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ChanceOfFire reviews WAITING FOR THE DEATH WIND: "A final word with the Goddess" May 30, 2025 "Waiting for the Death Wind is the second game I've played in the Dialogue Jam which features very high production values for the event...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Tea Haus: "Tea and talk" May 30, 2025 "Gentle and charming. You step into a teahouse, make your order and sit with one of four folks for a conversation. I only played three..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Who Kidnapped Mother Goose?: "Grown up detective fun even for a nursery rhyme disliker like me" May 30, 2025 "One Sierra game I remember fondly is Mixed-Up Mother Goose. It simply puts a bunch of items in random places around a sixteen-room map,..." - See full review

A new listing for Reverse War, by Nicolas PIERRON

Flack reviews Fallacy of Dawn: "It's Dark, it's Gritty, it's Hilarious" May 29, 2025 "Fallacy of Dawn is set in a dystopian alternate universe, where arcades from the 1980s full of smoke and neon lights still exist. In the..." - See full review

Flack reviews Cryptozookeeper: "The World of Cryptids Meets Pokemon!" May 29, 2025 "I grew up reading books and watching specials about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other cryptids, so Cryptozookeeper was right up..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews AI Dungeon: "My experiences with AI dungeon" May 29, 2025 "As AI is a very controversial topic, I will decline to leave a star rating for AI dungeon. Much has been said about how AI could destroy..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Tamago Sando And The End Of The World: "We've seen Google Form IFs, and now we have another idea" May 29, 2025 "We've seen IF games in Google Forms, and now we have something in Google Slides. Looks like I'll need to get to that excel-macro IF I've..." - See full review

Flack reviews Enceladus: "Where Wolf? There, on Enceladus!" May 29, 2025 "Enceladus is everything I want in an interactive fiction game. I don't want to draw extensive maps, play "guess the verb" all night, or..." - See full review

Turpitude reviews Spring Gothic: "A shooting star, a disintegrating meteor" May 29, 2025 "This is fundamentally a strong concept, which I find to be unfortunately marred by issues in its execution. I greatly appreciate what the..." - See full review

News on Ataraxia: Ataraxia - now fully soundtracked! May 28, 2025 See the author's announcement on intfiction.org for details.

ChanceOfFire reviews Starlight and Her Iron Duke: "The guests are gone, and the truth is out" May 28, 2025 "A short VN where you play as someone in a not quite happy relationship. Despite appearances the two of you put up for others, things are..." - See full review

A new listing for Office Temptation, by HHRichards

ChanceOfFire reviews Moments Like This: "A charming title with a unique style of interactivity" May 28, 2025 "After playing through a couple of choice-based twine games in the jam, with different takes on the execution, Moments Like This does..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Meiosis: "A true page-turner" May 28, 2025 "Playing this horror game kept me at the edge of my seat. Line by line, the dialogue starts off fairly innocently in the first scene but..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews In our final moments...: "Before the zombies come in" May 28, 2025 "Short and simple, you have a final conversation moments before what seems to be the end. Usually, in zombie IF games I've played, my job..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews DREAM NO MORE: "Mysterious and dreamlike vibes" May 28, 2025 "Dream No More does a good job of creating the game's atmosphere with a strong selection of art and music to accompany the writing. In..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Boss, we have a problem: "A hilarious group chat about a bank robbery" May 28, 2025 "It’s a simple game, but it was definitely entertaining, and made me laugh at times. You’re the leader of a trio of comically..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews All Cats Are Babies: "A short and linear VN about the fate of a cat" May 28, 2025 "All Cats are Babies appears to be a kinetic VN. You do not make any choices, not even fake ones, from the start to the end, and basically..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: " Does Cuno care?" May 28, 2025 "I’ve always had difficult playing characters that have less than desirable personalities or ethical codes. For example, it was..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Overboard!: "Femme Fatale" May 28, 2025 "A murder mystery where you’re the murderer is ripe for intrigue and clever manipulation. Overboard! begins with a bang (not literally),..." - See full review

