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Solitary, by Kahlan
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A small game about a student and about mourning, August 12, 2017*
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This is a game of the same sort of Wrenlaw, but smaller and less well implemented. You try to examine a variety of objects in your college dorm to unlock memories about a former love

It is not polished, but I enjoyed playing it, and it didn't overstay its welcome. If you like On Optimism or A Moment of Hope, you'd like this.

* This review was last edited on August 15, 2017
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LAIR of the CyberCow, by Conrad Cook (as Harry Wilson)
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A goofy game about an evil cow... or is it?, August 12, 2017*
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This is an ADRIFT game from 2008, and like most ADRIFT games (especially from that time), it has quite a few bugs.

It's not terrible; it has some fun moments as you wander around a bizarre, goofy landscape. But eventually, the bugs pile up and it gets too hard to play.

* This review was last edited on August 15, 2017
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The Realm, by Michael Sheldon
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A shortish fatasy game about giving people what they want, July 29, 2017*
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This game is a short fantasy game set in a castle. I thought it was building up to something bigger, but most of the game is just wandering around equipping yourself.

There were many missing synonyms, and the game implied a robust conversation system that just wasn't there.

It had one fairly funny NPC in the armorer, though.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Redeye, by John Pitchers
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A crazy drug-and-violence story set in Australia, July 29, 2017*
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This shortish TADS game has you framed for murder at a biker bar in Australia.

It uses garish colors and the writing is choppy and strewn with profanities.

It's an on-the-rails mystery that has a good base story but implementation issues.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Zero One, by Edward Plant
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A short, violent game with odd responses, July 29, 2017*
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This short game has you escaping from a prison cell.

The walkthrough encourages you to do some very odd things.

The game is short, mostly about things like finding keys and opening doors.

I think it could have been better without the strange responses.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Getting Back to Sleep, by Patrick Evans
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A homebrew parser game about fixing a broken spaceship, July 27, 2017*
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This game has you waking up in a closet after some drastic event. You need to save yourself and the ship.

This is a homebrew parser, which is fine, but it is also a homebrew parser that tries to implement the trickier parts of parser like conversation, which is not as fine. Simple shortcuts like 'l' and 'i' don't work, either.

It's not too bad, in general, but the parser causes too many problems to ignore.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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9Lives, by Bill Balistreri, Hal Hinderliter, Sean Klabough, Luke Michalski, Morgan Sokol
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A buggy small game about six different lives, July 25, 2017*
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This game is a sort of metaphysical ladder.

You have different choices to do the right or wrong thing. Doing the right thing reincarnates you as something 'greater', and the wrong thing makes you lower.

The game is so buggy, though, that it is very hard to go 'down'.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Dream Pieces, by Iam Curio
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A fun game making and breaking words, July 25, 2017*
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I played the most recent version of this game.

It's a fun wordplay game in Quest, where you click on different items to take and break them.

Breaking an item splits it up into different letters. You combine the letters to make new words.

It's fairly short, but I enjoyed it. There was some slowdown on textadventures.co.uk

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Moquette, by Alex Warren
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A fascinating journey through the London underground and memory, July 25, 2017*
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This game reminds me for some reason of Michael Ende's Momo.

In any case, this is a quest hyperlink game that has you travelling on trains. You are on a subway line, you can wait or get off at each station, then travel on a new line in a new directions.

There are a dozen or more lines, with quite a few stations.

As you play, very good text effects begin to show up. A metastory appears.

There is unnecessary strong profanity; however, on Chrome, profanity filters filter it out.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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J'dal, by Ryan Kinsman
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A DnD-influenced short game about fantasy racism, July 25, 2017*
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This game is a bit shaky but has a great storyline about fantasy racism. The main character is dark-skinned, female, and can see in the dark, and everyone hates them.

This game was startling in its originality. It was also fairly buggy, with big typos that were missed.

It contains some combat and puzzles, with the interactivity at times just too underimplemented.

Contains some strong profanity.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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