Interactive Fiction Competition 2018

I'm playing through the parser games from this year's competition. I'm a parser author, and I enjoy parser games, so I'm not playing games that are choice based. This year I decided to write reviews for the games I'm playing. I played and voted in last year's competition, but didn't write anything up. I always enjoyed reading all the reviews I could find for my game, good or bad, so I thought I'd review the ones I'm playing.

To vote in the competition you only need to play 5 games and score them. That's what I did in last year's competition, but I did find a few that I wouldn't play. So they got no score, and then rated the 5 that I did enjoy. Unless I play through all of them, that's what I try to do. Find games I'm going to enjoy, instead of playing through a bunch I don't like. That burned me out in past competitions. So I cherry-pick the games based on blurbs, genre, and authors.

These are the ones that I've played through so far - D


*** These reviews have light spoilers ***