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A new competition page: IntroComp 2003 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2004 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2005 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2006 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2007 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2008 created August 10, 2024

A new competition page: IntroComp 2018 created August 10, 2024

circe08 reviews Anchorhead: "Very disappointed, did not live up to hype" August 10, 2024 "I really wanted to like this game. As a Lovecraft reader and a resident Massachusettsan I relished reading a story about the man-made..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Hanna, We're Going to School: "High school horror" August 9, 2024 "There’s a lot going on in this game, as you’ll see from the length of this review! I’ve played multiple other IF works by Kastel,..." - See full review

A new listing for Orphan, by Exalted Text

Max Fog reviews Kiss of Beth: "Can't we all just have normal roommates? —or— Cut the kiiiids in haaaalf..." August 8, 2024 "To start off with, that was a very impressive change in mood there. I was in no way expecting that - I was thinking along the style of a..." - See full review

circe08 reviews Animalia: "Wacky and super funny" August 8, 2024 "Super creative and funny concept, the writing is very good."

circe08 reviews Open Sorcery: "Heartfelt, creative, one of the best games I've ever played" August 8, 2024 "Bought this on Steam a couple years ago and its my fault for not coming give it a 5 star stamp of appreciation sooner. One of my all time..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Game That Never Ends: "A neverending sequence of rooms " August 8, 2024 "This game was the only game entered in Spring Thing 2020's Late Harvest, designed to accomodate designers who were unable to complete..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Kiss of Beth: "A multimedia date-vetting game with a twist" August 7, 2024 "This game has you play the friend of the eponymous Beth, whose date has arrived. It’s your job to size this guy up. The game has music..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by OverThinking, Featuring music by Charm Cochran August 7, 2024 8 items A personal list of games that include my music, either that I wrote specifically for or that use one of my tracks (I'll note which is which). Listed in order of release

MathBrush reviews passenger9027: "A short game about waking from cryosleep" August 6, 2024 "This game has a classic setup: you awake, disoriented, from a cryopod, alone on a starship. It’s been used dozens or hundreds of times..." - See full review

A new listing for passenger9027, by kociamieta

A new poll by baf, Language puzzles created August 5, 2024 21 votes for 10 games I'm interested in games where the player must learn an unfamiliar language. I'm particularly interested in ones that have done it in unique ways, and ones where the language is dissimilar to English.

Tabitha reviews Captain Piedaterre's Blunders: "A ratty spoof" August 4, 2024 "I love rats, and I enjoyed Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder (both when I first played it and after replaying it today in preparation to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Halfling Dale: "An cozy, low-stakes hobbit game with significant branching" August 4, 2024 "This game is a long choice-based game where you build a character who is a hobbit and live through a year or so of local hobbit life. It..." - See full review

Adam Cadre reviews An Act of Murder: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Amanda Malone and I discuss An Act of Murder at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=38m50s"

Adam Cadre reviews Child's Play: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Ellie Darling and I discuss Child's Play at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=16m29s"

Adam Cadre reviews Lost Pig: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #17" August 4, 2024 "Kat Zhang and I discuss Lost Pig at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqZOk4U_tk#t=20s"

robotspacer reviews The Zen of Kayaking: "A delightful journey" August 4, 2024 "The Zen of Kayaking constantly surprised and delighted me. There are a nice variety of puzzles with a good range of difficulty. Some of..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame: ""Remember, there are few problems that can’t be solved by METAL!"" August 4, 2024 "This game starts off awesome and somehow manages to get even better as it goes on. First off, it's so authentic to the music scenes it's..." - See full review

A new poll by Tabitha, 2025 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only) created August 3, 2024 19 votes for 19 games The IF Review-a-thon is an event meant to spur reviews of games that haven't received much reviewing attention (for this event, that's defined as "has fewer than 5 reviews across IFDB and the intfiction.org...

