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Flexible Survival, by Nuku Valente
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Long Live the Queen, by Hanako Games
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In the Snowy Winter's Wake, by Josh "Cheeseness" Bush
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Stand Up / Stay Silent, by Y Ceffyl Gwyn
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Accelerate, by The TAV Institute
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Each Glimpse A Mirror, by Jack Sanderson Thwaite
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Laika, by Ian Michael Waddell
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The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton

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Too frustrating, January 27, 2020
by Oreolek (Kemerovo, Russia)

Good writing and implementation, but the difficulty curve is harsh. It expects you to know the uncommon IF verbs to pass the tutorial. The built-in hint system skips over the important stuff. You'll have to examine things twice from different perspectives. Of course there are timed puzzles. I don't recommend this game.

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Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy

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A good punch of Weird with a long drag afterwards, November 26, 2019
by Oreolek (Kemerovo, Russia)
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Bridget is a girl in a summer camp. She sees weird dreams. She sees weird things. It's weird.

Birdland is long and it constantly repeats itself. The dreams have the samey feel and by the third or the fourth they are boring. Between the "ah, so what's happening" and "okay, let's do something about it" moments there is a good chunk of just.. hanging around, I guess.

What's frustrating is lack of character details. I finished the game but I still don't know anything solid about the lead heroine. Most of the camp girls are flat or you don't see them enough because the game doesn't care. There are good characters but they are doomed to be the scenery.

It's a decent game, overall, for its background details and the punchy beginning. The ending's flat, though.

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Death By Powerpoint, by Jack Welch
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