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RJ Kowalski reviews A Train to Piccadilly: "A true delight. " January 24, 2025 "Around about halfway into the game, I found myself thinking something like 'gee, the tone of this one reminds me of something else I've..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews Late Night at the Mall: "Short, mostly sweet" January 24, 2025 "Everything in this game feels robust. Efficient use is made of relatively concise descriptions to create immersion; good liminal space..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews Mars, 2049 AD: "Charming and engaging despite its limits" January 24, 2025 "I found myself liking this one more than I expected - it took a moment to grasp the core mechanic in the second part of the game but once..." - See full review

RJ Kowalski reviews A Day in the Life: "Not a bad PunyInform demo " January 24, 2025 "But not much more. There's nothing really wrong here, everything works as expected, it shows off how to accomplish many basic design..." - See full review

A new listing for In the Shadow of Duty, by B. S. H. Garcia

News on Mars, 2049 AD: Post-comp release 8 January 23, 2025 I cleaned up the source code, fixed the "WAIT UNTIL 9:30" action I had mistakenly removed, and changed WAIT to give some varying responses. Hopefully the source code will be useful to someone struggling with... - Details

MathBrush reviews I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE GAME: "Exploratory binksi game" January 23, 2025 "Binksi is an engine combining the minimalistic graphics engine bitsy (which allows sprites with few pixels, 2-frame animations, 1 or 2..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Gentleman, Adventurer, Crocodile: "Piece together the tale of a crocodile" January 23, 2025 "In this snazzy-looking game, you play as a kid crocodile asking questions to an older crocodile. The game is meant to be replayed over..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews How To Make Eggplant Lasagna (With Cats!): "Great short game about making lasagna during cat chaos" January 23, 2025 "I breathed a deep sigh of relief as I opened this game. I had been playing a lot of short games as part of a competition and there is, of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A changing greenhouse: "A comfortable walk through a greenhouse with cute graphics" January 23, 2025 "This is a short feel-good choice game where you wander around a greenhouse. There is some freedom in what to do, as you can explore..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews All I Am Is This: "Self-actualization through a brief choicescript game" January 23, 2025 "This choicescript game is mostly about self-reflection and thinking about who you are. It has questions which are brief and whose answers..." - See full review

A new listing for Your Prince Has Drowned, by S.L. Dove Cooper

MathBrush reviews Heaven Alive: "Beautifully detailed snippet of a game" January 22, 2025 "This game is very brief, with just a small handful of choices with a small handful of text. The graphics are lush, though, with active..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Losing Track: "Random choice along a train track" January 22, 2025 "This game is interesting from a coding point of view but a lot of it happens behind the scenes on the first playthrough. You are trying..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews In Sun-Drenched Gardens: "A complex game with a strange connection between text and choice" January 22, 2025 "This game reminds me in a weird way of an older parser game called Byzantine Perspective. Both revolve around a strange issue with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews THE CRIMSON LINE: "A brief exploration of the passage of time" January 22, 2025 "Edit: This review has been changed after getting some new perspective from others. I have liked the other games by this author, and so I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Bibliophile: "Long Lovecraftian parser game about awful music" January 21, 2025 "I've been playing all past Spring Thing games. Many of them are long parser games, longer than would be entered into IFComp, and this one..." - See full review

mg51 reviews Arkuwar: "Ancient history itch: scratched" January 21, 2025 "This was a really fun little dive into a historical place and time that I personally find fascinating: the Bronze Age near-East...." - See full review

