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A new listing for Thriftgirl, by fivestarcrest

News on IntroComp 2025: Late Entrant: The Ivory Calico August 19, 2025 "New IntroComp entry: The Ivory Calico. The author attempted to submit on time but for whatever reason it didn't go through. We were able to manually add it back into the list."

A new listing for The Ivory Calico, by Víctor Ojuel

A new Recommended List by kqr, Phone-friendly parser games August 18, 2025 38 items When I play on my phone I like games where I don't have to draw maps either because the games are small (Violet) or have such logical geographies (Plundered Hearts). I also don't want to have to make notes...

kqr reviews Lime Ergot: "Interesting, but too brief, journey into the mind of a broken person" August 18, 2025 "I loved the concept of this game, down to tiny details like the ingredients necessary for the drink. Traveling through someone's mind at..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Nihilist Syndrome: "Tightly crafted 5-minute linear horror story" August 17, 2025 "This is a very short, very worthwhile horror story. There are no choices, but it has an impeccable atmosphere. Made for the Neo-Twiny jam..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Blood and Sunlight: "Schrodinger's vampire" August 17, 2025 "I’ve been at the IF-reviewing game for a while now: over twenty years stem to stern, and even if you discount the interregnums it still..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Deluge: "Apres moi" August 17, 2025 "I have an odd relationship to floods, which is to say, I don’t actually have one. I’ve experienced earthquakes and hurricanes, seen a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Quotient, The Game: "A high-energy debut" August 17, 2025 "When learning something new, the most important factor – I’d argue bigger than native ability or quality of instruction or anything..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A House of Endless Windows: "Proof of life" August 16, 2025 "I am not a J-horror fan, or even a horror fan in general, but there is one clip from a mid-aughts entry in the genre (I think it was..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews return to home: "Life is in the detours" August 16, 2025 "It’s not often that I’m stymied by a piece of IF – especially not one as slight and apparently straightforward as Return to Home...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Sword of Voldiir: "Keep it on the table" August 16, 2025 "It’s a truism that RPG sessions are often way more fun to experience than they sound when you describe them to people who weren’t at..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews To Ashes You Shall Return: "A brief but heartwrenching story of a lesbian zombie witch" August 15, 2025 "In this Choicescript game (which I played for free by watching ads), you play as Vivien, a recently-out queer woman who has fallen in..." - See full review

A new listing for To Ashes You Shall Return, by Kaitlyn Grube

archcorenth reviews Chicks Dig Jerks: "An entertaining bar scene in an otherwise disappointing Freshmen attempt." August 15, 2025 "This is a pretty bad game, and I'm guessing that's because it's one of the first attempts at a game by the designer. I'd give it 1-star..." - See full review

croc reviews 9:05: "Purposefully short, cleverly accomplished." August 15, 2025 "This is one of those gems that can be done in minutes. The perfect game when you want a short sharp IF experience. If you're looking for..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Thousand Lives: "Epistles" August 15, 2025 "For all that we are changeable creatures, most of the poignancy of our temporary lives comes from their implacable, irrevocable..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Method in My Madness: "Aesthetic text" August 15, 2025 "There’s a distinct and robust subgenre of IF that’s devoted to the subjective portrayal of mental illness, braiding description and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Office Temptation: "Maybe just work from home" August 15, 2025 "Pornography is not a genre known for its narrative inventiveness. This, frankly, is probably for the best (whoever decided to replace..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Moon Watch: "Forgotten XYZZY winner: You've pressed the big red button. Now what?" August 14, 2025 "I happened across this game while doing some research on the history of the XYZZY Awards; this work received the 2008 XYZZY Award for..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lazarrien: A Love Story: "Subversive demon romance, but not the subversion you expect" August 14, 2025 "There’s something recursive about the Single Choice Jam: because the jam’s constraint requires the player to have only a single..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lewd Mod: Noir: "Lover, red-hatted, noir-spying lover, I must have you!" August 14, 2025 "Last year’s THON was my introduction to the Lewd Mod extended universe – as of this writing, IFDB lists 13 different games, demos,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die: "Lake effect" August 14, 2025 "The art of naming fictional places is a tricky one (and one I’ve never had much facility with), so kudos to take me to the lakes… for..." - See full review

dott. Piergiorgio reviews The Incredible Erotic Adventures of Stiffy Makane: "why five stars ?" August 13, 2025 "for only one reason: the most (in)famous bodypart bug in (A)IF history ! without it, perhaps ends forgotten in few years, if not months,..." - See full review

