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 …	6	1661	April 3, 2022
About the IF Reviews and Essays category	0	783	February 25, 2019
JJMcC's 2026 R-A-T-A-T-O-O-T-Y reviews , review-a-thon	1	68	July 2, 2026
The quest to make a new top 10 favorite games list	20	604	June 30, 2026
ChoiceBeat zine #17 fanzines	1	86	June 29, 2026
Parser Poetics in Portrait with Wolf rosebush	7	277	June 17, 2026
Novels, short stories, and other print fiction about IF	18	842	June 17, 2026
Gold Machine: Hollywood Hijinx (final post: June 8, 2026) infocom	7	276	June 8, 2026
Best IF of all Time?	6	252	June 2, 2026
Zed reviews-a-thon reviews , review-a-thon	23	833	May 29, 2026
Is interactive fiction art?	130	2180	May 11, 2026
Video of Midwest Gaming Classic interview with Scott Adams	0	56	May 10, 2026
Trying some commercial era parser IF (first up: Planetfall) reviews , infocom	5	130	April 8, 2026
Moonmist (concluded March 27, 2026)	10	335	March 27, 2026
Review Project: Every IFComp and XYZZY Winner	23	747	March 26, 2026
Google sheet with IFDB if only ratings from the last 5 years were counted	12	247	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	151	March 8, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine rosebush	73	3278	March 4, 2026
instances of cursing in Infocom games	7	217	March 2, 2026
Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games	45	3229	January 13, 2026
IF in the Wild - Unexpected mentions of IF in places not explicitly about IF adventure , youtube	43	2529	January 8, 2026
Review: Bael's Rock reviews	1	116	January 1, 2026
Review: The Beast of Torrack Moor (30th Anniversary Edition) reviews	7	231	December 11, 2025
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please	3	164	December 3, 2025
Review: Return to the Mysterious Island	32	1330	December 1, 2025
ACMI Game Worlds Exhibit and collectible Zork booklet	4	262	November 29, 2025
Reception of Inform, TADS in then-contemporary (particularly British) communities?	10	410	November 23, 2025
The Complete History of Trinity podcast	10	718	November 12, 2025
Advent of Code on the Z-machine	17	347	November 11, 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 …