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In response to the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, the organisers of the 2026 IF Competition geoblocked some of the entries based on their content, such that they could not be played from a network...

Uninteractive Fiction 3 I finally got around to playing this with a group of people today.

In Verb Noun Adjective, the admirably confusing Rybread has set Yet Another Meta Parody Adventure adrift in a set of sprawling optimization puzzles so haphazardly juxtantipodal that the many individually winning qualities haven’t coherently set.

This was my first Infocom game.

this is a short game about a vampire in a cyberpunk world. it kinda has a puzzle and it kinda has a meaningful choice at the end but mostly its just, i guess, a character study of an ultra cool (or so she would like us to think) vampire assassin. the first

I was expecting this game to be harder than it actually was based on Mathbrush's review, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it was very stable, didn't crash when it wasn't supposed to, and in general behaved as I expected it would, with some nice twists

the ifcomp is almost over and i havent reviewed any games at all!

Some scattered thoughts: A lot of work went into the UI and translation mechanics.

30 second game so no spoilers.

A small, short but well-executed parser game.

This has got to be the most amount of flavor text in a game I’ve seen!

this theme/subgenre seems to be frequent in IF. just some that have stuck with me or i think share points of comparison :)

Full disclosure: I'm the creator of I AM, so I'm naturally a little biased!

I initally thought the game was worth 4 stars, then I realised that I had never forgotten the game after playing it so many years ago.

This game is very much a case of what might have been.

Several times, and I must say I’m batting a thousand on this (baseball (good (what have you never left the house and encountered terrified another person that exists (I’ve scored a double century, get out of my epost)))), I’ve held off from reviewing a ga…

If you are a completionist who happens to encounter this game, then you will find the title to be 100% accurate: The end is your escape from this muddled, nonsensical mess.

The blurb for Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator claims: Any fun you may have, or amusement you may find, while piloting this simulator is purely accidental, and should be reported as a software bug.

Overall I quite enjoyed this one, but hit a few significant snags.

With Parliament of Knives, I’m wrapping up all the available CoG VtM games so far (in 2026)!

On Monday, September 28, 2026, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below!

I quite liked this game.

You have been hired to break into the residence of a famous author to steal something.

IF Derby An amusing concept.

High School Reunion This is a well-done texture game with a lot of short, branching paths.

Residual Income This is a vampire heist tale with vivid imagery and a clever twist.

Black Thumb This is a brief parser game that reminded me in positive ways of Baby Tree or Out, parser games that are short and symbolic and which may be a bit buggy (although this game is more optimistic than Baby Tree and Out was better coded).

Money for Girls may be my favorite Porpentine game I've ever played.

I think this one is best appreciated if you know something about Sara Weiss, the real person whose work this game is based on, and her real book this game is based on: Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903).

Logic Land This is a game played on an Atari emulator.

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Live and Get Pie This was amusing.

As described in the ending, this game by Merritt Kopas was directly inspired by Sophie Houlden's response to Ben Kuchera's review of Gender Swap, which runs on a system called The Machine to Be Another.

Everyone's Invited This is a downloadable window executable that ends up having some different branching choices selectable by keyboard.

Golden King Damon Wakes likes to push the boundaries of what is considered IF.

Skeletrom Crew on the Loose This is a short anthology of skeleton stories, a cast of characters rising from the ground to have adventures.

Alana's Dungeon When my son was much younger, we made some fun interactive fiction games together, including a twine game about a haunted hotel and evil easter bunny that I think is now lost forever.

Ass in the Woods This was a brief Twine game that had a cool-looking background, colored text and text effects, and some impressive moments of description.

The Copper Tavern A lot of times when I'm making a game, in the first day or two I'll make a toy model with some of the items and people in it just to play around (like for Never Gives Up Her Dead, one of the first things I did was make Frankenstein from…

Escape the Wumpus The original Hunt the Wumpus game had you chasing a creature across a dodecahedral map, with a complex web of rooms.

This game took me on a rollercoaster in a surprising under 2 hours.

As a former scene kid, this transported me.

Dreamteller This is a relatively short mostly-linear Twine game all on one screen (for the most part) with two types of links, those that provide more info and those that move the game along.

I think your appreciation of this game will be based on how easily you can fit yourself into the shoes of the two main characters, the starring couple.

Kat Zhang and I discuss The King of Shreds and Patches at https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Jess Haskins and I discuss Gun Mute at https://www.youtube.com/watch?

This game reminded me of I Am Prey, a bit, since you have to avoid a monster (in this case, a boss) that is hunting you do systemetically.

New Captain This Twine game has a lot of complex systems together with some fun story snippets, but perhaps could have used more of its extensive setup.

I remember when this came out.