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A new listing for Kinophobia, by Bruno Dias

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews We're All In This Together: "A thrilling concept that suffers from its own implementation" October 31, 2025 "Begin patient analysis. The UK is experiencing an epidemic. No one knows what’s causing it. You work for the Department of Health and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fable: "Living a fantasy" October 31, 2025 "Spoiler alert for this review: there’s an admittedly-telegraphed plot development about midway through Fable’s relatively short run..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Magic words" October 31, 2025 "A nice thing about having been around IF-world for some time now, and making an effort to work through all the games in a couple of the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Space Mission: 2045: "Of AIs and APIs" October 31, 2025 "There’s a proud IF tradition of trolling game and subversive ones that cheekily undermine their ostensible premises (let’s pick, oh,..." - See full review

A new listing for Only What You Admit, by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

A new listing for (un)twisting, by time-to-occur

A new listing for Chest Simulator Digital Edition, by Teddy Max Pozo

A new listing for Beneath the Weeping Willow, by Lamp Post Projects

News on The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer: Post-competition release (non-UK geoblocked) and EFF prize donation October 30, 2025 "The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer" is now hosted on my own website, which does not place a geoblock on the game. I originally asked for the game to be included under IF Comp's UK geoblock... - Details

A new listing for the typo game, by Dee Cooke

A new listing for Ringen, by Halvor Nilsen

News on The Bat: Version 2 release October 30, 2025 A second version of The Bat is now available through the links on its IFDB page. Roughly the same as the first version, this new release serves mainly to squash several bugs and fix a few typos.

Mike Russo reviews Saltwrack: "Some salt for your roadside picnic" October 30, 2025 "When I was little, I thought that the most important reason why it might be kinda fun to be rich is that you could hire somebody to be on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Violent Delight: "In which I fail to meet the moment" October 30, 2025 "Violent Delight, by Coral Nulla This is a game that’s impossible to discuss without going into a fair bit of detail on how the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mr. Beaver: "Fraying restraint" October 30, 2025 "The comedy parser puzzler is a nigh-infinitely-extensible format, capable of incorporating the wildest of premises and set-pieces with..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You're Gone: "Gone (But not forgotten)" October 29, 2025 "(edit: formatting) You're Gone is a linear custom choice-based game where a protagonist sends text messages to a dead loved one. This..." - See full review

A new listing for We're All In This Together, by Joe Baxter-Webb

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here: "One last time" October 29, 2025 "Your favorite bar is closing down, and tonight is the goodbye party. The author notes that the game is based around the experiences of..." - See full review

Passion reviews Type Help: "amazing" October 29, 2025 "made me feel smart for figuring stuff out. 10/10"

MathBrush reviews A Spy's Escape: "Short illustrated twine game about two spies and escape" October 29, 2025 "I was looking through games in my wishlist with no ratings and this popped up. This twine game from 2021 has two available routes. In..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews WATT: "IF, IF, eternal IF" October 29, 2025 "One of the weirder experiences of my reading life was a couple years ago, when I wound up spending most of the night at the ER with my..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Just Two Wishes: "Careful what you wish for" October 29, 2025 "I don’t think I’m especially atypical in finding that it’s increasingly hard to steer clear of revenge fantasies. The rise of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Anne of Green Cables: "LLMaude Montgomery (there's no ChatGPT in this game, that's a joke!)" October 29, 2025 "The mash-up is a big part of contemporary culture, from X-meets-Y high-concept movies to pop music, where samples and guest verses rule..." - See full review

A new listing for psychdive., by boopus

A new listing for soporfall., by boopus

A new listing for rottweiler., by boopus

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

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Heard it Through the Grapevine: "You didn’t hear it from me" October 28, 2025 "Heard it Through the Grapevine is a charming sci-fi game about wine, Australia, conspiracies, aliens, roommates, cats, high-tech glasses,..." - See full review

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

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