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A new listing for As Ogmant Lay Naked, by Stan Carter

Wade Clarke reviews The Lurking Horror: "Infocom's Lovecraftian campus geek horror" March 7, 2025 "Infocom released more than thirty Interactive Fiction titles in their time, setting a standard for sophisticated text adventure game..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Death Collector: "The ending came outta nowhere" March 6, 2025 "The premise is interesting. Your task here is to don your invisibility cloak and harvest the tongues of the dying, tongues which contain..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Scandal Notes: "I stuck with the villain " March 6, 2025 "Events and parties in 20s London! You play as a novelist, enjoying the glamorous lifestyle and going on misadventures with a bunch of..." - See full review

A new listing for Passerine Hills: Just a Bite, by Naarel

A new competition page: Smoochie Jam 2025 created March 5, 2025 The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam for interactive fiction about kisses, love, and romance. Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. This jam exists in a deep...

A new listing for he who tied the bell, by SWANCHIME

A new listing for ianthine, by Lapin Lunaire Games

A new listing for He's Dating the DM?!, by el-dritchknight and owltio

A new listing for Thalassaphilia, by InfiniteStars

A new listing for Slumber Party, by chrysanthemore

A new listing for Detective Pichi and the Case of her Lonely Heart, by Naughty Mono

A new listing for Every Dating Sim Game Ever, by WANNABE

A new listing for This Body Is Not Mine, by TrisGhost

A new listing for 7 Days To Know You, by Milina Bryce

A new listing for Spring in Her Step, by Gemmy System and Amara Taylor and Ironnori

A new listing for Quiero Matarte, by GuardianDreamer

A new listing for Kissekei, by thedorktrain

A new listing for if you died tomorrow, by Naarel

Tom!63 reviews THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME: "The story continues" March 4, 2025 "Water drips. Metal groans. Somewhere in the distance, something moves. You stand at the edge of the abyss—Øceanus Pr1me, its corridors..." - See full review

Tom!63 reviews A1RL0CK: "A thrilling experience" March 4, 2025 "A1RLØCK is an intense and unsettling text adventure that throws you into a cold, unwelcoming world with no explanation. As a lost child..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone: "What it says on the tin" March 4, 2025 "This game is the exact same concept as the first one, except with four more games. They were perhaps a bit less scary, but it seems like..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Tales from Castle Balderstone: "Treehouse of Horror / Tales of Interest" March 4, 2025 "In this horror anthology, my favorite story was the one about blood, which made me laugh out loud. The individual games might have lacked..." - See full review

A new listing for My Grandfather's Chattels, by Matthew Holland

A new listing for Spelunker, by Thomas R. Mimlitch

spl3tterfilm reviews Binary Star Hero: "ts shit was phenomenal" March 3, 2025 "i love, love, love everything about this vn. the art and story are well developed, and there are so many complexities to ray's character..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin: "The Little Match Girl - The Little Match Girl 2 (Chronologically)" March 3, 2025 "Chronologically, this game is the direct sequel to the first The Little Match Girl game, even though it was not released directly after..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen: "Funny twist on a sad fairy tale" March 3, 2025 "This is a touching and funny twist on a well-known fairy tale (at least it's well-known to me, who am a Scandinavian, although I..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Orchid Species of the Erastian: "A sketch of a game" March 3, 2025 "This is a small, unfinished game. It is, however, the only game by Ryan Veeder on IFDB that doesn't have any ratings or reviews, so I..." - See full review

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Crocodracula: The Enigma of Crocodracula: "A good walkthrough" March 3, 2025 "This is not a game, but a text file describing how to solve a game which sounds interesting - an old school text adventure with concepts..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sand-dancer: "Game about modern Native americans, symbolic choices and sand" March 2, 2025 "This game was apparently the tutorial game in Aaron Reed's book on writing games in Inform 7, which is pretty neat. It features a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Scents & Semiosis: "Procedural smell generation" March 2, 2025 "This game was made specifically for Emily Short by Sam Kabo Ashwell, and contains a great deal of procedural generation. The idea is that..." - See full review

A new listing for Demon Hunter: Legacy, by RetroVem

aluminumoxynitride reviews Type Help: "Clever puzzles with a great atmosphere!" March 2, 2025 "What a compelling game! It really hit that sweet spot of slowly creeping sense of dread interspersed with triumphant aha! moments. There..." - See full review

A new listing for Type Help, by William Rous

News on The Corridor: Major Update. On the Busses Update March 2, 2025 Until now, the game has been pretty linear, but at the end of the last update, the player faced a choice: either head to Mad Jack’s or continue on your way. What will you choose? No matter your choice, The... - Details

Nomad reviews EXODUS: Climate Activist: "Hilarious" March 2, 2025 "EXODUS: Climate Activist is a CYOA game about a teenager finding his meaning in life by trying to join a militant environmental group. It..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Dungeon Adventure: "Not A Tolkien Gesture" February 28, 2025 "Où sont les neiges d'antan? It must be said that I had many a Proustian moment replaying this excellent Level 9 offering. It is 42 years..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for February 2025 February 28, 2025 8 items On Friday, February 28, 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...

Jackel reviews salting wounds: "Simple but good" February 28, 2025 "This really resonated with me, I can't say for sure the intention of the exact meaning of the story from the author but for me this felt..." - See full review

Johndalyprogrammer reviews EXODUS: Climate Activist: "I may have ended up living in a tent hounded by cops but" February 28, 2025 "As the title says I probably didn't get the best ending on my first run through but it was an absolute blast the entire time. Definitely..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "I think the point is that it's almost unwinnable" February 27, 2025 "I couldn't win this game at its easiest difficulty, following the "Beginner's Guide" walkthrough highlighted on the game's subreddit...." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Strong world-building and interesting ideas bogged down by melodrama and cliché" February 27, 2025 "This game is set in a world where souls are tangible and alchemy is the prevailing science. That alone creates fascinating moral..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Wheel Of Fortune: "Epic By Name, Epic By Nature" February 27, 2025 "This is another large and finicky Epic adventure with interminable dull paths and real-time elements; there are a whole host of winding..." - See full review

A new listing for Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright

MathBrush reviews the sea god: "Beautiful, poetic game about dying whales" February 25, 2025 "This is a Bitsy game, which uses two-color-palette minimalist pixel art and arrow controls to create a world to navigate, and text pops..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Psy High 2: High Summer: "Impressive Addition to the Psy High saga" February 24, 2025 "I liked the first Psy High quite a bit as a fun, choice-based game set in the supernatural high school hijinx mold of something like..." - See full review

A new listing for Cabin, by Tobias V. Langhoff

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Moondrop Isle: "Riven meets Zork" February 23, 2025 "This sprawling game is the result of nine authors making one game each, and then smacking them together (with magic), creating somewhat..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I.: "A former commercial game about a surreal visualization of finding a particle" February 23, 2025 "This game was once intended for Infocom (one of its authors wrote Suspended, among a few other Infocom games). When that didn't pan out,..." - See full review

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