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A new listing for The Last Scion, by D. G. P. Rector

A new listing for Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C Baker

A new listing for Games of the Monarch's Eye, by Saffron Kuo

A new listing for Eternal Affairs, by Jamie Maurer

A new listing for Spellbound: Malachite Coven, by Erin Rowlands

A new listing for Devil on Your Shoulder, by Lisa Fox

MathBrush reviews Bloodline: "Short game about a girl, a boy, a crush, and a card game" October 18, 2025 "This game has been on my wishlist longer than almost anything else, and I no longer remember why I put it on there, but it was fun. It's..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Witch Girls: "“We don’t do love magic.”" October 17, 2025 "The witch girls are a clique of girls at school who can supposedly perform magic. You and your friend Morag have decided to turn to them..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Dangerous Curves: "Ambitious simulationism, constrained only by the limits of the Z-machine" October 17, 2025 "Dangerous Curves lingered on my to-play list for a very long time. I had picked it up and tried it a few times, and never made it very..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Promises of Mars: "Perhaps too slick" October 17, 2025 "This game immediately impresses with its excellent presentation. On the title page, the pixel art and beautiful orange and grey colour..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Little Four: "Domestic delights" October 17, 2025 "Slice-of-life is one of my favourite subgenres of fanfiction. Especially for those canons that tend toward intrigue and action, it is..." - See full review

iaraya reviews Dead Sea: "Compelling story but awkward gameplay" October 17, 2025 "At the heart of this game is a quite compelling story. Our protagonist wakes in a strange graveyard with no memory of who they are or how..." - See full review

iaraya reviews Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus - Part I: The City of Dol Bannath: "A promising start" October 17, 2025 "game map A promising start! The premise here is that you are a student warrior poet, about to embark on a career of adventuring; however,..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Reliquary of Epiphanius: "A historical puzzle trail" October 17, 2025 "I will say upfront that I did not manage to finish this game. I got softlocked about an hour in when " - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Wait, my spacesuit could've done WHAT?!" October 17, 2025 "This review may discuss puzzle mechanics more than plot. Other reviews on IFDB as of now focus more on the story, and I hope this one..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Olive Tree: "A brief sketch" October 17, 2025 "I can certainly see what the intent of this work is, but for me it wasn’t very successful. It wants to humanize the suffering that’s..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Little Four: "And they were roommates" October 17, 2025 "A confession: I’ve only ever read one Agatha Christie novel, and it’s the Poirot-less And Then There Were None, so I went into this..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews High On Grief: "Complex emotions" October 17, 2025 "This one resonated a lot with me. I was glad to get to follow all the threads of Yancy’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions about/to..." - See full review

mycie reviews EyeOS: Apple II Inspired Horror-Mystery Game: "brilliant" October 16, 2025 "the story is so interesting and perfectly mysterious. it was so fun piecing together all the different information and clues, and the..." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews Imperial Throne: "Wasted potential" October 16, 2025 "As it is now, the game is near impossible to play without the walkthrough. With the walkthrough, it's almost fun to play. Without it, you..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story: "Teamwork!" October 16, 2025 "Note: I've decided to make my rating not count towards the game's average because while the rating reflects how I feel about the game, I..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews One Step Ahead: "AIm, AId nAIf, drAIn nAIf" October 16, 2025 "This is a long review for a short affair. Perhaps other works will have more to say, and more rigorously, than One Step Ahead, and..." - See full review

vegetablegarden reviews Mooncrash!: "A creative game with some implementation challenges" October 16, 2025 "This game had quite a few rough edges where it was clear the author was relatively unfamiliar with Inform and with parser games in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by JTN, IFComp 2025 games geoblocked in the UK October 16, 2025 23 items In response to the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, the organisers of the 2025 IF Competition decided to geoblock some of the entries based on their content, such that they could not be played from a...

A new poll by The Secret Metta, Linear narratives but still interactive created October 16, 2025 14 votes for 10 games Looking for games that tell a singular story without major branching paths or multiple endings, but still allow for some degree of interactivity, such as uncovering clues or discovering lore.

