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EJ reviews Pharaohs' Heir: "Pharaohs' Heir review" October 25, 2025 "This is a short, lighthearted puzzle game in which you play as Layla, the so-called assistant to star archaeologist Herbert Tapioca (who..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens: "Sylvan Gardens review" October 25, 2025 "The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens is a choice-based fantasy game featuring a PC who has been feeling a mysterious draw to the titular house..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Nineteen: "You look back and see how far you’ve come" October 25, 2025 "Less like a game, more like a reflection, Nineteen is an author's sharing of her experience with suicide and the insights she has gained..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Moon Watch: "Older graphics-and-sound enhanced Inform one-room game about soviet space" October 25, 2025 "This game is from the same 2008 One-room game competition as Escapade!, a game I enjoyed in the past. The Moon Watch is an Inform game..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Entropy Cage: "The subs are at it again (and you’re on the hook)" October 25, 2025 "Note: This review is for the post-comp release. The change log refers to it as v101, and I recommend playing this version. Modern society..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A winter morning on the beach: "Getting your steps in" October 25, 2025 "It’s by far one of the least-destructive elements of the patriarchy, but ever since I became a dad (four years ago yesterday!) I’ve..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Witch Girls: "You turn my legs to jelly" October 25, 2025 "Even counting games I’ve tested, I’m only about a third of the way into the Comp, so there’s a long way to go – but I will be..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?: "Hard-boiled sweets" October 25, 2025 "One of our species’ best qualities is also its worst, which is our ability to get used to just about anything given enough time. It’s..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews GUT THE MOVIE: "Making the movie of your dreams... " October 24, 2025 "The main cycle of the game is straightforward and simple: get money, spend money. The plot-driving objective, the goal of the game, is to..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Meurtre dans la station spatiale - 4h: "Murder in space" October 24, 2025 "In the not too distant future, a biotechnologically enhanced judicial registrar puts the protagonist, a newly appointed detective, to the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews ~~~Into Darkness~~~: "Hauntingly poetic" October 24, 2025 "A tale of sorrow, And comfort sought Between the trees, by mirror pool, This author has Intently wrought. Voice of shade and waters cool...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Loneliest House: "The haunted house, distant yet detailed." October 24, 2025 "Layers. Fence, door, dome. Wood and paint, intricate carvings and ironwork designs. Longing, imagination, indifference to all else. A..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Rock's Tale: "Rock's Tale review" October 24, 2025 "There’s a subgenre of Japanese portal fantasy/isekai in which the main character finds themself in a fantasy world transformed into..." - See full review

EJ reviews PURE: "Pure review" October 24, 2025 "Pure is a fairly short parser game in which the player goes through a gauntlet of challenges in a dungeon in pursuit of an unclear goal...." - See full review

EJ reviews Slated For Demolition: "Slated for Demolition review" October 24, 2025 "There are, of course, a lot of surreal and highly metaphorical games about trauma, and there are probably many reasons for that, but one..." - See full review

BananaCorn24 reviews The Axolotl Project: "Wow" October 24, 2025 "This was so good, I had to make an account to review it. This was an incredible game, compact enough to play in one sitting but not so..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Project Thesius: "More Sean Connery Than Roger Moore" October 24, 2025 "This is the second of the Rick Hanson trilogy and is another excellent offering from the O'Leary stable. This time Rick is sent to steal..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews Detritus: "Heartfelt, Dystopian, & Eerie Sci-Fi Puzzle Game" October 24, 2025 "I left a more detailed review on the itch.io page for this game, but I enjoyed it so much! The sound effects and music add perfectly to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Reliques of Tolti-Aph: "Magical RPG by the creator of Inform" October 24, 2025 "This is another game I've had for many years on my wishlist. I've attempted it quite a few times but as it has many frequent death traps,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under the Sea Winds: "A congeries of puzzles" October 24, 2025 "Parenthood is a joy, but an adjunct fact about having a toddler is that your memory is completely shot. So I know that a couple of months..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Grove of Bones: "A copse of corpses" October 24, 2025 "Every once in a while I’ll wander into a conversation about what exactly “literary” fiction is – there are typically scare quotes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT: "Third time pays for all" October 24, 2025 "DICK MCBUTTS GETS PUNCHED IN THE NUTS famously is two games in one. As part of author Damon Wakes’s successful plot to win the Golden..." - See full review

A new listing for Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes, by Cay Macres

