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A Simple Happening: "Commit to the bit"
May 16, 2024 "I was raised Catholic, and unsurprisingly given the wide range of material included in the Bible, I remember often being confused by what..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Rescue at Quickenheath: "Grinning all the way through!"
May 16, 2024 "Rescue at Quickenheath is a delightful fantasy swashbuckling Twine puzzle-y game, where you play as the dashing highway-person Kit..." - See full review manonamora reviews
PROSPER.0: "temporary Poetic end-a-eve-or"
May 16, 2024 "Note: I beta-tested this game. PROSPER.0 is a dystopian Twine game with a very interesting gameplay mechanic. As an employee of..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
You Can Only Turn Left: "I'm not High, You're High!"
May 16, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 15min, two passes I know I just said two passes, but this is a one..." - See full review A new listing for
Top Floor Please, by Lokman Salikoon
May 15, 2024Top Floor Please, throws you into the shoes of a an ordinary guy who is invited to a last-min late night party. The narrative brings the quote, "It's not the destination, it's the journey” to a whole new...
Mike Russo reviews
Rescue at Quickenheath: "All buckles must be swashed"
May 15, 2024 "I hope nobody reading my reviews is under the misapprehension that I ever strive for, much less achieve, objectivity, but I figure it’s..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Potato Peace: "In a world, where mankind and potatoe..."
May 15, 2024"Potato Peace is a fairly linear game made in Ink, set in a fantasy world where mankind and potatoes live in peace and harmony (sort of)...." - See full review manonamora reviews
Do Good Deeds...: "Be kind and become the Forest King"
May 15, 2024"Do Good Deeds... is relatively short Twine children's story, where you play as Modis, an outcast elf on a stroll in the forest. Along the..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Zomburbia: "Shambolic but endearing"
May 15, 2024 "In my experience, an amusement park appearing halfway into a game that hasn’t previously established said amusement park as part of its..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Do Good Deeds...: "A gentle fable marred by implementation flaws"
May 15, 2024 "Lately I’ve been thinking about my approach to a reviewing for an article I’m working on for The Rosebush, and in particular my..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
To Beseech Old Sins: "Teenage Horny Space Marine... Somethings"
May 15, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/4/24 Playtime: 30 min Up front, the game told me this was part of an ongoing series to..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
Do Good Deeds...: "Storytime Slowdown"
May 15, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/3/24 Playtime: 20min, finished I kinda love that there is a “children’s story” sub-genre of..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Chatterbox: "Chaos always ensues in chatboxes..."
May 14, 2024"Chatterbox is a short Twine piece about chatboxes experiences. Using the simple interface of Harlowe, you incarnate the user ripherup, a..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Phantom Protocol: "Hi, yes, who is this?"
May 14, 2024"Phantom Protocol is a short interactive prologue made in Godot, set (so far) inside your phone. A strange number contacts you,..." - See full review manonamora reviews
ConversationalRumblings: "Let's do this! no, that! or maybe this?"
May 14, 2024"ConversationalRumblings is a short cyclical Twine piece about two people looking for an activity to do and talking about it. Between..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Extended Sabbatical: "To make or not make a game..."
May 14, 2024"Extended Sabbatical is a short linear interactive piece made in Unity about… making a game, or more about not making that game. Though it..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Tresmir Sight: "Short VN conversation"
May 14, 2024"Tresmir Sight is a short sci-fi (fantasy?) visual novel, where you play as a young human trespassing in a camp, looking for someone..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Octopus's Garden: "A clever but clumsy cephalopod"
May 14, 2024 "Octopus’s Garden has a lovely premise – octopi in real life have been known to crawl out of their aquariums and get up to shenanigans, so..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Dragon of Steelthorne: "Grinding gears"
May 14, 2024 "I had some trepidation going into Dragon of Steelthorne, born of my previous experience with a fantasy-themed ChoiceScript game – in 2023..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Alltarach: "A deep-dive into Irish folklore and religion"
May 14, 2024"Alltarach is a pretty large Twine game centred around Irish folklore and set in the early Middle Ages. Through a character study of your..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
PROSPER.0: "Poetic justice"
May 14, 2024 "(Much of the interest of this game comes from the way its mechanics are introduced, tweaked, and woven into the narrative;..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
A Dream of Silence: "Emotional Support Ghost"
May 14, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review WARNING: Review is from an early, incomplete version of the game Played: 4/3/24 Playtime: 2.25 hrs >7..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
Rescue at Quickenheath: "What Sprite Through Yon Window Breaks?"
