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Tabitha reviews Museum Heist: "A fun mini Verdeterrelike" July 8, 2024 "I enjoy this sort of item-gathering optimization game (someone on IFDB has dubbed the genre “Verdeterrelike”), and I had fun with..." - See full review

CodyCodtheOdd reviews Stay?: "One of my favourite IFs of all time" July 7, 2024 "Are you an ending chaser? Do you love replaying your favourite games over and over to find every possible ending or pathway? Do you like..." - See full review

Dawn S. reviews Teatime with a Vampire: "They’re just like us (mostly)! " July 7, 2024 "Vampire stories–and interpretations of vampire stories–have often been vehicles for addressing serious issues such as racism,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews IYASHIKEI: The Fountain: "Small, peaceful game" July 7, 2024 "This is a ZIL game, a system I haven’t seen used much (the most recent I remember is Max Fog’s IFComp game The Restaurant at the End..." - See full review

A new listing for IYASHIKEI: The Fountain, by Adam Sommerfield

OtisTDog reviews Stay?: "Go ahead and skip the "dating sim" part -- it still works." July 7, 2024 "This is another game that I would most likely have skipped if it weren't for the Free IF Playoffs. The moment I see "dating sim" in the..." - See full review

Zed reviews Not Just Once: "Answer the phone" July 7, 2024 "Not Just Once is a well-written creepypasta choice game. There seem to be just two endings, so functionally there’s just one choice:..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens: "Fun to rhyme (most of the time)" July 7, 2024 "This is the 8th entry in Andrew Schultz’s Pro-Rhyme Row series, which is truly astonishing; how there can be so many paired rhymes in..." - See full review

A new listing for Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens, by Andrew Schultz

Zed reviews How Dare You: "Not taking no for an answer" July 7, 2024 "How Dare You? has a cringeworthy premise: you show up at the home of our partner, Heron, who communicates very clearly that it’s over..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Harmonia: "The makings of a very memorable novella" July 7, 2024 "Choice games are not my usual cup of tea, but I have taken the opportunity to play several of them as part of the Free IF Playoffs. As..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Digital: A Love Story: "A very unusual kind of interactive fiction" July 7, 2024 "This work feels much more like a "hacking game" than what would typically be called interactive fiction. The game has a graphical user..." - See full review

wisprabbit reviews Moondrop Isle: "Sprawling exploration-heavy puzzlefest" July 7, 2024 "Moondrop Isle is nine games stitched into one. Ryan Veeder, hosting The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition in his official capacity..." - See full review

Zed reviews Andromeda Chained: "Andromeda's chains" July 7, 2024 "The myth of Andromeda has inspired many artists, owing to the enduring appeal of naked chicks in bondage. The backstory: Andromeda,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Alphabet City: "A gritty story about addiction, with some rough edges" July 6, 2024 "This parser game is the author’s first Inform 7 game, but is set in a larger series of Alphabet City games. It’s pretty heavy stuff...." - See full review

A new listing for Alphabet City, by Julian Grant

Tabitha reviews Someone Else's Story: "A compelling conversation" July 6, 2024 "This game was written for the 2022 Goncharov Game Jam. While I am 100% out of the loop on the Goncharov meme, beyond knowing it exists,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews All I Am Is This: "... alive, still." July 6, 2024 "All I Am Is This is a short ChoiceScript game about being human and the will to live. Going through a short questionnaire, you define..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Nameless Dream: "Sweet dreams and dull reality" July 6, 2024 "Nameless Dream is a short surreal Twine piece, about dreams, how vivid they can become and still how little we end up remembering them...." - See full review

manonamora reviews Never Have I Ever: "Kept me on my toes" July 6, 2024 "Never Have I Ever is a short ink game where a group of space marines take a break, share a drink, and partake in the most dangerous game..." - See full review

