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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

JJ McC reviews The Lost Artist: Prologue: "Detective Dada" February 4, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It seems every year there is an entry or two that just catch me so offguard, that are so unabashedly..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by jupiterleah, Games I’ve Started February 3, 2025 8 items Games I have started playing but not yet finished.

MathBrush reviews Restore, Reflect, Retry: "Self-referential story about a haunted video game" February 3, 2025 "This game is one of the most unusual commercial Choicescript games. It's much shorter than usual (at 90K words), is intended to be..." - See full review

A new listing for Magehunter: Phoenix Flame, by Nic Vasudeva-Barkdull

A new listing for Werewolves 3: Evolution's End, by Jeffrey Dean

A new listing for Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress, by Peter Adrian Behravesh

A new listing for Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire, by Drew Morrison

A new listing for The Ghost and the Golem, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

A new listing for Unsupervised, by Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry

A new listing for Werewolf: The Apocalypse—The Book of Hungry Names, by Kyle Marquis

A new listing for On the Run: Rogue Heroes, by Alyssa N. Vaughn

A new listing for Haunted Hearts Hotel, by Elle Grace

A new listing for These Thieving Hearts, by Raven de Hart

A new listing for Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn, by Lauren O'Donoghue

A new listing for Between Two Worlds, by Liam Parker

A new listing for Whiskey-Four, by John Luis

A new listing for Fields of Asphodel, by JJ Laurier

A new listing for Life as a Lich, by Adrao

A new listing for EXODUS: Climate Activist, by Daniel Stephenson

A new listing for Daria: A Kingdom Simulator, by Mike Walter

A new listing for Divine Ascension, by Teemu Salminen

A new listing for Tale of Two Cranes, by Michelle Balaban and Stephanie Balaban

A new listing for Falrika the Alchemist, by Benedict Villariaza

A new listing for Don't Wake Me Up, by Baudelaire Welch

Esperbucket reviews do not let your left hand know: "A tale of one review, one reviewer, and four stars" February 3, 2025 "Would you let someone else borrow your own body? Take it out for a spin, have a joyride with your physicality for a short period of time,..." - See full review

News on Bradisson Rayburn's Revenge!: Version 3 out now! February 3, 2025 So it's been almost a year since I first made this game, and there were a bunch of changes I made back in July that I never ended up pushing due to a bug that prevented compiling. The game ended up running... - Details

jaedoc00lm3gaepicgamer123123GD_roolz reviews The Hundredth Floor: "The Hundredth Floor: mega epic review by yours truly" February 3, 2025 "The Hundredth Floor is a game like no other. I mean, that should be obvious to you even by now (assuming you've never heard of this game)..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 31st March, Midnight.: "Compelling linear story about a problematic writer at an indie game studio" February 3, 2025 "I remember hearing stuff about this game from other people who were judging the Short Games Showcase. Even though that's over, I wanted..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG: "Multiversal Manhood Mayhem" February 3, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review ONE YEAR LATER Mc23a: “How are you back here again, time traveling future me? Wait, before you say..." - See full review

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