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Mike Russo reviews Awakened Deeply: "Boldly going where a lot of folks have gone before" November 30, 2024 "It’s been more than twenty years since my very first IF Comp – it was 2002, I was just out of college, and characteristically I..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Fun old style puzzler but under implemented and a bit fight the parser" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 13 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves: "Tightly written time loop parser game that deserved more polishing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Innovative graphical IF, but one unfair puzzle & problems on lower res screens" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews You Can't Save Her: "Slightly confusing Twine interface, but intriguing dual perspective scifi piece" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Graphical RPG with great NPCs and interactions, but I wanted more agency" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

A new listing for Dreams of the Sky, by Karl Forshaw

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "A very short Lewis Carroll inspired parser game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 10 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "A cosy magical shop game, spread over multiple sessions of game play" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 9 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "Immersive parser game about Edgar Allan Poe and much more" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Campfire: "A game about a camping trip that had good points but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "An ambitious bizarre parser game that delivered lots but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Would have liked more!" November 29, 2024 "There’s not very much I can say about this one. On plus it’s short (though that’s a downside too). And it’s better than..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Turn Right: "Short Adventuron game about a driver's nightmare" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 16 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Why Pout?: "Impressive parser word-based game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Imprimatura: "Innovative game about art and memory" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Unreal People: "Twine piece about a mysterious body jumping entity" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews 198BREW: "Bizarre scifi parser game sadly under implemented" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Winter-Over: "Ambitious and well written Twine game investigating a murder in Antarctica" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews KING OF XANADU: "Ruling a choice-based fantasy kingdom in difficult times" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 25 Sep 2024...." - See full review

A new listing for Ravenwood Hill, by The Ventureweaver

OtisTDog reviews A New Day: "IF has come a long way" November 29, 2024 "I had heard about this game as one which has the conceit of being "unfinished" by design, as in taking place within a game whose..." - See full review

parking_turkeys reviews Tony Hawk's Pro Shopper: "Silly" November 29, 2024 "Silly, short, and a bit meh. but it's def worth the play, seeing as its only like 5 min long."

Mike Russo reviews When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves: "Y2K day" November 29, 2024 "I couldn’t tell you where I was when Y2K clicked over. For New Year’s Eve 1998, I’m pretty sure I was at a high-school friend’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Master's Lair: "A wizard with guts" November 29, 2024 "I firmly believe that ideas are a dime a dozen, especially when it comes to IF: it’s not too hard to come up with a clever, compelling..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Verses: "Found in translation" November 29, 2024 "Spoilers). I am having trouble figuring out how to start this review. Verse is a prototypical quote-unquote challenging work, you see,..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for November 2024 November 28, 2024 7 items On Thursday, November 28, 2024, 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...

Irheh reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "Best Little Match Girl Game Yet!" November 28, 2024 "Each main installment of the Little Match Girl series has introduced some new and interesting mechanic, and this installment's is " - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hebe: "Bugs and bots" November 28, 2024 "I am, as I think basically everyone in the world not on the OpenAI or NVIDIA payroll must be, heartily sick of LLMs. Substantively I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sidekick: "O parser where art thou" November 28, 2024 "So, remember two reviews ago, when I was playing The Bat? Remember how I said that it was so smoothly-put together, “I found myself..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Eikas: "Quite the feast" November 28, 2024 "It is the mark of a lazy writer to reduce their criticism to “X is just like Y plus Z,” but I’ve tried to rewrite this opening..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Authority: "Mundanity simulator--government edition" November 27, 2024 "This game seems to be designed to be as mundane as possible while subtly poking fun at it. Here's a typical line: "My job is to analyse..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Rustjaw: "N-not that I like you or anything, baka!" November 27, 2024 " Your daring foray into the abandoned industrial sector near downtown was just an experiment to see if you could catch sight of one of the... " - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Your Little Haunting: "A classic haunted house tale" November 27, 2024 "A bit underimplemented, as all parser SpeedIF tends to be, but charming in its own right. That last message is chilling. I'd like to..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews YARRY: "Who are you?" November 27, 2024 "A man's son starts calling him by a different name; soon he finds everyone calling him by that name, and begins to question his identity...." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews An Admirer: "An off-kilter love letter" November 27, 2024 "A short, creepy game with a conversational interface of the kind I rarely see in Inform, much less 4-hour speed games, so that deserves..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews You promise: "Deal with the devil. What could go wrong?" November 27, 2024 "Funny game. You invite a fey/demon/eldritch abomination over to your house to make a deal with it, and as you can expect, there are a..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Bat: "A parser delight, as you play an overburdened valet" November 27, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews You: "An almost parser like Twine game in a bizarre world" November 27, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Flustered Duck: "A complex puzzle game about a duck and a proposal" November 27, 2024 "This is the highest-rated Spring Thing game that I had never played. Jim Aikin is the author of Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina, which was..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "A charming bird watching walk in the countryside" November 27, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Shyler Project: "Twine piece about a mental health AI chatbot" November 27, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 12 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Dark goings on at a magical school" November 27, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 11 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Blue: "Parasites!" November 27, 2024 "I was recommended this game because it has parasites in it. I love parasites. Now, the implementation is a bit finicky because it's a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Bat: "Doing the batty bat" November 27, 2024 "There are, of course, two iconic master/valet pairs in fiction (well, three I suppose if you the Remains of the Day guy and his Nazi..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "A real-time good time" November 27, 2024 "I suppose it’s my fault for not starting earlier, but I wished I’d seen more of the rat. He(?)'s the familiar of the eponymous..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews 大鱼 | Big Fish: "Cut bait" November 27, 2024 "Call me a curmudgeon, but I don’t really believe in “so bad it’s good” art – my experience is that even stuff that notionally..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Column: "When doubt means death" November 26, 2024 "The Column is a Cluedo-like game made in Twine, where you embark on an expedition to explore a desolate island, with a strange and cursed..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Hotel Halloween: "Stay in this hotel at your own rist" November 26, 2024 "Hotel Halloween is a collection of short scary games created by young students (of the Seneca Thing group), centred around the theme of..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Excuse Me, Do You Have The Time?: "Riddles and guess-the-verb and book reports..." November 26, 2024 "This game interested me as a time travel adventure. It clearly takes its inspiration from ultra-terse games in the style of magazine..." - See full review

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