A new listing for In Other Waters, by Jump Over the Age

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Errand Run: "You don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone" October 15, 2025 "Grocery shopping. Again. You play as an unnamed protagonist who begrudgingly hauls herself into the local supermarket to complete the..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Pharos Fidelis: "Who are the real monsters?" October 15, 2025 "This is one of my favorite games of the comp, which I say having both tested and recently replayed it. The presentation is gorgeous, with..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan: "IFComp 2025: Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan" October 15, 2025 "The Lady Thalia series is, among many other wonderful things, an indulgently lovingly crafted piece of queer IF. The series debuted at..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Saltwrack: "IFComp 2025: Saltwrack" October 15, 2025 "This is a masterful example of how minimalism can stimulate readers' imaginations. Although the game is presented as a horror title, it..." - See full review

Kastel reviews The Semantagician's Assistant: "IFComp 2025: The Semantagician's Assistant" October 15, 2025 "Following in the footsteps of games like Counterfeit Monkey and Retool Looter comes an escape-the-room game featuring several linguistic..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Fired: "IFComp 2025: Fired" October 15, 2025 "In a competition that tends to have long and substantial parser titles that demand all your attention, it's always nice to play a short,..." - See full review

Kastel reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "IFComp 2025: A Visit to the Human Resources Administration" October 15, 2025 "The New York City Human Resources Administration might not be the first place that comes to mind when developing a game about an alien..." - See full review

Kastel reviews The Litchfield Mystery: "IFComp 2025: The Litchfield Mystery" October 15, 2025 "I have a history with thesleuthacademy’s games that made me enjoy this one a lot. Their first game, Last Vestiges, appeared in IFComp..." - See full review

Kastel reviews you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion: "IFComp 2025: you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion" October 15, 2025 "I always enjoy playing KA Tan’s games since I like Chinese history and wish more people would create games set in ancient China (myself..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Your Very Last Words: "Good-by. Good-by, world. Good-by, Mexico. Good-by, TIMED TEXT?!?!" October 14, 2025 "I'm reviewing a fellow author's game to give a signal boost to something sparsely reviewed before comp's end. However, I'll also note..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Saltwrack: "The icy expanse doesn’t mess around" October 14, 2025 "Saltwrack follows a perilous expedition across an unforgiving arctic landscape. The story is bleak. The odds are grim. The characters..." - See full review

bjbest60 reviews Space Mission: 2045: "Continues to be unplayable" October 13, 2025 "I hate to kick a game when it's down, but frankly, a Comp game should work, more or less, out of the box. This one does not. Instead, it..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Skullduggery: "A More Than Spirited Revenge Horror Classic" October 12, 2025 "Skullduggery is a pretty obscure piece of revenge horror written initially in C for the Apple II by the author then later revised and..." - See full review

kaemi reviews you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion: "IFComp 2025: you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion" October 12, 2025 "Like any good poet, I’m on my way to fail an imperial exam. Since there’s so many ways to fail, in essence it acts as a personality..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews My creation: "A moving glimpse of new parenthood" October 12, 2025 "What’s the purpose of IF reviews? Why do we write them? Is it to point out issues in a work to help authors improve? To point out..." - See full review

A new poll by dmarymac, Games with graveyards created October 12, 2025 43 votes for 37 games I love a good graveyard in all kinds of fiction! Share games here.

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews valley of glass: "A brief scene taken from a larger folk tale" October 12, 2025 "...early spring in the valley of glass, the first of the seven years you promised to the village blacksmith. Your breath clouds in the..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Clickbait: "Don't take the bait..." October 11, 2025 "You've been informed about a photography contest. A contest where participants explore abandoned buildings to photograph "something never..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews A Visit to the Human Resources Administration: "Aw, SNAP!" October 11, 2025 "As the title suggests, the game takes place at the Human Resources Administration (HRA) in New York City. You are an alien sent on a..." - See full review

der_eidel reviews Lime Ergot: "A very nice experimental introduction to parser-IF." October 11, 2025 "I have been really interested in getting into parser-IF games, but no matter which ones I tried, I would become overwhelmed rather..." - See full review

A new listing for Sexy Ellie's Quiz, by HHRichards

ChanceOfFire reviews Violent Delight: "Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, arrgh" October 10, 2025 "Violent Delight reminds me of Disneyland. Not because it tries to be creepy (although there is that) but because you've got plenty of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Promises of Mars: "Where is the paperclip" October 10, 2025 "The Promises of Mars is another difficult one to rate. From a technical standpoint, it is competently designed with great ease-of-use and..." - See full review

A new listing for Citizen Sleeper, by Jump Over the Age

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