Reviews by MathBrush

This game is quite large, taking place in 3 acts. The first act is slow, exploring a house full of arcane writings and mystical objects.

The setting turns to horror soon, as you explore a realm of evil.

The writing is uneven, with some very mundane parts and some parts (like the last few commands of part I) of brilliance.

There seemed to be some bugs. I couldn't finish the very last part of the game with the walkthrough.

This is the first Clickventure game I tried. These games are written by the staff of the website Clickhole,, and consist of a couple of choices per page.

The game seems to branch highly, with some later recombining. It is also a bit of a mockery of Oregon Trail, with choices about how to equip yourself and with disasters occurring on your trip.

Overall, it seemed like it had some gross-out humor, and I'm not sure I'm interested in playing their other games.

This game consists of no rooms at all. The author has exploited some set locations in Inform to remove the need for rooms.

Instead, we have some fun responses to standard commands, plus a fairly well known science experiment. It's almost too plain, but then there are clever bits that redeem it.

A short game.

This game has you take on the role of an early psychologist in the time of horses and carriages. You have an unusual patient who has disappeared, and you must use your knowledge of them to find them.

The game has a compelling idea, especially when a major shift happens midway through. But there is little guidance, meagre descriptions, and a general sense of incompleteness.

This game intimidated me. You are a janitor whose job is to clean up after adventurers (i.e. reset the game world after each player). This is an idea that was present in Adventure, the original text adventure, but it has been taken to a fun level here.

The problem is that setup is hard. There are two sets of doorways, one natural (leading about the game world), and one in a grid system (backstage) that is very confusing. Also, it's hard to know how to start using your mimesis disrupting mop.

Once you get into it, this game is fun. You have to use clues to guess how things used to be, and reset them to that state.

A very fun Zorkian game. Unfortunately, it contains ASCII art of a nude woman, but its completely avoidable.

This game is surreal, psychedelic and dreamlike. The author plays freely with punctuation and capitalization. Scenes proceed generally no matter what you do.

The scenes generally center around the phrase "you know what?" along with sexual encounters with an elderly woman, an eighth grader, and a computer-woman hybrid.

I didn't enjoy the tone of the game, and I don't plan to play again. However, it is polished and descriptive, and the interactivity works.

This game has you play as a violent rapist and murderer as you go about your business, as well as playing as someone investigating them.

The writing is free of errors, and unfortunately too descriptive. The game tells you what conversation topics to ask about, but it feels clunky and hard to get right.

The story is not particularly clever, but it has some twists.

In this game, you wander through 6 rooms with duct tape and the corpse of your sidekick.

You can tape various things to each other, and interact in a few ways with the corpse. Many responses are coded, but many other natural things are not coded.

Some people have said this is an IFMud in joke, which would make sense, because the game doesn't make much sense.

Overall, it is descriptive, but not very funny.

In this game, the main character discovers that they have been paralyzed unless someone (the player) types them commands; they have become a sort of puppet.

The game explores the interaction between player and PC, while a mysterious voice gives dark quotes in the background.

The game is very descriptive and the writing is good, but eventually holes start showing up, and the puzzles can be very unintuitive and frustrating.

David Welbourn has an excellent walkthrough for this game.

In this game, you find scrolls and potions and weapons, and you engage in randomized combat with a variety of monsters while trying to prove yourself to an employer.

The randomized combat takes place automatically when you enter a room with a monster. After the first turn, you can make your own choices. Many times, you'll walk in a room and die or someone else will die.

The storyline is fairly standard, but some of the monsters were described in a fun way.

Overall, a frustrating CRPG.