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EJ reviews *OVER*: "*OVER* review" October 28, 2025 "*OVER* is a long, sprawling game about a large family at what is obviously Disney World, although it is carefully not named, in the..." - See full review

EJ reviews Pharos Fidelis: "Pharos Fidelis review" October 28, 2025 "This story takes place in a world where magic-users make pacts with demons to do their bidding. The protagonist, Finnit, has a natural..." - See full review

EJ reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "3XXX review" October 28, 2025 "3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS takes place in an over-the-top dystopian future in which sex has been so thoroughly banned that any amount of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Rain Check-in: "Short-term rental, short-term hassle" October 28, 2025 "The summer of my second year in law school, I got an internship in DC and needed to figure out where to live. My school provided a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Pharos Fidelis: "O come all ye faithful" October 28, 2025 "My wife had never been part of an Internet community before last year, when she got into the Bridgerton fandom in a big way: like, she..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "The desert of the real" October 28, 2025 "Reader, I’m going to have to say something right now that might be hard for you to hear. Are you ready? Do you want to sit down? Do you..." - See full review

A new listing for You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here, by Squinky

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Frolic RPG: "Frolic for a few minutes" October 27, 2025 "Frolic RPG is a procedurally generated Twine game with emoticon characters and a light-hearted atmosphere. ✿~✿~✿~✿~✿~✿ It..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews whoami: "Shell games" October 27, 2025 "Let’s just get this out of the way up front: there’s a Towers of Hanoi puzzle in whoami. It’s only four disks, and seems like..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "SNAPFU" October 27, 2025 "I’m not a person who knows anything at all about film, but let’s not let that stop me from advancing a theory: you don’t want to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Promises of Mars: "Life on Mars" October 27, 2025 "I am nothing of an expert in parser-like choice games and can’t claim any especial insight, but since I have written what I’m pretty..." - See full review

gildedSnail reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "Worldbuilding details good; structure suffers sometimes" October 26, 2025 "I liked this game a lot more on the second replay, but I still have gripes. I feel conflicted writing this review, though! Part of my..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Smörgåsbord of Pain: "A Smorgasbord of Pain review" October 26, 2025 "I have to start this review with a confession: according to IFDB, I did play this game’s predecessor, A Matter of Heist Urgency, but I..." - See full review

EJ reviews Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?: "Jimmy Piñata review" October 26, 2025 "Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? is the third in a series of games starring Bubble Gumshoe, a detective searching for what justice she can find..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Tempest of Baraqiel: "Tempest of Baraqiel review" October 26, 2025 "The Tempest of Baraqiel is a game in which the protagonist, military linguist Kel Shem, must decipher the settings on an advanced alien..." - See full review

News on Trapped in Time: Ported to online CYOA system October 26, 2025 https://urqw.github.io/UrqW/#trapped_in_time Trapped in Time has been ported to a digital CYOA system! Check it out.

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews For Gregg: "For Gregg!" October 26, 2025 "You are the Project Manager of a team of employees, but there’s been some changes. The company has introduced a new feature: ProMa, an..." - See full review

EJ reviews Retrograding: "Retrograding review" October 26, 2025 "(Note: I was originally going to skip this game due to the “flashing images” warning, but others who had played it said they..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews PURE: "Ludo-narrative dysphoria" October 26, 2025 "These days mods are a de rigueur accompaniment to any major game release, but of course this wasn’t always the case. While I remember a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus - Part I: The City of Dol Bannath: "There once was a man from Nantucket..." October 26, 2025 "[When this review was originally posted on the IntFic forum, it used the LLM-generated cover-art as a jumping-off point to poke fun at..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A murder of Crows: "Birdbrains" October 26, 2025 "A murder of Crows has one of the most descriptive titles in the Comp – this minimally-styled Twine game indeed has you following along..." - See full review

