New on IFDB

Mike Russo reviews The Samurai and the Kappa: "Enjoyable puzzling marred by ill-advised historicity" October 24, 2024 "I’ve never dug that deeply into Text Adventure Literacy Project games, mostly just because I’m already fairly overcommitted when it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Project Postmortem: "An academic-thriller amuse-bouche" October 24, 2024 "It’s unfair to Project Postmortem to compare it to The Mysterious Cave, a pretty-but-buggy Adventuron game that consists of one basic..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Free Bird: "Fail forward" October 24, 2024 "Free Bird’s blurb conveys at best a profound ambivalence about its value: of this short game functioning as a proof-of-concept for a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews It can't be true it mustn't be true: "3/5 of a Review" October 24, 2024 "Played: 7/24/24 Playtime: Act I (2x) 5min; Act II (3x) 5min; Act III (4x) 8min I made the call to review these three Acts together, given..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Remembrance: "Selective Grief" October 24, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 8min, 4 endings Hitting quite a run of these Short Story IF works. I suspect (and only suspect, not having..." - See full review

dfranke reviews Delusions: "Hasn't aged well" October 23, 2024 "When I first played Delusions as a teen in the late 90s, it blew me away. Coming back to it, I find that it has not aged well. Delusions..." - See full review

A new listing for The Darien Gap, by Kurmi Xochitl, influencia indebida, Gaz

perkiio reviews Dust: "Ima" October 23, 2024 "Imagery in the back throws off the game, and the text is too small. Not an attention grabber"

perkiio reviews Verses: "Ehhh" October 23, 2024 "I didn't like how the game was speaking in a different language."

DemonApologist reviews PARANOIA: "Is 'Dr. Iblis' in the room with us right now?" October 23, 2024 "In Paranoia, the devilish Dr. Iblis has tasked you, the player, with exploring a series of copies of the same room. Your job is to..." - See full review

perkiio reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "Spicy!" October 23, 2024 "It is a lot of storytelling and little to no gameplay aspect. But the story delves into interesting matters."

perkiio reviews The Den: "amazing!" October 23, 2024 "I love the structure of the game and the interactiveness with all the different paths being able to take. Even though I have to pick..." - See full review

perkiio reviews The Bat: "cool game" October 23, 2024 "I love the reference to batman."

Mike Russo reviews Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens: "Salad days" October 23, 2024 "It is nothing short of miraculous that Andrew Schultz has now made eight large, robust games centering on a very specific bit of wordplay..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Mysterious Cave: "Caveat lector" October 23, 2024 "“Your goal is to navigate through the forest, solve puzzles, interact with characters, and ultimately discover the truth about your..." - See full review

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 The 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

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

Previous | 3951–4000 | Next