the Psy High saga" February 24, 2025 "I liked the first Psy High quite a bit as a fun, choice-based game set in the supernatural high school hijinx mold of something like..." - See full review

A new listing for Cabin, by Tobias V. Langhoff

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Moondrop Isle: "Riven meets Zork" February 23, 2025 "This sprawling game is the result of nine authors making one game each, and then smacking them together (with magic), creating somewhat..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I.: "A former commercial game about a surreal visualization of finding a particle" February 23, 2025 "This game was once intended for Infocom (one of its authors wrote Suspended, among a few other Infocom games). When that didn't pan out,..." - See full review

sekicho reviews TimeQuest: "Old school favorite!" February 22, 2025 "I spent a good part of my early 90's childhood trying to beat this game with friends. The plot requires the player to rectify ten..." - See full review

sekicho reviews Rachel Has a Bad Day: "It stinks." February 22, 2025 "Bog-awful game design. No contextual hints whatsoever, and completely unintuitive. You have to read the instructions (which give away the..." - See full review

sekicho reviews Tomorrow Never Comes: "Yawner" February 22, 2025 "I gave up on this title after about 15 minutes of wandering around a mostly empty casino hotel in Monaco, feeling bored out of my mind..." - See full review

sekicho reviews I-0: "Sophomoric in every way" February 22, 2025 "I appreciate the work required to create a non-linear adventure game, and I think I-0 could be a really great game with some more effort,..." - See full review

sekicho reviews robotsexpartymurder: "Cyberpunk Mystery Erotica. What's not to like?" February 22, 2025 "I deliberately chose the order of those three words, because this story is cyberpunk first, mystery second, sex third, and it is..." - See full review

sekicho reviews 80 DAYS: "The Canonical Steampunk Travel Adventure" February 22, 2025 "This is an incredibly well-written game. To start with a major qualification, its most "interactive" aspect is that the player has great..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "Company Money" February 22, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Day 1. Dear Diary, I got a new job today! I found myself in a light fantasy world, stumbled across an..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Master's Lair: "Function Over Form" February 22, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review CONTINUING (coughcough*) my review sub-series “Second Breakfast,” wherein I examine IFCOMP24 works of..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Curse: "Can't See A Thing Without my Rose Colored Glasses" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This is a throwback game. No, not that. This is a PULL-FORWARD game, updating and modernizing a game from..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Second Breakfast - Really I Shouldn't" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review So this review is part of the review sub-series “Second Breakfast,” a series of reviews that showcase..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews You Can't Save Her: "Debateable if I Want To" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Two friends, separated by competing orthodoxies, now violently pitted against each other because somehow..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Seascape Paradiso: "A brief Ren'Py game about a meet-cute with a mermaid" February 20, 2025 "In this game, you are diving to explore the ocean as an underwater photographer. As you do so, you run into a real, live mermaid!..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Review/Boilerplate ratio = .06" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There are four words in this game (including the walkthrough). Providing effort reciprocity, I am going..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Actual, Literal Fun" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review RPG Maker is not my jam. Its throwback graphics are adorable for about the first two minutes, then the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "Promises Made" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review In my relatively short reviewing lifespan I have thrown a LOT of words at this community. I have..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Apocolii in D Minor" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There is nothing new in the world, and all art is built on art before it. We know this about the world...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Awakened Deeply: "Voyages of the Starship Grimdark" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It is far too late for me to inaugurate a review sub-series, as I have done in Comps past. But if I were..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Who Would Lick a Pope?" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There are classes of activities that do not need to justify themselves. Solo board gaming. Herb..." - See full review

A new competition page: The 2024 IFDB Awards created February 18, 2025 The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive...

ChanceOfFire reviews If It Please the Court: "Romance and intrigue in Versailles" February 18, 2025 "This was a surprisingly strong entry. The prose paints a beautiful picture of France, as well as the mystery and intrigue within your..." - See full review

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