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MathBrush reviews SPILL YOUR GUT: "Four different versions of suffering and pain (or loneliness and despair)" November 15, 2024 "I played the first GUTS game, which I remember liking, but I didn’t play the second. I’m not sure what this third one is really all..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews YARRY: "Brief game about a baby's troubling habit" November 15, 2024 "This is a short Choicescript game. I wondered if there were two endings, but I could only find one. It's a family..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Wah-waah" November 15, 2024 "I was all set to rate this troll game a 1. Look, the question of what does and doesn’t count as interactive fiction is almost as old as..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Very Strong Gland: "A bland gland" November 15, 2024 "It’s no secret that I’m very interested by the ways limited parser games share design DNA with certain kinds of puzzley choice-based..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Den: "Escape the facility" November 15, 2024 "Let us imagine that puzzley choice games can be separated into two categories – yes, yes, this is an oversimplification even on its own..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "Turn off the time limit" November 14, 2024 "First things first: when you play this game, turn off the time limit. For me, playing with a real-time counter on the screen turned my..." - See full review

sandon reviews Welcome to Ponyville: "Ok, I guess?" November 14, 2024 "Vaguely uninspired MLP game with a modicum of spark... I feel it important I both dredge up old games from 10 years ago and review all..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews As the Eye Can See: "Short, linear, meaningful story of many Halloweens past" November 14, 2024 "This was a short pleasant story presented in Twine. It portrays, in reverse order, several Halloween celebrations of a teenage girl...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Deserter: "A mech with no name" November 14, 2024 "One of the things I love about IF is its plasticity: there are great games in nearly every genre you can think of, from literary..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Campfire: "A little heat, a little light" November 14, 2024 "After raking Breakfast in the Dolomites over the coals for gesturing towards, but not actually providing, a grounded trip into nature, I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Breakfast in the Dolomites: "A cold collation" November 14, 2024 "I’ve vacationed in Italy a few times, and when people ask me my favorite part of those trips, it’s usually something about some..." - See full review

Dave Schweisguth reviews Make It Good: "Not my cup of tea" November 13, 2024 "Make It Good has many excellent qualities. The protagonist and the NPCs and the plot and the twist are interesting and memorable. It's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror: "Write a poem as Edgar Allan Poe" November 13, 2024 "This was a fun little game that involved writing a text that varies depending on your inputs. Given that the game was written in 4 hours..." - See full review

Dave Schweisguth reviews Sub Rosa: "Just one more thing" November 13, 2024 "Briefly: both brilliant and enjoyable. The setting is exceptionally creative, well written and internally consistent. There are novel..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Roar: "A full-on war between animals and humans written in an interesting system" November 13, 2024 "This game was a wild ride. I don't recognize the engine used at all; you can cycle through choices by clicking, but then scrolling down..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Contaminated Space: "A loner in space encounters a contaminated area" November 13, 2024 "This was a mournful, reflective, and gross game by KADW. And not gross in a bad way, gross in a cleansing way, like popping a zit or..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Unreal People: "Playing with yourself" November 13, 2024 "Unreal People is a vexing game that isn’t easy to come to grips with; it’s also set in “early mediaeval India”, so with Hindu..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Redjackets: "Out for blood" November 13, 2024 "An annoying thing that I can’t stop my brain from doing when I’m reading escapist, pulp stuff is think about money. Take this..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "The whatsit and the thingamabob" November 13, 2024 "The brain is a pattern-making machine, and so while it’s of course ridiculous to assign any particular weight to the first game that..." - See full review

jenzwick reviews Absence of Law: "this game is bou" November 12, 2024 "quick, enjoyable, and funny"

Victor Gijsbers reviews Metallic Red: "Meaningful labour" November 12, 2024 "At first, there are strong vibes of howling dogs. It's a Twine game set in a small cell-like environment -- though this time it's a space..." - See full review

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Victor Gijsbers reviews Imprimatura: "Trip down the memory museum" November 12, 2024 "Someone has died: our father, mother, grandmother or grandfather. The choice 'grandmother' feels canonical, since the author dedicates..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Abandoned House Down the Lane: "Compact spooky Adventuron game exploring an abandoned house" November 12, 2024 "This is an Adventuron game that is a nice small nugget of a game, with classic adventure gameplay (TAKE and DROP feature prominently)...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews your life, and nothing else: "Brief symbolic twine game about an unusual apartment building" November 12, 2024 "This is a haunting twine game set in an apartment building. Every day, you can wake up and wander around the building, surprisingly being..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews how to fly a kite / cómo volar una cometa: "A beautiful Ink game about loss and global responsibility" November 12, 2024 "Ruber Eaglenest has made several games before with serious themes written in sensitive and poetic ways. I found this game beautiful as I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Jumpscare Manor: "It's all in the title" November 12, 2024 "I saw the name of this and thought, ‘sounds like a Damon Wakes game’. Then I saw it was a Damon Wakes game. What can I say? This game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Parka: "A brief game about waking up in space" November 12, 2024 "This is a Spanish Grand Guignol game about waking up in a seedship on its long journey through the stars. It uses what is either AI or..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews El trayecto: "A short, well-written game about surviving, space, and secrets" November 12, 2024 "paravaariar, the author of this game, is (in my mind) well-known for literary, high-quality spanish Parser games. This game uses fi.js,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Museum der paranormalen Phenomene: "A short German parser game honoring Ghostbusters " November 12, 2024 "This is a German Grand Guignol game that is about Ghostbuster’s in everyway except the name. It’s a simple, lovely tribute game...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Familiar Problems: "Fun game about gaining new powers as an alchemical familiar" November 12, 2024 "I had a few different revelations while playing this game. First thoughts: interesting mix of hyperlinks and parser. Second: is this..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Narthex: "Brief Moiki cute/creepy game demonstrating graphics and audio capabilities" November 12, 2024 "This is a game that I suspect rests entirely on understanding the lyrics of a song. Unfortunately, I’m playing without headphones while..." - See full review

