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Canalboy reviews Sphinx Adventure: "Holy Night Of The Lepus" May 2, 2026 "It is said by relevant equine historians that all racehorses can be traced back to three original 'foundation' stallions; early text..." - See full review

Captstulle reviews Homunculus: "Tolle Idee gut umgesetzt" May 2, 2026 "Das Spiel hat eine tolle Idee in einfachen und prägnanten Texten umgesetzt. Die Sprache war sehr passend zum Spiel und die Geschichte..." - See full review

A new listing for Smuggler, by Frank Fridd

A new listing for Great-Great-Grandfather's Gold, by Frank Fridd

A new listing for Sound of HIM, by Frank Fridd

A new listing for Colditz Escape, by Frank Fridd

A new competition page: Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2026 created May 1, 2026 This is the sixth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must...

A new listing for The Pattern Beneath, by Relei

A new listing for The Abbey of the Hidden Rose, by catventure

A new listing for Ransack!, by Charles Moore, Jr.

A new listing for The Antediluvian Weapon, by Daniel M. Stelzer

A new listing for Big Deal, Oh!, by Andrew Schultz

A new listing for Epic Expedition, by dgtziea

A new listing for The Gnomish Treasury, by Lamp Post Projects

A new listing for Adventure in the Crypt, by Andy Bantly

A new listing for Beneath the Exhibition, by patricksgamecorner

A new listing for I will fetch you, by Keith Butler

A new listing for Roath Park, by Keith Butler

A new listing for Wake Cake, by Pansy_Skeme

A new listing for Ruminations, by litchilovers

MathBrush reviews Nils' Bohrmaschine: "Grocery checkout in German" April 30, 2026 "This game has you face the most pernicious of puzzles: checking out at the grocery store. You have a wide variety of items you have to..." - See full review

A new listing for Stolen Hearts, by Ming-Yee Iu

A new listing for Wonderful Swamp Crab, by Porpentine

WorstPunk reviews Eat Me: "A poem of a game" April 29, 2026 "Absolutely masterful writing. Every sentence's diction and tone is carefully crafted to build up the grotesque and sumptuous atmosphere..." - See full review

A new listing for Cloadokum, by Porpentine

A new listing for Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual - Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves: Part One of The Toaster With TWO BRAINS, by Bradley W. Schenck

A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for April 2026 April 29, 2026 9 items On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even...

A new listing for Spooky Manor, by Derek L. Haslam

Jo the Plunderer reviews Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION: "A quick, energetic superhero story that lacks focus" April 27, 2026 "This game certainly has a vibe. It’s lightly humorous throughout and has quite a bit of personality and some interesting woldbuilding..." - See full review

A new listing for Star Bores, by Tony Blews

Passerine reviews Stooping to Diplomacy: "This game is a vampire" April 27, 2026 "Mashing story and puzzles together is hard, even when the puzzles aren’t cryptic crossword clues. But this game proves it can really..." - See full review

A new listing for Lap of the Gods: A Visual Novel, by Muda Games

Tabitha reviews Loadstone: "A fun concept that could use some polish" April 26, 2026 "I'd been intrigued by the idea of Charm Cochran's Inventory Puzzle Seedcomp seed when I saw it, so I was excited to play the game that it..." - See full review

Revolting Peasant Press reviews Red Reckonin': "A Grim Weird Western" April 26, 2026 "Boots scuff across a wooden floor, scattered with sawdust and black globs of chewing tobacco. Smoke drifts in the air, the thick, cloying..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Our Lady of Thorns: "Spring Thing 2026: Our Lady of Thorns" April 26, 2026 "The Name of the Rose is a strange inspiration for a murder mystery, because it isn’t. Like most Eco, it’s lavish, loosely interwoven..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Sequitur: "Inventive and well-conceived central mechanic" April 26, 2026 "Sequitur, the first release by author Nigel Jayne, is an unusual work perhaps best described as a one-room police procedural. The player..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Samurai of Hyuga: "A Japan-centric hosted game as part of a long series" April 26, 2026 "This game really shows to me how close the relationship is between westerns and samurai movies (and how much they consciously imitated..." - See full review

Doug Egan reviews Tethered: "dramatic launch of a new IF development system" April 26, 2026 "Trapped in a snow locked cave after a mountain climbing accident, this game succeeds in setting the tone of danger. The growing threat of..." - See full review

Ordon reviews Cyclic Fruition Number One: "almost a fever dream, double demo" April 26, 2026 "Hard to put a finger on this one... Let's get the obvious out of the way first: this is a demo for a new IF authoring tool called Spiki,..." - See full review

Beth_95 reviews Lost Pig: "Fun intro to IF" April 25, 2026 "The was recommended to me as an intro to IF, and I'm so glad I tried this first! It was a ton of fun, and had me rolling at Grunk's..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Spur: "Grand Theft Trotto" April 25, 2026 "Continuing a string of Western games, I decided to try this one from 1995 -- the dawn of the hobbyist era. This distant origin is..." - See full review

A new listing for The Red Weight, by alsakin

A new listing for Time Adventure, by Peter Smith

A new listing for World's End, by bloodbath

A new competition page: LOTECH Comp 2001 created April 24, 2026 LOTECH Comp was a competition for games playable solely through selecting from available choices (as opposed to requiring typed commands, like traditional parser games do). LOTECH Comp first ran in 2001.

News on The Road to Hell: Beta testers April 24, 2026 If you want to be a beta tester and help in development, please drop me a private message in itch.io. Thanks, Rogerio

A new listing for The Road to Hell, by Rogerio Biondi

OtisTDog reviews The Song of the Mockingbird: "Entertaining puzzle game with an unfortunately rushed ending" April 24, 2026 "I've been on a Western streak for IF lately, and The Song of the Mockingbird is one of the more prominent entries in that genre...." - See full review

Ordon reviews Ajana Path (অজানা পথ): "মোটামুটি, ছোটখাটো" April 24, 2026 "সাউন্ড এফেক্টগুলো ভালো, কিন্তু হঠাৎ হঠাৎ থেমে যায়।..." - See full review

Senozoid reviews Windhammer: "Old-school high-fantasy gamebook, playable even with pen and paper" April 24, 2026 "I was slightly surprised to see that despite there being a page for Windhammer Prize 2015, there was (previously) no page for Windhammer..." - See full review

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