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Johndalyprogrammer reviews EXODUS: Climate Activist: "I may have ended up living in a tent hounded by cops but" February 28, 2025 "As the title says I probably didn't get the best ending on my first run through but it was an absolute blast the entire time. Definitely..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "I think the point is that it's almost unwinnable" February 27, 2025 "I couldn't win this game at its easiest difficulty, following the "Beginner's Guide" walkthrough highlighted on the game's subreddit...." - See full review

Sad and Wet Horse reviews The Weight of a Soul: "Strong world-building and interesting ideas bogged down by melodrama and cliché" February 27, 2025 "This game is set in a world where souls are tangible and alchemy is the prevailing science. That alone creates fascinating moral..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Wheel Of Fortune: "Epic By Name, Epic By Nature" February 27, 2025 "This is another large and finicky Epic adventure with interminable dull paths and real-time elements; there are a whole host of winding..." - See full review

A new listing for Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright

MathBrush reviews the sea god: "Beautiful, poetic game about dying whales" February 25, 2025 "This is a Bitsy game, which uses two-color-palette minimalist pixel art and arrow controls to create a world to navigate, and text pops..." - See full review

ccpost reviews Psy High 2: High Summer: "Impressive Addition to the Psy High saga" February 24, 2025 "I liked the first Psy High quite a bit as a fun, choice-based game set in the supernatural high school hijinx mold of something like..." - See full review

A new listing for Cabin, by Tobias V. Langhoff

Tobias V. I. Langhoff reviews Moondrop Isle: "Riven meets Zork" February 23, 2025 "This sprawling game is the result of nine authors making one game each, and then smacking them together (with magic), creating somewhat..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I.: "A former commercial game about a surreal visualization of finding a particle" February 23, 2025 "This game was once intended for Infocom (one of its authors wrote Suspended, among a few other Infocom games). When that didn't pan out,..." - See full review

sekicho reviews TimeQuest: "Old school favorite!" February 22, 2025 "I spent a good part of my early 90's childhood trying to beat this game with friends. The plot requires the player to rectify ten..." - See full review

sekicho reviews Rachel Has a Bad Day: "It stinks." February 22, 2025 "Bog-awful game design. No contextual hints whatsoever, and completely unintuitive. You have to read the instructions (which give away the..." - See full review

sekicho reviews Tomorrow Never Comes: "Yawner" February 22, 2025 "I gave up on this title after about 15 minutes of wandering around a mostly empty casino hotel in Monaco, feeling bored out of my mind..." - See full review

sekicho reviews I-0: "Sophomoric in every way" February 22, 2025 "I appreciate the work required to create a non-linear adventure game, and I think I-0 could be a really great game with some more effort,..." - See full review

sekicho reviews robotsexpartymurder: "Cyberpunk Mystery Erotica. What's not to like?" February 22, 2025 "I deliberately chose the order of those three words, because this story is cyberpunk first, mystery second, sex third, and it is..." - See full review

sekicho reviews 80 DAYS: "The Canonical Steampunk Travel Adventure" February 22, 2025 "This is an incredibly well-written game. To start with a major qualification, its most "interactive" aspect is that the player has great..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "Company Money" February 22, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Day 1. Dear Diary, I got a new job today! I found myself in a light fantasy world, stumbled across an..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Master's Lair: "Function Over Form" February 22, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review CONTINUING (coughcough*) my review sub-series “Second Breakfast,” wherein I examine IFCOMP24 works of..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Curse: "Can't See A Thing Without my Rose Colored Glasses" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review This is a throwback game. No, not that. This is a PULL-FORWARD game, updating and modernizing a game from..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Second Breakfast - Really I Shouldn't" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review So this review is part of the review sub-series “Second Breakfast,” a series of reviews that showcase..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews You Can't Save Her: "Debateable if I Want To" February 21, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Two friends, separated by competing orthodoxies, now violently pitted against each other because somehow..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Seascape Paradiso: "A brief Ren'Py game about a meet-cute with a mermaid" February 20, 2025 "In this game, you are diving to explore the ocean as an underwater photographer. As you do so, you run into a real, live mermaid!..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Review/Boilerplate ratio = .06" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There are four words in this game (including the walkthrough). Providing effort reciprocity, I am going..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Actual, Literal Fun" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review RPG Maker is not my jam. Its throwback graphics are adorable for about the first two minutes, then the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Bureau of Strange Happenings: "Promises Made" February 20, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review In my relatively short reviewing lifespan I have thrown a LOT of words at this community. I have..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Apocolii in D Minor" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There is nothing new in the world, and all art is built on art before it. We know this about the world...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Awakened Deeply: "Voyages of the Starship Grimdark" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It is far too late for me to inaugurate a review sub-series, as I have done in Comps past. But if I were..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Who Would Lick a Pope?" February 19, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review There are classes of activities that do not need to justify themselves. Solo board gaming. Herb..." - See full review

A new competition page: The 2024 IFDB Awards created February 18, 2025 The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive...

