Ratings and Reviews by Denk

In this Quest game you are trapped in a room, remembering a few spell names. You have to escape somehow. This game has a lot of good stuff going for it. The idea of limiting the commands to the spells is fine, except some other commands are needed as well and you have to guess which commands, making it a fight with the parser. For instance, it is not clear if you can use put, insert, but get, open and examine seems to work sometimes.

The game also appears buggy as you can find an object several times etc.

With some beta-testers, I think this can end up being a really nice game. For now, I gave up on completing it as I never knew if the game became unwinnable due to the obvious bugs. So I encourage the author to get some testers, polish this game some more and announce it when it is ready.

Thanks to Tabitha's poll on games with few ratings, I gave this short game a try. I haven't played many games about vampires but such games seem to be quite popular now, especially what could be called symbolic vampires: People who suck energy from others. This game still stays on the supernatural path, though it may all be intended as symbolic in the end anyway.

The graphics and sounds add positively to the game. Certainly interesting.

This game requires an ZX Spectrum emulator like Fuse, which I used.

EDIT: Be aware that this game uses a few stereotypes which could feel quite offensive and I believe the game would be better without it. However, the game still has a lot of good things in it and it would be simple to improve it in a post comp release, which I hope will happen, as it is otherwise a nice game. My original review below is unaltered.

This is a really neat VERY old school parser game for the sake of puzzles. They were fun to work through. I almost solved it in 1 hour and 50 minutes but had overlooked an obvious connection to a location so had to peak at the walkthrough. So the puzzles are definitely fair but if you are not used to the simplistic PAW parser (? I think this is a PAW game?), you will have to get used to it first. So it actually does accept up to four words when it makes sense, e.g. USE X ON Y.

Most importantly, typing L will ruin the game, but if you ramsave once in a while you can just type RL to ramload again. Instead use R to look around (Redescribe).

The entire game is relatively well implemented, considering it is a PAW(?) game. The atmosphere is cute despite some horror elements. A very nice feature is the VOCAB commands which tells you ALL the verbs you need to know and typing HELP toggles between 4-5 different hints. They were a nice addition which I applied, so I did not really need the walkthrough except when I missed a room connection :/

Overall, a very fun retro experience!

Being an alien disguised as a human isn't always easy. In this game you must study humans. You get a few choices where I recommend to do the "wrong" thing, as there are some funny responses to that - you will usually (always?) get to do the right thing afterwards, following a rather linear but interesting plot, with a drop of sad realism too. A thoughtful game with some nice humor. Well done :)