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ChanceOfFire reviews Congresswolf: "Politics is one job I'll never do" May 21, 2025 "Werewolves exist alongside other humans. Also, they have certain demands in terms of rights and laws. Still, all is not well with that..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Aisle: "One false choice at the nexus of a multiverse of incompatible pasts and futures" May 20, 2025 "Aisle is one that I finally broke down and played a few years ago. It did not impress me, and I didn't find the central innovation (i.e...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews anpa ma: "Brief fantasy parser adventure written in the conlang Toki Pona" May 20, 2025 "This game is written in Toki Pona, a minimalistic conlang (artificial language) designed to have only around 100 words. The whole..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Temple of Terror: "Collect all the Dragons" May 20, 2025 "Another mission to destroy an evil wizard who wants to destroy the world. Your task here is to head to a temple in a lost city and..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews City of Thieves: "A long treasure hunt and a lucky choice" May 20, 2025 "An evil undead prince threatens the town of Silverton unless the Mayor agrees to his demands. You are tasked to slay the undead fiend...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Bloodbones: "Fantastically made and fantastically punishing" May 20, 2025 "Bloodbones is tough to rate. Compared to your average Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Bloodbones is well written with creatively made gameplay..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Forest of Doom (Fighting Fantasy Classics): "How often does a gamebook give you a second chance" May 20, 2025 "The dwarves of Stonebridge have lost their magical Warhammer, and it's up to you to retrieve it. The forest setting is not the most..." - See full review

A new listing for Temple of Terror (Fighting Fantasy Classics), by Simon Woodroffe and Mike Woodroffe

A new listing for Eye of the Dragon, by Ian Livingstone

A new listing for Freeway Fighter, by Ian Livingstone

A new listing for Creature of Havoc, by Steve Jackson (U.K.)

A new listing for Assassins of Allansia, by Ian Livingstone

A new listing for Armies of Death, by Ian Livingstone

A new listing for The Port of Peril, by Ian Livingstone

kqr reviews The Dreamhold: "Immersive environment, fun puzzles, geography confusing but intriguing" May 19, 2025 "I had a delightful time in the Dreamhold and its surroundings. The pacing is slow and the game rewards methodical exploration. At first..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Caverns of the Snow Witch: "A bunch of disconnected stories" May 19, 2025 "Caverns of the Snow Witch feels like a bunch of smaller adventures roughly put together to form a larger whole. Don't quote me on this, I..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Trial of Champions: "Back to Deathtrap Dungeon, with a twist" May 19, 2025 "...and we're back to Deathtrap Dungeon. Everyone's favorite Baron Sukumvit has returned with another dungeon and a much larger cash..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Island of the Lizard King: "One of the easier Fighting Fantasy gamebooks." May 19, 2025 "Island of the Lizard King was one of the first gamebooks I beat on my first attempt. Looking back, it's not hard to see why. Unlike most..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Deathtrap Dungeon: "A true classic" May 19, 2025 "I had complained about the premise of the Warlock of Firetop Mountain in another review (and I'd do the same for a few other of Ian..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews The Citadel of Chaos (Fighting Fantasy Classics): "A showdown with Balthus Dire" May 19, 2025 "Now for another piece of my ancient childhood. The Citadel of Chaos largely improves upon The Warlock of Firetop Mountain in terms of..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Fighting Fantasy Classics): "The first Fighting Fantasy gamebook" May 19, 2025 "Long, long ago, when I was a kid, a family member gave me their used copy of the very first Fighting Fantasy gamebook. This marked my..." - See full review

iaraya reviews The Amiable Planet: "Good food and friendly critters" May 19, 2025 "> You emerge from your trusty starship. It folds its wings and settles down to nest in the clearing where it has landed, crooning softly...." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Hollywood Visionary: "I got the Academy Award" May 19, 2025 "After pitching your glorious idea for a movie to a studio which (of course) goes on to reject it, you walk out with as much pride as you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Time Crystals of Cythii: "Time travel to five famous disasters" May 18, 2025 "This is a compact puzzle game. You are a young keeper of time, and the time crystals have been stolen, opening up portals to famous..." - See full review