IFforL2 reviews 黑洞: "Long time no play" August 3, 2024 "It's been a long time since I've seen a new genuinely interactive text in Mandarin Chinese. A lot of what is called 文字冒險遊戲 or..." - See full review

A new listing for 黑洞, by 納德絲

matt w (Matt Weiner) reviews The Temple of No: "An overextended joke at the player's expense, with its heart in the wrong place" August 3, 2024 "Admittedly I played this because of another review that described it as worse than Annoyotron. (Which I liked and will leave a comment..." - See full review

A new listing for Larvae, by A. Villarroel

MathBrush reviews How Dare You: "Immovable object simulator: relationship style " August 3, 2024 "This game has you come to your partner’s door only to find that you have been cast out! The relationship has unilaterally been declared..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Chinese Family Dinner Moment: "a chinese family dinner moment for a very specific definition of chinese" August 3, 2024 "When I played this game, I expected a single choice (given what Jam it was for), not no choice, so when I finished, I was pretty..." - See full review

A new poll by pieartsy, Games about characters who are Trapped by the Narrative created August 2, 2024 9 votes for 9 games Games about characters being trapped by the themes and plot of the game, with little to no possibility for a good and happy ending, no matter how the characters strive against it. Often dynamic fiction;...

IFDB site news August 2, 2024 Mobile improvements: Pages for individual games work much better on mobile browsers now. In addition, we've added the ability to collapse the "Welcome to IFDB!" section, so you can see more IFDB news on the home page. (If you sign in and collapse the section, we'll remember that you prefer the section collapsed.)

Max Fog reviews Look Around the Corner: "Look around the corner 'till the morning's done" August 2, 2024 "For this next review, I began playing Teatime With A Vampire (which, along with Romance the Backrooms, could do with some reviews) -..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Yaan Versus the Party: "A tightly-controlled game of navigating a party " August 2, 2024 "In this short game you have to get through a party, passing 4 obstacles. You are rated on your performance by your boss and by your..." - See full review

A new listing for A Crown of Ash 0.1 - Prologue, by Ashes_and_Sand

Joey Jones reviews Alphabet City: "AI-Generated Buggy Romp" August 1, 2024 "This game is very buggy and at least some of the room descriptions were written using ChatGPT. Still, it's a very characterful romp..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews The Samurai and the Kappa: "Game of Two Halves" August 1, 2024 "This game has an interesting relationship to mimesis. It’s very much a game of two halves. The first part is a puzzleless tutorial..." - See full review

A new listing for Lone Survivor, by Brian Howarth

MathBrush reviews Bluebeard's Not-Wives: "Kinetic fiction with a twist on Bluebeard" July 31, 2024 "One of my favorite operas, if not my very favorite, is the Hungarian opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a short two-singer psychological..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews I'll Drive: "Love on the road " July 31, 2024 "This is a short romantic story about going on a road trip with someone you love. There’s a cast of supporting characters along with our..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for June/July 2024 July 31, 2024 5 items On Friday, June 28, 2024 and on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! (The first two in June; the latter three in July.) They were paid for by my...

Max Fog reviews The Way Home: "Fairly cold, and almost a rough diamond" July 31, 2024 "This game starts with you, tied to a tree, with two trolls going to steal the diamond you are carrying. From the start, it has some..." - See full review

A new listing for Silicon Quest, by Nidal Bazzi

virtuadept reviews PARANOIA: "Difficult "Spot The Difference" Puzzle Done as Text" July 31, 2024 "So, you may have played this before, possibly in the newspaper even. There's two pictures side by side. At first glance, it's just two..." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens: "Review Askew, Rating Due!" July 31, 2024 "Chime Rhymes, Clue Through! This is a rhyming game, and apparently not the first by Andrew Schultz but it was the first one I've played...." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Zugzwang: "Atari 2600 Swordquest as a Text Adventure?" July 31, 2024 "This was pretty random but awesome. I mean, it really has intriguing writing. It kind of sort of felt like chess, but to me it also kind..." - See full review

virtuadept reviews Alphabet City: "Gritty Urban Adventure" July 31, 2024 "Alphabet City is full of grime and grunge. The place just reeks of poverty, decay, desperation. You are all to familiar with the bottom,..." - See full review

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