New Reviews on IFDB

Cerfeuil reviews [You wake up itching.]: "A good game for parasite fans. Here's a much-needed walkthrough." December 3, 2024 "I found this game while looking for games about , that kind of thing. So the story, which some other..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Return to Claymorgue's Castle: "Dark and ominous, with no signs of welcome or warmth" December 3, 2024 "Usually when I have to review a game I really didn’t get on with, I try to avoid being excessively mean by doing some comedy, maybe..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews String Theory: "Elusive connections" December 3, 2024 "“Slice of life” is a funny name for a genre, if you spend too much time thinking about it (I suspect this is true of most genre..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Miss Gosling's Last Case: "Good for a gander" December 3, 2024 "A sober-minded critic might accuse Miss Gosling’s Last Case of over-egging the pudding. A cozy mystery that leans into the..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Drosophilia: "A perfect demonstration of link rot." December 2, 2024 "If you look at the reviews for this game, you'll notice they say it has a lot of direct links to Youtube videos. You'll also notice this..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Starship Volant: Stowaway: "A linear cinematic space story with multiple points of view" December 2, 2024 "This game is quite unusual in its structure. You can start out reading intros for different characters. While playing the game, you often..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews do not let your left hand know: "Hooked me and didn't let go" December 2, 2024 "Note: Review contains spoilers throughout! This one was intriguing from the get-go—we start in media res with our narrator, Monica,..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews As the Eye Can See: "Lovely and melancholy" December 2, 2024 "Note: Review contains spoilers throughout! This one bills itself as “A short story about the day before Halloween”, and that is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Realm of Obsidian: "A long game with demons, spam, and sound effects" December 2, 2024 "This is a wild game. It's written in the thinBasic Adventure Builder system. It uses multiple colors of texts and has a ton of sounds. To..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Bewildering and innovative" December 2, 2024 "I confess that I don’t really have a clear idea about what’s going on in this cops-and-robbers comic-strip game. Here’s what I now:..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Welcome to the Universe: "Alter egotist" December 2, 2024 "(Some spoilers) “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be,” muses a WWII-era American..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There: "I'll be the best houseguest you ever had" December 2, 2024 "Among my bad habits is my tendency, upon first visiting the house of an acquaintance, to ignore my host and make a beeline for the..." - See full review

Coral Nulla reviews do not let your left hand know: "I left because I thought it was right" December 1, 2024 "(The following ramble mostly discusses the ending of this piece in a way that's not really worth tagging, so be aware if you're wary of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Enthusiastic if wonky dungeon crawling" December 1, 2024 "Some blurbs directly transmit what the game is going to be about, but others a little more challenging to decode. So it is with The..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews 198BREW: "Aspects of immortality" December 1, 2024 "(Some unmarked spoilers here, it’s that kind of game). Rarely has a game’s opening left me with more whiplash than 198BREW’s. After..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Bad Beer: "Heady with a touch of bitterness" December 1, 2024 "I’ve said before that I like the aesthetics of horror, but can sometimes be put off by the gore, suffering, bad actions, and trauma..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Encyclopedia of Elementals: "Very long epic quest adventure about magic and swordfighting" November 30, 2024 "This was a really, really long quest game, and one of the longer linear parser games I've played. It is also unfortunately kind of buggy...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Winter-Over: "Death on the ice" November 30, 2024 "Is there a better setting for anything than Antarctica? It’s obviously aces for horror: the isolation and existential precariousness of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews First Contact: "Quite an education" November 30, 2024 "If I were feeling cheeky, I would say that the biggest problem with First Contact is that it doesn’t have enough soft-core lesbian..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Awakened Deeply: "Boldly going where a lot of folks have gone before" November 30, 2024 "It’s been more than twenty years since my very first IF Comp – it was 2002, I was just out of college, and characteristically I..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Triskelion Affair: "Fun old style puzzler but under implemented and a bit fight the parser" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 13 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves: "Tightly written time loop parser game that deserved more polishing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric: "Innovative graphical IF, but one unfair puzzle & problems on lower res screens" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews You Can't Save Her: "Slightly confusing Twine interface, but intriguing dual perspective scifi piece" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Graphical RPG with great NPCs and interactions, but I wanted more agency" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 15 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Where Nothing Is Ever Named: "A very short Lewis Carroll inspired parser game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 10 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Apothecary's Assistant: "A cosy magical shop game, spread over multiple sessions of game play" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 9 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "Immersive parser game about Edgar Allan Poe and much more" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 26 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Campfire: "A game about a camping trip that had good points but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "An ambitious bizarre parser game that delivered lots but needed more smoothing" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 23 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Uninteractive Fiction: "Would have liked more!" November 29, 2024 "There’s not very much I can say about this one. On plus it’s short (though that’s a downside too). And it’s better than..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Turn Right: "Short Adventuron game about a driver's nightmare" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 16 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Why Pout?: "Impressive parser word-based game" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Imprimatura: "Innovative game about art and memory" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Unreal People: "Twine piece about a mysterious body jumping entity" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews 198BREW: "Bizarre scifi parser game sadly under implemented" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Winter-Over: "Ambitious and well written Twine game investigating a murder in Antarctica" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 22 Sep 2024...." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews KING OF XANADU: "Ruling a choice-based fantasy kingdom in difficult times" November 29, 2024 "Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 25 Sep 2024...." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews A New Day: "IF has come a long way" November 29, 2024 "I had heard about this game as one which has the conceit of being "unfinished" by design, as in taking place within a game whose..." - See full review

parking_turkeys reviews Tony Hawk's Pro Shopper: "Silly" November 29, 2024 "Silly, short, and a bit meh. but it's def worth the play, seeing as its only like 5 min long."

Mike Russo reviews When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves: "Y2K day" November 29, 2024 "I couldn’t tell you where I was when Y2K clicked over. For New Year’s Eve 1998, I’m pretty sure I was at a high-school friend’s..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Master's Lair: "A wizard with guts" November 29, 2024 "I firmly believe that ideas are a dime a dozen, especially when it comes to IF: it’s not too hard to come up with a clever, compelling..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Verses: "Found in translation" November 29, 2024 "Spoilers). I am having trouble figuring out how to start this review. Verse is a prototypical quote-unquote challenging work, you see,..." - See full review

Irheh reviews The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow: "Best Little Match Girl Game Yet!" November 28, 2024 "Each main installment of the Little Match Girl series has introduced some new and interesting mechanic, and this installment's is " - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Hebe: "Bugs and bots" November 28, 2024 "I am, as I think basically everyone in the world not on the OpenAI or NVIDIA payroll must be, heartily sick of LLMs. Substantively I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Sidekick: "O parser where art thou" November 28, 2024 "So, remember two reviews ago, when I was playing The Bat? Remember how I said that it was so smoothly-put together, “I found myself..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Eikas: "Quite the feast" November 28, 2024 "It is the mark of a lazy writer to reduce their criticism to “X is just like Y plus Z,” but I’ve tried to rewrite this opening..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Authority: "Mundanity simulator--government edition" November 27, 2024 "This game seems to be designed to be as mundane as possible while subtly poking fun at it. Here's a typical line: "My job is to analyse..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Rustjaw: "N-not that I like you or anything, baka!" November 27, 2024 " Your daring foray into the abandoned industrial sector near downtown was just an experiment to see if you could catch sight of one of the... " - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews Your Little Haunting: "A classic haunted house tale" November 27, 2024 "A bit underimplemented, as all parser SpeedIF tends to be, but charming in its own right. That last message is chilling. I'd like to..." - See full review

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