IF Reviews and Essays

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
If you want to write reviews but don't know what to write Many people here already feel comfortable writing reviews, and many of them have deep insights and analysis that I can’t really advise on, as I can’t match them. But I know there are a few people that are interested in …	5	1680	April 3, 2022
About the IF Reviews and Essays category	0	789	February 25, 2019
View From the Shifting Mound: an autobiographical essay about Slay the Princess, complex trauma, and dissociation	9	341	August 26, 2026
The quest to make a new top 10 favorite games list	103	3076	August 14, 2026
Tabitha's RaT 2026 review-a-thon	4	259	August 11, 2026
Grand Island Bank Robbery Postmortem postmortem	1	120	August 9, 2026
Interactive Fiction & Novel	2	193	August 5, 2026
JJMcC's 2026 R-A-T-A-T-O-O-T-Y reviews , review-a-thon	46	1412	August 4, 2026
ChoiceBeat zine #17 fanzines	2	144	July 30, 2026
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please	4	219	July 29, 2026
Counterfeit Monkey general comment	4	148	July 23, 2026
Moonmist (concluded March 27, 2026)	11	412	July 14, 2026
Early British Text Adventures	12	1354	July 7, 2026
Parser Poetics in Portrait with Wolf rosebush	7	301	June 17, 2026
Novels, short stories, and other print fiction about IF	18	882	June 17, 2026
Gold Machine: Hollywood Hijinx (final post: June 8, 2026) infocom	7	286	June 8, 2026
Best IF of all Time?	6	287	June 2, 2026
Zed reviews-a-thon reviews , review-a-thon	23	908	May 29, 2026
Is interactive fiction art?	130	2339	May 11, 2026
Video of Midwest Gaming Classic interview with Scott Adams	0	61	May 10, 2026
Trying some commercial era parser IF (first up: Planetfall) reviews , infocom	5	148	April 8, 2026
Review Project: Every IFComp and XYZZY Winner	23	791	March 26, 2026
Google sheet with IFDB if only ratings from the last 5 years were counted	12	287	March 20, 2026
ChoiceBeat Zine #16 fanzines	0	69	March 8, 2026
Trying for world record turns in Ad Verbum. Got 73, or 74 for 100%	5	166	March 8, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine rosebush	73	3517	March 4, 2026
instances of cursing in Infocom games	7	230	March 2, 2026
Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games	45	3363	January 13, 2026
IF in the Wild - Unexpected mentions of IF in places not explicitly about IF adventure , youtube	43	2601	January 8, 2026
Review: Bael's Rock reviews	1	127	January 1, 2026

If you want to write reviews but don't know what to write

Many people here already feel comfortable writing reviews, and many of them have deep insights and analysis that I can’t really advise on, as I can’t match them. But I know there are a few people that are interested in …