mg51 reviews Thornfell Manor: 1984: "Okay, but frustrating" January 21, 2025 "It's a fun concept and I enjoyed the game up to a point. I agree with the other reviewer who noticed that the game is pretty sparse on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Chronostasis: "Meditation on time" January 21, 2025 "This short Twine game managed to surprise me quite a bit (although me saying it is surprising will likely make it less surprising to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Get Out of Match Lake: "Great writing in a short tarot deck game" January 21, 2025 "This game uses a few cards from a tarot deck that you can flip over and click on in order to reveal story text. It uses less than 500..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A cozy space capsule: "Just a chill person in their cozy spaceship" January 20, 2025 "This is a brief choice-based game where you're vibing inside your spaceship. It has atmospheric background music and custom font and some..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Lost Labyrinth of Lazaitch: "Epic Adrift quest to make it through a magical labyrinth" January 20, 2025 "This is part of a long series of Adrift games which generally consist of big maps, lots of NPCs, magical abilities, knights, wizards,..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Zork II: "From the Writers of Zork I, Even if It Doesn’t Feel Like It" January 20, 2025 "After many failed attempts at Zork I before finally completing it, I was very eager to jump into Zork II for the first time! I was..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The eight-headed giant: "Confront an eight-headed giant" January 20, 2025 "This is the second game by this author that I've played that was entered in the Neo Twiny Jam. Both are parser games. The other game had..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Moon's Knight: "Short IF game about death and relationships" January 20, 2025 "This is a pretty short twine game with about 2-3 screens. It uses a lot of imagery in a way that it was hard to know what's going on...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews constellate: "Loving a monster" January 20, 2025 "This game was hard for me to understand. I played through it three times. I'm going to summarize it here as best I can. It seems to me to..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Zeno Pillan, My favorites ones January 19, 2025 3 items

MathBrush reviews Arkuwar: "Appease the Gods through prayer" January 19, 2025 "This game was educational and fun. In it, you are a ruler of Sumeria and must discover the cause of a plague and pray to the Gods to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Friendship Like Birthdays: "A problem about a bad friend, using probabilities" January 19, 2025 "This game features a friend who says things that make you feel uncomfortable, or that are otherwise inappropriate. You can choose to..." - See full review

Adam Biltcliffe reviews Mars, 2049 AD: "Dialogue-focused" January 19, 2025 "Interesting attempt at a dialogue-centric game. It's very well-crafted, such that as a player I always understood what was expected of me..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Psy High: "Fun teen supernatural mystery" January 19, 2025 "This game hit exactly the right tone as I was hoping for: a mostly lighthearted teen mystery game with a supernatural twist, a la Buffy...." - See full review

A new listing for Echoes of Atlantis, by Luis Peres

A new listing for The Eden Lounge, by flowerwife

Nomad reviews the last flower shop in town: "Okay." January 18, 2025 "I'm not a big fan of CYOA games but I do have a sweet tooth for fresh settings and good stories, so I gave it a try. The setting IS..." - See full review

A new listing for A Haunted and Hunted Halloween, by Mystic Warrior

A new listing for Spell of Slumber, by Mystic Warrior

MathBrush reviews hanging & wiving goes by destiny: "A long story about Bluebeard with multiple narrators" January 18, 2025 "My view on this game seesawed wildly over time. I played it while going through the short game showcase in fairly rapid order. I felt..." - See full review

A new listing for In Moonlit Waters, by Mystic Warrior

A new listing for A Tale of a White Lie, by TharaApples

A new listing for I Ate Hitler's Head, by Stan Carter

A new listing for the last flower shop in town, by vaenaton

MathBrush reviews One True Love: "A small cute story about frogs" January 18, 2025 "I played through this game once and then backed up a choice or two to try a couple more endings. You're in a pond. Why? Because your one..." - See full review

A new listing for A changing greenhouse (extended version), by jsmonzani

nana karina reviews Parallel: "lack of information for important things" January 17, 2025 "i've played it and stuck forever in the . i've tried to write anything based on the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Get There on Time!: "Brief Choicescript game about being late to work, with self-introspection" January 17, 2025 "I could identify with this game for sure. It's pretty small and doesn't dig in-depth in its topic, but I'm rating it higher because I see..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Dodecapedic Box: "A surreal minimalist parser game" January 17, 2025 "This game reminded me of Baby Tree, in a way. Both games are minimalistic with imagery that is means to be anywhere from mildly upsetting..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews sojourn: "A well-made, small poem game" January 16, 2025 "I opened and played this brief twine game for the Short Game Showcase for 2024. It was written in less than 500 words. It is laid out as..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Flashpoint: "A horror story set in a small-town school dance" January 16, 2025 "This game was entered in the Short Games Showcase. It's a choicescript game and begins with a lengthy opportunity to pick your gender,..." - See full review

A new listing for The Labyrinth Of Time's Edge, by The Ventureweaver

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