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Mike Russo reviews Return of the Sword: "The wonky and fuddled king" October 23, 2024 "The legends surrounding King Arthur loomed large to the medieval mind: as the so-called “matter of Britain”, they made up one of the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews DOL-OS: "You Are Complicit, Clippy" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 1.5hrs At some point, I review enough work from a single artist that my impulse is to turn a current review..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Read This When You Turn 15: "Maybe Next Time, Call Her" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 5min You guys are really throwing down the gauntlet here, aren’t you? Ever shorter lengths, ever tighter..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews VESPERTINE: "Kiss Me Deadly" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 15min My second played work from the Goncharov Jam, and hoo boy quite different. This is a tragic love story,..." - See full review

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 New this month: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. New Star Rating Control Performance Improvements Updated Tag List Dark Mode Improvements Tag Suggestions

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 New Star Rating Control: There's a new star rating control, designed for accessibility. We'd love to get your feedback on it on the intfiction.org forum. The new star controls are designed to be bigger, easier to tap on on touchscreens. They’re also designed to be keyboard accessible. You can use tab to focus on the star control, and then use arrow keys to select a rating. (When you do this, you have to tab over to the new “Submit Rating” button to submit your selection.) Under the hood, they’re secretly radio buttons, so users of screen readers will interact with them like radio buttons. We’ve replaced the little star icons with new SVG icons. I think they’re nicer to look at, especially on high-resolution screens (like phones).

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Performance Improvements: You should see a number of performance improvements on the site. Especially note that clicking your browser's Back button now shows the previous page instantly. And on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, we're now downloading certain links before you click on them, especially "See full review" links on the home page and the first few results on searches, so when you click on those links, the page loads instantly.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Updated Tag List: The All Game Tags page now shows tags in a list, sorted by frequency. You can also sort them alphabetically and view them in a tag cloud.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Dark Mode Improvements: There are always more fixes to make, but we've fixed a number of spots where IFDB Dark Mode was showing bright white dialogs or low-contrast text.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Tag Suggestions: When adding a tag, we now provide suggestions based on what you've typed. We'll suggest any tag that's been used on at least ten games.

Marius Müller reviews Swigian: "Game" October 22, 2024 "Played it. Liked it."

LoquySSS46 reviews The Triskelion Affair: "An in-depth Zorkian endeavour that deserves further elaboration" October 22, 2024 "I thoroughly enjoyed; It was right up my alley with the likes of Zork. In contrast with its predecessor, however, narrative elements,..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Eikas: "Now THAT'S what I call worldbuilding!" October 22, 2024 "This game finally opened my eyes to what Twine IF is all about. Until now, I had mostly ignored anything not parser-based as it just..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient, The Game... Release 1.0! (or Version 108) October 22, 2024 Ok, I'm officially out of beta. Do you want to be a spy? Join Quotient, the quantum-powered, independent spy agency. Play this Zork inspired, tongue-in-cheek, spy game where you gather treasures and help... - Details

LoquySSS46 reviews String Theory: "Very sympathetic, relatable, yet psychological perspective" October 22, 2024 "Very enjoyable! The way it tells the different family members' stories and how it lays out the structure of the family tree are really..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "Peppy and lively" October 22, 2024 "The setting was well implemented and lively. Characters made sense and felt natural; I especially liked the fact that characters..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Imprimatura: "Didn't like the randomness, LOVED everything else" October 22, 2024 "As you mourn the loss of a family member, you are left to collect a number of their art collection, as per their will. Left with this..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews You: "Yes!" October 22, 2024 "Very esoteric (and sometimes flat out weird), but cleverly designed! I liked the way it played around with colours and pronouns to take..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Campfire: "Thoughtful simplicity done well" October 22, 2024 "This was rather pleasant and I suppose plucked on my heart strings, since camping is one my family's traditions of which I am..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Light My Way Home: "A truly beautiful short parser game with music" October 22, 2024 "This game (I think it was made for Shufflecomp?) really touched me. You play as a person in a kind of melancholy town at evening,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Race Against Time: "A plague on both your space stations" October 22, 2024 "Dear reader, I must make a confession: I am not at all good at the hard-as-nails old-school throwback adventures that seem to be the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The English Restaurant: "Lunch and learn" October 22, 2024 "I am, generally speaking, an optimist. Some of that’s just the fruit of being born with a lot of privilege and a brain that knows what..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Mystery Isles: "Not yet shipshape" October 22, 2024 "Quick, close your eyes. Now imagine the most prototypical adventure game puzzle you can think of – not any specific iconic one from the..." - See full review

EJ reviews Campfire: "Campfire review" October 22, 2024 "This is a quiet, meditative game about going on a brief camping trip to get in touch with nature and get away from the stresses of..." - See full review

