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A new competition page: Short Games Showcase 2024 created December 9, 2024 The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam...

A new listing for te/ra/to/ma, by Naarel

News on ShuffleComp 2024: 1 week left to register for Shufflecomp! December 9, 2024 Send in your songs and register to participate via this form if you haven't already! All sign-ups must be received by 23:59 PT Dec 15.

A new competition page: ShuffleComp 2024 created December 9, 2024 ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

A new listing for Gentleman, Adventurer, Crocodile, by Akz

A new listing for Puffer: An Underwater Tale, by ThreeQuiche

MathBrush reviews Venience World: "Parser/choice hybrid with cool styling and a metaphorical story" December 8, 2024 "This game is one in which you pursue a metaphorical world, like Alice in Wonderland or the Phantom Tollbooth. It relies heavily on..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Arizona Craters: "Good story, work needed on the UI" December 8, 2024 "This story was a fairly straightforward story of a woman working on a research task about disproving an alien arrival, and getting caught..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews We're All Fans Here, Chapter 1: "The introduction to a short spacefaring fanfic" December 8, 2024 "I remember seeing this game in Spring Thing years ago and didn't play it because I wasn't familiar with the games it was inspired by. But..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "Excellent serial murder crime-solving with time pressure and skills system" December 8, 2024 "(This is an edited version of a review that first appeared in my IF blog during IFComp 2024.) The Killings in Wasacona (KIW) by Steve..." - See full review

A new listing for The Book of Jax, by Larry Horsfield

MathBrush reviews Sunrise: "A longish visual novel about a desert kingdom and witches" December 7, 2024 "This is a visual novel entered into Spring Thing about a decade ago. In it, you play as a young woman torn between two brothers, one who..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The Edifice: "One outstanding and historically significant puzzle" December 7, 2024 "Despite its fame, The Edifice is a fairly rough-edged affair, and I seem to have bumped into just about every one of those rough edges...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews If You're Here: "A high school story about a trans guy and his abusive boyfriend" December 7, 2024 "This is a Spring Thing choice based game from a while back. It's a choice-based story about your friend and your stepbrother (a trans..." - See full review

Jacic reviews Boo.: "Short spooky atmospheric game." December 6, 2024 "It's short, but I think that works in its favour given the kind of "atmospheric experience" game it is, and it performs that task quite..." - See full review

A new listing for Arkuwar, by Daniel M. Stelzer

A new listing for Lewd Mod: XXXmas, by HHRichards

A new listing for Christmas Adventure, by The Ventureweaver

MathBrush reviews The Milk of Paradise: "A short story about a Khan in the heart of luxury" December 5, 2024 "This is a relatively brief Inform game written with lush language and originally entered into Spring Thing many years ago. Every word is..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "A shaggy sasquatch story" December 5, 2024 "(I beta tested this game) Pretty much every geek of a certain age, I will confidently assert, had their hearts broken by the X-Files. For..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Medieval Detective investigates a somewhat buggy abandoned chapel" December 4, 2024 "(This is an edited version of a review that first appeared in my IF blog during IFComp 2024.) In spite of being the buggiest game I..." - See full review

Dave Schweisguth reviews Curses: "Magnum opus" December 4, 2024 "Curses is big, but it's not just a pile of puzzles. It has a solid story. The game world has interesting structures, which you gradually..." - See full review

