IFComp 2020 Mini Reviews

All reviews are under the read-more; links below will jump to a specific review within this post.

• (s)wordsmyth
• Stand Up/Stay Silent
• Passages
• The Shadow in the Snow
• The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee
• Trusting My Mortal Enemy? What a Disaster!
• Sheep Crossing
• Vain Empires
• Popstar Idol Survival Game
• Captain Greybeard’s Plunder
• BYOD
• Red Radish Robotics
• The Moon Wed Saturn
• A Catalan Summer

IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews Part 6

Short reviews of The Milgram Parable, The Mysterious Stories of Caroline, Extreme Omnivore: Text Edition, Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Text Adventure, and Limerick Heist.

IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews Part 5

Short reviews of For the Moon Never Beams, Frenemies, Faerethia, Out, The Chieftain, and The House on Sycamore Lane.

IF Comp 2019 Mini Reviews Part 4

Short reviews of Sugarlawn, The Shadow Witch, Language Arts, and De Novo.

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.

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.