Reviews by MathBrush

This game has a fairly large map,with a small number of puzzles that makes the whole game manageable.

You are a spy called Archer who is investigating corruption for a king.

There are only a few puzzles, and the solutions are generally very easy or of the guess-what-the-author is thinking type.

The writing was very descriptive, but the game is unpolished (like when a room contains An Evidence). The interectivity was frustrating at times.

Feu de Joie was a serial story released starting in 2015. It was about someone working for an online company who started getting weird messages from elsewhere.

This game is set from the other side, and manages to make powerful statements about war and world history. It's hard to go into more detail without exposing the plot.

It is very brief. I give it five stars for its polish and for its important place in the Feu de Joie series as a whole.

This game is about a young person who longs to be free from the mundane world. They try to escape, and begin to find the faery world.

The game has a variety of branches, picking from 2 sets of three big options and many smaller ones.

The game is very successful at creating and maintaining a wistful, deep atmosphere.

S. Woodson is a talented author, and it comes out in this brief game.

This Ryan Veeder game was a speed-IF entered in the Ectocomp one year. It was later tuned up and rereleased for Sub Q magazine.

The game has a small but detailed set of locations. As you explore the pyramid, you encounter a variety of Egyptian treasures and artwork. The plot thickens as it goes onward.

I enjoyed the writing and feeling of this game quite a bit. But I didn't really get into the puzzles quite as much. Considering its origin as speed IF, though, the game is quite remarkable.

This game is about a specimen that escapes and attacks a summer camp.

The main idea of this game is that there are six npcs walking around, each with their own personalities and talents. You have to get them to work together.

Unfortinstely, it can be maddeningly difficult to know what to say to each person.

The writing is descriptive, and the game doesn't seem very buggy.

Ryan Veeder is known for making polished, smooth, amusing games, and has made another great example here.

You are a caveman with an unusually intelligent wife and surrounded by a variety of animal life.

The game is fairly short, with only 2 or 3 small puzzles, but the setting is charming and the game feels cohesive. It is an interesting counterpoint to the Edifice, a long, difficult, serious game treating some of the same material.

This game is a short Twine game with a beautiful font and use of different coloring tricks.

The story is hard to describe, except to say it is highly disjointed and deals with the nature of reality.

The writing is descriptive, but the interactivity is troublesome. In a list of links, only one will move forward, and it's hard to know what order to look at stuff if you want to look around.

This game is about Psyche, who is cursed by Aphrodite after ignoring rules about her husband Cupid.

In this game, you are given three tasks to complete. Each has a special trick to it, and one involves graphics.

The game has some pretty big problems with guessing what the author is thinking, including the first significant verb you have to use after the prologue. Two of the puzzles depend on assembling complicated equipment and using another unusual command.

The writing was descriptive though, and everything was well-polished, so I'm giving it 2 stars.

Years after Infocom died and Activision was about to put out a graphical Zork game, this parser game was commissioned and then produced by two Infocom writers (Marc Blank of Zork and Mike Berlin of Infidel).

The game is almost pure nostalgia, and fairly short. It compares to Unnkulia One Half, which was similarly a small promo game riffing on older material.

In this game you find an undiscovered part of the Great Underground Empire and explore it. The game is very small, with one big square that has doors leading to three smaller areas, each with 3-5 rooms. There are little models of Zork items, Grue references, and the heads of the two implementers waxing nostalgic. There are references to the IF MUD (essentially an elaborate chat room that was once a multiplayer online parser game) and so on.

If you have nostalgia for infocom, this game could be lots of fun. If you have just barely learned about ibfocom, maybe not so much. The actual games themselves are more fun.

This game adheres closer to creepypasta tropes than most Twine I've seen, and it does a faithful job of recreating the creepypasta vibe of stories like Asylum or No End House.

You are driving down the road when you have to pull off and go the bathroom. But the bathrooms are boarded up, and the rest stop is deserted.

The game is polished, with good CSS. It never becomes exceptional to me, but it's a fun, short play for fans of creepypasta. If you don't like creepypasta, however, you may be put off by the over-the-top horror, casual language and amnesia common to the genre.