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A new listing for :-O _(._.)_ INTERRED _(._.)_ :-Q, by solipsistgames

A new listing for Love and Java, by Biggus

A new listing for CurseOfTheManor.xls, by Adam Biltcliffe

A new listing for Missinger, by Cindy Sasaki and AYN-X and ayami-chi and PandaPixel

A new listing for notes on the disappearance of a sister, by LITHOBREAKERS, ellisdex

A new listing for I need to let it out, by Naarel

A new listing for Productivity2000, by yonixw

MathBrush reviews Yancy At The End Of The World!: "Extra long relationship/town life game with zombies" September 24, 2024 "I beta tested this game. I have to say right now that I played this game twice, once in Chrome and once in Firefox, which I downloaded..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Winter-Over: "Murder Mystery on an Antarctic base" September 23, 2024 "I beta tested this game. This is a murder mystery set on an Antarctic ice station. A murder has been discovered, and you are highly..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Sidekick: "A wild western comedy where you, the sidekick, are really the hero!" September 23, 2024 "Now, this is another game I tested, but, sad to say, I didn’t finish testing it at the time, because it’s actually pretty hard! I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Dust: "A Western game with plenty of conversation and tools" September 22, 2024 "Dust is about a man in the Wild West who comes to town looking for his wife when he comes across trouble. It involves a lot of..." - See full review

SkyShard reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "A lot going on in this one!" September 22, 2024 "After my my first hour with LLLLL, I became convinced that this was one of the most special stories I had read in quite a while. A few..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Elysium Enigma: "Intrigue on another planet" September 22, 2024 "This XYZZY-award-winning TADS game shows off a lot of the power of the engine, like tracking what the sense can detect and from how far..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "BG3 Astarion tamagotchi light roleplaying game " September 22, 2024 "I'm going to review all 3 acts here. This a Baldur's Gate game. It is possible to play and generally understand it without having played..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Final Call: "Illustrated Saw-like game about a casino thief" September 22, 2024 "This game is graphics-and-sound heavy, with a lot of images of casinos and creepy houses. You play as a thief in a casino who suddenly..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You Can't Save Her: "Short Twine game about two women in hopeless love" September 21, 2024 "I had a moment in the middle of this game where I thought, 'This reminds me a lot of Porpentine, especially their angelical..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "A game where nouns aren't named" September 21, 2024 "I don't really worry about spoilers very much, as I find most games and movies are just as fun if you go into them knowing what happens..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Short twine game musing on the inseparabable connection between art and artist" September 21, 2024 "This brief Twine game effectively uses every word to show just how every action of the player leads to unmistakable consequences. Without..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Turn Right: "Try to navigate a difficult experience on the road" September 21, 2024 "I think this is the only Adventuron game in the competition. I always like Dee Cooke's games, but seeing how short it was made me wonder..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews KING OF XANADU: "A short game about the destruction of a kingdom" September 21, 2024 "This Twine game depicts the fall of a great empire. We play as the emperor, a being with complete control over the the people. Excess and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews House of Wolves: "A life of boredom and suffering" September 21, 2024 "This is a short, heartfelt Twine game about a remote student who feels isolation while also being forced to eat slabs of meat every day..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Interactive comic strip about gun shipment" September 21, 2024 "This is a neat idea I hadn't seen before this competition: an interactive comic strip. It's four panels, each of which remains fixed with..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews You: "Find a lost identity in a magical forest" September 21, 2024 "I was glad to see the name ‘Carter Gwertzman’ because their (one’s? zher? the pronouns do seem to matter after playing this game,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Two interweaving stories about a dry academic and a life simulator" September 21, 2024 "This is a Twine game that alternates between academic treatises in one set of styling and a life-simulator in binary choices in another..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Unreal People: "Unfinished game about possessing things and people" September 21, 2024 "This Twine game was much more substantial than I expected and much less. You play as a spirit summoned by a woman called Baba, a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "RPG-maker with a lampshaded silly quest to find your cheap teacup" September 21, 2024 "This is a game made using, I think, RPG maker, not the first IFComp game with that engine (the same author made Quest for the Sword of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Lost Artist: Prologue: "A surreal prologue jumping between protagonists" September 21, 2024 "I didn't actually understand this game, so I'll try to summarize it. It's a twine goal filled with surreal, non-sequitur type..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Mrs. Crabtree's Geography Class: "Geography minigame" September 20, 2024 "This is a short minigame where you can start in any of the contiguous United States, and can go to any bordering states, but only once...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Garbage of the Future: "Very cool choice-based system with game about trash disposal" September 20, 2024 "This game uses a choice-based format I haven't seen before, where clicking on highlighted words opens a pop-up window with both more text..." - See full review

