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ChanceOfFire reviews Through Death New Life: "Something's happening" September 12, 2025 "Note: This is a review of an Introcomp entry, and therefore, I will not leave any star ratings. Hmm... this one is tricky. You wake up in..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews .22LR: "I survived" September 12, 2025 "Note: This is a review of an Introcomp entry, and therefore, I will not leave any star ratings. You find yourself the sole survivor of a..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The 404 Society: "Animal Crossing meets cyber-ghost hunting" September 12, 2025 "Wow. This is a seriously cool game. I figured that I'd spend this month focused on reviewing IFComp games, but I saw this listed on the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter: "An AI prompt, and nothing more" September 12, 2025 "Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter This game consists of instructions to an AI on how to run a game for a human player. I was excited to see..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Conversation in a Dark Room: "A life-and-death interview in a dark bar at night (in 3 acts)" September 11, 2025 "A Conversation in a Dark Room This is an author's first game, but is well-polished and has multiple endings and engaging dialogue. You..." - See full review

A new listing for Lord, by Olli J. Paavola

A new listing for The 404 Society, by McGravin

MathBrush reviews *OVER*: "Long twine game about big family gathering, vacation, and escape" September 11, 2025 "This is a long Twine game about a family of 19 that visits a theme park that (to me) seems clearly Disney-influenced (due to things like..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of the Rock Star: "Hitting the rock bottom" September 11, 2025 "You start out at home, playing a wonderfully traditional musical instrument which absolutely does not invoke images of a rock star...." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews You Cannot Speak: "Press "..." to say nothing" September 11, 2025 "You Cannot Speak opens with an ambiguous dream sequence. You dream that Claudia- the game seems to think you know her- is trying to save..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Saltwrack: "Assemble a team and explore a salt-ravaged future world" September 11, 2025 "This is a genre of story I like: in a postapocalyptic world caused by unexplainable events that warp the very definition of life, an..." - See full review

News on IntroComp 2025: Final results September 10, 2025 The winners of IntroComp 2025 have been announced. Congratulations!

Atreyu_Celestine reviews The Witch Girls: "A coming-of-age story that goes off kilter" September 10, 2025 "I left a spoiler-free review on the competition's website, so I thought I'd give my thoughts on more specific moments. For anyone..." - See full review

Atreyu_Celestine reviews Grove of Bones: "Great short horror with fantastic dialogue" September 10, 2025 "Absolutely fantastic, compelling premise that tackles greater good vs personal commitments in an intense and captivating way. " - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Rock's Tale: "Branching, multiple path game about a talking rock and the people it encounters" September 10, 2025 "This was a fun game. You play as a rock on a wilderness path. You are a talking rock. At first, all you can do is have random encounters..." - See full review

Atreyu_Celestine reviews Blood of Creation: "Interesting concept, efficient beginning" September 10, 2025 "While it's only the very beginning of the story, I think it does a great job setting up its premise, getting all the necessary..." - See full review

A new listing for Saintsridge Angels, by Atreyu Celestine

MathBrush reviews INPUT PROCESS: "Three acts of thoughtful discussion with a fictional AI in a future setting" September 10, 2025 "This game really spoke to me. It reminded me quite a bit of the last year of my marriage in an introspective, helpful way (outside of the..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Penthesileia: "Fires blooming everywhere" September 10, 2025 "“Good morning, dear. Has anyone ever told you how handsome you are?” Penthesileia begins with Penny, our protagonist, informing her..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Penthesileia: "Stepford wife in an authoritarian sci-fi story" September 10, 2025 "Penthesilea This is a short twine story about a near-future authoritarian regime where you are wife to one of the highest officials in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Just Two Wishes: "Commentary on Israel, Trump, and Palestine through metaphor" September 9, 2025 "This is one of several games entered into this competition translated from other languages, in this case Spanish, although I didn't see..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Grove of Bones: "Short horror Choicescript game about carnivorous trees" September 9, 2025 "I was surprised this one wasn't reviewed on the spreadsheet yet. Jacic has a history of doing small, well-polished creepy stories, so I..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Backpackward: "Neat backpack inventory interface but only an introduction to a story" September 9, 2025 "This is more of a demo than an actual game. Literally none of the conflicts introduced in the story are resolved by the time it ends, and..." - See full review

A new listing for Fairytale Detective Mystery 1, by Santosh H

ChanceOfFire reviews An Unexpectedly Green Journey: "It ain't easy being green" September 8, 2025 "At over one million words, An Unexpectedly Green Journey has plenty of content which will keep you entertained for a long time. Unlike..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Yes - it's every bit as terrible as it sounds!" September 8, 2025 "The title of this review is a quote from the author-supplied blurb for Hobbiton Recall. It is, unfortunately, accurate. It's not clear..." - See full review

