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A new listing for Catacombs Revisited, by Brian Cotton

Mike Russo reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Flow my tears, the misogynist said" October 23, 2025 "Mashing up J.R.R. Tolkien with Philip K. Dick isn’t an idea that feels obvious, even in retrospect. Sure, they both gained their..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Conversation in a Dark Room: "Thin blood" October 23, 2025 "What do vampires have in common with the X-Men? The glib answer is “Vampire: the Masquerade” – yes, we all played it as superheroes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Errand Run: "Supermarket sweep" October 23, 2025 "Despite its short play-time, Errand Run engages with a number of different themes, but there’s one I keep coming back to, possibly..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews SPACE FROG!: "An age-appropriate game with a huge heart" October 22, 2025 "(edit: character name fix. The protagonist of SPACE FROG! is... SPACE FROG. Written in all-caps, like the..." - See full review

Galvan reviews Rematch: "Some of the most fun I've had with an IF game (although I haven't played many)" October 22, 2025 "I'm new to IF in general and was interested from its description in a Mathbrush list. And I haven't played much IF so this is probably..." - See full review

arslonga reviews The Dreamhold: "Thank God!" October 22, 2025 "Firstly, the game as an introduction to IF is amazing. It serves its duty incredibly well on that front. Secondly, thank god I read..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Your Very Last Words: "Epitaph epitome" October 22, 2025 "Is there anything more talismanic than last words? There are fictional characters – and real people too! – defined completely by the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Smörgåsbord of Pain: "Buffet of beatdowns" October 22, 2025 "There have been a lot of lessons to be drawn from the explosive growth of superhero movies over the last decade and a half, one of the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fascism - Off Topic: "Riding the F-train" October 22, 2025 "One of the vanishingly few advantages of the current political environment in the US is that it’s largely put to bed the tedious “is..." - See full review

A new listing for slime feet, by Nadia Nova

EJ reviews The Little Four: "The Little Four review" October 21, 2025 "There is a mystery of sorts to solve in The Little Four, a pastiche of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, but that’s not really..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "Wise-Woman's Dog review" October 21, 2025 "In this hybrid parser/choice game, you play as a dog in the Hittite Empire (ca. 2000 BCE) whose owner, the village wise-woman, is under a..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "A Moving, Relevant Sexual Satire" October 21, 2025 "I loved playing this. It kept me interested the entire way through. Near the end, I would have liked more messing around with the..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Semantagician's Assistant review" October 21, 2025 "This is a one-room wordplay puzzle game; the conceit is that it’s a sort of audition for the titular job. To get the job, you must..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "Reliquary of Epiphanius review" October 21, 2025 "In this game, you play as a young adult whose archaeologist father has gone missing while searching for the titular reliquary. Concerned..." - See full review

EJ reviews Us Too: "Us Too review" October 21, 2025 "Andrew Schultz’s wordplay games have been a staple of IFComp for almost as long as I’ve been doing reviews, and I’ve generally..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews SCP Containment Breach: "This review is to be kept in a locked container at all times." October 21, 2025 "I apologize for the cliché title; I couldn't help myself. Overview SCP Containment Breach is a fan game about the SCP Foundation, a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Big Five (Guys) test" October 21, 2025 "Have you ever taken a personality test for work? A: No. B: Yes, once. C: Yes, more than once. D: My work is administering personality..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Horse Whisperer: "One stirrup short of a saddle" October 21, 2025 "After more than 30 years, the Comp has accumulated a body of folk wisdom, tips and tricks, and helpful pointers about how authors can..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cart: "Shoulders to the wheel" October 21, 2025 "Cart is a choice-based game where you play a night-soil man (baldly: someone who collects human excreta and sells it for fertilizer)..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The System [Early, Early, Early Pre-Build] 0.05: "I'm into it" October 20, 2025 "The hiss of electronics and tubes being vacated of the substances that they had housed is what jars you from an unnatural sleep into..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Horse Whisperer: ""Coming soon"" October 20, 2025 "I love my tiny tiny horse and jockey, toothpick and all. The Horse Whisperer in that blurry text style is amazing. "Sire (Father):..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter: "Interesting Concept, but barely human" October 20, 2025 "I liked the Goal/Obstacle/Complication setup. The different colors representing different approaches is a nice idea too. I went in..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Uninteractive Fiction 2: "TWO STARS for TWO FICTIONS!!" October 20, 2025 "I laughed. The music was great. I will be recommending this to all of my friends who don't have the attention span for novels. EDIT:..." - See full review

