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MathBrush reviews Campfire: "Simulate a camping experience in a real-life setting" September 20, 2024 "This was a pleasant accompaniment to the last game I played in IFComp, Birding in Pope Lick Park. Both games are outdoorsy, real-life..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 大鱼 | Big Fish: "Crocodile-themed murder mystery" September 19, 2024 "This game is a murder mystery (one of several in this comp! Which isn't bad, there was one year where the 1st, 2nd, and 4th games were..." - See full review

A new listing for One Night in San Francisco, by Peter A. H. Peterson, UMN students

MathBrush reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "Gamebook-style police procedural murder mystery" September 19, 2024 "This Twine game feels very independent from other Twine traditions, with a gameplay style, styling and structure that seems derived from..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Zozzled: "Ghost story + love story + light puzzler - integration = something messy" September 18, 2024 "Playing Zozzled was a very strange experience. Because it was an IFComp winner, my expectations of it were set relatively high. These..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "Compact twine adventure about rescuing miners in a fantasy world" September 18, 2024 "This is a Twine game with inventory and world model that has a pretty compact map set in a mine. The idea is that you are a mage who..." - See full review

A new listing for what happens if we never talk again?, by wombokgames

Tabitha reviews String Theory: "Engaging family drarma" September 18, 2024 "This is a well-written, well-made game with some unusual aspects. While it uses the default Twine Harlowe font and color scheme, there is..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Awakened Deeply: "Room for improvement" September 18, 2024 "This is a fairly brief and mostly straightforward sci-fi puzzler that’s a bit rough around the edges. There were a decent number of..." - See full review

A new listing for The Table, by Matt Weiner

A new listing for Richard and Larry Build A Time Machine, by Jeremy Penner

MathBrush reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "Time murder mystery set in space, with the ship as the sleuth" September 18, 2024 "This game's list of author's includes every published Choice of Games author who has been nominated for a Nebula Award, which is pretty..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bad Beer: "Solve a bar's beer problem" September 18, 2024 "I had mixed feelings seeing this game's blurb and name. On the one hand, I've enjoyed all of Vivienne's games, which tend to focus on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Awakened Deeply: "Star Trek-inspired game about escaping a ship after a slaughter" September 17, 2024 "Alas, upon starting this game and solving the starting puzzle, I saw the following room description: > A small room with nothing but your..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Focal Shift: "Cyberpunk heist" September 17, 2024 "I've played three games now by Fred Snyder over the years, all written in his custom parser engine and all involving compact maps with..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Major update! September 17, 2024 With this major update, the game is now more engaging than ever! The characters have gotten much more conversational and help the player advance through the game. Give it a try and let me know what you... - Details

MathBrush reviews Forbidden Lore: "A complex library room filled with books and magic" September 17, 2024 "This TADS game had many delightful elements to it. You are in a library filled with, well, Forbidden Lore. It belongs to a powerful..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Deliquescence: "Short game about friend who is being liquefied" September 17, 2024 "'She has been a solid and your friend for a long time.' This is a solid opening for a game about your friend turning liquid in a fatal..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Warm Reception: "Search a castle to get stronger to fight a battle" September 16, 2024 "Seeing this game gave me trepidation. Marked 'an hour and a half', parser game, 'Old School', 'Excellent for new players and veterans of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Metallic Red: "Day after day, floating through space" September 16, 2024 "Being alone or in a small group in space is a classic story setup. Even before space people did it with ships, like Robinson Crusoe or..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Magical prison school Choicescript game" September 16, 2024 "Felicity Banks has entered IFComp many times before with clever Choicescript games that contain themes like magic, alchemy, cats, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Den: "Two characters escape from an underground bunker" September 15, 2024 "The Den by Ben Jackson. It's been interesting tracking Ben Jackson's IF career. The Kuolema used Google Forms, a highly unusual format,..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews McMurphy's Mansion: "A Bug-Laden Jaunt In Bonnie Scotland" September 15, 2024 "A Scottish fly lands on your nose.....a Scottish bug lands on your left ear....and your right ear....and your chin....and your adam's..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Verses: "IFComp 2024: Verses" September 15, 2024 "I’ve a bittersweet relationship with Penguin; the publisher, I should clarify, not the birds who can recognize the cry of their chicks..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Breakfast in the Dolomites: "Eat breakfast in Italy!" September 15, 2024 "This is a parser game set entirely in real life. You are an Italian man on a weekend vacation with a beautiful young woman. Your goal is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 198BREW: "Surreal game about getting coffee in a bizarre urban landscape" September 14, 2024 "This game might be described as "Weird Urban Fantasy". After a brief prologue, it starts off with a classic 'my apartment' game that..." - See full review

