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A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for April 2026 April 29, 2026 9 items On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 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...

A new listing for Spooky Manor, by Derek L. Haslam

Jo the Plunderer reviews Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION: "A quick, energetic superhero story that lacks focus" April 27, 2026 "This game certainly has a vibe. It’s lightly humorous throughout and has quite a bit of personality and some interesting woldbuilding..." - See full review

A new listing for Star Bores, by Tony Blews

Passerine reviews Stooping to Diplomacy: "This game is a vampire" April 27, 2026 "Mashing story and puzzles together is hard, even when the puzzles aren’t cryptic crossword clues. But this game proves it can really..." - See full review

A new listing for Lap of the Gods: A Visual Novel, by Muda Games

Tabitha reviews Loadstone: "A fun concept that could use some polish" April 26, 2026 "I'd been intrigued by the idea of Charm Cochran's Inventory Puzzle Seedcomp seed when I saw it, so I was excited to play the game that it..." - See full review

Revolting Peasant Press reviews Red Reckonin': "A Grim Weird Western" April 26, 2026 "Boots scuff across a wooden floor, scattered with sawdust and black globs of chewing tobacco. Smoke drifts in the air, the thick, cloying..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Our Lady of Thorns: "Spring Thing 2026: Our Lady of Thorns" April 26, 2026 "The Name of the Rose is a strange inspiration for a murder mystery, because it isn’t. Like most Eco, it’s lavish, loosely interwoven..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Sequitur: "Inventive and well-conceived central mechanic" April 26, 2026 "Sequitur, the first release by author Nigel Jayne, is an unusual work perhaps best described as a one-room police procedural. The player..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Samurai of Hyuga: "A Japan-centric hosted game as part of a long series" April 26, 2026 "This game really shows to me how close the relationship is between westerns and samurai movies (and how much they consciously imitated..." - See full review

Doug Egan reviews Tethered: "dramatic launch of a new IF development system" April 26, 2026 "Trapped in a snow locked cave after a mountain climbing accident, this game succeeds in setting the tone of danger. The growing threat of..." - See full review

Ordon reviews Cyclic Fruition Number One: "almost a fever dream, double demo" April 26, 2026 "Hard to put a finger on this one... Let's get the obvious out of the way first: this is a demo for a new IF authoring tool called Spiki,..." - See full review

Beth_95 reviews Lost Pig: "Fun intro to IF" April 25, 2026 "The was recommended to me as an intro to IF, and I'm so glad I tried this first! It was a ton of fun, and had me rolling at Grunk's..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Spur: "Grand Theft Trotto" April 25, 2026 "Continuing a string of Western games, I decided to try this one from 1995 -- the dawn of the hobbyist era. This distant origin is..." - See full review

A new listing for The Red Weight, by alsakin

A new listing for Time Adventure, by Peter Smith

A new listing for World's End, by bloodbath

A new competition page: LOTECH Comp 2001 created April 24, 2026 LOTECH Comp was a competition for games playable solely through selecting from available choices (as opposed to requiring typed commands, like traditional parser games do). LOTECH Comp first ran in 2001.

News on The Road to Hell: Beta testers April 24, 2026 If you want to be a beta tester and help in development, please drop me a private message in itch.io. Thanks, Rogerio

A new listing for The Road to Hell, by Rogerio Biondi

OtisTDog reviews The Song of the Mockingbird: "Entertaining puzzle game with an unfortunately rushed ending" April 24, 2026 "I've been on a Western streak for IF lately, and The Song of the Mockingbird is one of the more prominent entries in that genre...." - See full review

Ordon reviews Ajana Path (অজানা পথ): "মোটামুটি, ছোটখাটো" April 24, 2026 "সাউন্ড এফেক্টগুলো ভালো, কিন্তু হঠাৎ হঠাৎ থেমে যায়।..." - See full review

Senozoid reviews Windhammer: "Old-school high-fantasy gamebook, playable even with pen and paper" April 24, 2026 "I was slightly surprised to see that despite there being a page for Windhammer Prize 2015, there was (previously) no page for Windhammer..." - See full review