Next_Stop_Willoughby reviews A Dark Room: "A Classic with High Standards" November 12, 2024 "I played this game first, and then moved on to try and find things like it. Very few games have scratched the same itch. The early game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews SALTWATER: "Drinking from the firehose" November 12, 2024 "Now that the post-Twine revolution is well and truly settled, it feels natural to survey the different choice-based subgenres –..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "Good concept for a very short game" November 11, 2024 "An extremely short puzzle game, at least in terms of moves needed and objects implemented – perhaps not so much in terms of time needed..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient Release 1.2 is out! November 11, 2024 Are you ready to become a spy? Collect treasures, solve puzzles and help Professor Eaton with her time experiment! Updates include: Smarter Parser, Poor Man's Mis-type extensions, as well as an improved... - Details

MathBrush reviews At the Strike of Twelve: "A brief student-written game about a graveyard and a murder investigation" November 11, 2024 "I believe this is an extended game that is part of the same group of students that produced the game Hotel Halloween, but this story is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Your Little Haunting: "Speed-IF parser game about finding light in a dark house" November 11, 2024 "I was interested upon seeing that Christina Nordlander wrote this; when I started IF in 2015, I felt like I saw her name everywhere, so..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Depths of Madness: "A short horror choicescript game with beautiful styling" November 11, 2024 "This petite morte game surprised me with how polished and nice it looked, with a dark color scheme combined with eery accents and..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Captain Piedaterre's Blunders: "Feathering a rat's nest" November 11, 2024 "What makes a Verdeterre-like a Verdeterre-like? A design-focused analysis of the subgenre would zero in on key elements of Captain..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Larvae: "Parasite camp" November 11, 2024 "I was mystified by the first ending I reached in Larvae: for one thing, there’s no clear indication that you’ve reached the final..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hanna, We're Going to School: "Only happy when" November 11, 2024 "Sometimes I play a game and it’s like sinking into a warm, familiar bath – I’ve got a history with the genre it’s playing in, the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fireboat: "Guide a fireboat around NYC with the help of a ghost!" November 10, 2024 "This is fos1's third game, I think, and it's been nice seeing them progress over time. This is his most complex game yet, I think. It..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Nick Neat-Trick-Treat: "A game of rhyming alliteration set on Halloween night" November 10, 2024 "This is part of the author's series Prime Pro-Rhyme Row, all of which are based on looking at the two-word, alliterative name of a room..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews My Girl: "The ocean doesn't want me today" November 10, 2024 "Starting up My Girl I was initially overwhelmed by a swarm of dubious associations. No one of my generation can read that title without..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews VESPERTINE: "Goncharov montage" November 10, 2024 "It’s appropriate that VESPERTINE comes from the Goncharov jam, since more so than the classic techniques of interactive fiction the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Naughty in the library: "Boobs and books" November 10, 2024 "(I wrote two reviews for this one, here are both) Naughty in the Library, like its companion piece Hot in the Office, is largely an..." - See full review

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Estimated Play Time (now searchable!) JSON APIs Removed Clubs

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 Estimated Play Time (now searchable!): You can now use the "Estimated Play Time" form on any game to submit a "vote" for how long it takes to finish the game. Vote only if you've played the game. Vote on how long it would take to get to one final ending without hints or a walkthrough. Time spent away from the game doesn't count. Times don't need to be exact. Good-faith estimates are fine. We'll display the median time vote near the top of that game's page. (EDIT: Nov 15) You can also search for games by play time using the new playtime: search filter. For example, here's a list of games that have an estimated play time of six hours or more. playtime:minimum-maximum lists games with an estimated play time in the given range. After each number, use h for hours or m for minutes. For example, playtime:2h15m-3h shows games with an estimated play time of anywhere from 2 hours and 15 minutes to 3 hours. Hours may include decimals (for example, 3.5h). playtime:1.5h- lists games with an estimated play time of at least 1 and a half hours. playtime:-45m lists games with an estimated play time of 45 minutes or less. playtime:1h searches for games with an estimated play time of 1 hour. playtime: with no text after it searches for games with no estimated play time. This feature is very, very new. We've got a lot of ideas for improvements, and we've got a public discussion going on the intfiction.org forum.

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 JSON APIs: Most of our IFDB API endpoints now support JSON. You can search for games and get JSON results You can view an individual game and get JSON results (now including tags and complete, unstripped HTML!) You can tag games by posting a JSON array of tags All of the old APIs still work in XML mode, but JSON is the preferred format for all new code. (The API to add/edit games is still XML-only, for now.) In addition, we deprecated the gametags API. You can view tags on an individual game with the viewgame API, or view your own tags with the search API, like this: https://ifdb.org/search?json&tag&searchfor=tuid:xxx+mine:yes

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