A new listing for Profezia, by Patrizia Alvigini

A new listing for Damien Tuney système véloce, by François Coulon

ChanceOfFire reviews Sex on the Beach: "Laugh out loud sex comedy" May 18, 2025 "First things first, how did I get here? I noticed IFDB had a 'pornographic' tag, was curious, found out that a senior intfiction member..." - See full review

A new listing for Stories of Command Line - Teaching of Nmap, by HEYANG LIU

OtisTDog reviews You're a Time Agent!: "Groundhog Minute meets Rat Race" May 17, 2025 "One of the reasons that I don't often play choice games is that it rarely feels like the choices available are about directly controlling..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fat Bear: "An amusing and cute parser puzzle game about a very hungry bear" May 17, 2025 "Charles Moore, Jr. is an author who I associate with very large, complex games with difficult puzzles. This game is pretty big an puzzly,..." - See full review

A new listing for Loop of Redemption, by Kefan Yang

A new Recommended List by Denk, 2025 Alternative Top 25 May 16, 2025 25 items (Created 16-May-2025) This is a snapshot of the 25 games on IFDB with the highest average star rating, though excluding games with less than 5 ratings. The purpose is to allow for games with few ratings so...

kqr reviews Bronze: "Rich narrative, sometimes frustratingly large" May 16, 2025 "This might be the longest parser game I've played so far, although that does not say much since I can still count the number of parser..." - See full review

ChanceOfFire reviews Choice of the Deathless: "When real life is like a deal with the devil" May 16, 2025 "In Choice of the Deathless, you follow the path of a newly minted law student, fresh from college with academic credentials (and student..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Fixing Time: A Hack & Makerspace Adventure: "Explore a makerspace and repair a time machine" May 16, 2025 "This game was entered in 2025 the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. In it, you wander around a makerspace with tools for sewing, cutting,..." - See full review

kqr reviews Violet: "Detailed, well-crafted, and extremely engaging" May 14, 2025 "I don't even know where to begin. This is an extended puzzle with multiple steps in a limited geography. But boy does it make me invest..." - See full review

kqr reviews Shade: "Tedious, unfulfilling, strange" May 14, 2025 "I enjoyed the first half of this game, but then it became very samey but with tedious sweeps of the geography to find all the triggers..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "Narrative and Crossword Reach Historic Accord" May 14, 2025 "Emily Short's masterpiece is widely considered to be the Greatest Work of IF of All Time. This is reflected in its very secure #1 spot in..." - See full review

kqr reviews Firebird: "Great story, many details missing" May 13, 2025 "This was the fourth parser game I played. Having now gotten a grasp of some of the conventions of the genre, many of the early puzzles..." - See full review

kqr reviews Inside the Facility: "A well-executed abstraction with fun puzzles" May 13, 2025 "This was an odd one. It almost managed to capture my imagination with its sparse descriptions and limited scenery, but there was still..." - See full review

kqr reviews Aisle: "One-turn games are difficult to get right" May 13, 2025 "I like the idea of telling a story in disjoint pieces -- it can be done really well. But it is harder than telling it straight (because..." - See full review

kqr reviews 9:05: "Realistic, short, and intriguing" May 13, 2025 "There was something surreal about preparing the childrens' breakfast at 5:50 in the morning while playing a game about someone living..." - See full review

kqr reviews Glowgrass: "Very immersive, too short" May 12, 2025 "This was the second parser game I played. The puzzles were fairly easy (minus a couple of parser beginner gaffes – I forgot to examine..." - See full review

kqr reviews Lost Pig: "Solid first game -- deceptively small" May 12, 2025 "This was the first parser game I played (beyond entering some commands into Adventure and Zork ages ago), which means I suffered from..." - See full review

A new competition page: Dialogue Jam 2025 created May 12, 2025 The Dialogue Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about communication between characters. Whether through verbal dialogue or written correspondence, this jam aims to bring discussions forward.

A new listing for With Love from Oodna, by haus of sheewolf

A new listing for Mom Is Not Awake, by Rinoaskyes

A new listing for Tamago Sando And The End Of The World, by Rinoaskyes

A new listing for uguisu: the herald of spring, by SWANCHIME

A new listing for P.R.A.Y.E.R., by Doksa

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