Next_Stop_Willoughby reviews A Beauty Cold and Austere: "I'm In Love" December 4, 2024 "This game blew me out of the water. Every puzzle was engaging and educational. I must admit to the occasional use of hints, but I fully..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Diploma mill" December 4, 2024 "It’s a commonplace, I think, for those of us in the mainline IF tradition to look over at the (far bigger and far more successful by..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Yancy At The End Of The World!: "Pictures of success" December 4, 2024 "What if the world ended and everything more or less went on just as it did before? Yancy at the End of the World puts a unique spin on..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews You Can't Save Her: "Like quills upon the fretful porpentine" December 4, 2024 "Y’all probably know by now that I’m the kind of reviewer who likes to go outside the four corners of a work and look for connections..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews [You wake up itching.]: "A good game for parasite fans. Here's a much-needed walkthrough." December 3, 2024 "I found this game while looking for games about , that kind of thing. So the story, which some other..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "Dark and ominous, with no signs of welcome or warmth" December 3, 2024 "Usually when I have to review a game I really didn’t get on with, I try to avoid being excessively mean by doing some comedy, maybe..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews String Theory: "Elusive connections" December 3, 2024 "“Slice of life” is a funny name for a genre, if you spend too much time thinking about it (I suspect this is true of most genre..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "Good for a gander" December 3, 2024 "A sober-minded critic might accuse Miss Gosling’s Last Case of over-egging the pudding. A cozy mystery that leans into the..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Drosophilia: "A perfect demonstration of link rot." December 2, 2024 "If you look at the reviews for this game, you'll notice they say it has a lot of direct links to Youtube videos. You'll also notice this..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Starship Volant: Stowaway: "A linear cinematic space story with multiple points of view" December 2, 2024 "This game is quite unusual in its structure. You can start out reading intros for different characters. While playing the game, you often..." - See full review

A new listing for Stuck in Sutton, by Ben Rosewood

News on ECTOCOMP 2024: The results for ECTOCOMP 2024 are available December 2, 2024 The official results are in! Congratulations to the winners!

Tabitha reviews do not let your left hand know: "Hooked me and didn't let go" December 2, 2024 "Note: Review contains spoilers throughout! This one was intriguing from the get-go—we start in media res with our narrator, Monica,..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews As the Eye Can See: "Lovely and melancholy" December 2, 2024 "Note: Review contains spoilers throughout! This one bills itself as “A short story about the day before Halloween”, and that is..." - See full review

A new listing for Uncle Harry's Will, by R. L. Turner

A new listing for Stand Elsewhere, by Donald Conrad, Peter M.J. Gross, and Cort Stratton

MathBrush reviews Realm of Obsidian: "A long game with demons, spam, and sound effects" December 2, 2024 "This is a wild game. It's written in the thinBasic Adventure Builder system. It uses multiple colors of texts and has a ton of sounds. To..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Bewildering and innovative" December 2, 2024 "I confess that I don’t really have a clear idea about what’s going on in this cops-and-robbers comic-strip game. Here’s what I now:..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Alter egotist" December 2, 2024 "(Some spoilers) “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be,” muses a WWII-era American..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There: "I'll be the best houseguest you ever had" December 2, 2024 "Among my bad habits is my tendency, upon first visiting the house of an acquaintance, to ignore my host and make a beeline for the..." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews do not let your left hand know: "I left because I thought it was right" December 1, 2024 "(The following ramble mostly discusses the ending of this piece in a way that's not really worth tagging, so be aware if you're wary of..." - See full review

A new listing for Hidden Agenda, by Ron Martinez and Jim Gasperini

Mike Russo reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Enthusiastic if wonky dungeon crawling" December 1, 2024 "Some blurbs directly transmit what the game is going to be about, but others a little more challenging to decode. So it is with The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews 198BREW: "Aspects of immortality" December 1, 2024 "(Some unmarked spoilers here, it’s that kind of game). Rarely has a game’s opening left me with more whiplash than 198BREW’s. After..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bad Beer: "Heady with a touch of bitterness" December 1, 2024 "I’ve said before that I like the aesthetics of horror, but can sometimes be put off by the gore, suffering, bad actions, and trauma..." - See full review

A new listing for Skyward Sanctuary, by Jennifer S. Lange

MathBrush reviews Encyclopedia of Elementals: "Very long epic quest adventure about magic and swordfighting" November 30, 2024 "This was a really, really long quest game, and one of the longer linear parser games I've played. It is also unfortunately kind of buggy...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Winter-Over: "Death on the ice" November 30, 2024 "Is there a better setting for anything than Antarctica? It’s obviously aces for horror: the isolation and existential precariousness of..." - See full review

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