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MathBrush reviews Lucky Spinelli muss sterben: "Defeating an undefeatable Mafia hitman" November 4, 2024 "This is a genuinely funny game; it’s the kind of game I wish I would have written. The title means ‘Lucky Spinelli Must Die’...." - See full review

A new competition page: Text the Halls created November 4, 2024 A two-week competition hosted by TIGSource that ran in December 2007, with the themes "Winter" and/or "the Holidays/Christmas."

A new listing for Alexis, Unbound, by A.C. Eberhardt and K. Twomey

Mike Russo reviews Kiss of Beth: "Til Beth do us part" November 4, 2024 "I can’t decide whether Kiss of Beth works better the first time or on the replay. Oh, even from the get-go of this dialogue-based..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Museum Heist: "Art plunder" November 4, 2024 "The randomizer continues tracing its whimsical path through my to-play list, putting the two remaining Kenneth Pedersen games back to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Way Home: "A complete unknown" November 4, 2024 "I didn’t find the context for The Way Home quite as dubious as that for Quest for the Serpent’s Eye, but I have to admit I also went..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Puzzled Soul: "Symbolic/metaphorical parser game with a series of moral door choices" November 3, 2024 "This is a lovely little game with themes that I like. It is a bit rough in execution sometimes, but that could easily be fixed in a..." - See full review

jakomo reviews Like a Sky Full of Locusts: "Wicked wicked wild wild west" November 3, 2024 "A return to the weird world of Castle Balderstone. Specifically, the "weird west" world, in this cowboy horror where the protagonist..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Au village du pêcheur: "A prototype" November 3, 2024 "Au village de pêcheurs is a short slice-of-life parser where your goal is to purchase some fresh fish at a fishing village a few towns..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Ghostship Delgado: "A Quill game with good narrative wraparound & mercifully free of pirate-speak" November 3, 2024 "Disclaimer: I tested the Amstrad CPC version of Ghostship Delgado. At the time I wrote this review, I hadn't previously played many..." - See full review

SkyShard reviews The Swormville Sweep: "Stormville Swept" November 3, 2024 "There is a common saying from the past several years that goes something like: "Be careful about what you post online as it will stay..." - See full review

A new listing for Ghostship Delgado, by Tony Kingsmill

A new listing for Ultimate Nightmare, by Tony Kingsmill

Mike Russo reviews Collision: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" November 3, 2024 "Friends, I am acutely aware that I just wrote a 900 word review about a 500 word game (He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping Him: "Color me intrigued " November 3, 2024 "The randomizer must know that I’ve been saying nice things about it, because I just realized that it’s managed another cool trick: it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Andromeda Chained: "Monstrous patriarchy" November 3, 2024 "The randomizer always enjoys its little jokes, its latest being to sequence a somber choice-based retelling of a Greek myth right after a..." - See full review

A new listing for Knightwoode, by Tony Kingsmill

A new competition page: Bare-Bones Jam 2024 created November 2, 2024 The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or...

A new listing for Sweet & Savory, by Xenogate

A new listing for Lost, by Wings-poo

A new listing for Poptart Quest, by ambrolen

A new listing for night of the scope creep, by peb

A new listing for A Totally Normal Check-up, by SquareHair

A new listing for Spermson, by Xenogate

A new listing for last minute on so many levels, by lyrbrd

A new listing for Masqueraded Veil, by mxalice

A new listing for Restore, Reflect, Retry, by Natalia Theodoridou

A new listing for A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf, by Luke Burns

A new Recommended List by Firewood159, My favorite games November 2, 2024 6 items

kaemi reviews Like a Sky Full of Locusts: "Ectocomp 2024: Like a Sky Full of Locusts" November 2, 2024 "For all its heavy metal silliness whereby “blasphemous pinnacles scrape against an eternally black and stormy sky” and its nods to..." - See full review

NegSec reviews Everything, To A Computer...: "I just want to play the game..." November 2, 2024 "This game seems like it would be great, but I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do to continue. The lack of a help or an about isn't..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb: "The light behind your eyes" November 2, 2024 "The Little Match Girl gets scary, with this Clark Ashton Smith inspired weird tale. Ebenezabeth takes on a time-travelling werewolf,..." - See full review

NegSec reviews Eider Cake: "SO CUTE!!!!" November 2, 2024 "I loved this game. It was just the right length of time. The NPCs were also great. And of course, the retro graphics. There should be..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Une Simulation: "Tiny first parser" November 2, 2024 "Une simulation is a tiny parser game, where you incarnate a player about to try a new virtual game: a simulation of an escape room..." - See full review

A new competition page: Confiture de Parser created November 2, 2024 La Confiture de Parser est une jam estivale où le but est de créer un parser. Que vous soyez un vétéran du format ou un débutant, passez cet été à jouer avec du code! ~ The Confiture de Parser is a...

A new listing for Au village du pêcheur, by Ju/smwhr

A new listing for Une Simulation, by MythOnirie

IFDB site news November 2, 2024 Redesigned Home Page: The "New on IFDB" section now contains only site news, polls, competitions, and lists for the past three days. Games, reviews, polls, and lists each have their own section on the home page.

Mike Russo reviews Lysidice and the Minotaur: "Escape the maze -- no wait come back!" November 2, 2024 "There are, I am sure, many IF reviewers who can cooly and dispassionately evaluate the merits of lighthearted parser romps set in Ancient..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Codex Crusade: "New posset-bilities" November 2, 2024 "Codex Crusade has the kind of premise where if you explain it to someone else, they’d check the back of your skull to see if you’d..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A1RL0CK: "Each little snail here / know how to wail here" November 2, 2024 "This game (no, I am not retyping the full title out again) is proof that there’s really nothing wrong with the hoariest old..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews The King of Shreds and Patches: ""Madness? We don't need no steenking madness!"" November 1, 2024 "The King of Shreds and Patches is the only published work by author Jimmy Maher, who is mostly likely familiar to readers as the author..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews La bestia: "A vorple adaptation of De Baron into Spanish" November 1, 2024 "This is a Spanish Grand Guignol game. It looks really neat, with a Vorple interpreter that adds a smoky background, and it has a unique..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Le miroir d'Ozivior: "A smooth small puzzle" November 1, 2024 "Le miroir d’Ozivior is a relatively short fantasy escape room, in which you play as the friend of Ozivior, a student at a magical..." - See full review

A new listing for Eider Cake, by sweetfish

A new listing for Parka, by baltasarq

Marius Müller reviews The Spectators: "An excellent gem of a game" November 1, 2024 "I've recently asked for good games from the last years and this was recommended both in the original and the german translation. (I..." - See full review

A new listing for Everything, To A Computer..., by Wellington Owen

MathBrush reviews Sundown: "Twine game about exploring your old house and finding your dog" November 1, 2024 "As a small side note, this game has a nice navigation system that made me think, 'That reminds me of a game I liked a few years back.'..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hot Office: "Baby got HVAC" November 1, 2024 "Porn is much like any other fantasy genre in that for it to work, you need to buy into some absurdity in the premise. Sure, in fantasy..." - See full review

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