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Anhedonia: "A simple game that considers the ontology of depression" October 23, 2025 "Anhedonia is a Twine game about depression and how it saps the meaning in one's life. It appears that it’s a reflection of the author's..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Kenam Moorwak - Chronicles of the Moorwakker: "An unsettling history" October 23, 2025 "A text-based RPG with combat tactics and levelling-up your abilities. I must say, I haven’t played a lot of games in this genre. The..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Cut the Sky: "Sword adventure" October 23, 2025 "--“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Stephen King, The Gunslinger (Dark Tower series pt 1)..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hauntless: "Ghostly circus" October 23, 2025 "Tragic deaths leave the old circus haunted, but progress marches on so the ghosts must make way for the new owners to develop the plot...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hell Ride: "To the carnival" October 23, 2025 "I went to the carnival the other day. It was really cool, with exciting rides and candied apples and games with prizes. When I won at the..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Terra Nova - The Mystery of Zephyr's Landing: "The ruins outside the village" October 23, 2025 "Your blood is yearning for understanding. No matter how harshly you’ve been warned, no matter how scary the elders’ stories, you are..." - See full review

A new listing for Catacombs Revisited, by Brian Cotton

Mike Russo reviews Hobbiton Recall: "Flow my tears, the misogynist said" October 23, 2025 "Mashing up J.R.R. Tolkien with Philip K. Dick isn’t an idea that feels obvious, even in retrospect. Sure, they both gained their..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Conversation in a Dark Room: "Thin blood" October 23, 2025 "What do vampires have in common with the X-Men? The glib answer is “Vampire: the Masquerade” – yes, we all played it as superheroes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Errand Run: "Supermarket sweep" October 23, 2025 "Despite its short play-time, Errand Run engages with a number of different themes, but there’s one I keep coming back to, possibly..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews SPACE FROG!: "An age-appropriate game with a huge heart" October 22, 2025 "(edit: character name fix. The protagonist of SPACE FROG! is... SPACE FROG. Written in all-caps, like the..." - See full review

Galvan reviews Rematch: "Some of the most fun I've had with an IF game (although I haven't played many)" October 22, 2025 "I'm new to IF in general and was interested from its description in a Mathbrush list. And I haven't played much IF so this is probably..." - See full review

arslonga reviews The Dreamhold: "Thank God!" October 22, 2025 "Firstly, the game as an introduction to IF is amazing. It serves its duty incredibly well on that front. Secondly, thank god I read..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Your Very Last Words: "Epitaph epitome" October 22, 2025 "Is there anything more talismanic than last words? There are fictional characters – and real people too! – defined completely by the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Smörgåsbord of Pain: "Buffet of beatdowns" October 22, 2025 "There have been a lot of lessons to be drawn from the explosive growth of superhero movies over the last decade and a half, one of the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Fascism - Off Topic: "Riding the F-train" October 22, 2025 "One of the vanishingly few advantages of the current political environment in the US is that it’s largely put to bed the tedious “is..." - See full review

A new listing for slime feet, by Nadia Nova

EJ reviews The Little Four: "The Little Four review" October 21, 2025 "There is a mystery of sorts to solve in The Little Four, a pastiche of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, but that’s not really..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Wise-Woman's Dog: "Wise-Woman's Dog review" October 21, 2025 "In this hybrid parser/choice game, you play as a dog in the Hittite Empire (ca. 2000 BCE) whose owner, the village wise-woman, is under a..." - See full review

kaijuCrow reviews 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS: "A Moving, Relevant Sexual Satire" October 21, 2025 "I loved playing this. It kept me interested the entire way through. Near the end, I would have liked more messing around with the..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "Semantagician's Assistant review" October 21, 2025 "This is a one-room wordplay puzzle game; the conceit is that it’s a sort of audition for the titular job. To get the job, you must..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "Reliquary of Epiphanius review" October 21, 2025 "In this game, you play as a young adult whose archaeologist father has gone missing while searching for the titular reliquary. Concerned..." - See full review

EJ reviews Us Too: "Us Too review" October 21, 2025 "Andrew Schultz’s wordplay games have been a staple of IFComp for almost as long as I’ve been doing reviews, and I’ve generally..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews SCP Containment Breach: "This review is to be kept in a locked container at all times." October 21, 2025 "I apologize for the cliché title; I couldn't help myself. Overview SCP Containment Breach is a fan game about the SCP Foundation, a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Burger Meme Personality Test: "Big Five (Guys) test" October 21, 2025 "Have you ever taken a personality test for work? A: No. B: Yes, once. C: Yes, more than once. D: My work is administering personality..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Horse Whisperer: "One stirrup short of a saddle" October 21, 2025 "After more than 30 years, the Comp has accumulated a body of folk wisdom, tips and tricks, and helpful pointers about how authors can..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cart: "Shoulders to the wheel" October 21, 2025 "Cart is a choice-based game where you play a night-soil man (baldly: someone who collects human excreta and sells it for fertilizer)..." - See full review

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