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JJ McC reviews Verses: "Least Helpful Review" February 10, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There is inarguably some distortion inherent in IFCOMP’s format that has a deforming effect on reviews..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Turn Right: "Look Kids, Parliament, Big Ben" February 10, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review On behalf of IF players on this side of the Atlantic, let me thank this work for contextualizing ‘Right..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Imprimatura: "Oscar for Most Unironic Goes To..." February 10, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review “Oscar Bait” is a pejorative term sometimes lobbed at movies. There is every likelihood I have used..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Line in the Sand: "A collection of stories, most short with choices, one long with plot" February 9, 2025 "I almost completely misunderstood this game. It's navigated via a clock-like interface where you click on squares to advance the story...." - See full review

C. W. Gray reviews Therapy Can Harm Too: "Not Much Here" February 9, 2025 "A limited story with a limited perspective, one I’ve seen several times in these mental health related games. It’s easy to blame..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Nightmare Maze: "Finding a way out" February 9, 2025 "You’re trapped in a nightmare, and need to pick the right choices to understand what’s happening to you. The game’s design is..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Golden Opportunity: "Trial and error to reach the end" February 9, 2025 "The plot behind this game is simple. You’re a thief, you’ve heard of an opportunity, and now you’re out to liberate some gold from..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Island Of Carnage: "A combat heavy survival story" February 9, 2025 "Island of Carnage is a fairly solid short game for a bit of entertainment. You play as a journalist, traveling to a dangerous island for..." - See full review

IFDB site news February 9, 2025 2024 IFDB Awards are ending soon!: Voting ends for the IFDB Awards at roughly midnight EST on February 16th. Make sure you get your votes in early! The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here.

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of the Dragon: "The first choicescript game " February 9, 2025 "For some reason, I decided to dig through one of my oldest memories, the second choicescript game I played and the first one ever made...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Interactive Bonbons 🍬: "Technical genius and creativity, but it does not strictly translate to fun" February 9, 2025 "Interactive Bonbons is no typical choicescript game. Instead it is a bunch of minigames made in the choicescript engine. A couple of..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Breakfast in the Dolomites: "All-Thumbs Simulator" February 9, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A pleasant, slice-of-life work about two young people vacationing in the mountains, poised to enjoy..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Eikas: "Kitchen Core" February 9, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review One of the best experiences in IF is encountering a work that is NOT MY THING, then watching it,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Winter-Over: "Agatha Christie on Ice" February 9, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There is a reason John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic. Ok, there’s a lot of reasons, but a big..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Tableaux: "A loose collection of three surreal stories with some connections" February 8, 2025 "This game was part of Shufflecomp and was based on three different songs. In it, you go through a sequence of surreal worlds with strange..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews No More: "A paragraph from a review you shouldn't have seen, let alone read" February 8, 2025 "The camel's back is broken, the end of the rope has been reached. "Get thee to a nunnery" is an idea that has reached its time, at least..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Arthur: A Retelling: "A humorous adventure with The Sword in the Stone vibes." February 8, 2025 "If I had an award for “Best Game which nobody but me liked,” this probably would be it. Arthur: A Retelling wasn’t too warmly..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of Broadsides: "It hasn’t aged well" February 8, 2025 "Choice of Broadsides is the first choicescript game I played, back in 2010. For some unfathomable reason, I decided to come back to it..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Shyler Project: "Puttin' the A in AI" February 8, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Hoo boy. This one was a Thelma-and-Louise foot-on-the-gas thundering juggernaut of a work, seemingly..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Metallic Red: "Blinking while Eyeing the Prize" February 8, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Verisimilitude is a great word. All those 'i’s in a row, playfully bookended by complementary phonics,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "Rogue-Blocker" February 8, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I swear, this series confounds me. I played Act 1 (apparently before Act 2 was available in the..." - See full review

tildemania reviews The Horrible Pyramid: "Not gonna lie" February 7, 2025 "This was kind of hot"

Nomad reviews Gaming After A Long Day At Work: "Not a game" February 7, 2025 "So unless I oversaw something - Page 1: Text with X=6 choices. Whatever you chose, it's Page 1 with X-1 choices. When you're down to 0..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by tildemania, Annotated Interactive Fiction February 7, 2025 9 items Interactive Fiction that is in some way "annotated": a persistent running commentary from a perspective outside the narrative accompanies the "base" narration. Sometimes the annotation may be authorial, at...

