Reviews by MathBrush

Räisänen definitely has their own style of puzzle, in this and other games.

In this game, you are a nobleman who has lost seven horses, and who has been asked to find them, as well as delivering invitations.

The puzzle design rests on light puzzles mostly focusing on examining, waiting, and movement, similar to Arthur DiBianca's later games.

This is a meta game. You have an enemy who has stolen some basic IF verbs, and who later poses a series of challenges based on different IF conventions.

The writing is light and smooth, though pretty absurd at times. The ALAN interpreter provided by the game seemed to be very effective.

Overall, good for fans of silly games or games about IF itself.

This is a pretty fun comic to watch, but has very little interactivity. It worked for me in-browser.

It's essentially an animated comic about a comma who really doesn't like you. In each scene, you can mostly wait until the next scene, but you can also try a few basically well-cued actions. There is a scene or two, though, with really badly cued actions.

In this game, you are absolutely devastated by a relationship. The writing is breathy and emotional. Overall, it reminded me a lot of Twilight, and not really in a bad way; Twilight has a way of keeping you reading.

However, it feels incomplete; the game shifts scenes abruptly at the end and ends just as abruptly, though there is some significant branching earlier. I've loaded the game in Twinery to check, and there is only the one, odd ending.

This is a cute little puzzle game. You play a bunny, and the narrator is your sibling.

There is a cool graphical map, unusual for a glulx game. You have to clean your house before going to market, and collect food, etc. It reminds me of a Peter Rabbit book.

The puzzles were clever, but could be clued better. A lot of the 'corners' of the game feel empty, with conversations especially feeling like they should be more developed or be clearly limited.

This was a fun little game. You choose left or right over and over again. Each branch takes you to a microstory about fate; some of which I really enjoyed.

If you play long enough, stuff changes slightly. Overall, though, this was a fun microgame, and worth checking out.

This is a very well put-together game which deals with a young boy named Ishmael whose family has been impoverished and displaced, and deals with their journey towards insurgency.

The graphics and interface are impeccable. This is really, really well done. It also includes an animated story and some sound effects that I didn't hear because I didn't have headphones and didn't turn on my speakers (not his fault).

In this twine game, you are transported to another world where you make friends with bizarre creatures.

It's the type of game that's fun and silly and everything works out. It's also pretty short.

The first link available in the game takes you to a youtube video of some music. It was interesting.

This seems like a super small game (like TwinyJam or something) but is in fact quite large; the author claims it has "~29000 words in 723 nodes". It is strongly branching, but also pretty fun; it also has nice background changes, especially in the ocean scenes.

It's a fun game for a diversion. Recommended.

You play a character on a train who assumes different personas or identities over a period of several days. You eXamine different people, and discover new identities, then BE them for different people.

It's a philosophical sort of game. I found it to be a bit lawnmowery (you spend a lot of time just trying each persona on each passenger), but I found it enjoyable. The 'seducing' personas I didn't really like.

The ending was interesting, but like many others, I found it confusing.