I don’t think I’ll have nearly enough time to play full games and do ratings/reviews, so instead (blatantly ripping off of Max’s reviews) I’ll just analyze the titles and the tags of each game.
There will not be spoilers other than what you can find on the IFComp page (the title and tags, obviously, plus occasionally the blurb and cover art).
The edit count shows how many games I’ve done.
- 198BREW: The Age of Orpheus by DWaM: Ancient Greek coffee-making robot in the future-past can’t make coffee so they explore the world for three times as long as the main questline while also maybe doing fancy graphics things
- An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There by Mandy Benanav: anime title with mysterious ampersand and fanfiction tag
- The Apothecary’s Assistant by Allyson Gray: blunt title, blunt tags, strange note, quotidian quest
- Awakened Deeply by R. A. Cooper: eye-opening
- Bad Beer by Vivienne Dunstan: drunk ghost done with life
- The Bat by Chandler Groover:
bat butlerbatler helps alt-verse Batman for a very long time - Big Fish by Binggang Zhuo: big fish + Venice = no more UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Birding in Pope Lick Park by Eric Lathrop: pretty literal unless you’re bricking a pond like pip
- Breakfast in the Dolomites: A play just for fun comedy by Roberto Ceccarelli: couples’ therapy in the mountains with an interesting subtitle
- Bureau of Strange Happenings by Phil Riley: Bureau of Strange and Concrete Happenings (BOSCH)
- Campfire: Enjoy some time away in nature by loreKin: enjoy nature…or else
- Civil Service by Helen L Liston: simple government job has a dynamic and mysterious twist
- The Curse: Cronoboy’s adventures by Rob: contrasting title and contrasting tag
- A Death in Hyperspace by Stewart C. Baker et al.: time travel and little robot buddies
- Deliquescence by Not-Only But-Also Riley: absorbing precipitation to die while others form a precipitate
- The Den by Ben Jackson: Biblical Ben and a Father playing Mother Hen
- The Deserter by MemoryCanyon: deserter contemplates dessert
- Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain by jkj yuio: fancy screens and fax machines
- The Dragon of Silverton Mine by Vukasin Davic: keep mining—dragons are rare, but quotas aren’t—eyes on the prize, not the beast—just because the dragon sleeps doesn’t mean you can too
- A Dream Of Silence: Act 3 by Abigail Corfman: based on BD3 that is based on D&D, starring lots of warnings and a ghost that won’t die
- Dust by IkeC: the rough-and-tumble frontier an’ a heap more extras than I can wrangle
- Eikas: a community kitchen by Lauren O’Donoghue: learned about a new system of philosophy
- A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric by Ola Hansson: Wats(going)on
- Final Call by doq and Emily S: parties and zombies oh my
- First Contact by dott. Piergiorgio: kissing and births in the midst of a war
- Focal Shift by Fred Snyder: hacker-photographer-spy-detective