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JJ McC reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Who Would Lick a Pope?" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There are classes of activities that do not need to justify themselves. Solo board gaming. Herb..." - See full review

A new competition page: The 2024 IFDB Awards created February 18, 2025 The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive...

ChanceOfFire reviews If It Please the Court: "Romance and intrigue in Versailles" February 18, 2025 "This was a surprisingly strong entry. The prose paints a beautiful picture of France, as well as the mystery and intrigue within your..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Moondrop Isle: "Deeply complex game of exploration on a moonlit isle with mixed media formats" February 18, 2025 "I'm going to structure this review in two parts. -A brief description -Something for authors (players don't need to read) -Something for..." - See full review

Passerine reviews The Purple Pearl: "More than a proof of concept" February 18, 2025 "The Purple Pearl accomplishes something that feels unique: mashing up a parser IF game and a split-team escape room. It feels like just..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Den: "Narrative Grindr" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review 'Awake in sci-fi base, then escape while learning lore' is a tried and true staple of IF, carrying..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Dust: "Once Upon a Time in the Dust" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I feel like the American West is an underserved sub-genre in IF. We get HIGH FANTASY and Puzzly Light..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Get on My Level" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I do love me a multi-leveled work. A work that plays on multiple levels creates opportunity for all kind..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Undercover Agent: "Functional, predictable and what you’d expect" February 17, 2025 "Undercover Agent contains pretty much everything you’d expect from the genre. It does not do anything outside the box, and is as..." - See full review

IFDB site news February 17, 2025 The 2024 IFDB Awards have concluded!: Results are available here. Congratulations to all participants!

