Ratings and Reviews by MathBrush

In this game, you play someone exploring a house during a party, trying to find paperwork on a lien on your house.

There is a death. You want to learn more about it.

The game has some odd touches (some strong profanity from a goth, for intance), especially the fact that you go through every area of the house in front of the unhappy occupants and they don't stop you.

Otherwise, though, this is one of the best Adrift implementations I've seen.

In this game, you are in a facility that is wired to blow. Most rooms are empty, except for some with one item. Like Scott Adams, it has a two-word parser.

It was fairly fun, but it could have had a greater depth of implementation, and there was some 'guess the verb' stuff going on later. It also had an annoying maze.

Fun for those looking for a quick snack.

This is one of several different executable games entered into the 2001 IFComp where you wander around a very large area and engage in random RPG combat.

I only played a few minutes of the game. The music and images were interesting, but I just had a hard time getting into the interaction; also, I could see from the walkthrough that this is a very very long game.

When I saw this had the same opening as You Were Doomed From the Start, my heart sank.

This is a two-part ms-dos game, but I know of noone who has passed the first few rooms, as every step has you fight a monster called Double J, an in-joke about one of the author's friends, I believe.

By examining the code in Notepad++, I could read a lot of the text; there's a giant shape to the map, and a bomb of some sorts. Apparently there is a cheat, and a new game++. But noone's ever reached it.

This game has three main puzzles, and is a cinematic game with nice background descriptions.

I struggled a bit with the game, as I didn't speak german. But it is very short, and the medieval background was really fun.

I've provided a small walkthrough:
(Spoiler - click to show)To get over the wall, jump then pull yourself.

For the forest, stick sticks in the ground.

For the man, alternate fighting and talking, with a lot of talking.

This game is just a light puzzle plus a series of locks and keys. The keys are bizarre; a weapon, a jar, they can all be keys.

This just seems quickly programmed in an old an bad language. I wonder if the author wrote it years before and spruced it up for the comp. It does have some nice Ascii art, and some fun ideas, but it needs a lot of work.

This is a long and well-polished game, but it has a number of difficult features, like items you have to take at the right time or you'll be closed off forever, a maze, etc.

It felt somewhat tedious to play through. It had a teenage girl that loves swearing; in fact, it's one of her main characteristics.

Interesting, but ultimately not one I'd replay.

This game is kind of a mish-mash of things, with a seedy individual like the thief in Zork, and a plot about collecting treasures.

I knew I was in trouble when I found myself in Maze Room 1. It was even worse when I discovered that the walkthrough didn't help here due to the maze being randomized.

There were some fun action sequences later on, but the game was too underclued to be easily completable.

This is a big, old-school game with tons of pictures. Expect quicksand, killer mosquitoes, a big maze, a light puzzle, a hunger puzzle, searching many random objects, etc.

I played with the walkthrough, but this would be a big, big game without it.

Story was pretty good, but navigating the swamp was tedious. The puzzles weren't too bad. Randomly has a troll.

This game is a poem about a rich lord and the devil fighting. It uses colors and illustrations.

You get a big chunk of verses, and then most actions give you a sentence or two of prose, but the correct action advances the verses.

It was frankly enjoyable, the poem about the english lord and the devil brawling.