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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

A new listing for An Unexpectedly Green Journey, by James Isaac

Adam Cadre reviews Nightfall: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #18" September 6, 2024 "Alex Hoffer and I discuss Nightfall at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxL0LpvOKtE&t=399s"

Adam Cadre reviews Lord Bellwater's Secret: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #18" September 6, 2024 "Phoebe Ng and I discuss Lord Bellwater's Secret at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxL0LpvOKtE&t=25s"

MathBrush reviews The Bat: "An entertaining farce as a valet covering for a master in crisis" September 6, 2024 "Playing this game was a whirlwind of associations, expectations, references, and laughs. You play as the valet to Bruce Wyatt,..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Surreal humor and serious questions" September 6, 2024 " Middle school bodies are like crappy NYC apartments: nothing seems to fit right, the smells never go away, and the general experience... " - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews You Can't Save Her: "Short, dark science fantasy" September 6, 2024 " The pale desert of this moon curves towards an empty horizon. ... Clouds of gray dust swirl in your wake. The wind is howling a language... " - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Exploration, romance, unspeakable horrors, and randomized combat" September 5, 2024 "This is a long exploration game involving picking up and using various tools and ammunition in a surreal technomagical future. Many..." - See full review

A new listing for Le miroir d'Ozivior, by Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)

MathBrush reviews The Maze Gallery: "An artistic collaboration in the form of a labyrinthine, surreal art gallery" September 4, 2024 "This game occupied all of my play time today. It's really quite large, which is fitting for a game with 34 contributors. Most entries are..." - See full review

A new listing for Love Shapes, by Not-Only But-Also

A new listing for Walk, man., by Not-Only But-Also

A new listing for My My Microwave, by Not-Only But-Also

OtisTDog reviews A Beauty Cold and Austere: "The lesser of the pair" September 3, 2024 "This game was the insipid edutainment experience that I had feared when I was preparing to play Junior Arithmancer. When I first loaded..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Quotient, The Game: "This is... exuberant and silly." September 3, 2024 "[Update: As the author points out in comments, this review is based on an early release of the game, which has since been substantially..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "A self-reflective mystery game set in multiple time periods" September 3, 2024 "This was a hefty TADS game that I took several hours to play. It employs a variety of perspectives and player characters, and uses..." - See full review

A new listing for The End of Creation, by hetero_malk

A new listing for Altair-III : Search And Rescue, by JohnX

A new listing for Quotient, The Game, by Gregory R. Simpson

Passerine reviews You Can't Save Her: "A cohesive and inspiring short game" September 3, 2024 "It’s not easy to make an impact with such a short game, but I was moved by this cameo of two friends who’ve grown apart, who live in..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Very Strong Gland: "Minimalist parser game about alien machines on a spacecraft" September 2, 2024 "What a fun little game! This is a single-stroke parser game, a genre which I've seen a few of in the last year or two and not many more..." - See full review

itschloe reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "I couldn't think of a name for this review." September 2, 2024 "This is a very short, but clever little riff on an adventure Alice had in a forest where nothing has names. So, you need to figure out..." - See full review

itschloe reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "Where was the leather????" September 2, 2024 "Right off the bat, this game caught my eye with its title and interesting blurb- and as soon as I started the game, I was greeted with..." - See full review

itschloe reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Well, at least the title is accurate" September 2, 2024 "I don't know what I expected."

itschloe reviews KING OF XANADU: "Beware the sunbeams" September 2, 2024 "This is a short, surreal fantasy piece that I really enjoyed after playing through it twice. I won't go into too much detail on the..." - See full review

itschloe reviews Deliquescence: "Great concept but buggy" September 2, 2024 "This is a very short conversational game in which you spend time with your best friend in her last moments before she melts into goo. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "X-Files-style low-budget bureaucracy with supernatural shenanigans" September 2, 2024 "The Bureau of Strange Happenings by Phil Riley This is a long, polished parser game that took me around 4 hours even using copious hints...." - See full review

BrettW reviews Final Call: "Dripping with atmosphere, but lacking in followthrough" September 2, 2024 "In Final Call, you play a down-on-your-luck con man. But unsympathetically so: you've seemingly ditched your partner Mike at a previous..." - See full review

A new listing for Terminal City, by Powerhoof

MathBrush reviews Hildy: "A Zorkian polished puzzle game about exploring an abandoned structure" September 2, 2024 "Hildy by J. Michael Whew! This was a long game! I used hints a lot but I tried to do as much as I can on my own; I think I solved around..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Master's Lair: "A long parser/choice hybrid with magical objects and a castle" September 1, 2024 "I’m not finished with this game, but have played more than 2 hours. I’d be happy to finish it later, though! I’ve seen this game..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Welcome to the Universe: "IFComp 2024: Welcome to the Universe" September 1, 2024 "What’s terrifying about babies is how terrified they scream. Beyond the voice’s breakingpoint and still the shrillhoarse shreaking...." - See full review

Kastel reviews Remembrance: "Grieving for someone is difficult" September 1, 2024 "Just before I played this game, my mom told me that I should get married next year, so that she and my dad would be happy to see all..." - See full review

Kastel reviews He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping Him: "A Review of the RGB Cycle Up to Act 3" September 1, 2024 "The tale of Bluebeard is a violent story about a woman who learns that her husband was a rather gleeful murderer of his previous wives...." - See full review

Kastel reviews Andromeda Chained: "A decent retelling of a famous Greek myth" September 1, 2024 "The myth of Andromeda prefigures all tales of knights, dragons, and damsels in distress. Here, we see a retelling that looks at the..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Thread unlocked.: "An internet conversation gone wrong" September 1, 2024 "Thread Unlocked is a very clever game about the dynamics of group chats on services like Discord. It simulates the experience by turning..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Not Just Once: "Ambitious but flawed debut" September 1, 2024 "The game seems simple at first glance: the player watches their character walking home on a winter's night. A phone box rings. Will the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Curse: "Custom parser windows game with excellent graphics and desert setting" September 1, 2024 "This is a windows executable game in a custom system. It runs in the command line but also has pop-up windows with html-style formatting..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Bydlo; or the Ox-Cart: "Spring Thing 2024: Bydlo; or the Ox-Cart" September 1, 2024 "Bydlo; or the Ox-Cart by P.B. Parjeter ..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Deep Dark Wood: "Spring Thing 2024: Deep Dark Wood" September 1, 2024 "Deep Dark Wood by Senica Thing ..." - See full review

A new competition page: 30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2024) created September 1, 2024

A new listing for You Can't Save Her, by Sarah Mak

A new listing for You, by Carter X Gwertzman

A new listing for A Very Strong Gland, by Arthur DiBianca

A new listing for A Warm Reception, by Joshua Hetzel

A new listing for Welcome to the Universe, by Colton Olds

A new listing for When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves, by Michael Baltes

A new listing for Why Pout?, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for Yancy At The End Of The World!, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez; e/he)

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