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JJ McC reviews Metallic Red: "Blinking while Eyeing the Prize" February 8, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Verisimilitude is a great word. All those 'i’s in a row, playfully bookended by complementary phonics,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "Rogue-Blocker" February 8, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I swear, this series confounds me. I played Act 1 (apparently before Act 2 was available in the..." - See full review

Pinstripe reviews The Horrible Pyramid: "Not gonna lie" February 7, 2025 "This was kind of hot"

Nomad reviews Gaming After A Long Day At Work: "Not a game" February 7, 2025 "So unless I oversaw something - Page 1: Text with X=6 choices. Whatever you chose, it's Page 1 with X-1 choices. When you're down to 0..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Pinstripe, Annotated Interactive Fiction February 7, 2025 8 items Interactive Fiction that is in some way "annotated": a persistent running commentary from a perspective outside the narrative accompanies the "base" narration. Sometimes the annotation may be authorial, at...

ChanceOfFire reviews Leas: City of the Sun: "A fun fantasy story" February 7, 2025 "Full Disclosure: I was a beta tester for this game. This review is based on the version of the game I played during the beta testing..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Saga of Oedipus Rex: "Cheat your fate" February 7, 2025 "Oedipus Rex is a tragedy, a man cursed by prophecy to However, that does not have to be the case..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Great Tournament: "A fun adventure with a solid story and gameplay elements" February 7, 2025 "Oh yes. The most rated game in the HG omnibus. In the Great Tournament, you start as a young boy from a humble background who works his..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Swamp Castle: "A game with solid management and gameplay elements" February 7, 2025 "In Swamp Castle, you play as the newly minted lord of a small fief. Gameplay largely consists of making decisions about fief governance,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost (expanded 2019 version): "A good story which leaves you wanting more" February 7, 2025 "In this game, you play as a child who is sold into slavery and trained to become a gladiator. There is a pretty interesting cast of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Anolelona: "A fantasy afterlife with bizarre characters" February 7, 2025 "I loved the worldbuilding in this Vorple game. (side note: I'm not sure why it's Vorple; I didn't notice any graphics, sound or text..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Campfire: "Wibbly Wobbly Campy Wampy" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review The choice to cycle the modern Dr.s Who… let me just pause to say I will pay 5 American dollars to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Gulag Hogworts" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Long before Miss Duckworthy’s, I had concluded that ChoiceScript was probably not my IF thing. Its..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Forbidden Lore: "Dragony Decimal System" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Standard TADS Disclaimer: I am a TADS-stan. Reader, calibrate your assessment of my impartiality as you..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Reviews always seek refuge in familiar databases whenever they're written" February 6, 2025 "As a Word Mage, the English language is both the source of your magical power and your instrument. However, a really badly timed accident..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Toby's Nose: "A Picture Is Worth 1000 Smells (and Maybe a Few More…)" February 6, 2025 "Looking for a palate-cleanser after finishing the Zork trilogy, my wife and I settled on Toby's Nose, a delightful little one-ish room..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews KING OF XANADU: "Deploribus Rex" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Choice-making in IF is the secret sauce that differentiates it from just-plain-F. Whether choice-select,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Hildy: "Magically Blonde" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review As sometimes happens when I review things, my brain decides on a reductive label that becomes the lens I..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Traffic: "In Media Dev" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A parser-driven, time loop scenario of interconnected cause and effect to untangle? Yes, please! One..." - See full review

A new listing for salting wounds, by Naarel

MathBrush reviews abyssopelagic cable anomaly: "Moody, short atmospheric underwater game" February 5, 2025 "I like the atmosphere in this short Shufflecomp game a lot. There is a bunch of mysterious worldbuilding which is purposely vague, but it..." - See full review

A new listing for Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man... And They're Hot?!, by WhatNames

JJ McC reviews Final Call: "No Basement for Old Crooks" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A click-select exploration adventure, I’m going to say with echoes of parser DNA, but well short of a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Bad Beer: "Mission ImPubsible" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Talk about a masterclass in establishing stakes. The beer has GONE BAD. FIX IT, STAT!!! My GOD game, say..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There: "Luigi's Aunt's Haunted Mansion" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This is the latest of the hoary old ‘mysterious invite to spooky house’ setup. If you are asking,..." - See full review

A new listing for Isolated, by Torment Of Gloom

Esperbucket reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Quest for the Review with Moderate Praise" February 4, 2025 ""If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews Familiar Problems: "You are a synthesis review, a more-or-less rectangular blob of text" February 4, 2025 "You are a familiar - a homunculus, a little man in the bottle - except you're not gendered, not at all human, and definitely not in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Welcome to my Treehouse: "Escape a treehouse with a bewildering array of tapestries" February 4, 2025 "In this game, you meet a group of new friends and decide to hang out with them. Unfortunately, you end up trapped by one friend in their..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Focal Shift: "Hack Everything but Expectations" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A Javascript-coded HTML text-entry parser game. What won’t they think of next! The infinite flexibility..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "High Bar Nostalgia" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Is there such thing as pedigree in IF? Actually, is pedigree itself ANYTHING??? Other than a socially..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Lost Artist: Prologue: "Detective Dada" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It seems every year there is an entry or two that just catch me so offguard, that are so unabashedly..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by jupiterleah, Games I’ve Started February 3, 2025 8 items Games I have started playing but not yet finished.

MathBrush reviews Restore, Reflect, Retry: "Self-referential story about a haunted video game" February 3, 2025 "This game is one of the most unusual commercial Choicescript games. It's much shorter than usual (at 90K words), is intended to be..." - See full review

A new listing for Magehunter: Phoenix Flame, by Nic Vasudeva-Barkdull

A new listing for Werewolves 3: Evolution's End, by Jeffrey Dean

A new listing for Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress, by Peter Adrian Behravesh

A new listing for Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire, by Drew Morrison

A new listing for The Ghost and the Golem, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

A new listing for Unsupervised, by Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry

A new listing for Werewolf: The Apocalypse—The Book of Hungry Names, by Kyle Marquis

A new listing for On the Run: Rogue Heroes, by Alyssa N. Vaughn

A new listing for Haunted Hearts Hotel, by Elle Grace

A new listing for These Thieving Hearts, by Raven de Hart

A new listing for Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn, by Lauren O'Donoghue

A new listing for Between Two Worlds, by Liam Parker

A new listing for Whiskey-Four, by John Luis

A new listing for Fields of Asphodel, by JJ Laurier

A new listing for Life as a Lich, by Adrao

A new listing for EXODUS: Climate Activist, by Daniel Stephenson

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