deathbytroggles reviews Why Pout?: "Real Axing. " May 28, 2025 "Last night I was feeling depressed, laying in bed, and wanting to escape. I wanted to do something that was simple, that didn't engage..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Cut the Sky: "Cut the Sky Review" May 27, 2025 "The Story In Cut the Sky, you’re a nondescript person with a blade that can cut almost anything within reach. Your goal, as the title..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews The Little Match Girl Approaches the Golden Firmament: "The Little Match Girl Approaches the Golden Firmament Review" May 27, 2025 "Basically, you’re Hans Christan Andersen’s Little Matchstick Girl, aka Ebenezabeth Scrooge, and you’re trying to stop a team of mad..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews The Goldilocks Principle: "The Goldilocks Principle Review" May 27, 2025 "This is a short game (less than 15 minutes long) that takes its central idea from Goldilocks and the Three Bears to examine eating..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Elaine Marley and the Ghost Ship: "Elaine Marley and the Ghost Ship review" May 27, 2025 "The Story Ghost Ship is a Monkey Island fan game. It’s also a critical essay about the series and one of its central characters, Elaine..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight: "Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight Review" May 27, 2025 "The Story Marbles has a simple story: you’re a cat, and you’re investigating some sort of creature at a stage show alongside your..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for May 2025 May 27, 2025 8 items On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 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 more...

kqr reviews So Far: "Long and interesting, but a little empty" May 27, 2025 "For over a week I managed to get through this game without consulting a walkthrough. As long as one is extremely methodical in examning..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Monster in the Attic: "Two sides of the horror coin" May 27, 2025 "It's straightforward. A conversation between someone and a monster, with the option of playing both perspectives, one after the other. As..." - See full review

A new listing for Kitsune, by Thom Baylay

A new listing for Message in a Melody, by Tyler S. Harris

A new listing for It Takes Three to Tango, by C.C.Hill

A new listing for Scales of Justice, by Julia Owl

kqr reviews Photopia: "Disjointed, at-the-time experimental, but still moving narrative" May 27, 2025 "In contrast to many others, I did not go in with very high expectations of Photopia. What I did know was that (a) it's very different;..." - See full review

A new listing for The People's House, by R. F. Kramer

A new listing for First Bull Run, by Dan Rasmussen

A new listing for Life of a Mercenary, by Philip Kempton

A new listing for The Great Tournament 2, by Philip Kempton

A new listing for Temple of Endless Night, by Dariel Ivalyen

A new listing for The Twelve Trials, by Douglas DiCicco

A new listing for Belle-de-Nuit, by Rebecca Zahabi

ChanceOfFire reviews lone signal: "A short and linear but thought-provoking game" May 27, 2025 "Lone Signal is a good example of how to get a lot done with a few words. You play as a probe, venturing through the depths of space and..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Lysidice and the Minotaur: "It's in a maze, but it's not Some Maze Game" May 27, 2025 "When you think of minotaurs, you think of mazes, which generally aren't a great thing in text adventures--and probably not what you want..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews With Love from Oodna: "An entertaining road trip game which throws a ton of challenges at you" May 27, 2025 "You're taking a long roadtrip on the outback. Sadly, nothing seems to go right as bad luck, vehicle problems and nature throw all sorts..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Camelot Jack: "Oh Swordy, you so much friendlier than Excalibur!" May 27, 2025 "The name Camelot Jack brings up, perhaps, President John F Kennedy for those of us who live in america. It's a good solid title without..." - See full review

A new listing for The Seven Spells Of Destruction, by Craig Edwards

MathBrush reviews We Stole a Ship to Run a Scam: "A short, cute-looking RPG-maker game with branching story" May 26, 2025 "I genuinely don't like most RPG maker games, as I enjoy reading text more than seeing game cutscenes or walking around mostly..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Bakemono no Sekai - World of Monsters: "Text adventure tutorial, side tutorial of Japanese folklore. Or vice versa" May 26, 2025 "While many of the entries in the TALP 2024 took the more classic Western fairy tale approach, Bakemono no Sekai went in a different..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Bottle from the Future: "A trilingual twine game with an environmental message" May 25, 2025 "This game features the same story in three languages (Italian, English, and Slovak). The story has a strong environmental message. It..." - See full review

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