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A new listing for Stranded 2, by Dave Hawkins

A new listing for The Eye of Borrack, by Dave Hawkins

parking_turkeys reviews Fallen London: "uber addictive" October 15, 2024 "it was so bad, i wanted to give them money. only ok thing is that they let you quickly deactivate"

parking_turkeys reviews A Paradox Between Worlds: "Amazing, but hard to 100%" October 15, 2024 "So like it is amazing and you should try it, but 100%ing it is PAINFUL"

Tabitha reviews The Saltcast Adventure: "A compelling fantasy tale with an unlikely protagonist" October 15, 2024 "I liked this one a lot! I was drawn immediately upon learning the identity of the protagonist: a starving mother taking a desperate,..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Happy Birding!" October 15, 2024 "As an elementary birder, this game was an unexpected delight. The writing and presentation is like a virtual tour, so the experience..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews KING OF XANADU: "THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN-" October 15, 2024 "Yes, the title of my review is a reference to the Dawn Machine from Sunless Sea, but to be fair, it was hard not to, with the references..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG: "Poor Rod :(" October 15, 2024 "A fun game to play on lunch break! I liked the punchy (Ha!) sound effects, and even the simple stick figure cover art had its charm...." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "By Leah Thargic, no less..." October 15, 2024 "It's like an anti-joke. It's a joke entry in this competition. It's a meta commentary on the nature of interactive fiction. Is a refusal..." - See full review

Wanderlust reviews You Can't Save Her: "Porpentine-esque" October 15, 2024 "Minimalist, well-designed Twine fiction in an evocative science fantasy setting. I enjoyed the cycling choices to emulate spiraling..." - See full review

A new listing for Adventureland XL, by Scott Adams

MathBrush reviews Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One: "A romance story with vampires and procedural investigation in it" October 13, 2024 "I recently heard a theater teacher give advice on how to play drunk people. She told students not to act drunk, but to act like a drunk..." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG: ""So it's all pointless?" "Far from it."" October 13, 2024 "" - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews The Shyler Project: ""headcanons about God"" October 13, 2024 "Confession and prayer were precursors to therapy; everyone is overworked and undervalued; technocrats want to build God in a computer...." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "We used to have real conversations" October 13, 2024 ""I'm allowed to be broken but not broken enough it hurts others." - L (in this piece) "You tell anyone who'll listen that you feel..." - See full review

A new listing for Blooming Panic, by robobarbie, Destini Islands, Allie Vera

A new listing for Kingdom of the Seven Stones, by Robin Raymond

Lance Cirone reviews AI Dungeon: "A long, strange history" October 13, 2024 "AI Dungeon isn't a game many people would want to play today. The ethics of generative AI have been discussed countless times, the..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews ...from the Files of Sigmund Praxis, Guerrilla Therapist: "Promising concept, permanently unfinished" October 13, 2024 "This is an IntroComp game that was never finished. The premise is that you are a fighting therapist, who opens the day by giving a primal..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews AI Dungeon: "An early AI-generated website for storytelling" October 13, 2024 "I'm going through and finding which games are on my 'played' list but not reviewed, and this is one of them. AI Dungeon was a novelty..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews ♥Magical Makeover♥: "A multi-ending game parodying beauty games with cursed products" October 13, 2024 "This game is a twine game that was designed to mock a genre of misogynistic ‘girls games’ that were once prevalent where you are..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ataraxia: "Island-living simulator with crafting and a mixture of light and dark" October 12, 2024 "This was the highest-rated non-commercial game on IFDB that I hadn't played (outside of Superstition Season 2), so I definitely wanted to..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Metallic Red: "IFComp 2024: Metallic Red" October 12, 2024 "So there’s an alien in Alien, right? Oh no there’s an alien in the spaceship I hate it when things try to kill me and there’s..." - See full review

A new poll by Lance Cirone, Games with money management created October 12, 2024 21 votes for 15 games Games that have money mechanics, with buying things and portioning out your money as a key part of the gameplay.

