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Mike Russo reviews DOL-OS: "Operating systems of oppression" October 30, 2024 "One of the things I like best about IF is its austerity. Mainstream video games have had decades to develop the sensory delights they..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Remembrance: "Memento mori" October 30, 2024 "Here’s our next entry in the review-a-thon as a jam of jams: Remembrance was originally entered in the Single Choice Jam, which, as it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Quest for the Serpent's Eye: "An unexpected jewel" October 30, 2024 "Everyone knows a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but for all that, there is something in a name – and is there an..." - See full review

EJ reviews You Can't Save Her: "You Can't Save Her review" October 30, 2024 "You Can’t Save Her is a short piece about two friends raised in a monastery in a fantasy setting. One friend finds a forbidden tome..." - See full review

EJ reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "Where Nothing is Ever Named review" October 30, 2024 "Where Nothing Is Ever Named is a very short parser game taking place in a mysterious space where… well, see title. There are two things..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Max Fog, Favourite games from 2024 October 29, 2024 10 items This is a list of games in 2024 I personally enjoyed the most.

Mike Russo reviews Thread unlocked.: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" October 29, 2024 "Thread Unlocked is another Neo-Twiny Jam entry like Idle Hands, but instead of using its scant 500 words to communicate an entire, but..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews idle hands: "Devils' playthings" October 29, 2024 "I recently contributed to a game with a dozen or so different authors (Mathbrush’s Untitled Relationship Project 1); the various..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Look Around the Corner: "Verse / chorus / verse" October 29, 2024 "Two games after playing an entry planned for 2023’s ShuffleComp revival, the randomizer gave me an entry in 2014’s OG ShuffleComp –..." - See full review

EJ reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Welcome to the Universe review" October 29, 2024 "Welcome to the Universe is an homage to/parody of Alter Ego, a 1986 choice-based game. Alter Ego was created by, I believe, a..." - See full review

EJ reviews Turn Right: "Turn Right review" October 29, 2024 "The one-way street I live on dead-ends at a busy four-lane road onto which I frequently have to turn left (the US equivalent of the..." - See full review

cgasquid reviews Mission Asteroid: "Maybe if it worked ... nah, not even then." October 28, 2024 "For the record, I played this on a real Apple ][+ in the 1980s. It was my second text adventure ever, after Scott Adams' Adventureland..." - See full review

A new listing for The Sumerian Game, by Mabel Addis and William McKay

A new listing for Static Signal Living Legacy, by Livia J. Elliot

A new listing for Tales of the Stars, by Livia J. Elliot

EJ reviews Final Call: "Final Call review" October 28, 2024 "Final Call is the tale of a small-time crook who gets kidnapped and chucked into something that resembles a cross between an escape room..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Mouse Speaks to Death: "A mournful squeak" October 28, 2024 "There’s a running joke about the classic sci-fi tabletop RPG Traveller, which is that it’s the only game where you can die before..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Not Just Once: "Once and never again" October 28, 2024 "Continuing the review-a-thon run through the highlights of other events, we come to Not Just Once, which was intended as an entry in last..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Someone Else's Story: "Married to the mob" October 28, 2024 "We’ve now reached the first of a couple Goncharov games in the thon. I’m dimly aware of the provenance here; there was a social-media..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME: "Space Whales pt2" October 28, 2024 "Played: 7/27/24 Playtime: 2.25hrs, 3 deaths, ‘won’ with walkthru This is a companion piece to A1RL0CK, and I do recommend playing the..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Truly unbeatable" October 27, 2024 "I did not win"

Mike Russo reviews Sunburst Contamination: "That equally the soun of it wol wende / And eke the stynk, unto the spokes ende" October 27, 2024 "While at 43 I often find myself feeling like a bit of a graybeard, my contemporary experience with vintage-era IF is actually fairly..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Your World According to a Single Word: "Word world" October 27, 2024 "One cool thing about the review-a-thon is that it seems like a lot of the games were entries in jams or events that passed me by, so it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tribute: Return to the City of Secrets: "Secrets and ruins" October 27, 2024 "There’s a story I remember hearing about O Brother Where Art Thou?, the Coen Brothers’ The-Odyssey-by-way-of-Appalachia musical,..." - See full review

EJ reviews Redjackets: "Redjackets review" October 27, 2024 "Redjackets is a paranormal thriller about a sort of vampire bounty hunting agency, which is to say that they hunt vampires and also some..." - See full review

