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manonamora reviews L'abribus: "A magic orb and impacting choices" July 21, 2024 "L’abribus is a short fantasy story, where we either play as some sort of force controlling a magic orb (which can influence everything..." - See full review

A new poll by Fie, Games involving deception created July 21, 2024 12 votes for 8 games Deceiving a talking obstacle? Tricking a child? Fooling you? Besting me? Interactivity means that intentional decisions are made, and intentional decisions can be wrong.

Lance Cirone reviews The Garden of Earthly Regrets: "Garden exploration" July 20, 2024 "This is a surreal game where much of it seems to be left to the player's interpretation. You explore a garden surrounding a wedding,..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Lowell's Paradise: "Even Lowell thinks that my mind is gone" July 20, 2024 "This is one of the games from Bouchercomp, a SpeedIF running in 2008. The premise involves a prison escape, and the interpretation here..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Merk: "I know you're going to be a great typist one day" July 20, 2024 "Merk is a pretty amusing SpeedIF. You are sent a letter by an alien who requests that you bring him a 100 year-old typewriter, because he..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine: "Excellent tiny horror" July 20, 2024 "This is the second of three games (so far) in Charm’s RGB Cycle, all of which were made for this year’s Neo-Twiny Jam, which had a..." - See full review

CalliopeFyre reviews Halfling Dale: "Brilliant!" July 19, 2024 "Okay, I LOVE choice story games like this, I've never particularly enjoyed games like Episode, or of that format, but this is nothing..." - See full review

A new listing for Ocean Red, by Palette

A new listing for Ritorno nel Castello (The Secret of the Lost Castle), by The BaK

Drew Cook reviews The Tempest: ""But this rough magic I here abjure"" July 17, 2024 "1992's "The Tempest" by David R. Grigg, which should not be mistaken for Graham Nelson's adaptation, is an unkind game that modern..." - See full review

Hyacinthos reviews Lysidice and the Minotaur: "Minotaur Escape Room" July 17, 2024 "Without a doubt, this is the best parser the author has released until now. The take on Lysidice's character on the Minotaur mythology..." - See full review

A new poll by Hellzon, Games featuring alchemy created July 16, 2024 6 votes for 6 games Games featuring alchemy, a subset of games with cool magic systems. There are at least some with puzzles based on mixing alchemical compounds, and even more where the setting is some kind of alt-historical...

A new listing for Skarn's Keep, by Kenneth Buchs

A new Recommended List by lil540, games i liked July 16, 2024 4 items

pieartsy reviews Rescue at Quickenheath: "Put a pin in that puzzle" July 16, 2024 "I wanted to show my boyf a recent IF game since he’s played parsers ages ago but wanted to get back into the swing of it. When polling..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Sculptor: "Awkward and odd (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A linear game until the very end choice, about a pitiable old sculptor trying to create his last masterpiece, essentially before he dies...." - See full review

pieartsy reviews LUNIUM: "Over the moon about this game (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "This one had all my favorite things—a murder mystery, an “escape room” vibe like the author’s previous game (The Kuolema), fun..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews To Sea in a Sieve: "Cast off and set sail (if only you had an anchor or sail) (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A fun sea adventure indeed, even for a landlubber like me! Very good title too. I love a solid puzzler, and this one had me feeling very..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Detective Osiris: "Weirdly melancholy railroad with sparks of potential (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "Hmm…as someone who wrote er own game about someone solving their own murder, I wanted to like this game more than I did. It was a..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Tricks of light in the forest: "An idyllic forest day from the eyes of a child...mostly (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "A delightful game! After a bit of an awkward and rushed start, it really eases into itself once you enter the forest proper. Lara, the..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews Dysfluent: "Timed text, my beloathed (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "Oh my god the timed text. Oh god. I’m not as big of a hater on timed text as some, having used it in many of my pieces, but this was..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Whale's Keeper: "Charming story, at least in my route! (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "This game was really charming! You find yourself waking with amnesia in the belly of a whale. I ended in half an hour with 17 sanity and..." - See full review

pieartsy reviews The Library of Knowledge: "This is a short story... (IFComp 2023 repost)" July 16, 2024 "I was curious as to why this one wasn’t just a prose story, then I checked the author’s website and saw that the bulk of it already..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Sunburst Contamination: "Sad to say it wasn't for me" July 16, 2024 "This is an old 1988 basic game ported to Z-machine. It has a simple plot of you trying to … Well, it wasn’t entirely clear from what..." - See full review

