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Mike Russo reviews Last Audit of the Damned: "Damned if you do" August 8, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forum during ParserComp. After it was posted, the Comp's results were posted, which..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Wild West: "Cowboy in amber" August 8, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forums during this year's ParserComp; due to the similarities between the trilogy of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Tin Star: "Cowboy in amber" August 8, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forums during this year's ParserComp; due to the similarities between the trilogy of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Desperados: "Cowboy in amber" August 8, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forums during this year's ParserComp; due to the similarities between the trilogy of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The 13th Quest: "You CAN spell fantasy adventure without "AI"" August 8, 2025 "(This review was originally posted on the IntFic forums during ParserComp) So, generative AI in IF, there’s a topic I’m sure we’re..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die: "Low Wordcount = High Esteem" August 8, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: choice-select/Visual Novel Played : 7/18/25 Playtime: 10m What a cool, unique combination..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Deluge: "Where My Waders?" August 8, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: choice-select Played : 7/18/25 Playtime: 10m 2 playthroughs It occurs to me I have gone..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews return to home: "Palate Cleanser" August 8, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: parser Played : 7/18/25 Playtime: score 13/14; locs 13/14 10m 3 playthroughs I am..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by xkia, My IF favorites August 7, 2025 11 items My absolute favorites in no particular order - IFs that I would easily recommend. Many have great humor, clever mechanics/puzzles, an engaging story, and/or an emotional throughline. All were wonderful and...

sofv223 reviews Type Help: "Spectacular -- and I'm not a horror fan." August 7, 2025 "I'm glad I wasn't put off by "gruesome" and "ghosts." It's not what I expected -- it's better. Loved every minute. Try it even if you..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Blood and Sunlight: "Baby, It's Sunny Outside" August 7, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: Choice-select Played : 7/18/25 Playtime: 10m, 3 endings Elsewhere, I have asserted that..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Ataraxia: "Cottage Core Calliope" August 7, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: RPG/Choice-select Played : 7/17/25 Playtime: 2.5hrs, Day 55, plateau’d This is a work..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Habeas Corpus: "Save Siren or Sleep?" August 7, 2025 "Style: Choice-select Played : 7/15/25 Playtime: 7m both endings An honorary entry in the "Penny Pinching Parity" review sub-series. This..." - See full review

A new listing for Grievance, by Whill

A new listing for Hope’s Peak, by Kalle MacDonald

JJ McC reviews Lazarrien: A Love Story: "Ain't Myth-behaving" August 6, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: (single) Choice-select Played : 7/15/25 Playtime: 20m, one playthrough Fantasy hero awakens..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Butterfly Dreams: "Charlie and the VR Factory" August 6, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: Visual Novel Played : 7/15/25 Playtime: 15m demo There were enough caveats and warnings to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews A House of Endless Windows: "Dead To Me" August 6, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: Visual Novel Played : 7/15/25 Playtime: 30m This is a visual novel that a..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Radiance Inviolate: "Save (or doom) a vampire" August 5, 2025 "An expansion of a short review originally published at Intfiction.org on May 8, 2025. Radiance Inviolate had me at “queer vampires”,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Heaven Alive: "Life Ain't Fair" August 5, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: Choice-Select Played : 7/15/25 Playtime: 5m, three playthroughs Another in my review..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Method in My Madness: "Style, Meet Substance" August 5, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Graphical playfulness seems to be the least-utilized tool in the IF author’s toolbox. I don’t..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Moon's Knight: "500 Words or Less, or Pizza is Free" August 5, 2025 "Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 25 Review Style: Choice-Select Played : 7/14/25 Playtime: 5m, two playthroughs, all 497 words Another in my..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Succor: "Amounts of succor may vary" August 4, 2025 "An expansion of a short review originally published at Intfiction.org on May 8, 2025. My overwhelming feeling after playing Succor was..." - See full review

actually_incorrect reviews take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die: "Polished graphics and moving story" August 4, 2025 "take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die is a neat little game that I enjoyed, and one that I immediately started over again..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Starfish and Crystallisation: "Vibes over details" August 4, 2025 "An expansion of a short review originally published at Intfiction.org on May 8, 2025. This is a very vibes-based piece; I got a strong..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews The Goldilocks Principle: "A minority opinion" August 4, 2025 "An expansion of a short review originally published at Intfiction.org on May 8, 2025. I'm clearly in the minority on this one, but I..." - See full review

