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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

A new listing for Five Candles in the Meadow, by Harley D.

MathBrush reviews Flight: "A brief, one-choice game about a toxic relationship" January 16, 2025 "This is a fairly brief game made for the Short Games showcase. In it, you play as a traveller at an airport who is going through a crisis..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews My Girl: "A short story about Bluebeard" January 15, 2025 "This is a short story written in Twine that was entered into the Bluebeard Jam. I was first struck upon playing it by its nice..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Mind to Call Home: "Life as a brain worm" January 15, 2025 "This is a relatively brief game where you simulate life as a Brain Worm. It was entered into the Neo Twiny Jam, with 500 words or less,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Cuppa Quest: "A short, entertaining choice-based game about a tea competition" January 15, 2025 "This is a relatively brief game about tea with a lot of branches. While some branches converge, many of them lead to wildly differing..." - See full review

A new listing for The Balls of Cerberus, by Stan Carter

MathBrush reviews Not Just Once: "A short branching game about a ringing telephone booth" January 15, 2025 "I like surreal creepy games set in modern times (like creepypastas or the game Cannery Vale). This game is in the same kind of vein, and..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Hidnook, People's Champion Tournament 2025 January 14, 2025 64 items A fan-driven competition hosted by @otistdog, featuring 64 player-nominated games. See the intfiction.org thread for more information. Congratulations to Mathbrush's Never Gives Up Her Dead for winning!

MathBrush reviews A Train to Piccadilly: "Long puzzle-heavy game with alternate WWII and Cold War histories" January 14, 2025 "This long puzzler is an entrant in the 2024 Puny Comp, written in PunyInform and using the comp theme of the years around 1980. It's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Temporal Thief: "Two-part micro choicescript game about a thief of time" January 14, 2025 "Jacic is a well-known (to me) choicescript author that has done some cool mythological games in the past. This pair of games has a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Scarlet Sorceress: The Mystery of Castle Alaire: "Solve a theft in a magical castle" January 14, 2025 "This game was entered as part of the short games showcase for games under a half hour, but it is quite a bit longer than that. It's part..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Day in the Life: "Great programming promise but unfinished implementation" January 13, 2025 "This PunyJam game shows a lot of skill at different programming tasks but feels like it was incomplete. I'd be happy to bump up the score..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews First Things First: "A great conceit... but not without its frustrations" January 13, 2025 "There is quite a lot to like about the game: it's very well implemented, a great premise, challenging but fair and well hinted puzzles......" - See full review

manonamora reviews An Admirer: "It gets under your skin" January 11, 2025 "An Admirer is a horror conversational parser, in which a immaterial presence really really wants to talk to you, whether you want it or..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Restore, Reflect, Retry: "Meta-horror game with great writing" January 11, 2025 "I was a big fan of Theodoridou's Rent-a-Vice, so I was excited to see them come back with another Choice of Game title. RRR explores some..." - See full review

A new listing for Basement Rats, by Mad Hatter's Daughter

A new listing for Eros, by Mad Hatter's Daughter

News on Mars, 2049 AD: New version of Mars, 2049 AD January 10, 2025 Release 7, released on 10 January 2025, features changes to make the player feel less stressed, a scoring system to give the player an indication of their progress and make it clearer whether they've reached... - Details

A new listing for Mission Sunshine, by Mad Hatter's Daughter

Coe reviews Dance With Me: "A Tale of Resilience and Beauty in Brokeness" January 9, 2025 "On the surface, this quiet, beautiful story may not seem to lend itself to interactive fiction, but the theme of lack of control..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Museum of Paranormal Phenomena: "I guess they called you?" January 9, 2025 "Museum of Paranormal Phenomena is a relatively short parser made as an homage to the movie Ghostbusters. In the game, you visit the..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews The Fifth Sunday: "Unplayable" January 9, 2025 "Worryingly, it appears this game is no longer playable since Qiaobooks, the creator company, has gone out of business. The IF archive..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Taipan: "Primitive resource management that doesn't hold up" January 9, 2025 "The IFDB description says "former commercial", which is amazing because I wouldn't pay for this in a million years. It's a very primitive..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Ring Sculptors: "Gamebook conversion for Switch makes all the wrong choices" January 9, 2025 "Ring Sculptors is a sci-fi / cyberpunk gamebook IF released for Nintendo Switch in 2024. It's an adaptation of a Polish gamebook by..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Late Night at the Mall: "Try to escape after getting locked in a mall at night" January 8, 2025 "In this game, you are a teenager who was so focused on playing arcade games in the mall that you ended up locked in after hours. It seems..." - See full review

