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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 The 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

Mike Russo reviews First Contact: "Quite an education" November 30, 2024 "If I were feeling cheeky, I would say that the biggest problem with First Contact is that it doesn’t have enough soft-core lesbian..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Awakened Deeply: "Boldly going where a lot of folks have gone before" November 30, 2024 "It’s been more than twenty years since my very first IF Comp – it was 2002, I was just out of college, and characteristically I..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Fun old style puzzler but under implemented and a bit fight the parser" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 13 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves: "Tightly written time loop parser game that deserved more polishing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Innovative graphical IF, but one unfair puzzle & problems on lower res screens" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews You Can't Save Her: "Slightly confusing Twine interface, but intriguing dual perspective scifi piece" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Graphical RPG with great NPCs and interactions, but I wanted more agency" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

A new listing for Dreams of the Sky, by Karl Forshaw

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "A very short Lewis Carroll inspired parser game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 10 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "A cosy magical shop game, spread over multiple sessions of game play" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 9 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "Immersive parser game about Edgar Allan Poe and much more" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Campfire: "A game about a camping trip that had good points but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Bureau of Strange Happenings: "An ambitious bizarre parser game that delivered lots but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Would have liked more!" November 29, 2024 "There’s not very much I can say about this one. On plus it’s short (though that’s a downside too). And it’s better than..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Turn Right: "Short Adventuron game about a driver's nightmare" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 16 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Why Pout?: "Impressive parser word-based game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Imprimatura: "Innovative game about art and memory" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Unreal People: "Twine piece about a mysterious body jumping entity" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

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