IF Reviews and Essays

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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 …	6	1643	April 3, 2022
About the IF Reviews and Essays category	0	781	February 25, 2019
Trying some commercial era parser IF (first up: Planetfall) reviews , infocom	5	106	April 8, 2026
Moonmist (concluded March 27, 2026)	10	290	March 27, 2026
Review Project: Every IFComp and XYZZY Winner	23	679	March 26, 2026
Google sheet with IFDB if only ratings from the last 5 years were counted	12	207	March 20, 2026
Trying for world record turns in Ad Verbum. Got 73, or 74 for 100%	5	137	March 8, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine rosebush	73	3127	March 4, 2026
instances of cursing in Infocom games	7	189	March 2, 2026
Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games	45	3050	January 13, 2026
IF in the Wild - Unexpected mentions of IF in places not explicitly about IF adventure , youtube	43	2464	January 8, 2026
Review: Bael's Rock reviews	1	106	January 1, 2026
Review: The Beast of Torrack Moor (30th Anniversary Edition) reviews	7	214	December 11, 2025
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please	3	156	December 3, 2025
Review: Return to the Mysterious Island	32	1272	December 1, 2025
ACMI Game Worlds Exhibit and collectible Zork booklet	4	254	November 29, 2025
Reception of Inform, TADS in then-contemporary (particularly British) communities?	10	378	November 23, 2025
The Complete History of Trinity podcast	10	670	November 12, 2025
Advent of Code on the Z-machine	17	317	November 11, 2025
Review: The Bat reviews	0	80	November 9, 2025
Reviews for IFDB Games on Backloggd	3	242	October 25, 2025
The Greatness of Text Adventures	4	320	October 22, 2025
Secret Boss Podcast: The Baron split-on-request	3	90	October 21, 2025
Are there any good books about interactive fiction?	17	422	October 17, 2025
Various lists of games on IFWiki ifwiki	7	159	October 7, 2025
Norway's first adventure games historical	4	246	September 14, 2025
Repeat the Ending piece for The Imaginary Engine Review	8	231	September 10, 2025
GOLMAC plays Emily Short's Bee (podcast episode up) lets-play	54	1397	September 9, 2025
A long-form essay about "The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode"	11	582	September 7, 2025
Lionstooth and the RATParser Reviews review-a-thon , parsercomp2025	6	266	September 1, 2025

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 …