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MathBrush reviews Sophomore Slump: "Thoughtful character study of a band member and manager" February 11, 2025 "I liked this Shufflecomp game that was a short vignette about a band. You are awakened in the middle of the night by an associate..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Little Guidance for A Big Heart: "Pocket-based wingman and confessions" February 11, 2025 "It's possible that I'm getting older or have a carbon monoxide leak in my house, but I frequently play games recently where I have..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews hideous, fabulous: "Cool postmortem vignette" February 11, 2025 "This is a game with at least three different endings and which has a pretty neat mechanic. Everybody is dead at your party (well, it's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Freedom's Whirlwind: "Brief game about revolution" February 11, 2025 "This game is themed around the story of a Polish revolutionary anthem from the 1800s that was repurposed by Russia. Its a short poem with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews bedrock: "Melancholic poetry with a word-gathering feature" February 11, 2025 "This game was entered into Shufflecomp. The author projects finishing it or adding more at a future date. Basically, there is some..." - See full review

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JJ McC reviews 198BREW: "You Are Whom You Eat" February 11, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review If there is a more effective hook in IF than “what the HELL is going on here?” I am hard pressed to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Funny Page Procedural" February 11, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Four panel cartoons are in the twilight of their cultural ubiquity for sure. There have been a few spikes..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews String Theory: "Thanks-MISgiving" February 11, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Neitzsche famously said “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Divine Ascension: "A battle of the divines" February 10, 2025 "In Divine Ascension, you play as a powerful deity, working to spread your faith and gain greater power for yourself. Unfortunately, this..." - See full review

jakezler reviews salting wounds: "Interesting Game" February 10, 2025 "I loved the story writing and felt truly immersed. The world feels much larger with some of the fictional medical terms (at least i think..." - See full review

Esperbucket reviews The Bat: "A good valet is harder to find than a good review" February 10, 2025 "The guests are almost here, and the master is in one of his moods. You're his faithful servant, and there's much to do: a cook to fire,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Jazz Age: "When romance goes missing" February 10, 2025 "Under different circumstances, I would’ve given this game four stars. However, there is one major problem which led me to give its..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Little Lifeform That Could: "Spore in choicescript" February 10, 2025 "This is a surprisingly cute and entertaining game. Likely inspired by spore, you start from a microorganism in a rock pool which..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Fine Felines: "Fur babies" February 10, 2025 "I have a terrible weakness for fur babies, so this game gets five stars. Especially after the onslaught of cute cat pictures. Anyways,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Zoo-pocalypse: "If I hadn’t ran the zoo" February 10, 2025 "An apocalypse (of an unspecified nature) takes place, and you decide that it’s best to take refuge in a Zoo. I’m not sure I buy the..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Anolelona: "Infinite Utopian Dreamland Afterlife" February 10, 2025 " After you die, if your coffin isn't sealed all around with pewter nails, you'll seep down through the soil. Thinner than mist, you'll... " - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of the Star Captain: "An entertaining space adventure" February 10, 2025 "This is a fairly solid title where you play as a starship captain, working alongside an obnoxious onboard computer to achieve mission..." - See full review

SkyShard reviews she came from the fog: "Brief Notes on Car 13, Seat 26" February 10, 2025 "Note that this review will discuss both games in the Car 13, Seat 26 project. If you squint, “the train will pass you by” and “she..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews a diner for the end of the world: "A solid sci-fi story about a diner at the end of the world where everyone is you" February 10, 2025 "This is story-focused twine game that uses dithered graphics (I recently learned this word) and is set in a diner at the end of all..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews KillerTuneKillsMe: "Brief sci-fi story about holgraphic principle" February 10, 2025 "This short game toys with the notion of the holographic principle, which is that it's possible that the universe is encoded on a..." - See full review

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

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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

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