A new listing for Encounter HD, by Mickael Pointier

FrenchPotatoast reviews Counterfeit Monkey: "good game" August 4, 2025 "Adding and removing letters from words to create new objects is a really fun mechanic. The story itself and the lore furnishing this..." - See full review

Dbug reviews Encounter: "Better than it looks" August 4, 2025 "Encounter is one of many BASIC games released in the 1980s. It’s not particularly fast, lacks graphics, and has only a minimal amount..." - See full review

A new listing for Le retour du Dr. Genius, by Laurent Benes, Karine Le Pors

Tabitha reviews As I Sat on a Sunny Bank: "A partial review" August 4, 2025 "During Spring Thing '25, I wrote full reviews of several of the games in this anthology. I never made it to all of them, but I'm posting..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Succor: "Eating Yr Trauma" August 4, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/21/25 Playtime: 1hr, Demon Hunter(2), Healthy Appetite(1); 2 playthroughs If there is a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Portrait with Wolf: "Pooooetry... Come Out And PlaAYay" August 4, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/13/25 Playtime: 45m, 13/8 bailed without unlocking Guide sections Light-fantasy parsers run..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews As I Sat on a Sunny Bank: "Message in Some Bottles" August 4, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/13/25 Playtime: 1hr total, 8 games, what a bargain! The Senica student anthology has become..." - See full review

kqr reviews Mystery Academy: "Feels like co-writing a book, and it was fun until it crashed" August 4, 2025 "This was fun for a while. I love practicing negotiation and collaborative information gathering, even (or perhaps especially) in contexts..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: New Let's Play Release August 3, 2025 I was fortunate to have some people play and review the game from the Review-A-Thon, and also had a great time watching @jwalrus do a Let's Play post on the game. I've taken the feedback from the reviewers... - Details

JJ McC reviews A Bottle from the Future: "Atlantis Shrugged" August 3, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/13/25 Playtime: 20m, 2 endings, 9/10 on quiz For a change of pace, let me ignore my own..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight: "Only You Can Prevent Feline Fawning" August 3, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Cat protagonist. This is what we’ve come to. If my credentials as a reviewer of superhuman..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Kenam Moorwak - Chronicles of the Moorwakker: "Just the One Thing, Really" August 3, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 1.5hr dying all the time, even in Easy mode? Is there less invigorating an..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Thousand Lives: "A single life" August 2, 2025 "I like history as a subject, but for a long time I thought I didn’t, because it’s often taught as a zoomed out, big-picture overview..." - See full review

A new listing for Pizzini, by Clio Games

A new listing for Dragon of Steelthorne: Skies over Steelthorne, by Vance Chance

Blaqphire reviews Remembrance Of Magic - By Any Other Name: "Intriguing " August 2, 2025 "I do love a good storyline. This has caught my attention. In the midst of waiting for a new part, being able to go back and obtain other..." - See full review

A new listing for domvs, by litrouke

A new listing for Kitchen Nightmares but Gordon Ramsay is contractually permitted to kill the owner during filming, by Sherbet and ISentinelPenguinI

A new listing for Diplomat, by Gryphon

A new listing for Ruins of Anzar, by Gryphon

A new listing for Blackwell's Diamonds, by ViolinAndDeerstalker

JJ McC reviews Radiance Inviolate: "Dracula's Doin' the Work" August 2, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 30m, two endings There is a fundamental problem with “good vampire”..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Test Subject: Synaptix: "Drug Trial Trevails" August 2, 2025 "Adapted from a SpringThing25 Review Played: 4/11/25 Playtime: 20m 3 playthroughs Synaptix is a work that posits a present/future where..." - See full review

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