A new listing for Celestial Tear: Demon's Revenge, by White Guardian Studios

MathBrush reviews Hebe: "Rescue the Greek Gods through code-like puzzles" September 14, 2024 "In this game, Kronos has imprisoned the Gods, and you must rescue them two by two. This game acknowledges it was written with ChatGPT, so..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Why Pout?: "Fun wordplay game where you gather friends" September 14, 2024 "Why Pout? by Andrew Schultz Andrew Schultz has a long history of making wordplay games which all follow the same general pattern (typing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eikas: "A cooking/friendship game set over 30 days in a magical town" September 13, 2024 "Well, this was a pleasure. It’s rare (to me) to find a long, well-paced, polished Twine game with nice presentation, few bugs, good..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: New Release! September 12, 2024 Thanks to my first Beta Tester, and first Reviewer, I have a new release out! This one addresses many beta test findings, as well as some items noted in the review, such as the scoring bug, and ensuring... - Details

MathBrush reviews Traffic: "A fairly difficult parser game about multiple viewpoints on a traffic accident" September 12, 2024 "Parser games let you type in whatever you want. They only respond to a small fragment of that. If I open a random parser game and say 'I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Redjackets: "Vampires and humans collaborate to take down a villain" September 12, 2024 "This is a twine game with three different paths about a group uniting to defeat a powerful vampire. You can play from three perspectives...." - See full review

A new listing for Ville de Dragons, by Lots of french people

MathBrush reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Brave a graveyard in search of an ancient weapon" September 11, 2024 "This is a longish parser game set in a time with horses, wagons, and captains but not electricity. In it, you play as a soldier who is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Deserter: "A soldier with a mech deserts an army" September 11, 2024 "I was quite surprised by the length of this game. I finished it in 15 minutes, but it's labelled as over 2 hours. I suspect it's due to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "A parser recreated in Twine for exploring a castle" September 10, 2024 "I had a bit of trouble getting this game to work at first. It's a heavily modified Twine game that uses a kind of parser command format..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX: "Eternal flame" September 10, 2024 "The little match girl's mission is to retrieve a missing statue on orders from the pope himself. She is accompanied by a new character,..." - See full review

News on The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton: Downloadable Version available now on itch.io September 10, 2024 A downloadable version is now available to play on request. I didn't even realize I hadn't provided a download package, but it is available now: Click here to Play or Download on itch.io!

Canalboy reviews Tower of Barad: "A Slapdash Piece Of PAWed Twaddle" September 10, 2024 "You know you are in trouble with a game when you find "a bottle of weedkiller" and on attempting the inevitable TAKE BOTTLE the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Shyler Project: "A voice-acted twine game about a mental health ai bot" September 10, 2024 "This is a short, 3-part Twine game that is dialogue between someone seeking mental health aid and an AI bot designed to help with mental..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Saltcast Adventure: "A long, polished fantasy about mirror-creatures" September 10, 2024 "This is a long, worldbuilding-heavy, sincere fantasy Twine game about a world where dark magical creatures are born from mirrors. You..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Civil Service: "A moody game about second chances and a drab office" September 8, 2024 "This is a short, atmospheric Twine game with two endings. It's hard to describe, so I'll go with what my first impressions were, then..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "Short illustrated Dr Who game about escaping a Dalek facility" September 8, 2024 "I'm surprised this one has no review yet, I think this is the most fun jkj yuio game I've played so far. It's a direct use of Dr Who..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "A delightful and well-done introductory work" September 8, 2024 "With Inform's core code having grown so much that only the smallest scenarios produced by it will still fit within Z-machine, one might..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "We didn't start the fire" September 8, 2024 "Little Match Girls, assemble! This episode immediately subverts the LMG formula by putting you in the shoes of Linus, an NPC from..." - See full review

Sobol reviews House of Wolves: "A beast fable" September 8, 2024 "Since prehistoric times, people loved anthropomorphic animals; one of the reasons is a huge potential for generalization. When watching..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Verses: "Analyse bio-technological material and translate poems " September 8, 2024 "Verses by Kit Riemer This was a hard game to play, but not for the usual reasons. It wasn't difficult in a puzzly way and it didn't make..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews String Theory: "A tense Thanksgiving hiding your sexuality and learning secrets " September 7, 2024 "This game was interesting; I'm not sure if it's actually complete or not, as the story ended a little abruptly for me. It did give me an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "A dog-gone murder mystery" September 7, 2024 "This was a long game! It took me around 3 to 4 hours to finish, possibly because clicking links wasn't quite as fast as typing, but it..." - See full review

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