Dan Fabulich reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "A short joke" September 20, 2024 "The game is a short joke, and, in my opinion, it's funny. It's absolutely worth ten seconds of your time to experience it. (Be sure to..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews One Night in San Francisco: "A very short and simple heist" September 20, 2024 "This is a throwback-style, very easy, old-school "text adventure," just as it claims to be. It is apparently a group effort, and it bears..." - See full review

A new listing for Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector, by Tales Of Wocdes

MathBrush reviews Campfire: "Simulate a camping experience in a real-life setting" September 20, 2024 "This was a pleasant accompaniment to the last game I played in IFComp, Birding in Pope Lick Park. Both games are outdoorsy, real-life..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 大鱼 | Big Fish: "Crocodile-themed murder mystery" September 19, 2024 "This game is a murder mystery (one of several in this comp! Which isn't bad, there was one year where the 1st, 2nd, and 4th games were..." - See full review

A new listing for One Night in San Francisco, by Peter A. H. Peterson, UMN students

MathBrush reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "Gamebook-style police procedural murder mystery" September 19, 2024 "This Twine game feels very independent from other Twine traditions, with a gameplay style, styling and structure that seems derived from..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Zozzled: "Ghost story + love story + light puzzler - integration = something messy" September 18, 2024 "Playing Zozzled was a very strange experience. Because it was an IFComp winner, my expectations of it were set relatively high. These..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Dragon of Silverton Mine: "Compact twine adventure about rescuing miners in a fantasy world" September 18, 2024 "This is a Twine game with inventory and world model that has a pretty compact map set in a mine. The idea is that you are a mage who..." - See full review

A new listing for what happens if we never talk again?, by wombokgames

Tabitha reviews String Theory: "Engaging family drarma" September 18, 2024 "This is a well-written, well-made game with some unusual aspects. While it uses the default Twine Harlowe font and color scheme, there is..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Awakened Deeply: "Room for improvement" September 18, 2024 "This is a fairly brief and mostly straightforward sci-fi puzzler that’s a bit rough around the edges. There were a decent number of..." - See full review

A new listing for The Table, by Matt Weiner

A new listing for Richard and Larry Build A Time Machine, by Jeremy Penner

MathBrush reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "Time murder mystery set in space, with the ship as the sleuth" September 18, 2024 "This game's list of author's includes every published Choice of Games author who has been nominated for a Nebula Award, which is pretty..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bad Beer: "Solve a bar's beer problem" September 18, 2024 "I had mixed feelings seeing this game's blurb and name. On the one hand, I've enjoyed all of Vivienne's games, which tend to focus on..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Awakened Deeply: "Star Trek-inspired game about escaping a ship after a slaughter" September 17, 2024 "Alas, upon starting this game and solving the starting puzzle, I saw the following room description: > A small room with nothing but your..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Focal Shift: "Cyberpunk heist" September 17, 2024 "I've played three games now by Fred Snyder over the years, all written in his custom parser engine and all involving compact maps with..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Major update! September 17, 2024 With this major update, the game is now more engaging than ever! The characters have gotten much more conversational and help the player advance through the game. Give it a try and let me know what you... - Details

MathBrush reviews Forbidden Lore: "A complex library room filled with books and magic" September 17, 2024 "This TADS game had many delightful elements to it. You are in a library filled with, well, Forbidden Lore. It belongs to a powerful..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Deliquescence: "Short game about friend who is being liquefied" September 17, 2024 "'She has been a solid and your friend for a long time.' This is a solid opening for a game about your friend turning liquid in a fatal..." - See full review

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