A new listing for and so goes another day, by Naarel

Mike Russo reviews Habeas Corpus: "Bring out the bodies" August 13, 2025 "Between last year’s THON and this one, I’ve played a bunch of super-short games, which has been a novel experience for me – since I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ataraxia: "Prelude to Eikas" August 13, 2025 "Rarely has a theory been as tempting, and as wrong, as the Whig view of history – which is to say, history that views the past through..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Moon's Knight: "The moon is a fickle mistress" August 13, 2025 "Is there a pun in English more groan-inducing than knight/night? That obvious, superficially rich but in reality kind of banal equation..." - See full review

A new listing for Adventur Delux, by Magnar Sveen

A new listing for Intruder, by Daniel Flathagen

A new listing for The Warrior, by Daniel Flathagen

A new listing for Scrunch: A Dream of Blood, by guava and Loaf and Mehitabel and snorv and xenofem

A new listing for The Ordovichian Jubilee, by guava and Loaf and Mehitabel and snorv and xenofem

A new listing for mn, by guava and Loaf and Mehitabel and snorv and xenofem

A new listing for K'tshi Latzeo, by guava and Loaf and Mehitabel and snorv and xenofem

A new listing for Gravenimage, by guava and Loaf and Mehitabel and snorv and xenofem

A new listing for TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN, by stormnebulae

Tabitha reviews Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight: "<3 Marbles" August 12, 2025 "An expansion of a short review originally published at Intfiction.org on May 8, 2025. I beta-tested this game. This review is based on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Heaven Alive: "EXECUTE EXECUTE EXECUTE" August 12, 2025 "Playing and reviewing Heaven Alive immediately after Machina Caerulae makes for a study in contrasts. They’re similar enough that those..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews machina caerulea: "A punchy Bluebeard" August 12, 2025 "In the early aughts, a documentary called The Aristocrats got a bit of buzz by digging into an inside-baseball joke structure widely used..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Resurrection Gate: "Hight fantasy hors d'oeuvre" August 12, 2025 "For a couple years in the mid-90s, one of the best things in life was the monthly PC Gamer CD. You see, in those long-vanished days, most..." - See full review

A new listing for Le rendez-vous de la terreur, by Robert Piechaud

crotovane reviews Method in My Madness: "review-a-thon 2025: method in my madness" August 11, 2025 "despite being for the “really bad if” jam, i was actually a very big fan of the presumably “bad” off-kilter format—i was so..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Witchever: "Second time's the charm" August 11, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forum during ParserComp) Remakes! I dunno, man. They’re everywhere and of course..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Swap Wand User: "GAME WORD PLAY" August 11, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forum during ParserComp) One of the canonical justifications for text-only interactive..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Taste of Terror: "Magic and mayhem" August 11, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forum during ParserComp) In the first couple turns of A Taste of Terror – an Inform 6..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mystery Academy: "Less-sloppy AI (but turns out still unethical)" August 11, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forum during ParserComp. After it was posted, the Comp's results were posted, which..." - See full review

actually_incorrect reviews The Moon's Knight: "Evocative writing but a little confusing" August 10, 2025 "The Moon's Knight is a very short Twine game (under 500 words, as per the rules for the game jam in which it was made for). As such, it's..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Studio: "Intricately crafted stealth game" August 10, 2025 "I played this game more than a year ago, for Spring Thing 2024, but never got to publishing this review til I found it lying on my hard..." - See full review

crotovane reviews A House of Endless Windows: "cinema" August 10, 2025 "the tension sinks its teeth into you from the very first scene. i was instantly struck by pierce’s relationship with his mother: the..." - See full review

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