IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews Part 3

Short reviews of Valand, For the Cats, The Sweetest Honey, Ocean Beach, and Abandon Them.

IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews Part 2

Short reviews of Roads Not Taken, Planet C, TruckQuest, Slugocalpyse, Meeting Robb Sherwin, and Enceladus.

IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews, Part 1

Short(?) reviews of Heretic’s Hope, Summer Night City, Flygskam Simulator, and Río Alto: Forgotten Memories.

Depression Quest

Originally posted 23 Feb. 2013

Game page on IFDB

[Later note: I realize that the tenor of the beginning of this review, in which I assume that I’m speaking to an audience that has never heard of Depression Quest, reads really weirdly these days, but I haven’t been doing any heavy rewriting of these reposted reviews, so just bear in mind that it was written in February 2013.]

IF Comp 2012 Mini Reviews

Originally posted Oct.-Nov. 2012

Short reviews of Eurydice, Andromeda Apocalypse, In a Manor of Speaking, Shuffling Around, The Sealed Room, Signos, Living Will, Spiral, A Killer Headache, Escape from Summerland, Castle Adventure, Changes, Kicker, Sunday Afternoon, The Island, J’dal, Last Minute, howling dogs, Transit, Body Bargain, Fish Bowl, Guilded Youth, The Test Is Now READY, The Lift, Murphy’s Law, Irvine Quik and the Search for the Fish of Traglea, and Lunar Base 1.

[Later note: Yes, I noticed that I stopped doing the one-sentence summaries for a bit and then started again. I’m not going to try to add ones in now for the games that don’t have them, since it’s been so long since I played them.]

IF Comp 2013 Mini Reviews

Originally posted Oct.-Nov. 2013

Short reviews of Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder, Threediopolis, Solarium, Bell Park: Youth Detective, Robin & Orchid, Moquette, Mazredugin, Tex Bonaventure and the Water of Life, Saving John, 9Lives, Vulse, Dad vs. Unicorn, Further, and Autumn’s Daughter.

IF Comp 2014 Mini Reviews

Originally published Oct.-Nov. 2014

Short reviews of The Contortionist, Venus Meets Venus, Jesse Stavro’s Doorway, Slasher Swamp, HHH.exe, Fifteen Minutes, Milk Party Palace, Excelsior, Raik, Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes, The Black Lily, One Night Stand, Creatures Such As We, Hunger Daemon, and With Those We Love Alive.

IF Comp 2015 Mini Reviews

Originally posted Oct.-Nov. 2016

Short reviews of SPY INTRIGUE, Birdland, The Speaker, Questor’s Quest, Cat Scratch, Onaar, Scarlet Sails, The Baker of Shireton, Crossroads, Gotomomi, To Burn in Memory, Arcane Intern (Unpaid), Grimm’s Godfather, Recorded, Final Exam, Emily Is Away, 5 Minutes to Burn Something, I Think the Waves Are Watching Me, Life on Mars?, Nowhere Near Single, A Figure Met in a Shaded Wood, Darkiss Chapter 1: The Awakening, The War of the Willows, Switcheroo, The Problems Compound, Summit, Pit of the Condemned, Second Story, Grandma Bethlinda’s Variety Box, Capsule II: The 11th Sandman, Growbotics, In the Friend Zone, The Sueño, Kane County, Pilgrimage, Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, The Insect Massacre, Taghairm, and The Man Who Killed Time.

IF Comp 2016 Mini Reviews

Originally posted Oct.-Nov. 2016

Short reviews of How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors; Eight characters, a number, and a happy ending; Steam and Sacrilege; Theatre People; You are standing in a cave…; Rite of Passage; Color the Truth; The Mouse; Not Another Hero; Inside the Facility; Ventilator; Cactus Blue Motel; Moonland; Riot; Pogoman GO!; Tentaculon; Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles; Sigil Reader (Field); 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds; All I Do Is Dream; 500 Apocalypses; Evermore; Stone Harbor; Hill Ridge Lost & Found; Detectiveland; Manlandia; To the Wolves; Slicker City; and Zigamus: Zombies at Vigamus.

IF Comp 2017 Mini Reviews

Originally posted Nov. 15, 2017

Short reviews of 8 Shoes on the Shelves, Eat Me, 1958: Dancing with Fear, And When I Squint It Looks Like Christmas, Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, My Night, Temperamentum, Land of the Mountain King, A Beauty Cold and Austere, and The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation.