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	1667	April 3, 2022
About the IF Reviews and Essays category	0	783	February 25, 2019
The quest to make a new top 10 favorite games list	60	1631	July 21, 2026
JJMcC's 2026 R-A-T-A-T-O-O-T-Y reviews , review-a-thon	25	724	July 20, 2026
Tabitha's RaT 2026 review-a-thon	1	93	July 20, 2026
Moonmist (concluded March 27, 2026)	11	395	July 14, 2026
View From the Shifting Mound: an autobiographical essay about Slay the Princess, complex trauma, and dissociation	0	61	July 10, 2026
Early British Text Adventures	12	1317	July 7, 2026
ChoiceBeat zine #17 fanzines	1	91	June 29, 2026
Parser Poetics in Portrait with Wolf rosebush	7	291	June 17, 2026
Novels, short stories, and other print fiction about IF	18	858	June 17, 2026
Gold Machine: Hollywood Hijinx (final post: June 8, 2026) infocom	7	284	June 8, 2026
Best IF of all Time?	6	270	June 2, 2026
Zed reviews-a-thon reviews , review-a-thon	23	870	May 29, 2026
Is interactive fiction art?	130	2222	May 11, 2026
Video of Midwest Gaming Classic interview with Scott Adams	0	59	May 10, 2026
Trying some commercial era parser IF (first up: Planetfall) reviews , infocom	5	135	April 8, 2026
Review Project: Every IFComp and XYZZY Winner	23	758	March 26, 2026
Google sheet with IFDB if only ratings from the last 5 years were counted	12	254	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	157	March 8, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine rosebush	73	3356	March 4, 2026
instances of cursing in Infocom games	7	221	March 2, 2026
Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games	45	3267	January 13, 2026
IF in the Wild - Unexpected mentions of IF in places not explicitly about IF adventure , youtube	43	2546	January 8, 2026
Review: Bael's Rock reviews	1	119	January 1, 2026
Review: The Beast of Torrack Moor (30th Anniversary Edition) reviews	7	235	December 11, 2025
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please	3	167	December 3, 2025
Review: Return to the Mysterious Island	32	1344	December 1, 2025
ACMI Game Worlds Exhibit and collectible Zork booklet	4	265	November 29, 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 …