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manonamora reviews Jumpscare Manor: "What else did you expect." November 26, 2024 "Jumpscare Manor is a silly tiny jumpscare game made in Twine, where you explore the titular Jumpscare Manor, for if you stay a whole..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Sundown: "Don't look for the dog" November 26, 2024 "Sundown is a surreal horror game made in Twine, where you play as Dolores, an old woman exploring her house as she looks for her dog. As..." - See full review

A new listing for There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst, by Sunny Demeanor Games

A new listing for There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight, by Sunny Demeanor Games

Mike Russo reviews You: "A game of you" November 26, 2024 "I’m pretty ecumenical in my IF tastes, I think, but I admit I sometimes stifle a groan when I see an entry in that most challenging of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hildy: "The Great Underground Emporium" November 26, 2024 "What are we to make of the genre label which Hildy blithely affixes to itself, “Zorkian Fantasy”? Considered as a setting, it’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Maze Gallery: "Lost in the museum" November 26, 2024 "A confession: I copied and pasted the above. So yeah, this is a potluck-game, much like A Death in Hyperspace in this competition, or..." - See full review

A new listing for Reconnaissance at Finowfurt, by Jens Ohlig

Mike Russo reviews The Shyler Project: "Even chatbots get the blues" November 25, 2024 "One of the characteristics of early-21st-Century life is that the line between reality and parody has become vanishingly thin. So when,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "I dug this" November 25, 2024 "There is a justly-famous bit in the 1950’s movie Harvey that changed my life when I came across it as an undergrad: Jimmy Stewart..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "CSI: d20 edition" November 25, 2024 "The genre listing for The Killings in Wasacona is one of those things that drifts right by you when you read it, but gets increasingly..." - See full review

manonamora reviews At the Strike of Twelve: "Unsettling shifts in a tiny branching game" November 24, 2024 "At the Strike of Twelve is a short horror games made in Twine, where you explore a nightmare-like setting after waking up at midnight in..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Dark and Deep: "Ectocomp 2024: Dark and Deep" November 24, 2024 "Bearing a child. Love, they say, begets it, besets you. Life, they insist, begins with you; over a grave you cannot not wonder they’re..." - See full review

manonamora reviews do not let your left hand know: "Who are you, really?" November 24, 2024 "do not let your left hand know is a horror single-choice game made in Twine, in which two women, Monica in 2017 and Lisa in 2024,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Narthex: "A cute short story with a banger soundtrack" November 24, 2024 "Narthex is a tiny Moiki game, where you meet the eponymous character, a helpful little creature on your way to a party. The short story..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Egg and the Newbie: "Bizarre mix of alternate history and economic simulator" November 24, 2024 "This parser game was meant as Episode 1 of a longer story, but this is the only entry listed on IFDB. The author had several later games..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Dark and Deep: "Another way to tell a tale" November 24, 2024 "Dark and Deep is a parser adaptation of a collection of poems, in which you incarnate a priest, called to an old woman’s bedside as she..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Resurrection Gate: "Intriguing demo" November 24, 2024 "Resurrection Gate is currently a demo for a larger dark fantasy RPG-like Twine game, in which you play different characters to explore..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Dust: "A general-store Western" November 24, 2024 "We’ve been self-deprecatingly saying parser puzzlers with traditional mechanics are medium-dry-goods games for decades now, but never I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Civil Service: "Trust falls" November 24, 2024 "Some of my favorite works of IF are games where it’s part of the player’s responsibility to fit together different pieces of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Repossession " November 24, 2024 "“Well, this is quite pleasant” is perhaps an odd reaction to a decidedly idiosyncratic game: Forsaken Denizen is written in Dialog,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Give Me Your Lunch Money: "Craft traps to get revenge on bullies" November 23, 2024 "In this game, you're an 8 year-old inventor who gets bullied on the playground, and has to set up traps to use on the bullies the next..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sleuth: "Great concept that was never fully finished" November 23, 2024 "This was a Spring Thing 2012 game written in Quest. The idea is that you have a spacious mansion with guests placed randomly in it at..." - See full review

manonamora reviews As the Eye Can See: "How do you move on..." November 23, 2024 "As the Eye Can See is a short emotional kinetic Twine piece, about the day before Halloween, and its meaning for the narrator throughout..." - See full review

manonamora reviews your life, and nothing else: "Is this real life...?" November 23, 2024 "your life, and nothing else is a short surreal horror interactive game made in Twine, where you live in a shared house with some peculiar..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Adventures of a Hexagon: "A very brief game with many paths about a hexagon fitting in" November 23, 2024 "This is an unusual game from a long-ago Spring Thing. It's a choice-based game where you play as a hexagon that lived inside the pages of..." - See full review

IFDB site news November 23, 2024 Add a time note with your time vote: When you submit a vote for estimated play time, you can now include a note about your play time. For example, you can mention that you played with or without hints. (Note that we're still in the process of de-anonymizing time votes. If you submitted time votes before November 19, check your email before December 19!)

