Category: Interactive Fiction
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Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story
Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story is the sixth game by Phil Riley, and the second one in the Galaxy Jones series. He’s the author of Bureau of Strange Happenings, a game I didn’t make it that far into, and he came out with Crash, the same competition that I released Into The Sun. I didn’t…
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Gun Mute
Gun Mute is the first game released by C.E.J. Pacian. I remember when it came out. There was a lot of hype around it. It’s a great game. But, I think, it’s also one of the first to use a limited verb set. Something that hadn’t been seen up to that time. It’s full of…
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The Curse of the Scarab
The Curse of the Scarab is a surprisingly complex game written by Nils Fagerburg. On the surface, it looks like a simple grab-all-you-can type of game – inspired by Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder and Sugarlawn, both amazing optimization games on their own. But Curse of the Scarab is its own thing. There are puzzles along with…
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Captain Cutter’s Treasure
Captain Cutter’s Treasure has to be one of the best games that Garry Francis has written. If not the best. It’s written in PunyInform, and the z3 can be played on a real Apple II+ if you use something like Interl under Linux to make your boot disk. This game starts in a broom closet,…
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Impossible Stairs
Impossible Stairs is a medium-sized puzzlefest crafted by Mathbrush. This game is an authorized sequel to Impossible Bottle, a story that tied for first place in the 2020 IF Comp. In this game, a series of puzzles bring your family together for a meal by the end of it. It’s a light-hearted adventure and not…
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You Won’t Get Her Back
You Won’t Get Her Back is a text game by Andrew Schultz. Or maybe a text puzzle. He has written a lot of games over the years and even gamified IF with Big Nose on the Big Pyramid. Here he’s implemented a version of chess, the full board, not like his previous game, Fourbyfourian Quarryin’,…
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Alchemist’s Gold
Alchemist Gold is a text adventure written by Garry Francis. It was written in PunyInform and is only 82kb. That’s tiny. Really tiny. My first game was 512kb by the time it was done. I wasn’t using a stripped-down version of the library, but you can only put in so much with a game this…
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Midnight at Al’s Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings
For the start of ParserComp 2022, I played Midnight at Al’s Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings by Thomas Insel. I had pretty high hopes for it, and even though it’s a short game, I feel it missed an opportunity. You play as an employee at an all-night self-storage. Your boss, Joe, hands…
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The Bright Blue Ball
The Bright Blue Ball by Clary C might be the last game I review for Spring Thing 2022. It’s getting towards the end of the competition, and I know who I’m voting for. But I wanted to give a few more games a fair shake. In this one, you play as a dog, looking for…
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Tours Roust Torus
It’s getting towards the end of Spring Thing, but I’d like to get a few more reviews in. The latest game I played was Tours Roust Torus by Andrew Schultz – an anagram game that’s the final installment in the Stale Tales Slate. Going into it, I expected a game where I could win it…
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