manonamora reviews ALL PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE: "Psycho Killer.... Qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-fa" July 6, 2024 "ALL PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE is a short kinetic visual novel, where you complete a seemingly normal to-do list. Kinda… sorta… well,..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Translucent Trails: "Feelings are messy" July 6, 2024 "Translucent Trails is a short kinetic visual novel about mourning someone, and the aftermath of living without them, and the muddled..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Please Don't Understand Me: "An interesting visual use of fonts" July 6, 2024 "Please Don’t Understand Me is a looping kinetic visual novel, where someone is trying to talk to you, but you can’t understand the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Get Out of Match Lake: "It's all in the cards" July 6, 2024 "Get Out of Match Lake is a short almost kinetic creepy entry, where doppelgängers attempts to communicate through tarot cards (I think?..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Happy Life Home: "Welcome home!" July 6, 2024 "Happy Life Home is a cozy little sci-fi binksi visual novel, where you embody a helper bot designed to prepare a home for an incoming..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Heaven Alive: "Maybe stay silent next time..." July 6, 2024 "Heaven Alive is a short sci-fi horror-like conversation-sim made in Twine, where you play as an advisor to a warlord. Depending on your..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Another Night With The Party: "DnD-vibes shenanigans" July 6, 2024 "Another Night With The Party is a short text-adventure set in a tavern, reminiscent of D&D games. Seeing your other members involved in..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Mud Bourbon: "Saying goodbyes is hard" July 6, 2024 "Mud Bourbon is a short Twine piece about saying goodbyes to a loved one. In this mainly one-sided conversation, you reminisce over the..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Nmpisun-medicine: "Conversation snippet" July 6, 2024 "Brief interaction with a traditional healer, with presumably authentic medicine names. It feels churlish to rate and review something..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews All the news that's fit to print (WIP): "Unfinished" July 6, 2024 "As the game blurb says, this is unfinished and not worth playing. From as far as I could get with it, it would have been a neat idea, but..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews Hungry Ghost(s): "Porpentinian slice of life" July 6, 2024 "A few years before this came out, there was an explosion of Twine games around mental illness, and the trans experience. This is a game..." - See full review

Joey Jones reviews The Apprentice: "Bog standard" July 6, 2024 "There's a whole genre of magical apprentice games: you're left to your own devices in a wizard's sanctum, a tower, or castle, with a lot..." - See full review

A new listing for The Traveler's Ballad, by Lichen

News on Bradisson Rayburn's Revenge!: Version 2 out now! July 6, 2024 So I've finally gone through and done a post-comp update for this game! I fixed a few bugs that I didn't have time to for the original release. The new version is up on itch.io.

MathBrush reviews Yurf: "Fun fantasy and a single-word parser" July 5, 2024 "This game uses a similar engine to the author’s last game, Steal 10 Treasures to Win This Game, with some differences. Both only allow..." - See full review

A new listing for Yurf, by spaceflounder

OverThinking reviews Endings: "An uncrossable divide" July 5, 2024 "This is a game about painful miscommunication. The divide between our two characters is represented visually by the screen being split in..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by McGclock, Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io July 5, 2024 1 item This is a list of text-based IF’s that I and another user from itch.io, xSai or Bladed-Barbwire on Discord, made on itch.io, and I thought I’d share this here with you guys in case anyone is...

A new listing for 19 Once, by Yvonne Jeagon, Larissa Jemmy

Lance Cirone reviews Midnight Snack: "Make a sandwich" July 5, 2024 "Midnight Snack is an beginner-friendly game revolving around getting out of bed, making and eating a sandwich, and going back to sleep...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Race Against Time: "Panic on the space station" July 5, 2024 "This is an ADRIFT game, which I played by downloading the ADRIFT 5 Runner (There are like 3 versions you can download, and google flagged..." - See full review

A new listing for Race Against Time, by Finn Rosenløv

MathBrush reviews Mystery Isles: "A pleasant island adventure that could use more polish" July 4, 2024 "This was a pleasant adventure game someone hampered by programming issues from time to time. I played the ‘modern’ version which..." - See full review

A new listing for Mystery Isles, by Jason Oakley

OverThinking reviews Cicatrix: "A poem encoded" July 3, 2024 "Cicatrix is not a game, but a poem written in Inform 7 code. I’m reminded of some of the work from Event One in The Second Quadrennial..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Moon-House Technician: "Hang out on the moon, make money, buy cards" July 3, 2024 "This game was written in the mainframe language Rexx, designed to be played on an emulator. It features ASCII art, used to make 12..." - See full review

A new listing for Moon-House Technician, by Outgrabe

A new listing for ALL PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE, by JIMOTHIE

A new listing for Another Night With The Party, by BanesBloom

A new listing for Please Don't Understand Me, by Knickknack PJ

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