EJ reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Birding in Pope Lick Park review" October 22, 2024 "In real life I don’t have any hobbies that require me to be outdoors, because I’m very allergic to most plants. Sometimes I go to see..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Museum Heist: "Thievius Maximus" October 22, 2024 "Played: 7/21/24 Playtime: 30min, 8-10 runs lost track, 634/752 (should be more) A clever little jam entry asking you to optimize your..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Romance the Backrooms: "That Genre You Like Is Going To Come Back In Style" October 22, 2024 "Played: 7/24/24 Playtime: 30min This is an opening chapter demo of a more ambitious project that includes music, voice, graphics and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Thread unlocked.: "Ban Hammertime" October 22, 2024 "Played: 7/20/24 Playtime: 5min, lost count of playthroughs, so many Just when I think IF has shown me all it has to offer, works still..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews PARANOIA: "One of these things doesn't belong" October 21, 2024 "One of the things that I really look forward to in ParserComp is seeing games that try to come up with different gameplay mechanics for..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Alphabet City: "The 80s were exactly like this" October 21, 2024 "I’ve talked before about the culture shock that ParserComp can sometimes engender, sitting awkwardly as it does between the IF..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Iyashikei - The Fountain: "Schmaltz beats meditation" October 21, 2024 "In his writings on so-called “entheogens” – hallucinogenic drugs used for religious purposes – scholar Huston Smith proposed a..." - See full review

A new listing for 同人女大逃杀之你被网暴了, by 嵌 October 21, 2024 你是一个兢兢业业的同人女。然而新入坑的圈子里表面平静和谐，实则危机四伏，好像与你以为的有些不一样？...

MathBrush reviews Eric the Unready: "An 80's pop-culture reference-filled joke game" October 21, 2024 "I've been playing through the most popular games I've never reviewed and this game has been at the top of that IFDB search for a while...." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition: "It feels crazy, trying to convince people you aren't/weren't crazy..." October 21, 2024 "I meant to make my IFComp 2023 reviews public, but I never did. So I had a think, which entry affected me the most? Which gave me the..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Bat: "The Bat review" October 21, 2024 "In this substantially sized parser game, the player takes the role of the valet of billionaire Bryce Wyatt. Master Bryce is holding a..." - See full review

EJ reviews Bad Beer: "Bad Beer review" October 21, 2024 "In this compact single-puzzle parser game, the PC has been asked by the proprietor of their local pub to figure out what’s souring all..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A1RL0CK: "Space Whales pt1" October 21, 2024 "Played: 7/20/24 Playtime: 1.5hr, all 3 endings, 170/185 This is a wake-with-amnesia-in-sci-fi-base jam. It is pretty up front about its..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A Mouse Speaks to Death: "Don't Fear the Murine Reaper" October 21, 2024 "Played: 7/17/24 Playtime: 1.5hrs, 3playthroughs, 23 of 46 memories I like mice. They have a clear-eyed view of cats. This work is a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Sunburst Contamination: "Magnificent Form, Meh Function" October 21, 2024 "Played : 7/19/24 Playtime: 10min, 1hr of setup/source code reading There are games, in IF a LOT of games, that hearken back to the golden..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Imprimatura: "Paints and remembrances." October 20, 2024 "(based on the IFComp 2024 version) An artist’s spirit is present in their work, be it a sparkling glow or a faint after-image. When..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Hildy: "Hildegund's shopping mall explosition." October 20, 2024 "(based on the IFComp 2024 version) ----<nagging voice>“This game is way too big for IFComp. How can I be expected to play even half of the list if..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Eikas: "Yummy management" October 20, 2024 "(based on the IFComp 2024 version) Stuffed peppers! Garlic broccoli! Balsamic roasted veggies! The main objective of this game felt like..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Forbidden Lore: "A cornucopia of scrolls and tomes." October 20, 2024 "(based on the IFComp 2024 version) You’re in your grandfather’s library, looking to bring his studies into the arcane to an end, and..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews 198BREW: "Caffeine and other dietary habits..." October 20, 2024 "(review based on the IFComp 2024 version) Disorienting. Discomforting. Strange… 198BREW drops the player in a nearly incomprehensible..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Winter-Over: "Ice-cold Murder" October 20, 2024 "(review based on the IFComp 2024 version) A murder-investigation within the confines of a polar research station. Which provides one of..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Bad Beer: "Stinky Ferret !" October 20, 2024 "(review based on the IFComp 2024 version) Your local publican Jack is desperate. The beer tastes awful, but there’s no sign of..." - See full review

A new listing for Neverland永无乡, by 烧烤鳜鱼 October 20, 2024 你来到了一个神秘的岛屿，在这里，你被变成了小孩的模样！ 在这里没有繁重的工作，只要快乐地生活就好，直到永远，永远……...

A new listing for ロポコ | ROPOKO, by Tookato October 20, 2024 ROPOKO is an interactive fiction-style adventure game. Players become the robot Ropoko and must escape from a maze-like laboratory with the help of "Doctor." Learn words through conversations and use the...

DemonApologist reviews Time Trip: "Not a better love story than Twilight" October 20, 2024 "I decided to use the “10 Random Games” option on IFDB and received this as one of the results. I felt mildly obligated to write about..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "The Dragon of Silverton Mine Review" October 20, 2024 "This is a well-made Twine/Sugarcube game that tries to get as close to the traditional adventure game format as possible. I’m going to..." - See full review

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