ChanceOfFire reviews Leas: City of the Sun: "A fun fantasy story" February 7, 2025 "Full Disclosure: I was a beta tester for this game. This review is based on the version of the game I played during the beta testing..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Saga of Oedipus Rex: "Cheat your fate" February 7, 2025 "Oedipus Rex is a tragedy, a man cursed by prophecy to However, that does not have to be the case..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Great Tournament: "A fun adventure with a solid story and gameplay elements" February 7, 2025 "Oh yes. The most rated game in the HG omnibus. In the Great Tournament, you start as a young boy from a humble background who works his..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Swamp Castle: "A game with solid management and gameplay elements" February 7, 2025 "In Swamp Castle, you play as the newly minted lord of a small fief. Gameplay largely consists of making decisions about fief governance,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost (expanded 2019 version): "A good story which leaves you wanting more" February 7, 2025 "In this game, you play as a child who is sold into slavery and trained to become a gladiator. There is a pretty interesting cast of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Anolelona: "A fantasy afterlife with bizarre characters" February 7, 2025 "I loved the worldbuilding in this Vorple game. (side note: I'm not sure why it's Vorple; I didn't notice any graphics, sound or text..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Campfire: "Wibbly Wobbly Campy Wampy" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review The choice to cycle the modern Dr.s Who… let me just pause to say I will pay 5 American dollars to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Gulag Hogworts" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Long before Miss Duckworthy’s, I had concluded that ChoiceScript was probably not my IF thing. Its..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Forbidden Lore: "Dragony Decimal System" February 7, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Standard TADS Disclaimer: I am a TADS-stan. Reader, calibrate your assessment of my impartiality as you..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Reviews always seek refuge in familiar databases whenever they're written" February 6, 2025 "As a Word Mage, the English language is both the source of your magical power and your instrument. However, a really badly timed accident..." - See full review

Shaun Hamman reviews Toby's Nose: "A Picture Is Worth 1000 Smells (and Maybe a Few More…)" February 6, 2025 "Looking for a palate-cleanser after finishing the Zork trilogy, my wife and I settled on Toby's Nose, a delightful little one-ish room..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews KING OF XANADU: "Deploribus Rex" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Choice-making in IF is the secret sauce that differentiates it from just-plain-F. Whether choice-select,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Hildy: "Magically Blonde" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review As sometimes happens when I review things, my brain decides on a reductive label that becomes the lens I..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Traffic: "In Media Dev" February 6, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A parser-driven, time loop scenario of interconnected cause and effect to untangle? Yes, please! One..." - See full review

A new listing for salting wounds, by Naarel

MathBrush reviews abyssopelagic cable anomaly: "Moody, short atmospheric underwater game" February 5, 2025 "I like the atmosphere in this short Shufflecomp game a lot. There is a bunch of mysterious worldbuilding which is purposely vague, but it..." - See full review

A new listing for Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man... And They're Hot?!, by WhatNames

JJ McC reviews Final Call: "No Basement for Old Crooks" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A click-select exploration adventure, I’m going to say with echoes of parser DNA, but well short of a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Bad Beer: "Mission ImPubsible" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Talk about a masterclass in establishing stakes. The beer has GONE BAD. FIX IT, STAT!!! My GOD game, say..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There: "Luigi's Aunt's Haunted Mansion" February 5, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This is the latest of the hoary old ‘mysterious invite to spooky house’ setup. If you are asking,..." - See full review

A new listing for Isolated, by Torment Of Gloom

Esperbucket reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Quest for the Review with Moderate Praise" February 4, 2025 ""If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews Familiar Problems: "You are a synthesis review, a more-or-less rectangular blob of text" February 4, 2025 "You are a familiar - a homunculus, a little man in the bottle - except you're not gendered, not at all human, and definitely not in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Welcome to my Treehouse: "Escape a treehouse with a bewildering array of tapestries" February 4, 2025 "In this game, you meet a group of new friends and decide to hang out with them. Unfortunately, you end up trapped by one friend in their..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Focal Shift: "Hack Everything but Expectations" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review A Javascript-coded HTML text-entry parser game. What won’t they think of next! The infinite flexibility..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "High Bar Nostalgia" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Is there such thing as pedigree in IF? Actually, is pedigree itself ANYTHING??? Other than a socially..." - See full review

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