News on Why Pout?: Why Pout version 7 released, but play IFComp games instead! September 8, 2025 The new binary is here, with a fuller rundown of changes. There's very little different in terms of gameplay, but I added a few jokes that cropped up in my weekly file notes. To scour them without playing,... - Details

A new listing for Blood of Creation, by Jekyllstein Gray

OtisTDog reviews By All Reasonable Knowledge: "Barely functional interaction coupled to fundamentally anti-player design" September 8, 2025 "This game needs a lot more work before it's even worth trying, let alone entering in a competition. The intfiction.org review by B.J...." - See full review

A new listing for Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure, by Alex Halver

MathBrush reviews The Path of Totality: "Go on a pilgrimage to an eclipse over standing stones" September 8, 2025 "This is the second Lamp Post Projects game that I've played this IFComp. Like the earlier one (The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens), it takes..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews You are a NYT Journalist. Can you survive Manifest and get your scoop?: "What if the Silicon Valley AI cultists made a parody game?" September 7, 2025 "This game is unusual for being a community joke game, but not for the IF community. Rather this is a game by and for the rationalist..." - See full review

A new listing for You are a NYT Journalist. Can you survive Manifest and get your scoop?, by Ben Shindel

MathBrush reviews Retrograding: "Beautiful-looking visual novel about scavenging, with two major paths" September 7, 2025 "Retrograding This is a downloadable visual novel written in Unity. It has an early branch point that essentially gives you two different..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "An absurdist scifi dystopia, a satire of puritanical repression" September 7, 2025 "[Mild ending spoilers below.] It feels like this story wasn't planned out in intricate detail, and the author wrote it off the cuff. As a..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: ""As long as politicians demand evidence that humans need food, we are fucked."" September 7, 2025 "Between this, The Burger Meme Personality Test, and Fascism - Off Topic, we're getting a lot of games about how much the US sucks these..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Darkly comedic parody of the job application process" September 7, 2025 "Bleak and relatable. The effectiveness of this one will hinge entirely on how much experience the player has with the "bullshit..." - See full review

A new competition page: French Comp 2026 - Concours de FI francophone 2026 created September 7, 2025 The 19th Edition of the French Comp. The theme of the year is "Train".

Dan Fabulich reviews The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode: "At the risk of spoiling the joke" September 7, 2025 "This game does actually contain a hidden Nazi mode. (Apparently it took quite a few years to figure this out.) You can follow David..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews PURE: "Well-written, raw symbolic story with a few bugs; part 1, with more to come" September 7, 2025 "There's a tradition in IF running through Anna Anthropy and Porpentine and carried on by others of writing body horror symbolic of the..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Detritus: "Top notch" September 7, 2025 "[EDIT: Note that the author has been in touch with me regarding the technical issue described near the end of this review, and it is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus - Part I: The City of Dol Bannath: "First act of a combat RPG in a desert setting" September 6, 2025 "This is the author's first parser game, but lacks many of the bugs and rough edges that first games tend to have. I don't recall running..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "What do you get when you cross Counterfeit Monkey and Metamorphoses?" September 6, 2025 "The answer is a short but sweet wordplay puzzler from an author who is clearly familiar with many of the amateur era's most famous works...." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Eight Last Signs in the Desert: "Surreal poetry" September 6, 2025 "You visit some locations, spin some text options to your preferred option, then "seal" your choices to commit to them. I think the order..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Frankenfingers: "A parser game largely written in poetry where you play as a hand" September 6, 2025 "In this game, you play as a severed hand that has regained the sentience and motility its owner once had, due perhaps to the experiments..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Breakup Game: "Twine-based therapy workbook" September 6, 2025 "The game includes a lot of wise, well-regarded remarks on how to get through a breakup, and attempts to simulate the effect of a friend..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews A winter morning on the beach: "I don't get it" September 6, 2025 "If you dally too long in this game, a seagull poops on your jacket, and you lose. Why? Eventually, you walk. You move an average of 100..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews The Olive Tree: "Solid" September 6, 2025 "Interactivity makes this short story more powerful. Online, I've heard some commenters ask, mostly in bad faith, why Palestinians who had..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Operative Nine: "Have fun with 1981's "most advanced portable espionage microcomputer"" September 6, 2025 "Long ago, in a review of Zombies (1999), I wrote: >I was struck by the way this piece is framed -- it made me think about the..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Star Crystal Warriors Go!: "Fighting evil and going to school" September 6, 2025 "You are a Stelleria, with the power to transform yourself, wield magic and enter dreams. Still, all is not well. Nightmares, led by the..." - See full review

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