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Nevermore, by Nate Cull
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Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa
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Doppeljobs, by Lei
Link doesn't work, April 30, 2023

Note: the current link to the game is broken. I found a working link here:
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2020/Games/Doppeljobs/Doppeljobs_v2/doppeljobs.html

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Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
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Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love
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A Blank Page, by Edu Sánchez
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A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman
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So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest, by Anssi Räisänen
Breezy puzzlefest that you should probably consult a walkthrough for, August 10, 2022

I liked the puzzles! They fit the sort of casual, escape room atmosphere, but it felt a bit guess-the-verb and it was difficult to figure out what to do. (Spoiler - click to show)For example... I kept trying to climb the shelf to get the key on the hook, and didn't realize I could just reach it by standing on a bucket. I got stuck and relied on the walkthrough to figure out what to do, but the game wasn't long or frustrating enough for that to be a huge problem.

I also thought the story was pretty thin, and the ending, though properly lighthearted which is the most important thing, felt a little disappointingly (Spoiler - click to show)meta with the reference to an underimplemented room. I would have liked to have seen it developed a bit more.

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Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian
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