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A new poll by Tabitha, 2026 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only) created July 15, 2025 32 votes for 29 games The IF Review-a-thon is an event meant to spur reviews of games that haven't received much reviewing attention. If you're an IF author who would like more reviews of your work, feel free to submit your...

ChanceOfFire reviews Echoes of Ending Worlds: "There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere" July 14, 2025 "Another interesting concept in the Neo-Twiny Jam. You are tasked with listening in on several locations, making deductions on whether..." - See full review

vegetablegarden reviews Advent Door: "A short puzzle" July 14, 2025 "Not fully satisfying as a standalone game or story (which is to be expected), but fairly good for what it is, which is a short puzzle..." - See full review

A new listing for A king has Prnoq Pnkhr Zmtmr STOP daughters STOP fight over power STOP king is murdered STOP chaos STOP code is XYZZY to AAAAA, by Mathbrush

ChanceOfFire reviews Distance: "Short, simple and sweet" July 14, 2025 "A woman writes letters to her husband who is out at sea, talking about other folks, her new hobbies and finally hoping for his return...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Eight Steps: "Shooting an arrow and feeling something else" July 14, 2025 "There are several steps to shooting an arrow. Still, not all is well. As age begins to catch up to you, the movements may feel harder,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Escape Trajectory: "You are over encumbered and cannot run" July 13, 2025 "Whew... games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have inventory weight systems which keep track of the weight of everything in that massive..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Lockout: "ParserComp 2025: Lockout" July 13, 2025 "The nuclear deterrent is frequently misunderstood as mutually assured destruction through glistening missile arrays just a trigger finger..." - See full review

A new poll by OverThinking, Games that broke containment created July 13, 2025 77 votes for 59 games I could have sworn this was already a poll, but I can't find it now. This is for games that gained some amount of recognition outside our bubble. Any amount of notice will do, from write-ups on non-IF gaming...

A new listing for Colditz, by Uto

A new listing for Room 309, by Faraz The Web Guy

ChanceOfFire reviews A few steps (up the hill): "A short walk through nature" July 13, 2025 "It is a very short but entertaining walk through nature, with plenty of descriptions about the sights all around. There is a bit of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Hauntings at St. Comba's Academy: "I saw a ghost" July 13, 2025 "Welcome to St. Comba's Academy. Your task here is to find some evidence of ghosts, and use it to propel you to online fame. This is a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Heart Friend: "Zooming around" July 13, 2025 "Heart Friend feels like a series of powerpoint slides with some heavy slide transition effects. There were some parts where I think I had..." - See full review

A new poll by MathBrush, The most famous games you've never played created July 13, 2025 260 votes for 63 games I'm interested in knowing what games people have heard of, but have put off playing for one reason or another (or never intend on playing at all). I'm also interested in people's decision of what 'famous'...

ChanceOfFire reviews Home: "It's your own book to fill" July 13, 2025 "Home is interactive fiction, I suppose. I've seen a fair bit of interesting takes on the genre within the Neo-Twiny Jam, even with the..." - See full review

kaemi reviews EYE: "ParserComp 2025: Eye" July 12, 2025 "Why is it that you, weak of will, consider a sudoku a puzzle, it requires no concentrated response of alignment, you cell by cell sculpt..." - See full review

A new listing for Solo dos deseos, by Pablo Martínez Merino (aka Kozelek)

Andrew Schultz reviews Please do not the cat: "Please do not overthink the cat" July 12, 2025 "Please Do Not the Cat doesn't inspire confidence with his title, but fortunately, the vanishing word is deliberate, and the game's header..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Adventures Extraordinaire: "Fun graphics, sometimes overdoes the "quirky"" July 12, 2025 "Adventurous Extraordinare starts with an intriguing premise: you're a detective who is trying to solve fairy tales gone wrong. The..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews in augustis: "Horror" July 12, 2025 "A short horror story about a man who torments your dreams and is now coming for you. What does he want? The itch page has some really..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews One woman, cleaving gods: "Cleave" July 12, 2025 "This is a linear and looping piece of IF, a short story about a woman fighting a god. While it is a fairly interesting read, there isn't..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Limbô.exe: "Maze stumble" July 12, 2025 "I played this game on my laptop, as per the instructions. You are shown a desktop web browser screen, with a search tab and an email tab...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Johnatan, the birb: "For the Birbs" July 12, 2025 "Honestly, the writing in this game is really rough. This should have necessitated a lower rating. But... I noticed that this game was..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews The Rotten Wooden Room: "The other rooms aren't rotten, though, which is nice." July 12, 2025 "The Rotten Wooden Room is a relatively linear game where, fortunately, there are much more exciting places to visit than the room where..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Nascent Cave: "I have the power" July 12, 2025 "An earthquake strikes your village, leaving a strange cave in its wake. What do you do? Go inside, of course! Perhaps you’ll find..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Necrotics: Troy: "A prologue to a zombie tale" July 12, 2025 "The protagonist is going through the motions in his very ordinary life and thinking about a certain someone. But soon, things go downhill..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews One: "I don’t get this one" July 12, 2025 "A Neo Twiny Jam game with 160 words and ten endings? Hmm… Here, you are shown a word, and are offered a choice of words which… you..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews People Fall: "Accidents happen, or maybe not" July 12, 2025 "On this floating city, people just seem to fall off and disappear somewhere without warning. It’s part of life here. Just like that..." - See full review