A new listing for House of Loki, by Alex Kubodera

Wynter reviews A Quiet Scurry: "In the violence of the world, a tiny little mouse" April 23, 2026 "The opening of this short Twine sounds a little bit like a children’s picture book, except the first important word is “violence”...." - See full review

Wynter reviews 23 Minutes: "The man who controls my life the most is red or green" April 23, 2026 "A stream-of-consciousness narrative of a teacher walking to work. You click the mouse or press the space bar to prompt the next line; the..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Give Me Your Lunch Money: "Fun premise hampered by choice of platform" April 23, 2026 "This game is about a child "inventor" who plans revenge against a trio of bullies that ruin a favorite project. Physically outmatched by..." - See full review

A new listing for Olympus Mons, by Future Logs

A new listing for Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION, by Evan J. Peterson

OtisTDog reviews Cut the Sky: "A mythic journey rendered with precision and grace" April 22, 2026 "Wow. Sometimes a work of IF is so absorbing that when you finish, it feels like waking up from a dream. You sit there, blinking, and it..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Hoosegow: "Exceptional for its time, still pretty good" April 22, 2026 "Playing Hoosegow for the first time in 2026, I am struck by two things. First, this game, first published in 2010, is extremely..." - See full review

A new poll by Alyssia, Which PC’s/NPC‘s need therapy? created April 22, 2026 3 votes for 2 games Right, so we all know that writers love torturing their characters and making them go through stuff, but which characters need the most therapy and maybe some hugs and Just Eat vouchers? Could be the PC or...

Ordon reviews Nightmare Planet 2025: "please type help" April 22, 2026 "I died exactly 27 times over the course of 3 days of playing this game. Took around 5 hours. This game should NOT take you 5 hours. An..." - See full review

robbt reviews I Summon You: "short magic vibes" April 22, 2026 "This is an engaging piece of microprose. It's not a game but I liked the vibe and I felt like it told a story. The rest is left to your..." - See full review

A new listing for Time Society Chronicles: Independence!, by Erin Hoffman and Matt Farber

A new listing for Vox, by Dan DeRose

baezil reviews Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory: "Great design" April 20, 2026 "In terms of aesthetic and gameplay design, this game knows exactly what it is and what it's doing. The design and the art are very..." - See full review

baezil reviews Our Lady of Thorns: "Setting the standard for model world implementation " April 20, 2026 "The setting is so vibrant and lovingly made that it's a pleasure to just exist in the game space, murder notwithstanding. So beautifully..." - See full review

News on Leadlight: Apple II Leadlight playable online again April 20, 2026 Web technologies come and go. In 2010 you could play Leadlight in browser-based Apple IIe and Apple IIGS emulators. Then, for a long time, you couldn't. A new browser-based Apple II emulator called Apple2TS... - Details

A new listing for Nightmare Planet 2025, by Andy Bantly

A new listing for Crosswick Monster, by Coral Russell

Wynter reviews Extinction Escape: Your Travel Guide to the Apocalypse: "Did that quack sound... sarcastic?" April 19, 2026 "This is a brief game written for a jam on the theme of "Environment". It's necessarily compact, but it makes its point very effectively...." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Intelligence: "It came from outer space" April 18, 2026 "This is a deduction game — you read about what’s happening, and then you determine where information should be placed to reveal the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Great Tournament: "One of the most-played Choicescript games" April 18, 2026 "This game has an impressive 22,000 (!) ratings on the Hosted Games app, more than any Choice of Games official title and only surpassed..." - See full review

Ordon reviews The Missing City Council: "The author's machinations are beyond my comprehension" April 18, 2026 "The author's comment from the STF website: “My first piece of interactive fiction. You’ve got to start somewhere, right?” Yes! And..." - See full review

A new listing for Amara, by Future Logs

A new listing for Moirai, by Lilith

Denk reviews The Death Star: "Very simple, only for Eamon lovers" April 16, 2026 "I played this freeware 1980 Eamon game on Eamon Remastered (a browser based implementation of Eamon). This game is star wars themed, not..." - See full review

Ordon reviews Defrosted: "Abysmal" April 16, 2026 "The Bengali was what I was most interested in, and I was thoroughly disappointed. The transliteration is egregious. I had first thought..." - See full review

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