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Mike Russo reviews The Curse: "More (or possibly less) meta than it appears" November 18, 2024 "(Spoilers ahoy; this is one to play blind, I think, and it may be worth trying even if the old-school presentation might initially put..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews KING OF XANADU: "Reign and ruin" November 18, 2024 "(Another review with unmarked spoilers here, due to the brevity of the piece and the centrality of the way the plot develops to assessing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Die Another Day: "A short game where every day ends in your death" November 17, 2024 "This game is a lovely metaphor for many things in life. In this game, you die every single day, and it's very inconvenient. You have to..." - See full review

kaemi reviews your life, and nothing else: "Ectocomp 2024: your life, and nothing else" November 17, 2024 "They ought to enpipe a dizzyknotted sewerslide system in all apartments so you can slip out into the nothing as no one, which is all you..." - See full review

Kinky.Sub reviews Gassy Encounters (1.2): "Sooo hot" November 17, 2024 "This game is super fucking hot, can’t wait for more updates to this debauchery"

A new listing for Woodland Terror, by Helen Seymour and John Hudson

A new listing for Firienwood, by Helen Seymour and John Hudson

MathBrush reviews You promise: "Short game about speaking carefully to supernatural creatures" November 17, 2024 "This was a clever game. I was nervous at first at how much text per page there was, so I clicked random links without reading to see how..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Why Pout?: "Whirr Dethisgotawayfromme" November 17, 2024 "It feels like every Comp and/or Spring Thing, Andrew Schultz enters a big, robustly-implemented wordplay game bursting with bonus points,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "Sneaking out" November 17, 2024 "As a straight white dude, for good or ill I very rarely find myself second-guessing my opinions too intensively. I mean, I like to think..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Quite the cuppa" November 17, 2024 "The parodic sendup of CRPG tropes is such a hoary old subgenre that I think I’ve already written two or three different intros..." - See full review

A new listing for The Coral Labyrinth, by Coral Nulla

MathBrush reviews An Admirer: "Freeform parser conversation game made in 4 hours" November 16, 2024 "Making a conversation-based parser game in 4 hours is dicey, but can be rewarding. I made Halloween Dance in 4 hours, an ectocomp..." - See full review

A new listing for Mystery House: Occluded Vengeance, by Guy Minor

A new listing for Mystery House Nightmared, by Art Destroyer

A new listing for Temple Of The Sun, by The Ventureweaver

MathBrush reviews do not let your left hand know: "Short, well-written dual identity game with a major choice at the end" November 16, 2024 "This is a twine game with visual novel-style controls. The game focuses more on story than branching, with one very important choice at..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Balances: "An example both positive and negative" November 16, 2024 "Balances is labeled as a demo for Inform 6 (originally developed for Inform 5), and was distributed as such along with its source code..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ghost Hunt: "Short Adventuron game about recapturing familial ghosts" November 16, 2024 "This was a pleasant, compact Adventuron game. It had a feature I'm not used to seeing, where right-clicking on yellow words brought up..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Familiar Problems: "But not too familiar!" November 16, 2024 "I playtested this game and have replayed the published version. I can’t really comment on the difficulty of the puzzles because I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Column: "Brief choice-based game about a curse and trust" November 16, 2024 "I liked the way this game was structured a lot. It has two major branch points, and at the end it lets you revisit them right away. The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Focal Shift: "Look at you, hacker" November 16, 2024 "There are few design challenges more vexing than the hacking minigame. They’re a nearly unavoidable necessity in anything cyberpunk:..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Imprimatura: "Painting in layers" November 16, 2024 "(Spoilers in this one; a lot of what I have to say about this game has to do with the ending. It’s relatively short and well worth..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Bird is the word" November 16, 2024 "Sometimes a game’s title tells you exactly what you’re going to get. And so it is in this choice-based nature simulator, as you take..." - See full review

A new listing for Peasant's Quest, by Videlectrix

A new listing for A Dragon and the Tower, by Khaelenmore Thaal and Sabra Naikomy

OtisTDog reviews Degeneracy: "Doesn't quite close the gap between its twin visions" November 15, 2024 "This is an enjoyable short puzzle game with an interesting mechanic, but it doesn't do much to realize its author-declared inspiration...." - See full review