Lance Cirone reviews Lawn of Love: "You gotta love everybody but never the lawn" October 12, 2024 "This is a short, parody romance story. According to the help message, the Santoonie devs have a habit of making games too vast to be..." - See full review

oscar-78 reviews Repeat the Ending: "Masterpiece" October 11, 2024 "I think that, so far, it’s the parser adventure that has impacted me most on an emotional level, and I think it’s the one that’s..." - See full review

A new listing for Frontiers of the Mind, by MinusOnePublishing

A new listing for Plan B from Outer Space: A Bavarian Odyssey, by RobotPumpkin Games

fos1 reviews The Mystery of Winchester High: "Fun to play and awesome coding!" October 10, 2024 "Over the last several days, I have been playing Garry's Winchester High entry for Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2023. It is a brilliant..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "A rollercoaster" October 10, 2024 "Note: quotes from the game are marked with a ">" because I can't be bothered to convert from markdown formatting to html! I connected to..." - See full review

A new listing for Lairuna, by Arijus Šukys

A new listing for Valhalla, by Graham Asher, Richard Edwards, Charles Goodwin, James Learmont, Jan Ostler, Andrew Owen, John Peel

A new listing for På Skattejagt i Amazonlandet, by Niels Søndergaard

kaemi reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "IFComp 2024: Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allen Poe" October 5, 2024 "So as you know Edgar Allen Poe suddenly surfaced in Baltimore raving unto death, a mystery forever inexplicable, and this has thrilled..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews PhD Simulator: "Exactly what it says on the tin" October 4, 2024 "[Review originally written October 2024, tag added in November 2024] I stumbled on this game online and figured it should get an IFDB..." - See full review

A new listing for PhD Simulator, by Mianzhi Wang

asparagus reviews There's A Snake in the Bathtub: "This can be a very wtf inducing game, but I'm rather fond of it." October 3, 2024 "It's quirky, and often frustrating, and you are somewhat at the mercy of the random number generator when it comes to being able to win..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Release Candidate 1 now out! October 2, 2024 The release candidate is now here! More tantalizing, more puzzling... even a few more photos thrown in... Give it a try, write a review, let me know what you think. Greg

A new listing for heart of the planet, by kociamieta

leechykeen reviews Superluminal Vagrant Twin: "Hypnotic and Immersive" October 1, 2024 "As a preface, I have a terrible habit of getting really frustrated with parser games, taking a break, then forgetting to come back. But..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for September 2024 September 30, 2024 5 items On Monday, September 30, 2024, 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...

Max Fog reviews 9 Secret Steps: "Well, welcome!" September 30, 2024 "The second chapter in my sequence of "review mathbrush games that haven't been reviewed", I review 9 Secret Steps. It's a curious game,..." - See full review

A new listing for Diver Zero, by Malachi Versus

A new listing for Excalibur: Sword of Kings, by Ian Smith, Shaun McClure

MathBrush reviews Method in My Madness: "A short game depicting a deranged mind" September 29, 2024 "In this game, made for Neo Twiny Jam and the Intentionally Bad IF jam, you play as what seems to be a woman obsessed with a man, with..." - See full review

finchie reviews Aunts and Butlers: "Baby's First IF" September 29, 2024 "This is the first interactive fiction game I ever played, back when I was a little kid, and I credit it for getting me into the IF world...." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Barroom Brawl: "Ba doom *tissssh*" September 28, 2024 "For a game that's meant to be not one of his best, Barroom Brawl really packs a punch. Pun(ch) intended. This may not be an informative..." - See full review

WorstPunk reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Perfect game no notes" September 28, 2024 "short, sweet, and to the point. made me laugh. as others have said, play with sound on"

MathBrush reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "A game that changes every real-time day you play it" September 27, 2024 "This game is very unusual. It changes based on the calendar day. The idea is that you are helping out at a shop in a fantasy setting and..." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Incredible" September 26, 2024 "The only interactive fiction to ever get an audible reaction out of me. 10/10, especially with sound on."

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