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All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedNews on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 1): Iron Chif S1E1 - Dishes are served! February 27, 2026
The games produced by the competing chefs have been released for play: course correction by challenger Lucian P. Smith, and The Van der Nagel Papyrus by defending Iron Chef Ryan Veeder. Both are available at... - Details
A new Recommended List by David Welbourn, New walkthroughs for February 2026 February 27, 2026
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Games
Add a game listingThe Van der Nagel Papyrus, by Ryan Veeder Inform 7 |
course correction, by Lucian P. Smith Inform 7 |
Reigns: The Witcher, by François Alliot, Oscar Harrington-Shaw, Nerial |
Steel and Laurel Wreaths: When Honor Demands Sacrifice, And Glory Comes Wrapped In Chains, by L. M. Hawkes Custom |
Lanista of the Forsaken Vow: A Veteran Gladiator’s Oath Beneath Rome’s Arena Politics, by L. M. Hawkes Custom |
Reviews
caligula jones reviews Shrapnel: "An attempt to blow apart your perceptions, with mixed results"   |
OtisTDog reviews 'Steading of the Hill Giant Chief: "Perhaps better suited to ECTOCOMP" |
MathBrush reviews Moonrise: "Good brief werewolf game made for queer women and nonbinary people" |
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News on Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 1): Iron Chif S1E1 - Dishes are served! February 27, 2026 Details
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| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to... |
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but... |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near... |
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