Ratings and Reviews by MathBrush

If you look at the walkthrough for this game, you'll see that it's absolutely huge for an if comp game (perhaps 4+ hours), and that the same commands are repeated over and over.

Much of this starship game consists of walking back and forth between two halves of a navigation system and pushing the same sequence of buttons.

The idea of this game is that you must travel to other worlds to find treasure, which you then take to an android bazaar to sell, to buy new items such as star maps or keys.

The writing is sparse, but the game is creative, especially the stage that is a huge statue of a human. The ending was disappointing, and the game was somewhat repetitive.

In this game, you are in a 3x3 club and must find some dirt on the reigning Yo Momma champion. You have to wander around and try to look at his stuff and talk to his friends to find incriminating things.

This game is really well-polished and descriptive; I didn't find any bugs and everything was good and smooth. The dialogue was clever and witty, the puzzles were fantastic.


This game does contain some kinds of questionable material, since it's based on insulting other people's mothers, and their is some intended (but not completed) violence against women by other people. Overall, though, this was a good game.

East Grove hills tells the story of a group of friends who go through a school bombing/shooting. Like photopia, it is told using non linear time, and it uses Photopias conversation system.

Unlike photopia, it is told through large text dumps, and doesn't provide many natural actions for the protagonist to take.

Overall, a good story.

This game is small, but relatively neat and tidy. You have to go out and get groceries and check on a book before a meeting.

It's fairly typical for a 'My apartment' type game. There are a couple of guess the verb issues, but on the other hand the writing is very good in places, especially crossing the road.

It turns out the game has a hidden aspect to it, described in the ABOUT text, that puts an interesting spin on the action. I took about 10 minutes to play it.

This game came in 22nd out of 27 or so games in 2007, and that surprised me at first. It's a fairly large game with some nice writing. However, the concept is kind of jumbled. You are wearing a spacesuit, but you are also in a world of thoughts, but you may be dead or may be not dead. And then the game ends mid-story!

There are some problems with guessing the verb and figuring out what to do.

The general story was interesting, and the writing was descriptive, but the implementation has numerous issues.

In this game by Porpentine, an author known for creating bio-mechanical worlds that are almost hallucinatory. This game is a great example of her world building power.

You play in a dust-covered world of raiders and scavengers. You can create yourself, but also destroy yourself, and both are necessary.

This game is unusual for Twine in that you have to enter city names in text when traveling. This gives more of a riddle aspect to the game. However, you have a map storing names you've met. There are less than 10 total cities.

The game ends in a sort of transformation that is best experience rather than described. Overall, it has a feeling of exploration and of 'just living'. One of the least disgusting porpentine games, and one of my favorites of hers.

This game won Spring Thing in 2014. This game is written using ChooseYourStory, which focuses on half-pages full of text with a few small choices that then affect your stats, like Choice of Games mechanics-wise but a bit different stye-wise.

You play one of two brothers betrayed into slavery. You enter a slave ship and train in Rome. You might a variety of people whom you have relationships with, and you have a few skills like strength and speed.

The writing was okay, but the story was interesting. It does suffer from some stereotypes; there are african slaves who speak in broken english, and are all strong and athletic, while the white slaves are praised for being intelligent and good at strategy despite their weakness. A fair, blue-eyed redheaded girl is a main love interest, and so on.

This game is a large and ambitious fantasy adventure with a lengthy prologue, a lot of dialogue, scenery changes, colored text, etc.

However, the game was translated from italian, and the translation has many problems. Fortunately, a walkthrough was provided, but at one point it becomes useless, and no amount of wandering could help me find the exit.

This game exists in an Italian version; given the promise of this game in english, I can only assume that this game is quite good in italian. I don't know if the other bugs still exist in that version.

This is a game in 3 parts that would reasonably take a couple of hours to complete or more.

It starts out with good programming and a good concept: you receive a package with a device that gives you mysterious instructions. Following it gives you the ride of your life.

However, it quickly devolves into impossible situations where you have to guess what the author was tbinking, and the writing quality goes down.

I recommend the first scene or two.

John Evans creates games that are very ambitious but generally not thoroughly tested. This gane, though, I really enjoyed.

You are a spirit summoned to a floating magic castle island. You can create anything! Well, actually, you can create whatever the author implemented. You are presented with six challenges, and have to guess what to create. I beat about 3 and a half on my own. At least one depends on you seeing something not in the room descriotion, which I thought was unfair.