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MathBrush reviews A Warm Reception: "Search a castle to get stronger to fight a battle" September 16, 2024 "Seeing this game gave me trepidation. Marked 'an hour and a half', parser game, 'Old School', 'Excellent for new players and veterans of..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Metallic Red: "Day after day, floating through space" September 16, 2024 "Being alone or in a small group in space is a classic story setup. Even before space people did it with ships, like Robinson Crusoe or..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People: "Magical prison school Choicescript game" September 16, 2024 "Felicity Banks has entered IFComp many times before with clever Choicescript games that contain themes like magic, alchemy, cats, and..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Den: "Two characters escape from an underground bunker" September 15, 2024 "The Den by Ben Jackson. It's been interesting tracking Ben Jackson's IF career. The Kuolema used Google Forms, a highly unusual format,..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews McMurphy's Mansion: "A Bug-Laden Jaunt In Bonnie Scotland" September 15, 2024 "A Scottish fly lands on your nose.....a Scottish bug lands on your left ear....and your right ear....and your chin....and your adam's..." - See full review

kaemi reviews Verses: "IFComp 2024: Verses" September 15, 2024 "I’ve a bittersweet relationship with Penguin; the publisher, I should clarify, not the birds who can recognize the cry of their chicks..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Breakfast in the Dolomites: "Eat breakfast in Italy!" September 15, 2024 "This is a parser game set entirely in real life. You are an Italian man on a weekend vacation with a beautiful young woman. Your goal is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews 198BREW: "Surreal game about getting coffee in a bizarre urban landscape" September 14, 2024 "This game might be described as "Weird Urban Fantasy". After a brief prologue, it starts off with a classic 'my apartment' game that..." - See full review

A new listing for Celestial Tear: Demon's Revenge, by White Guardian Studios

MathBrush reviews Hebe: "Rescue the Greek Gods through code-like puzzles" September 14, 2024 "In this game, Kronos has imprisoned the Gods, and you must rescue them two by two. This game acknowledges it was written with ChatGPT, so..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Why Pout?: "Fun wordplay game where you gather friends" September 14, 2024 "Why Pout? by Andrew Schultz Andrew Schultz has a long history of making wordplay games which all follow the same general pattern (typing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Eikas: "A cooking/friendship game set over 30 days in a magical town" September 13, 2024 "Well, this was a pleasure. It’s rare (to me) to find a long, well-paced, polished Twine game with nice presentation, few bugs, good..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: New Release! September 12, 2024 Thanks to my first Beta Tester, and first Reviewer, I have a new release out! This one addresses many beta test findings, as well as some items noted in the review, such as the scoring bug, and ensuring... - Details

MathBrush reviews Traffic: "A fairly difficult parser game about multiple viewpoints on a traffic accident" September 12, 2024 "Parser games let you type in whatever you want. They only respond to a small fragment of that. If I open a random parser game and say 'I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Redjackets: "Vampires and humans collaborate to take down a villain" September 12, 2024 "This is a twine game with three different paths about a group uniting to defeat a powerful vampire. You can play from three perspectives...." - See full review

A new listing for Ville de Dragons, by Lots of french people

MathBrush reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Brave a graveyard in search of an ancient weapon" September 11, 2024 "This is a longish parser game set in a time with horses, wagons, and captains but not electricity. In it, you play as a soldier who is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Deserter: "A soldier with a mech deserts an army" September 11, 2024 "I was quite surprised by the length of this game. I finished it in 15 minutes, but it's labelled as over 2 hours. I suspect it's due to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "A parser recreated in Twine for exploring a castle" September 10, 2024 "I had a bit of trouble getting this game to work at first. It's a heavily modified Twine game that uses a kind of parser command format..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX: "Eternal flame" September 10, 2024 "The little match girl's mission is to retrieve a missing statue on orders from the pope himself. She is accompanied by a new character,..." - See full review

News on The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton: Downloadable Version available now on itch.io September 10, 2024 A downloadable version is now available to play on request. I didn't even realize I hadn't provided a download package, but it is available now: Click here to Play or Download on itch.io!