EJ reviews Pharaohs' Heir: "Pharaohs' Heir review" October 25, 2025 "This is a short, lighthearted puzzle game in which you play as Layla, the so-called assistant to star archaeologist Herbert Tapioca (who..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "Sylvan Gardens review" October 25, 2025 "The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens is a choice-based fantasy game featuring a PC who has been feeling a mysterious draw to the titular house..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Nineteen: "You look back and see how far you’ve come" October 25, 2025 "Less like a game, more like a reflection, Nineteen is an author's sharing of her experience with suicide and the insights she has gained..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Moon Watch: "Older graphics-and-sound enhanced Inform one-room game about soviet space" October 25, 2025 "This game is from the same 2008 One-room game competition as Escapade!, a game I enjoyed in the past. The Moon Watch is an Inform game..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Entropy Cage: "The subs are at it again (and you’re on the hook)" October 25, 2025 "Note: This review is for the post-comp release. The change log refers to it as v101, and I recommend playing this version. Modern society..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A winter morning on the beach: "Getting your steps in" October 25, 2025 "It’s by far one of the least-destructive elements of the patriarchy, but ever since I became a dad (four years ago yesterday!) I’ve..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Witch Girls: "You turn my legs to jelly" October 25, 2025 "Even counting games I’ve tested, I’m only about a third of the way into the Comp, so there’s a long way to go – but I will be..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?: "Hard-boiled sweets" October 25, 2025 "One of our species’ best qualities is also its worst, which is our ability to get used to just about anything given enough time. It’s..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews GUT THE MOVIE: "Making the movie of your dreams... " October 24, 2025 "The main cycle of the game is straightforward and simple: get money, spend money. The plot-driving objective, the goal of the game, is to..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Meurtre dans la station spatiale - 4h: "Murder in space" October 24, 2025 "In the not too distant future, a biotechnologically enhanced judicial registrar puts the protagonist, a newly appointed detective, to the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews ~~~Into Darkness~~~: "Hauntingly poetic" October 24, 2025 "A tale of sorrow, And comfort sought Between the trees, by mirror pool, This author has Intently wrought. Voice of shade and waters cool...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Loneliest House: "The haunted house, distant yet detailed." October 24, 2025 "Layers. Fence, door, dome. Wood and paint, intricate carvings and ironwork designs. Longing, imagination, indifference to all else. A..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Rock's Tale: "Rock's Tale review" October 24, 2025 "There’s a subgenre of Japanese portal fantasy/isekai in which the main character finds themself in a fantasy world transformed into..." - See full review

EJ reviews PURE: "Pure review" October 24, 2025 "Pure is a fairly short parser game in which the player goes through a gauntlet of challenges in a dungeon in pursuit of an unclear goal...." - See full review

EJ reviews Slated For Demolition: "Slated for Demolition review" October 24, 2025 "There are, of course, a lot of surreal and highly metaphorical games about trauma, and there are probably many reasons for that, but one..." - See full review

BananaCorn24 reviews The Axolotl Project: "Wow" October 24, 2025 "This was so good, I had to make an account to review it. This was an incredible game, compact enough to play in one sitting but not so..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Project Thesius: "More Sean Connery Than Roger Moore" October 24, 2025 "This is the second of the Rick Hanson trilogy and is another excellent offering from the O'Leary stable. This time Rick is sent to steal..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Detritus: "Heartfelt, Dystopian, & Eerie Sci-Fi Puzzle Game" October 24, 2025 "I left a more detailed review on the itch.io page for this game, but I enjoyed it so much! The sound effects and music add perfectly to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Reliques of Tolti-Aph: "Magical RPG by the creator of Inform" October 24, 2025 "This is another game I've had for many years on my wishlist. I've attempted it quite a few times but as it has many frequent death traps,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under the Sea Winds: "A congeries of puzzles" October 24, 2025 "Parenthood is a joy, but an adjunct fact about having a toddler is that your memory is completely shot. So I know that a couple of months..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grove of Bones: "A copse of corpses" October 24, 2025 "Every once in a while I’ll wander into a conversation about what exactly “literary” fiction is – there are typically scare quotes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT: "Third time pays for all" October 24, 2025 "DICK MCBUTTS GETS PUNCHED IN THE NUTS famously is two games in one. As part of author Damon Wakes’s successful plot to win the Golden..." - See full review

A new listing for Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes, by Cay Macres

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Anhedonia: "A simple game that considers the ontology of depression" October 23, 2025 "Anhedonia is a Twine game about depression and how it saps the meaning in one's life. It appears that it’s a reflection of the author's..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Kenam Moorwak - Chronicles of the Moorwakker: "An unsettling history" October 23, 2025 "A text-based RPG with combat tactics and levelling-up your abilities. I must say, I haven’t played a lot of games in this genre. The..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Cut the Sky: "Sword adventure" October 23, 2025 "--“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Stephen King, The Gunslinger (Dark Tower series pt 1)..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hauntless: "Ghostly circus" October 23, 2025 "Tragic deaths leave the old circus haunted, but progress marches on so the ghosts must make way for the new owners to develop the plot...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hell Ride: "To the carnival" October 23, 2025 "I went to the carnival the other day. It was really cool, with exciting rides and candied apples and games with prizes. When I won at the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Terra Nova - The Mystery of Zephyr's Landing: "The ruins outside the village" October 23, 2025 "Your blood is yearning for understanding. No matter how harshly you’ve been warned, no matter how scary the elders’ stories, you are..." - See full review

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