A new listing for Ring Sculptors, by No Gravity Games

Shaun Hamman reviews Trinity: "A Glorious Inspiration That’s Rough Around the Edges" January 8, 2025 "After a rekindled interest in interactive fiction and seeing that many prominent adventure game developers cite Trinity as a major source..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Zork I: "Not a Bombastic Start, but a Rewarding Trove of Adventure" January 8, 2025 "The forefather of modern adventure games, Zork brought the genre to the masses. I have begun this game many times, wandered the dark and..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Spider and Web: "A Good Twist That Is Easy To Miss" January 7, 2025 "Spider and Web is the first IF game I've played in many years, and the first that I actually completed! Don't think that an indication of..." - See full review

Plyr_8 reviews Sargasso: "Surprised" January 7, 2025 "Took me three tries to survive - the marker of success! The story was unexpected but historically grounded. Excited to see if there is a..." - See full review

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 New in December: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. "Played Games" now displays your play times Sort search results by Estimated Play Time Multiple "Play Online" Links

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 "Played Games" now displays your play times: When you go to My Activity you can find a list of all of your played games (games where you've checked the "I've played it" checkbox). If you submitted a vote for how long it takes to finish the game, we'll now include your play time there, as well.

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 Sort search results by Estimated Play Time: You can now sort game results by their estimated play time–from shortest to longest, or longest to shortest. When you sort this way, each game’s estimated play time will display as part of the results. (IFDB's search API and viewgame API will also include estimated play times, where available.)

IFDB site news January 6, 2025 Multiple "Play Online" Links: Now, games can have multiple "Play Online" links, if we have multiple external links that can be played online. (The big blue "Play Online" button will link to the first "Play Online" link on the list.) We've also updated IFDB's viewgame API to match. The API now includes a primaryPlayOnlineUrl as well as separate playOnlineUrl links on each external link.

A new listing for Heavenspire, by ninjapitka

A new listing for Secrets of the Crag, by Gryphon

MathBrush reviews Mars, 2049 AD: "A complex acting game with multiple independent NPCs" January 6, 2025 "This game was written by one of the co-developers of PunyInform, and it shows off a lot of programming complexity. You wake up in the..." - See full review

A new listing for It's a Boy!, by Darius Conwright

manonamora reviews Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror: "Listen, writing poems is hard!" January 5, 2025 "Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror is a poetic Twine game in which you play as famous brooder Edgar Allen Poe, in search for..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Dark Waters on the Night Shift: "A shift you will remember" January 5, 2025 "Dark Waters on the Night Shift is a spooky puzzle game made in Twine, where shenanigans happen on your night shift at a sewer plant. You..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Depths of Madness: "Sink and sink some more" January 5, 2025 "The Depths of Madness is a short horror piece made in ChoiceScript inspired by “The Call of Cthulhu” from Lovecraft. After receiving..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb: "Guess you gotta do it yourself" January 5, 2025 "The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb is a fairly long parser game in Inform 7, where you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Cranston Manor: "An Early Treasure Hunt - Beware The Later Ken Williams Version" January 5, 2025 "Remakes, flippin' remakes. Nicholas Cage in The Wicker Man? Bruce Willis in The Day Of The Jackal? No more questions, m'lud. 1981 was of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews You promise: "Who tricks who at the end?" January 5, 2025 "You promise is a short Faustian horror game made in Twine, in which you make a deal with a mystical being (devil? or maybe fae with the..." - See full review

A new listing for Tales From The Basement 2, by Endmaster

RJ Kowalski reviews Escape from the SS Borgarís: "Classic premise, impressive achievement, minor tedium" January 4, 2025 "Ultimately, at many points while playing this title I had to keep in mind the fact that it was written in less than eighteen hours, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Candy Striper of St. Asterix: "A complex hotel mystery" January 4, 2025 "This is a large and complex game with several independent NPCs spread out through a large hospital. Someone has died, and you (a teen..." - See full review

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