Canalboy reviews Tower of Barad: "A Slapdash Piece Of PAWed Twaddle" September 10, 2024 "You know you are in trouble with a game when you find "a bottle of weedkiller" and on attempting the inevitable TAKE BOTTLE the game..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Shyler Project: "A voice-acted twine game about a mental health ai bot" September 10, 2024 "This is a short, 3-part Twine game that is dialogue between someone seeking mental health aid and an AI bot designed to help with mental..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Saltcast Adventure: "A long, polished fantasy about mirror-creatures" September 10, 2024 "This is a long, worldbuilding-heavy, sincere fantasy Twine game about a world where dark magical creatures are born from mirrors. You..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Civil Service: "A moody game about second chances and a drab office" September 8, 2024 "This is a short, atmospheric Twine game with two endings. It's hard to describe, so I'll go with what my first impressions were, then..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "Short illustrated Dr Who game about escaping a Dalek facility" September 8, 2024 "I'm surprised this one has no review yet, I think this is the most fun jkj yuio game I've played so far. It's a direct use of Dr Who..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "A delightful and well-done introductory work" September 8, 2024 "With Inform's core code having grown so much that only the smallest scenarios produced by it will still fit within Z-machine, one might..." - See full review

jakomo reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "We didn't start the fire" September 8, 2024 "Little Match Girls, assemble! This episode immediately subverts the LMG formula by putting you in the shoes of Linus, an NPC from..." - See full review

Sobol reviews House of Wolves: "A beast fable" September 8, 2024 "Since prehistoric times, people loved anthropomorphic animals; one of the reasons is a huge potential for generalization. When watching..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Verses: "Analyse bio-technological material and translate poems " September 8, 2024 "Verses by Kit Riemer This was a hard game to play, but not for the usual reasons. It wasn't difficult in a puzzly way and it didn't make..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews String Theory: "A tense Thanksgiving hiding your sexuality and learning secrets " September 7, 2024 "This game was interesting; I'm not sure if it's actually complete or not, as the story ended a little abruptly for me. It did give me an..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "A dog-gone murder mystery" September 7, 2024 "This was a long game! It took me around 3 to 4 hours to finish, possibly because clicking links wasn't quite as fast as typing, but it..." - See full review

A new listing for An Unexpectedly Green Journey, by James Isaac

Adam Cadre reviews Nightfall: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #18" September 6, 2024 "Alex Hoffer and I discuss Nightfall at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxL0LpvOKtE&t=399s"

Adam Cadre reviews Lord Bellwater's Secret: "Featured on Radio K: Ask/Tell #18" September 6, 2024 "Phoebe Ng and I discuss Lord Bellwater's Secret at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxL0LpvOKtE&t=25s"

MathBrush reviews The Bat: "An entertaining farce as a valet covering for a master in crisis" September 6, 2024 "Playing this game was a whirlwind of associations, expectations, references, and laughs. You play as the valet to Bruce Wyatt,..." - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Surreal humor and serious questions" September 6, 2024 " Middle school bodies are like crappy NYC apartments: nothing seems to fit right, the smells never go away, and the general experience... " - See full review

TestTubeHuman reviews You Can't Save Her: "Short, dark science fantasy" September 6, 2024 " The pale desert of this moon curves towards an empty horizon. ... Clouds of gray dust swirl in your wake. The wind is howling a language... " - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Exploration, romance, unspeakable horrors, and randomized combat" September 5, 2024 "This is a long exploration game involving picking up and using various tools and ammunition in a surreal technomagical future. Many..." - See full review

A new listing for Le miroir d'Ozivior, by Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)

MathBrush reviews The Maze Gallery: "An artistic collaboration in the form of a labyrinthine, surreal art gallery" September 4, 2024 "This game occupied all of my play time today. It's really quite large, which is fitting for a game with 34 contributors. Most entries are..." - See full review

A new listing for Love Shapes, by Not-Only But-Also

A new listing for Walk, man., by Not-Only But-Also

A new listing for My My Microwave, by Not-Only But-Also

OtisTDog reviews A Beauty Cold and Austere: "The lesser of the pair" September 3, 2024 "This game was the insipid edutainment experience that I had feared when I was preparing to play Junior Arithmancer. When I first loaded..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Quotient, The Game: "This is... exuberant and silly." September 3, 2024 "[Update: As the author points out in comments, this review is based on an early release of the game, which has since been substantially..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "A self-reflective mystery game set in multiple time periods" September 3, 2024 "This was a hefty TADS game that I took several hours to play. It employs a variety of perspectives and player characters, and uses..." - See full review

A new listing for The End of Creation, by hetero malk

A new listing for Altair-III : Search And Rescue, by JohnX

A new listing for Quotient, The Game, by Gregory R. Simpson

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