ChanceOfFire reviews Showdown at Willow Creek: "A short but solid western adventure" February 17, 2025 "Despite the low word count, this game actually feels pretty long for something well under 100k words. This western title is no match for..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "Dr. Columbo" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Am I a Dr. Who fan? Kind of. I devoured the modern run through Capaldi, and have been bursty ever since...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Civil Service: "Slow Ride" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Sometimes there are tales that hinge directly on one monster twist - they carefully build and sculpt and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "Fantasy Exterminator" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It’s always a bit of a risk to draw a throughline in Comp Zeitgeist. A risk, and an inevitability,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Reckless Space Pirates: "Relentless space puzzles" February 16, 2025 "Like Treasure Seekers of Lady Luck, we find ourselves back on a pirate ship. In terms of plot, this is a little shorter, with only one..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Player's Heart: "When beauty is only skin deep" February 16, 2025 "It’s a pretty engaging premise. Finding fame and fortune on the all-women opera, and finding love as a female character, romancing..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Witch's Bakery: "A very adorable game, even if incomplete" February 16, 2025 "I pretty much stumbled upon this one by accident on IFDB. It's incomplete, and likely forever cancelled. Still, it's extremely cute, with..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews hanging & wiving goes by destiny: "Seven marriages and seven women doomed to die by their husband's hand." February 16, 2025 "A story that is actually seven stories, intertwined. You are Bluebeard's eighth wife and walk around his home accompanied by the ghosts..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Unreal People: "Celebrity Hot Tub" February 16, 2025 "What is more appealing, a hot mess or a cold clockwork? Ok, I’m a former engineer so it kind of depends on the heat of the mess, and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Bat: "The Masked Marple" February 16, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review So, I spent a good amount of COVID’s duration, like many of us, spinning in my own brain, grasping at..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Deserter: "Full Metal Jaeger" February 16, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Military works can be quite divisive. Historically, media has lionized our fighting forces, not without..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews This is what I need to tell you: "A story told through forum edits and external links" February 15, 2025 "This was a neat experiment in a game jam designed to use non-gamemaking tools to make games. This is a forum thread where the idea is..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Brimstone Manor: "When romance goes missing again" February 15, 2025 "As with Jazz Age, I wanted to give this game four stars. However, I’m (sadly) giving it three for the same reason. You’ve just gotten..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Zombie Blast 2023: "Shooting up zombies in a 2x2 space" February 15, 2025 "Back again with another itch game from the Interactive Bonbons writer. This one is pretty simple gameplay-wise, but with the same..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Old MacDonald Had a Farm: "Technical genius and a tedious grind" February 15, 2025 "While snooping around itch, I found out that the Interactive Bonbons writer actually has a few choicescript games up there. Well, I’m..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ghost Hunt: "Pleasant short ghost game" February 15, 2025 "This was a pleasant, compact Adventuron game. It had a feature I’m not used to seeing, where right-clicking on yellow words brought up..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Over Here!: "Complex but compact illustrated minimalist adventuron game" February 15, 2025 "This game is a great example of a game that uses minimalist techniques to make a satisfyingly long game. You start the game with a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews 大鱼 | Big Fish: "Hi, I'm JJMcC, I'm an IF-aholic" February 15, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Sometimes I like to do things to mix up the formula. Some wildly misfiring neurons during happy hour made..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Why Pout?: "Funky Strokes" February 15, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Another in a great line of wordplay larks from ANDREW that I might both love AND RUE. Will I prove a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "LLM Sleuthing" February 15, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Man, is hyperspace a great metaphor for my experience with this game, especially THIS game’s version of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Isolated: "Intriguing game plague by implementation problems" February 14, 2025 "I saw this game that had recently been released on IFDB outside of any competitions and wanted to try it. It uses different colors for..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Maze: "Long allegorical game with trees of sin and a marriage plot" February 14, 2025 "This game is a longish twine game with lush but sometimes confusing writing. In it, you play as a woman who is to be married off to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Man, Unlidded: "Complex and meaningful game based on smell" February 14, 2025 "This game kind of threw me out of whack for a while and is one reason I was late playing Shufflecomp games. I started this Gruescript..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Yeti's Parole Officer: "It has bad idea written all over it" February 14, 2025 "Earth is a penal colony, where all sorts of aliens, or mythological creatures to us humans, are sent to serve their prison sentences...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Dawnfall: "When romancing everyone is a thing" February 14, 2025 "Dawnfall is pretty tough to rate. It features an interesting setting and somewhat strong writing. The ending scene explores some..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews To the City of the Clouds: "An ultra-fast paced adventure." February 14, 2025 "To the City of the Clouds is quite interesting and well written. The archeology genre is not very common, and you'll probably need to be..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "Licentiousness Laboriously Lost" February 14, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review In the past, erotic games have left me cold. I had concluded that one element of this was the broad..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "In Her Parser By the Sea" February 14, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review What do we make of a well-researched take of an assault wrought most heinously? With great resolve, I..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "Doggin' Around" February 14, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Earlier this COMP I bemoaned, multiple times, the lack of a convincing Twinesformer link-select/parser..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews NOLA Is Burning: "A dumpster fire" February 13, 2025 "Before this review, the lowest rating I gave to any game on this website was three stars. You play as a ‘Headcrusher’ for a powerful..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews For Rent: Haunted House: "Focus on the dollar signs" February 13, 2025 "With genuinely snarky and humorous writing, this game is a pretty entertaining read. Without spoiling too much, you’re working as a..." - See full review

A new listing for Terra Nova - The Mystery of Zephyr's Landing, by P.Rail

JJ McC reviews You: "Not Me" February 13, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This is a quasi-Fairy Tale-esque story about rediscovering the protagonist’s identity, helpfully..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Very Strong Gland: "The Player Is Feeble" February 13, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This author has a strong brand, in my all of 3 years’ experience. Super zippy one-character input..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Garbage of the Future: "Pumper Dumper Heart Thumper" February 13, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review For many years, my wife worked in civic Storm Water infrastructure. A lot of it is vital but unrewarding..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Thrall: "Multimedia vampire identity crisis" February 12, 2025 "This game is about you, a vampire, being offered a cure for vampirism. But it's more than that. It uses a variety of multimedia to..." - See full review

Nomad reviews Bad Beer: "Full of Potential" February 12, 2025 "Bad Beer is a mixed bag - I enjoyed it a lot for reasons depicted below, and I found it to be inferior due to reasons depicted below. In..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Daring Mermaid Expedition: "I didn’t find what I was looking for" February 12, 2025 "The game felt promising initially. The prose, writing and setting carried a lot of charm and cuteness. I liked the premise and felt that..." - See full review

A new listing for IL FAUT TOUJOURS ÉCOUTER LE DÉ., by Fast Warman

ChanceOfFire reviews Treasure Seekers of Lady Luck: "A flawed space adventure" February 12, 2025 "Joining a crew of space pirates and working together on missions to steal treasure. The premise works, but the execution has no shortage..." - See full review

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