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P. B. Parjeter reviews The Lost Artist: Prologue: "The Lost Artist: Prologue Review" October 20, 2024 "This is an early portion of a game about a detective who has been asked to rescue somebody from the drudgery of office work — though..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews KING OF XANADU: "King of Xanadu Review" October 20, 2024 "I felt kind of detached from this game, but it’s decent. It’s a bit of a Rorscach test. Throughout the game, you’re given a range..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews The Bat: "The Bat review" October 20, 2024 "I played Chandler Groover’s “The Bat.” I really enjoyed it. Its frustratingly relaxing, kind of like Sim City and Roller Coaster..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Verses: "Verses Review" October 20, 2024 "This is a Twine game where it’s easier to grasp the themes than the plot. It’s broadly about the human mind, language and..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews The Shyler Project: "The Shyler Project Review" October 20, 2024 "“The Shyler Project” draws on the trend of “chatbot as therapist.” Other games, like Kit Riemer’s Computerfriend and this..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Why Pout?: "Why Pout? Review" October 20, 2024 "I beta tested Why Pout? in an almost-finished state. Like a good portion of of Andrew Schultz’s catalogue, this is a wordplay game...." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Birding in Pope Lick Park: "Birding in Pope Lick Park Review" October 20, 2024 "This is a pretty eye-catching game that has a really nice visual design. The first thing I noticed is that it clearly uses icons to..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "Miss Gosling's Last Case Review" October 20, 2024 "This was most my anticipated game of IF Comp, mostly because I’m convinced that it’s connected to Daniel Stelzer’s discovery of a..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Turn Right: "Turn Right review" October 20, 2024 "This game was pretty good but didn’t really make a good first impression. Despite being advertised as fifteen minutes long, it..." - See full review

P. B. Parjeter reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "Where Nothing Is Ever Named review" October 20, 2024 "This is interesting. It’s a game loosely based on a chapter (or a few paragraphs) of Alice In Wonderland’s sequel, Through the..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "Apothecary's Assistant review" October 20, 2024 "The Apothecary’s Assistant is an unusual beast. It’s set in a mysterious shop where you can work between one and three shifts per..." - See full review

EJ reviews 198BREW: "198BREW review" October 20, 2024 "It’s such a drag when you run out of your preferred source of caffeine. Especially if you discover it first thing in the morning and..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Quest for the Serpent's Eye: "Indiana Jones and the Greyscale Gimcrack" October 20, 2024 "Played: 7/19/24 Playtime: 2hrs, 2 false starts, good ending I don’t know what it is with these alternate platforms for me. Just getting..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Labyrinthine Library of Xleksixnrewix: "The Kobold's Baleful Eye" October 20, 2024 "Played: 7/15/24 Playtime: 1.5hr, finished This is the kind of game I could easily fall into for days and not come out until the Palooza..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Renegade Brainwave: "The Day My Puzzle Solving Stood Still" October 20, 2024 "Played: 7/13/24 Playtime: 2.5hr, stuck, unfinished If ever I WANTED to like a game more, I can’t think of it just now. This is a 50s..." - See full review

thedigitaldiarist reviews Deliquescence: "One of my favourite games in the 2024 IFComp" October 19, 2024 "I found this game deeply moving on multiple playthroughs (including the one where I accidentally left the menu open too long without..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Your World According to a Single Word: "A Word About Your Life" October 19, 2024 "Played: 7/11/24 Playtime: 15min Let’s say I gave you infinite monkeys, y’know, as a birthday gift. Following year, I gave you..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Someone Else's Story: "Inside the Actor's Studio" October 19, 2024 "Played: 7/11/24 Playtime: 12min, 6 playthroughs This is a work submitted for an internet fad Jam - the BEST kind of Jam. An internet fad..." - See full review

A new poll by EJ, Investigating your own death created October 18, 2024 11 votes for 9 games Games that substantially revolve around a dead protagonist trying to find out (or even remember) something about how they died.

MathBrush reviews +=3: "A famous troll game made to prove a point" October 18, 2024 "This is a troll game in multiple ways. First of all, there is a troll. The point of the game is to cross the bridge that he is guarding...." - See full review

DemonApologist reviews idle hands: "Never so sweet a Hell, as this." October 18, 2024 "For my first IFDB review, it seems appropriate that I should respond to one of the rare pieces of fiction that has been written..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews My Girl: "Less Love and Honor, More Obey" October 18, 2024 "Played: 7/11/24 Playtime: 30min, read time really This is a linear work, its aims cleverly clued by its graphical layout which..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Kiss of Beth: "Perils of Dating" October 18, 2024 "Played: 7/11/24 Playtime: 15min, two playthroughs Y’know how some games are emerald-cut jewels of insight into some aspect of creation?..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Cubes and Ladders: "Dogbert, Where Are You?" October 18, 2024 "Played: 7/10/24 Playtime: 1/2 hr, 86 pts, fired; additional 1hr “won” with walkthrough goose CW: AI art CnL has a lot going for it, I..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Down, the Serpent and the Sun: "An almost-linear map in a highly unusual setting" October 17, 2024 "This game is Chandler Groover's earliest game. In it, a feathered serpent devours you while you are standing on a Mesoamerican pyramid,..." - See full review

A new poll by jaclynhyde, Narrator as a Separate Character created October 17, 2024 12 votes for 11 games Games where the narrator is a distinct character from the PC whose actions you're controlling.

