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Rovarsson reviews A Rock's Tale: "Go-between Rock" October 19, 2025 "-> "You are a rock. You say nothing." And if repeated a few times, this makes for a perfectly respectable playthrough with a legitimate..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Grove of Bones: "A poisoned deal" October 19, 2025 "Is it unjust to stand up against a wrong when one has profited from it in the past? Does past complicity rule out present resistance? How..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Saltwrack: "Weirdness in the North" October 19, 2025 "(Review based on the IFComp 2025 version) A misunderstood scientist sets out on a dangerous expedition through frozen wastelands to..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Little Four: "Domestic Poirot" October 19, 2025 "A wonderful little tranche-de-vie, a pleasant but otherwise unremarkable day in the combined households of Hercule Poirot and Captain..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Frankenfingers: "The Disembodied Hand" October 19, 2025 "A nice mixture of gothic horror and comedy and poetry. Straightforward manor-exploration and classic puzzle-solving, nothing too..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan: "On the right side of the law" October 19, 2025 "It felt weird to see Thalia operating on the right side of the law. She herself would probably respond to that statement with a derisive..." - See full review

News on 31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025): Final results October 19, 2025 The winners of IFComp 2025 have been announced. Congratulations!

MathBrush reviews The Multi-Dimensional Thief: "Treasure hunt through whacky collection of rooms and creatures" October 19, 2025 "This game has been on my wish list longer than any other game; I think it's been on there for years. It comes from an interesting time in..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: ""The symbolism is lost to archaeology. It's all sand."" October 19, 2025 "Eight Last Signs in the Desert is a surreal Twine game set in a desert where the player contemplates monuments of human civilization. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Tempest of Baraqiel: "Tower of technobabble" October 19, 2025 "Lately I’ve been getting back into Star Trek. There’s an element of nostalgia to it, certainly, that gets increasingly appealing as..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews *OVER*: "Vacation all I ever wanted" October 19, 2025 "Readers, a confession: I fear I was not a very fun child. Case in point, even when I was little I never much liked cotton candy. Sure, it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Slated For Demolition: "The Demolished Woman" October 19, 2025 "The surrealist IF game about trauma is a sufficiently well-represented subgenre that by this point I have a standard bit of patter I trot..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Saltwrack: "Gimme psychological horror!" October 18, 2025 "First of all, this was beautifully written! I was humbled by the sheer vividness of the descriptions and the depth of its vocabulary,..." - See full review

A new listing for World War II Armored Recon, by Allen Gies

A new listing for Saturnine, by Jon Matthieu

A new listing for Eldritch Tales: Inheritance, by Dariel Ivalyen

A new listing for Meteoric, by Samwise Harry Young

A new listing for In the Halls of Asgard, by Eleanor Cooke

A new listing for Hunter: The Reckoning — The Beast of Glenkildove, by William Brown

A new listing for Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery, by Amy Griswold

A new listing for The Last Scion, by D. G. P. Rector

A new listing for Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C Baker

A new listing for Games of the Monarch's Eye, by Saffron Kuo

A new listing for Eternal Affairs, by Jamie Maurer

A new listing for Spellbound: Malachite Coven, by Erin Rowlands

A new listing for Devil on Your Shoulder, by Lisa Fox

MathBrush reviews Bloodline: "Short game about a girl, a boy, a crush, and a card game" October 18, 2025 "This game has been on my wishlist longer than almost anything else, and I no longer remember why I put it on there, but it was fun. It's..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Witch Girls: "“We don’t do love magic.”" October 17, 2025 "The witch girls are a clique of girls at school who can supposedly perform magic. You and your friend Morag have decided to turn to them..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Dangerous Curves: "Ambitious simulationism, constrained only by the limits of the Z-machine" October 17, 2025 "Dangerous Curves lingered on my to-play list for a very long time. I had picked it up and tried it a few times, and never made it very..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Promises of Mars: "Perhaps too slick" October 17, 2025 "This game immediately impresses with its excellent presentation. On the title page, the pixel art and beautiful orange and grey colour..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Little Four: "Domestic delights" October 17, 2025 "Slice-of-life is one of my favourite subgenres of fanfiction. Especially for those canons that tend toward intrigue and action, it is..." - See full review

iaraya reviews Dead Sea: "Compelling story but awkward gameplay" October 17, 2025 "At the heart of this game is a quite compelling story. Our protagonist wakes in a strange graveyard with no memory of who they are or how..." - See full review

iaraya reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus - Part I: The City of Dol Bannath: "A promising start" October 17, 2025 "game map A promising start! The premise here is that you are a student warrior poet, about to embark on a career of adventuring; however,..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "A historical puzzle trail" October 17, 2025 "I will say upfront that I did not manage to finish this game. I got softlocked about an hour in when " - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Wait, my spacesuit could've done WHAT?!" October 17, 2025 "This review may discuss puzzle mechanics more than plot. Other reviews on IFDB as of now focus more on the story, and I hope this one..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Olive Tree: "A brief sketch" October 17, 2025 "I can certainly see what the intent of this work is, but for me it wasn’t very successful. It wants to humanize the suffering that’s..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Little Four: "And they were roommates" October 17, 2025 "A confession: I’ve only ever read one Agatha Christie novel, and it’s the Poirot-less And Then There Were None, so I went into this..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews High On Grief: "Complex emotions" October 17, 2025 "This one resonated a lot with me. I was glad to get to follow all the threads of Yancy’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions about/to..." - See full review

mycie reviews EyeOS: Apple II Inspired Horror-Mystery Game: "brilliant" October 16, 2025 "the story is so interesting and perfectly mysterious. it was so fun piecing together all the different information and clues, and the..." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews Imperial Throne: "Wasted potential" October 16, 2025 "As it is now, the game is near impossible to play without the walkthrough. With the walkthrough, it's almost fun to play. Without it, you..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Teamwork!" October 16, 2025 "Note: I've decided to make my rating not count towards the game's average because while the rating reflects how I feel about the game, I..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews One Step Ahead: "AIm, AId nAIf, drAIn nAIf" October 16, 2025 "This is a long review for a short affair. Perhaps other works will have more to say, and more rigorously, than One Step Ahead, and..." - See full review

vegetablegarden reviews Mooncrash!: "A creative game with some implementation challenges" October 16, 2025 "This game had quite a few rough edges where it was clear the author was relatively unfamiliar with Inform and with parser games in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by JTN, IFComp 2025 games geoblocked in the UK October 16, 2025 23 items In response to the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, the organisers of the 2025 IF Competition decided to geoblock some of the entries based on their content, such that they could not be played from a...

A new poll by The Secret Meta, Linear narratives but still interactive created October 16, 2025 14 votes for 10 games Looking for games that tell a singular story without major branching paths or multiple endings, but still allow for some degree of interactivity, such as uncovering clues or discovering lore.

A new listing for In Other Waters, by Jump Over the Age

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Errand Run: "You don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone" October 15, 2025 "Grocery shopping. Again. You play as an unnamed protagonist who begrudgingly hauls herself into the local supermarket to complete the..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Pharos Fidelis: "Who are the real monsters?" October 15, 2025 "This is one of my favorite games of the comp, which I say having both tested and recently replayed it. The presentation is gorgeous, with..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan: "IFComp 2025: Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan" October 15, 2025 "The Lady Thalia series is, among many other wonderful things, an indulgently lovingly crafted piece of queer IF. The series debuted at..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Saltwrack: "IFComp 2025: Saltwrack" October 15, 2025 "This is a masterful example of how minimalism can stimulate readers' imaginations. Although the game is presented as a horror title, it..." - See full review

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