A new listing for Letter from '65, by sasinguntag

A new listing for Mini-Cluedo, by Daniel M. Stelzer

ChanceOfFire reviews petrichor: "Drop by drop" July 11, 2025 "Out in nature. Rain is coming. It falls on your skin. Sensations and thoughts run through you. It has an almost mystical feel to it. This..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Take a Walk: "Don't think, just enjoy the walk" July 11, 2025 "I'm pretty prone to overthinking. If my life were a choicegame, the only option present most of the time would be to let thoughts run..." - See full review

kqr reviews For a Change: "Very difficult, but unique in writing and remarkably sticky" July 11, 2025 "I didn't known anything about For A Change when I started listening to the Clash of the Type-ins episode about it. I'm not a podcast..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Stimulus As Meditation: "My eyes hurt" July 11, 2025 "Once you start this game, prepare to be bombarded by flashing colors and loud arcade music. You are given a pixel character to control,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Prepper Van: "I got a job... after fooling around" July 11, 2025 "Prepper van might be the longest playthrough-wise and most gameplay-heavy title I've tried in the Neo-Twiny Jam thus far. With a simple..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Quiet Evening: "A drink with your partner" July 11, 2025 "It seems like you're out of tea. Meanwhile, you're just hanging around, enjoying a slow and easygoing evening with your partner. Maybe..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Ataraxia: "A rich experience" July 11, 2025 "I played and quite enjoyed Lauren O'Donoghue's Eikas in last year’s IF Comp, and have been meaning to play Ataraxia ever since. I’m..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Scrapbook: "A sweet and positive read" July 11, 2025 "The protagonist goes through their scrapbook, thinking through memories of their times in art camp and a special someone, told through..." - See full review

A new listing for Weird Little Guys, by Candace the Magnificent

LostOzian reviews Eikas: "Very emotional ending, but unclear if it's working as intended." July 10, 2025 "I won't tank an indie creator with a low-star review, since overall, Eikas is a fantastically cool concept with a lot of interesting..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Soft Cocoon: "Stay calm" July 10, 2025 "It's a short story of the protagonist's experiences as they undergo a surgical procedure. There were some parts which really moved me and..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Star's Call: "I'm trying to figure this one out " July 10, 2025 "It starts off pretty normally. In this sci-fi setting, you say hi to one of your crewmates. You notice that you may not be feeling well...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews One Minute Mysteries: "A large package of bite sized entertainment " July 10, 2025 "One minute mysteries is one of the lower rated games on the HG omnibus. Still, I think it's less of a bad game and more of one which..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews There's Something Inside Me.: "You can't change your fate" July 10, 2025 "Something is inside of you. You get a few choices to decide how to react to it. Still, it just gets unbearable. Eventually, you find..." - See full review

manonamora reviews People Fall: "Mysterious setting" July 10, 2025 "People Fall is a tiny interactive piece about the mysterious disappearance of someone. Set in a floating city, it isn't uncommon for..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Rooftop Tolls: "Simple but well-rounded" July 10, 2025 "Rooftop Tolls is a tiny interactive puzzle, in which you found yourself trapped on a rooftop, required to pay a toll to find yourself..." - See full review

manonamora reviews WRITTEN: "Flipping the script and giving you existential dread" July 10, 2025 "WRITTEN is a looping philosophical interactive piece where you are given 500 words to define yourself, your life, your beginning and your..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Twenty four: "Quiet Celebration of a New Year" July 10, 2025 "Twenty four is an interactive poem about turning twenty-four, a sequel of some sort of The Day I Turned 22. Struggling to wake up,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Bathroom Run: "Less of a run, more of a stand" July 10, 2025 "Bathroom Run is a tiny Twine game centred around... well, toilet jokes. You enter a bathroom with the different options of relieving..." - See full review

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