EJ

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Member since November 21, 2010
Last visited December 5, 2025
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My games: https://ejoyce.itch.io
My reviews: https://ejoyceif.wordpress.com/

I've been here since I was in college, so if anything I wrote 10+ years ago sounds dumb, that's why.

I give out 5-star ratings mostly to my favorite 2-3 games of the year, and the difference between a 4-star rating and a 5-star rating from me often isn't one of craft but of whether a game has the certain je ne sais quoi that makes me a little insane about it.

Interactive Fiction by EJ

Winter-Over, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2024)
(31 ratings)
Pickering Station, Antarctica: A place of science, knowledge, and deep isolation. When the last plane leaves for the winter, you and your colleagues may as well be on Mars. At least this...

Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2025)
(17 ratings)
Former gentlewoman thief Lady Thalia has given up her life of crime to join the detective agency of her greatest rival, Margaret “Melpomene” Williams. The life of a private detective turns out...

Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2021)
(26 ratings)
Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.

Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2023)
(14 ratings)
Lady Thalia is back in London and back to her old tricks, putting up with Britain’s social elite by day so she can steal from them by night. But that doesn’t mean things are easy, what with her...

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2022)
(12 ratings)
Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is...

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Odd spec-fic games that I love despite jankiness or other objective issues - 8 items   October 1, 2025
... from IFComp, specifically! Most years, I encounter one game out of the IFComp bunch that makes me go "This won't score well and...

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Investigating your own death - 16 votes for 11 games; created October 18, 2024
Games that substantially revolve around a dead protagonist trying to find out (or even remember) something about how they died.

Reviews by EJ

Detective en habitación cerrada, by Strollersoft   December 5, 2025
"Detective en habitación cerrada es un juego de Inform alucinante protagonizado por un detective que sólo puede investigarse a sí..." - See the full review

Go-Strange-Ghost Range, by Andrew Schultz   December 5, 2025
"Go-Strange-Ghost Range is one of Andrew Schultz’s oronym games in the vein of Why Pout and Us Too. If you’ve played those..." - See the full review

Dad's Shiva, by Cidney Hamilton   December 5, 2025
"Dad’s Shiva is a choice-based game about visiting your sister during the official mourning period for your father, though you didn’t..." - See the full review

Endymion, by Daniel M. Stelzer   November 25, 2025
"(I was a judge for the inaugural episode of the Iron ChIF event, and this is the evaluation I wrote for that event. As such, it is..." - See the full review

Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider, by C.E.J. Pacian   November 25, 2025
"(I was a judge for the inaugural episode of the Iron ChIF event, and this is the evaluation I wrote for that event. As such, it is..." - See the full review

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