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Fingertips: Who's Knockin' On The Wall?, by Melvin Rangasamy
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A classic logic puzzle (the kind you solve with a grid), May 26, 2016

This one move game is more puzzly than most games in the Fingertips portion of the Apollo 18 album.

It is a classic logic puzzle, where you are given a dozen or so facts about several people and several properties they have, and you have to deduce who is next to you.

Because I wasn't in the mood for this puzzle, I just guessed, and go it right. Good for fans of such puzzles.

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Fingertips: What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?, by Ruth Alfasso
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A one move game with divergent endings all about blue things, May 25, 2016

Like Fingertips:All Alone and Fingertips: Who wrecked my car, this one move game has completely different narratives depending on what action you take.

All of these actions have a blue thing in them. While this game implemented more than All Alone, I felt like it was too self-conscious, hammering home the multiple endings and talking about the Fingertip:I don't understand game. On its own, however, it is a solid game, with some particularly good endings.

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Fingertips: Please Pass the Milk Please, by Adri
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A cute one move game between siblings with a hint of menace, May 25, 2016

Like Adri's other Apollo 18 album game, this game is a cute story with some lurkier undertones.

You are sitting with your brother Sam eating brownies. He has just eaten a brownie and is asking him for the milk. You can give him the milk, or do anything else that comes to mind. Adri has coded quite a few responses which can be found in the Endings and Amusing sections.

Recommended.

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The barbarians are coming!, by Daniel Kosacki
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A rare game that is goofy in a good way. Save your village, May 24, 2016
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This is the author's first Twine game. It uses no styling, and is based on goofy, crazy humor. These are usually signs for disaster, so I was skeptical when I saw it was highly rated.

But this game has a lot of thought and some actually pretty funny humor. You play a villager sent on a quest to find a magical item that can save your people from a tribe.

The narrator frequently talks with you, and the game discusses the balance between choices and story and free will and so on, but only in a goofy way.

I enjoyed this story, but I had low expectations. People expecting it to be great may be less impressed, but this is a long, funny Twine game.

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Fingertips: Mysterious Whispers, by Peter Nepstad
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A one room game with slightly eery quotes, May 24, 2016

In the Apollo 18 Tribute album, this is a one-move game about strange whispers.

Basically, if you listen, you can hear random quotes and sayings. The game keeps score of how many you hear. However, sometimes actions are necessary to hear all of the sounds. I did not hear all of them, only 2/3 of them all.

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Fingertips: Leave Me Alone, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
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An excellent one move, mostly puzzleless game with distinct branches, May 24, 2016
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This is my favorite Apollo 18 one move game so far. It is very simple; someone is chasing you, and you have one chance to escape them. There is a correct solution, but all endings are interesting (I found 11 or so).

This game really shines in its writing and creativity. It affected me emotionally in a mild, pleasant way.

There is some mild profanity right at the beginning.

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Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors, by Andrew Schultz
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For fans of super hard mathy puzzles., May 23, 2016

This is one of the one-move games from the Apollo 18 album.

You are dumped in a room with a huge number of complex counting and mathematical clues to give you the combination of a door. This is a beast of a game. I am a professional mathematician, but I ran fleeing from this game to the Club Floyd transcript, where I discovered this game was, in fact, incredibly hard.

The writing is top-notch Andrew Schultz style, and the game is polished.

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Fingertips: I Heard a Sound, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Ultra small one move game, May 23, 2016

This Apollo 18 Tribute game is incredibly short. You are told what to do, you do it, the end.

There's really not much else to say about it, except that the writing is good and the error messages are good.

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Fingertips: I don't understand you, by Matt Weiner
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A one note game, as the title suggests, May 22, 2016

For the Apollo 18 Tribute album, authors wrote 20 one-room games (and 18 larger games) based off the titles of tracks in the album.

The title of this track suggests something immediate to fans of parser fiction, and the author ran with it. They did a good job with the implementation; I imagine this was not easy to code.

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Fingertips: I Found a New Friend, by Adri
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A cute one move game about a friend under a pillow, May 22, 2016

Another Apollo 18 album game. In this game, you are going to bed in your PJ'S but something is wiggling underneath it.

Unlike most Apollo 18 games, this game wasn't much fun for me until I found the Amusing and Endings menus, after which it became fun just seeing what she had coded.

Certainly the most charming of the one move Apollo games, with a small sliver of the creepy or gruesome.

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