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews Tuuli: "Atmospheric, occult, well written!" July 16, 2024 "Tuuli is a text adventure game about life, death, fate, social roles, and black magic. You play a young witch apprentice, suddenly forced..." - See full review

A new listing for Fluid Worlds, by ThunderPerfectWitchcraft

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews A row of chairs abandoned on the beach: "Metamodern interactive poem" July 16, 2024 "A row of chairs abandoned on the beach is a short interactive fiction by LaughingPineapple about a person who melts with the ocean. The..." - See full review

A new listing for A row of chairs abandoned on the beach, by laughingpineapple

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews The Archivist and the Revolution: "'bout missed and open chances" July 16, 2024 "The Archivist and the Revolution is a interactive fiction set in a dystopian future. You play a trans person who is working as an..." - See full review

ThunderPerfectWitchcraft reviews Shell Song: "A game about voice." July 16, 2024 "Shell Song is an interactive fiction or a digital essay about the voice as a medium, its relation to the body, the attempts to recreate..." - See full review

Felix Pleșoianu reviews Calypso: "A game to the point" July 15, 2024 "A simple game that doesn't waste your time, and doesn't have any pretenses. The puzzles are simple enough, but frustrating to solve..." - See full review

A new listing for Romance the Backrooms, by Naomi Norbez

Jim Nelson reviews The Sculptor: "What makes a sculptor a sculptor?" July 14, 2024 "The Sculptor is a brief narrative regarding age, art, and commercialism. You play a sculptor facing, on the one hand, a final assignment..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Stick it to the man: "Too little, too soon" July 13, 2024 "This starts out unpromising, in the ultimate entry in the My Crappy Apartment genre, as you awake in a grody underimplemented squat. But..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country: "More sins against mimesis" July 13, 2024 "Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country is a parody of AIF in general, especially the sort epitomised by the original SM, which had the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Read This First: "A small circular game" July 13, 2024 "This game seems to be one giant loop. It's a pretty amusing representation of the frustration of starting a new board game and trying to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sun And Moon: "An early ARG experiment" July 13, 2024 "[This review was written and originally posted on the raif newsgroups at the conclusion of the 2002 IFComp] A year or so ago, Electronic..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Goofy: "A small custom parser java game about exploring an abandoned building" July 13, 2024 "This is one IFComp game I was never able to play due to its use of an outdated Java platform that you have to pay to download. I was able..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Your World According to a Single Word: "Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia for no reason whatsoever" July 13, 2024 "The game’s flow is interesting and yet captivating, picking between single-choices with massive texts of screen before them, and ones..." - See full review

A new poll by Dannii, Interesting uses of colour in TADS created July 13, 2024 4 votes for 4 games What are some interesting uses of colour in TADS games? Foreground, background text colours, or windows with different colours?

Kastel reviews idle hands: "Intensity. Seduction. Taboo." July 13, 2024 "These are the three words that keep popping into my head as I read and re-read idle hands, a game about "idolatrous devil-fucking". I..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Kiss of Beth: "A strong debut title from an up-and-coming author" July 13, 2024 "Kiss of Beth is a debut game from Charm Cochran before they ever set foot in the interactive fiction community. The player character is a..." - See full review

Kastel reviews Look Around the Corner: "Too short a new day." July 13, 2024 "This game, for better or for worse, simulates the drudgery of waking up to a new day. ..." - See full review

Kastel reviews How Dare You: "No means no." July 13, 2024 "How Dare You puts the player in a strange situation: they must find the verbs that will hopefully resolve a potential breakup between the..." - See full review

Kastel reviews NYX: "A click that sparks many stories" July 13, 2024 "The premise of NYX is one that many science fiction and horror fans have heard over the years: the cosmic horror has taken over, and the..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Cross of Fire: "Sherlock Holmes becomes an action hero" July 13, 2024 "This game has been on my 'to play' list for several years. It was one of the earliest Spring Thing games, in fact one of 4 games in the..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Meritocracy: "A sticky concept" July 13, 2024 "The packaging of Meritocracy is pure sugar to the likes of me. “A battle of the wits” over a topical philosophical concept—student..." - See full review

A new poll by Zeugma, Arterias de metal created July 12, 2024 No votes Una piedra

Tabitha reviews Not Just Once: "A mysterious encounter" July 12, 2024 "I played Not Just Once back when it was first released and enjoyed it then, but encountered a few bugs. Having just played the updated..." - See full review

Jim Nelson reviews Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "Don't panic" July 12, 2024 "In some ways, the author of Milliways has put themself into a bind. The original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy might be the most..." - See full review

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