DemonApologist reviews Eat Me: "The One Who Ate Omelas" November 15, 2024 "I decided to play this game because the author, Chandler Groover, mentioned in the postmortem for The Bat that “Few people seemed to..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews SPILL YOUR GUT: "Four different versions of suffering and pain (or loneliness and despair)" November 15, 2024 "I played the first GUTS game, which I remember liking, but I didn’t play the second. I’m not sure what this third one is really all..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews YARRY: "Brief game about a baby's troubling habit" November 15, 2024 "This is a short Choicescript game. I wondered if there were two endings, but I could only find one. It's a family..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Wah-waah" November 15, 2024 "I was all set to rate this troll game a 1. Look, the question of what does and doesn’t count as interactive fiction is almost as old as..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Very Strong Gland: "A bland gland" November 15, 2024 "It’s no secret that I’m very interested by the ways limited parser games share design DNA with certain kinds of puzzley choice-based..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Den: "Escape the facility" November 15, 2024 "Let us imagine that puzzley choice games can be separated into two categories – yes, yes, this is an oversimplification even on its own..." - See full review

Victor Gijsbers reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "Turn off the time limit" November 14, 2024 "First things first: when you play this game, turn off the time limit. For me, playing with a real-time counter on the screen turned my..." - See full review

sandon reviews Welcome to Ponyville: "Ok, I guess?" November 14, 2024 "Vaguely uninspired MLP game with a modicum of spark... I feel it important I both dredge up old games from 10 years ago and review all..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews As the Eye Can See: "Short, linear, meaningful story of many Halloweens past" November 14, 2024 "This was a short pleasant story presented in Twine. It portrays, in reverse order, several Halloween celebrations of a teenage girl...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Deserter: "A mech with no name" November 14, 2024 "One of the things I love about IF is its plasticity: there are great games in nearly every genre you can think of, from literary..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Campfire: "A little heat, a little light" November 14, 2024 "After raking Breakfast in the Dolomites over the coals for gesturing towards, but not actually providing, a grounded trip into nature, I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Breakfast in the Dolomites: "A cold collation" November 14, 2024 "I’ve vacationed in Italy a few times, and when people ask me my favorite part of those trips, it’s usually something about some..." - See full review

Dave Schweisguth reviews Make It Good: "Not my cup of tea" November 13, 2024 "Make It Good has many excellent qualities. The protagonist and the NPCs and the plot and the twist are interesting and memorable. It's..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Forevermore: A Game of Writing Horror: "Write a poem as Edgar Allan Poe" November 13, 2024 "This was a fun little game that involved writing a text that varies depending on your inputs. Given that the game was written in 4 hours..." - See full review

Dave Schweisguth reviews Sub Rosa: "Just one more thing" November 13, 2024 "Briefly: both brilliant and enjoyable. The setting is exceptionally creative, well written and internally consistent. There are novel..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Roar: "A full-on war between animals and humans written in an interesting system" November 13, 2024 "This game was a wild ride. I don't recognize the engine used at all; you can cycle through choices by clicking, but then scrolling down..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Contaminated Space: "A loner in space encounters a contaminated area" November 13, 2024 "This was a mournful, reflective, and gross game by KADW. And not gross in a bad way, gross in a cleansing way, like popping a zit or..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Unreal People: "Playing with yourself" November 13, 2024 "Unreal People is a vexing game that isn’t easy to come to grips with; it’s also set in “early mediaeval India”, so with Hindu..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Redjackets: "Out for blood" November 13, 2024 "An annoying thing that I can’t stop my brain from doing when I’m reading escapist, pulp stuff is think about money. Take this..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "The whatsit and the thingamabob" November 13, 2024 "The brain is a pattern-making machine, and so while it’s of course ridiculous to assign any particular weight to the first game that..." - See full review

jenzwick reviews The Absence of Law: "this game is bou" November 12, 2024 "quick, enjoyable, and funny"

Victor Gijsbers reviews Metallic Red: "Meaningful labour" November 12, 2024 "At first, there are strong vibes of howling dogs. It's a Twine game set in a small cell-like environment -- though this time it's a space..." - See full review

A new listing for you are not goliath., by Malachi Versus

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