A new listing for Caverns of the Forgotten, by The Ventureweaver

manonamora reviews YARRY: "Do you even have a name at this point?" November 23, 2024 "YARRY is a short psychological horror choice game made in ChoiceScript, in which you play as young parent named Larry, whose two-year-old..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Warm Reception: "Reporter at large" November 23, 2024 "I find it very hard to review a game like A Warm Reception, because it’s part of a very well-populated subgenre – the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Metallic Red: "Leaving the mysteries" November 23, 2024 "(This is one of those games that’s difficult to discuss without getting into spoiler-territory, and blurring out ¾ of the review would..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Forbidden Lore: "Lost in the stacks" November 23, 2024 "Anyone who’s played a mainstream video game in the 2020s has, I’d wager, had occasion to bemoan the way modern games don’t trust..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Contaminated Space: "You'll be taken over..." November 22, 2024 "Contaminated Space is a short sci-fi horror-y Twine piece, where you embody a lone(ly) spaceman, dealing with the consequences of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Mathphobia: "When maths is actually the solution!" November 22, 2024 "Mathphobia is a decadent puzzle fest of a text-adventure. While your classmate rejoice in the Halloween break counting their candies, you..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Ghost Hunt: "Easy-peasy halloween hunt" November 22, 2024 "Ghost Hunt is a tiny Adventuron game, where you must find and catch the ghosts of long passed family members (all because you wanted to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG: "Once more with feeling" November 22, 2024 "When the Republican Party inevitably moves on from having Trump as its standard-bearer (soon may the day come), there’s a chance..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Lost Artist: Prologue: "An interrupted st--" November 22, 2024 "The Comp welcomes all kinds of IF, but it’s also an awkward place to enter a teaser. As the most, well, competitive of the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Saltcast Adventure: "We're going underground" November 22, 2024 "I was recently reading a review of the DnD 3rd Edition version of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting – sometimes I make questionable..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Boo.: "Creeps into your ears..." November 21, 2024 "Boo. is a short spooky story, made in Moiki, in which you investigate the strange whispering voices you start hearing in the middle of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews SPILL YOUR GUT: "Layers and contrasts - the Sequel" November 21, 2024 "SPILL YOUR GUT is the third instalment of the GUT series, after GUT THE MOVIE, and the spoof GUT THE MOVIE 2: GUT ves. TER THE TWOVIES,..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Whembly Castle: "A Very Large Treasure Hunt For Maze And Privy Fetishists" November 21, 2024 "Whembly Castle was shoved in my direction by Jason Dyer via his laudable and fascinating blog in which he intends to tackle every text..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Frobozz Magic Support: "Comprehensively unfun." November 21, 2024 "It has been a long time since I've played a game that just didn't work for me... not even a little bit. The dominating design ethic of..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: The "Really Sort of Final" version is out! November 21, 2024 I seem to enjoy continually enhancing and adding features to this game. I called this version 108.rsf since it is the "really sort of final" version. One of the more visible enhancements is "bold" font for... - Details

A new listing for Whembly Castle, by R.L. Turner

manonamora reviews Delusion Deluge: "Gorgeous prelude" November 21, 2024 "Delusion Deluge is a short fantasy visual novel prelude made in GoogleSheets. In this autumn equinox, you are invited to the annual..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Missinger: "Who you accuse means life or death" November 21, 2024 "Missinger is an investigative interactive piece, where you play as Paula, a university student, looking into the disappearance of Alex, a..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone: "Dreamlike quest to restore a golden age" November 21, 2024 "The intriguing title and premise of Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone seem to draw a fair amount of interest (with over 50 people having..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "A tell-tale art" November 21, 2024 "Last night my wife and I had one of our all-too-infrequent dates (we’re parents of a toddler, the struggle is real), and I made the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Deliquescence: "Falling to pieces" November 21, 2024 "Deliquescence is an emotionally charged game presenting one of the most painful experiences possible – being with someone you love in..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews House of Wolves: "A thin carpaccio" November 21, 2024 "The thing about metaphors is, they can’t be too metaphorical. Similes are anchored by that “like”, they can do anything they want:..." - See full review

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