EJ reviews WATT: "WATT review" October 20, 2025 "The eponymous protagonist of WATT wakes up on an island, his memories somewhat fuzzy, and is told he has to collect six keys to get into..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews A winter morning on the beach: "Your lucky day, with enough save/reloading." October 20, 2025 "The title and subtitle here are very cryptic. Lucky day? You're sixty years old! It all feels a bit sarcastic, really. What can you find..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Enchanted Glade: "Moors, Tors, Glades, and other land features" October 20, 2025 "It’s amazing what can draw a person to a game. I chose to play The Enchanted Glade because I really like the word “glade.” It..." - See full review

A new listing for The Wrath of Anubis, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Unknown Dimension, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Caribbean Treasure, by Garry Francis

EJ reviews Errand Run: "Errand Run review" October 20, 2025 "Errand Run is a short Twine work, nominally about going to the grocery store, but all is not what it seems. It has a few choices that I..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews ConfigurationUploader: "It's not just good, it's good enough (for our [SPOILER], that is)" October 20, 2025 "Explore a website for ConfigurationUploader v0.0.99 software. Find out how to install it, how to use it, and what people have to say..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Burger Meme Personality Test review" October 20, 2025 "The Burger Meme Personality Test is a satirical short game that mocks the personality tests that some companies use as part of their..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Imperial Throne: "4XYZZY" October 20, 2025 "Everyone knows that the worst part of parser-based IF is guess-the-verb puzzles. What Imperial Throne presupposes is – maybe it’s the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Willy's Manor: "Riddle relay" October 20, 2025 "Last year, I was disappointed when the premise of this author’s previous game, Warm Reception, didn’t turn out to much survive the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Transformations of Dr. Watson: "A Case of Identity" October 20, 2025 "So I know there’s a plethora of successful Sherlock Holmes games, from Infocom’s run at the great detective to those more recent 3D..." - See full review

Jacic reviews A murder of Crows: "Cute game about life as a crow" October 19, 2025 "This is actually a really cute game. I loved the concept of being able to play a game from the perspective of a crow. The language lends..." - See full review

A new listing for Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia, by Torpor Games

A new listing for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, by Jump Over The Age

A new listing for Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, by Osmotic Studios

thesleuthacademy reviews Missive: "When the replaying is key to the unravelling" October 19, 2025 "I dismissed Missive (hehe) after my first playthrough a few months ago as I couldn't make sense of it. For some reason I came across this..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Noun-manipulating escape-room" October 19, 2025 "I had a total blast with this one! A nifty one-room parser puzzler escape game where you transform objects by manipulating their names...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Operative Nine: "Sokoban, the spy-themed text adventure" October 19, 2025 "I tend to like the sparse humor in DiBianca games. It's particularly evident in Operative Nine where you, with your trusty PQ-807..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Anne of Green Cables: "Pastoral cyberpunk" October 19, 2025 "Oh it’s ever so dreadfully negligent of me to never have read that pinnacle of children’s fiction when I was but a boy. I’m..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews valley of glass: "A moment to wander around" October 19, 2025 "(Based on the IFComp 2025 version) A precious few moments to yourself. Some stolen time to wander round the valley and take in its..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Tempest of Baraqiel: "Alien weapon linguistics" October 19, 2025 "(Based on the IFComp 2025 version) Finally! A breakthrough that could turn this war around. Your side has captured an alien gravity..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews PURE: "Inevitable descent" October 19, 2025 "(Based on the IFComp 2025 version) A dark downward inescapable journey into the bowels of a grisly dungeon… The player is confronted..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "Blessings and Curses" October 19, 2025 "Your human’s sick. Or rather, judging by the smell of her, cursed. (Which, in the world of this game, amounts to about the same thing.)..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Willy's Manor: "Tiny-manor" October 19, 2025 "(Based on the IFComp 2025 version) Well, perhaps the itty-bitty ground floor of a tiny mansion. No nooks and crannies here, no attics nor..." - See full review

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