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This is an interactive fairy story, of sorts. It’s pretty well-written, well-executed, and super short. It ends just as I was getting interested, really. The game does have kind of a confusing conceit. You start out as one character, a country man who is interested and inspired by folk stories. Then at some point, without much…

I have time for one more today.  There sure are a lot of detective games in this year’s comp! Yes, I know I’m not the first person to notice this. PataNoir is a detective game based on extended metaphors. The game is full of things that have (occasionally forced) metaphors applied to them, such as…

Now this was pretty cool, a sort of Steampunk fairy tale told from the eyes of a little girl who seems to be dreaming it.  I’ll spoiler-cut the rest just in case. Your character here is a little girl. She has a white rabbit on her skirt, so for a second I thought I was…

This one is pretty underwhelming, but I played it for over an hour anyway.  It’s kind of the opposite of Cana According to Micah.  I could tell that one was “good,” but it wasn’t really “fun,” whereas I found this one sort of interesting, but it isn’t actually good. Luster is a basic treasure hunt.…

This is a well-done piece, a retelling of a Biblical story: specifically, the wedding where Jesus turns water to wine, but interactive.  The verb implementation is great, there’s some nice NPC interaction, clear writing, and multiple paths to victory. It didn’t really grab me much, though, which I blame entirely on the theme. I confess…

If you enjoy the writing I’ve done about games in general, you might enjoy this little feminist editorial I wrote today for Tap Repeatedly! It’s about Halloween. If you don’t enjoy that, well, then… stay tuned for more IF Comp reviews a bit later!

I got through this one in about 15 minutes. That, I guess, is if you don’t count the five solid minutes I stared at the first room thinking, “What is my goal here?” The Guardian is a game where you wander across fantasy landscapes while pining for your lost love.  The goal of the game…

So it’s kind of unfortunate that I played Six before playing It, since they have a really similar premise.  Go and play hide and seek with friends.  It, however, has less friends, less cute stuff, and is shorter. I don’t really think it’s a spoiler to say that the hiding place of the person you…

The following review contains spoilers, violence, and bad language. I’m a big fan of Alice In Wonderland — the book, that is — as well as the sequel with which it is often conflated, Through the Looking Glass.  Unfortunately, it always seems to lose something in its transitions to other forms of media, and Sentencing…

Well, yesterday was kind of a bucket of fail, for me personally. What does the random game order generator pick for me today? … Oh. Well, this is quite nice, isn’t it?  It starts up with some cute art of a girl in a fairy costume, and instructs  me that it will utilize music and…