EJ reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Quest for the Teacup review" October 27, 2024 "In this game, the protagonist finds her favorite teacup missing, and embarks upon a quest to retrieve it—a quest that will take her..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews NYX: "Space Horror on FFWD" October 27, 2024 "Played: 7/27/24 Playtime: 5min, 3/3 endings Back before the internet enabled pervasive access to, euphemistically, “externally authored..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Lysidice and the Minotaur: "Who's a Fierce Monster? You Are! You Are!" October 27, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 1hr, finished This is billed as a beginner parser, and ok maybe. Certainly, veterans will find the puzzle play..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Collegial Conversation: "Real Beaurecrats of Zelio City" October 27, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 15min, 5 playthroughs One word review: MeYOW. Four-word review: I really dug this. Multi-word review of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Doki Doki Literature Club: "(In)famous visual novel with dark themes behind cheerful exterior" October 26, 2024 "I was making a game that had some thematic elements in common with this one, from what I'd heard, so I wanted to try it out. Pretty much..." - See full review

A new listing for The Moments Before Death, by Itsuten

Mike Russo reviews Zugzwang: "Black metal Mega Man" October 26, 2024 "German is one of those languages which, if it didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent: it offers up an essential myriad of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews 19 Once: "Post-teenage wasteland" October 26, 2024 "It’s a truism that there’s a lot about being young that only makes sense in retrospect. One can interrogate whether that’s..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "The Killings in Wasacona review" October 26, 2024 "This is a murder mystery game in which you play as an FBI agent who’s been called in to investigate a string of murders (possibly the..." - See full review

EJ reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Forsaken Denizen review" October 26, 2024 "Forsaken Denizen is a survival horror game taking place in a far-future space monarchy. An extradimensional investment group has..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS: "Forgive Me Father, For We Have Sinned" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 5min This is a short, very short excerpt from a longer work. I am not convinced reviewing this in isolation..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Revenant's Lament: "Wild, Weird West" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 45min My introduction to this author was via their prose which typically lands squarely in my thirsty, thirsty..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Cycle: "Entitled Heart, pt2" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 10min, 3/3 endings It is kind of gratifying to watch an artistic arc. So much art is consumed one-and-done in..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Lost: "I could spell better as a five year old." October 25, 2024 "This is a large and as far as I am aware also an obscure science fiction game which I played within DOSBox-X. I nearly didn't bother to..." - See full review

A new listing for Idle Judgment Day, by ODD PIZZA!

A new listing for Stellar Odyssey, by Nick Marentes

Lance Cirone reviews The Mean Story: "Not the sum of its parts" October 25, 2024 "The Mean Story bases itself on offensive humor and warns you multiple times about it. I'm not really a fan of this, but I can't blame the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Moon-House Technician: "Grinding moondust" October 25, 2024 "When I was a kid I went through a phase where Howard Pyle was one of my favorite authors. A turn-of-the-century writer and illustrator,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Postage Code: "Postman Flat" October 25, 2024 "I have to give Postage Code massive points for what seems like a simple thing: it starts when you double-click it. It’s a Python game,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Yurf: "Alice in Onewordland" October 25, 2024 "The rise of choice-based games to co-equal status alongside their parser cousins has had a lot of positive effects, in my view, among..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Collision: "Impact Imminent" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 5min, 5 playthroughs, 5 deaths The 'Thon has exposed me to a higher density of works..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews idle hands: "Do I Make You HORNY, Baybee?" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 5min, ah, finished This is a linear piece of short erotica. Interactivity is mainly used in mouseover phrases..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Dark Communion: "But I Don't WANNA Go to Church, Mom!!" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/24/24 Playtime: 15min, 3/3 rescues, 2/4 fails, 3/5 awards This is an entry for a Comp I do NOT judge! Weirdly, as EctoComp’s..." - See full review

A new poll by Canalboy, Games With Extended Underwater Sequences created October 24, 2024 27 votes for 25 games That is games that have immersive (pun intended) sub aqua areas of more than, say ten locations.

TestTubeHuman reviews House of Wolves: "The metaphorical life of a college student during lockdown" October 24, 2024 " Your life has looked almost exactly the same for every day of the past however-many months. You wake up, do the bare minimum to keep... " - See full review

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