ChanceOfFire reviews If It Please the Court: "Romance and intrigue in Versailles" February 18, 2025 "This was a surprisingly strong entry. The prose paints a beautiful picture of France, as well as the mystery and intrigue within your..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Moondrop Isle: "Deeply complex game of exploration on a moonlit isle with mixed media formats" February 18, 2025 "I'm going to structure this review in two parts. -A brief description -Something for authors (players don't need to read) -Something for..." - See full review

Passerine reviews The Purple Pearl: "More than a proof of concept" February 18, 2025 "The Purple Pearl accomplishes something that feels unique: mashing up a parser IF game and a split-team escape room. It feels like just..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Den: "Narrative Grindr" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review 'Awake in sci-fi base, then escape while learning lore' is a tried and true staple of IF, carrying..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Dust: "Once Upon a Time in the Dust" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I feel like the American West is an underserved sub-genre in IF. We get HIGH FANTASY and Puzzly Light..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Get on My Level" February 18, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review I do love me a multi-leveled work. A work that plays on multiple levels creates opportunity for all kind..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Undercover Agent: "Functional, predictable and what you’d expect" February 17, 2025 "Undercover Agent contains pretty much everything you’d expect from the genre. It does not do anything outside the box, and is as..." - See full review

IFDB site news February 17, 2025 The 2024 IFDB Awards have concluded!: Results are available here. Congratulations to all participants!

ChanceOfFire reviews Showdown at Willow Creek: "A short but solid western adventure" February 17, 2025 "Despite the low word count, this game actually feels pretty long for something well under 100k words. This western title is no match for..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "Dr. Columbo" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Am I a Dr. Who fan? Kind of. I devoured the modern run through Capaldi, and have been bursty ever since...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Civil Service: "Slow Ride" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Sometimes there are tales that hinge directly on one monster twist - they carefully build and sculpt and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "Fantasy Exterminator" February 17, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review It’s always a bit of a risk to draw a throughline in Comp Zeitgeist. A risk, and an inevitability,..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Reckless Space Pirates: "Relentless space puzzles" February 16, 2025 "Like Treasure Seekers of Lady Luck, we find ourselves back on a pirate ship. In terms of plot, this is a little shorter, with only one..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews A Player's Heart: "When beauty is only skin deep" February 16, 2025 "It’s a pretty engaging premise. Finding fame and fortune on the all-women opera, and finding love as a female character, romancing..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Witch's Bakery: "A very adorable game, even if incomplete" February 16, 2025 "I pretty much stumbled upon this one by accident on IFDB. It's incomplete, and likely forever cancelled. Still, it's extremely cute, with..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews hanging & wiving goes by destiny: "Seven marriages and seven women doomed to die by their husband's hand." February 16, 2025 "A story that is actually seven stories, intertwined. You are Bluebeard's eighth wife and walk around his home accompanied by the ghosts..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Unreal People: "Celebrity Hot Tub" February 16, 2025 "What is more appealing, a hot mess or a cold clockwork? Ok, I’m a former engineer so it kind of depends on the heat of the mess, and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Bat: "The Masked Marple" February 16, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review So, I spent a good amount of COVID’s duration, like many of us, spinning in my own brain, grasping at..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Deserter: "Full Metal Jaeger" February 16, 2025 "Adapted from an IFCOMP24 Review Military works can be quite divisive. Historically, media has lionized our fighting forces, not without..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews This is what I need to tell you: "A story told through forum edits and external links" February 15, 2025 "This was a neat experiment in a game jam designed to use non-gamemaking tools to make games. This is a forum thread where the idea is..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Brimstone Manor: "When romance goes missing again" February 15, 2025 "As with Jazz Age, I wanted to give this game four stars. However, I’m (sadly) giving it three for the same reason. You’ve just gotten..." - See full review

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