AndrewStephens reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "A Scifi Murder Mystery? Sign me up." October 17, 2024 "This is definitely my cup of tea - a scifi murder mystery where you are the ship's computer trying to figure out who killed the captain...." - See full review

EJ reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "The Egocentric review" October 17, 2024 "Even though The Copyright of Silence was punishingly difficult and I never actually completed it successfully, I have a lot of fondness..." - See full review

EJ reviews Eikas: "Eikas review" October 17, 2024 "Eikas is a community kitchen management sim. The PC has moved to a small, rural town in a gently fantastical setting to work as a chef,..." - See full review

AndrewStephens reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "A short romp for fans of Doctor Who" October 17, 2024 "This is a slight but fun choice-based game that heavily leans into its 80s Doctor Who aesthetic. Its strengths are the excellent graphics..." - See full review

EJ reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "A Dream of Silence review" October 17, 2024 "Baldur’s Gate 3 is on my to-play list, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I am also pretty sure that when I do, Astarion will not..." - See full review

EJ reviews Civil Service: "Civil Service review" October 17, 2024 "The protagonist of Civil Service appears at first to be a naive positive-thinking type taking a job in a dysfunctional government agency...." - See full review

EJ reviews 大鱼 | Big Fish: "Big Fish review" October 17, 2024 "This is a mystery game in which you play as a journalist whose uncle has been falsely accused of a murder. By the time the PC finds out,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews consciousness hologram: "Stuck in a utopia, searching for something to do" October 17, 2024 "I thought I had played and reviewed this game long ago, but it turns out that I was thinking of Universal Hologram from 2021 by the same..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Codex Crusade: "Makin' Gruel and Doin' School" October 17, 2024 "Played: 7/9/24 Playtime: 45min, two restarts due to bugs I was immediately won over by the sly, subversive wit that permeates the piece...." - See full review

JJ McC reviews constellate: "Alt-Right Amore" October 17, 2024 "Played: 7/9/24 Playtime: 20min, 4 playthroughs Sometimes my subconscious is an a$$hole. There is a phrase that came to mind during my..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews How To Make Eggplant Lasagna (With Cats!): "Wait, Where's Garfield?" October 17, 2024 "Played: 7/7/24 Playtime: 15min, 4 endings I swear, fresh off their IFCOMP23 performance, @EJoyce has decided to just troll me..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by jaclynhyde, JH's IFComp favorites October 16, 2024 47 items My personal favorite games from IFComps I've judged, in no particular order (read: alphabetical until I get tired of sorting). Will be updated as I play through the games I didn't get to during the comp.

Draconis reviews Winter-Over: "Oh no, not Daniel!" October 16, 2024 "Wrapping this year's reviews with one more murder mystery! This is another one in the vein of The Killings in Wasacona: you have a..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Hildy: "> NOOGLE ME" October 16, 2024 "Big, unapologetic, lovingly-made tribute to the Enchanter games? Sign me up! There was basically no chance that I would actually dislike..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "The old hyperdimensional-portal-in-the-laundromat trick!" October 16, 2024 "You are government agent Larch Faraji (they/them) of the Bureau of Strange Happenings, tasked with investigating aliens, ghosts, and..." - See full review

Draconis reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "If only suspects didn't have rights!" October 16, 2024 "It should surprise nobody that I'm playing the murder mysteries first, but this one feels nicely different from the rest in a way that..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Focal Shift: "[hacker voice] I'm in" October 16, 2024 "The opening to this game tells you exactly what you're getting into: a good, classic cyberpunk heist, where a shady benefactor has hired..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Redjackets: "He deserved it for being connected to Malört" October 16, 2024 "This seems like a game tailored precisely for me. It's vampires planning a heist (though to assassinate someone rather than steal from..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Bad Beer: "Forget murder, what about the beer??" October 16, 2024 "The classic setup for a mystery is a murder, but it can also be fun to do a bit of lower-stakes problem-solving, too. In this case, the..." - See full review

Draconis reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "> EXAMINE THING" October 16, 2024 "I loved the concept of this one, but would have liked a bit more thorough implementation. The idea is that there are two things in front..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews NYX: "A short science-fiction horror piece about space" October 16, 2024 "This brief work was entered in the 2024 Neo-Twiny Jam. It's a well-written and polished game about a spacecraft where survival is no..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "Of two minds..." October 16, 2024 "Another comp game that I'm a bit torn about, although the parts I liked made it one of my favorites this year. As a sucker for historical..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Eikas: "Cozy and fun" October 16, 2024 "I quite enjoyed this game; highlights were the progression of newcomer knowing no one to being part of the community, the coziness of the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Beware The Faerie Food You Eat: "A replayable and polished tale of a faerie journey" October 16, 2024 "I've been trying to go back and review games I remember playing but somehow forgot to review. This game is one of Astrid Dalmady's..." - See full review

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