May 14, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/2/24 Playtime: 45min We’ve been using ‘Interactive Fiction’ as synonym for ‘text-based..." - See full review MathBrush reviews
Camelot Jack: "Impressive but flawed hand-made C# system for short fantasy game"
May 13, 2024 "The trouble with parser games is that players can type in literally anything and hope to get a reasonable response out. This causes..." - See full review manonamora reviews
beach: "hurt people hurt people?"
May 13, 2024"beach is a short Twine conversation between two individuals on the beach, which was initiated by one of the two following an incident..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Imago: "Masks and meanings"
May 13, 2024"Imago is a short but very branched out poetic “rogue-like” monologue, reflecting on the masts that one wears and the image we preset to..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Loose Ends: "Trading favors"
May 13, 2024 "(I beta tested this game) So far in this festival we’ve seen games that seem to be about politics but aren’t (Potato Peace, Pass a Bill)..." - See full review Mike Russo reviews
Potato Peace: "Spud-ering out"
May 13, 2024 "It took me many years to figure out exactly how I felt about horror as a genre. I really enjoy some parts of it – ancient curses, hidden..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Roman Holiday: "what... huh? weird."
May 13, 2024"Roman Holiday is a strange creepy game, one I don’t know what to make of. A group of friend are one some sort of road trip, lost (sort..." - See full review manonamora reviews
I Knew A Guy: "I knew a guy"
May 13, 2024"I Knew A Guy is a prototype short entry, formatted as a linear short story to raise awareness about suicide and myths around it. In it,..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Pear Party: "Don't talk about pears, don't talk about-"
May 13, 2024"Pear Party is a short conversation between two uni students at a party, where you attempt to do some small talk and hopefully… not nerd..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Who are you talking to?: "Who indeed... or what?"
May 13, 2024"Who are you talking to? is a work in progress piece where you are confronted by a strange creature, in an unknown place, unable to leave...." - See full review manonamora reviews
pacodnd.exe: "By the power of... friendship?"
May 13, 2024"pacodnd.exe is a short interactive story focused on a group of friend trying out a Dungeons&Dragons campaign, through a chat form. During..." - See full review manonamora reviews
The Time Machine: "Sequel Adaptation"
May 13, 2024 "The Time Machine is a short-ish parser that continues the eponymous story, where you play as an unnamed friend trying to find clues as to..." - See full review manonamora reviews
The Kuolema: "Running tediously back and forth"
May 13, 2024 "This review will mostly focus on the Twine version, submitted to the 2024 SpringThing. The Kuolema is a fairly large mystery adventure..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
A Simple Happening: "I'm a G***amn Samurai"
May 13, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/1/24 Playtime: 30 min, two playthroughs I don’t get the sense that Frank Miller..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
Dragon of Steelthorne: "Pining for the Third Way"
May 13, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/2/24 Playtime: 1.75 hrs, 7/27 achievements, 230pts Barely a year and a half into my..." - See full review JJ McC reviews
Potato Peace: "Mayor McSpud"
May 13, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/2/24 Playtime: 20min, two endings, 4 cycles I can’t remember the last time I laughed, out..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Syzygy: "Space diplomacy!"
May 12, 2024"Syzygy is a short but complex exchange of diplomatic communication between the Syzygy planet and the Sol System Alliance, where you are a..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Circle Back: "This can't be a coincidence..."
May 12, 2024"Circle Back is a short psychological horror visual novel, where you play as an unnamed employee in a big corporation, freshly promoted,..." - See full review manonamora reviews
The Croaking: "Seems unfinished..."
May 12, 2024"The Croaking is a short train murder mystery, made in Unity, feeling like a 3D version of a bitsy game. Here, you play as Detective..." - See full review manonamora reviews
Just A Simple Interview: "Choose your words wisely... or don't!"
May 12, 2024"Just A Simple Interview is a widely branching short Twine… well, interview. You were one of the few to be selected for an interview with..." - See full review
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