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Halloween, by Spooky Interactive
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Argh., September 1, 2022*

So you're supposed to find a haunted house (which is right in front of you but on an island) and challenge a ghost inside. A bit generic, but probably suitable for the Halloween theme. Probably homebrew parser. And that's where the trouble starts.

Typical two-word parser ambience. Okayish room descriptions, though punctuation makes them hard to read at times. Rooms are incoherent, here you're in an orchard, one step south you're on a beach that's never been mentioned before. You can only interact with what's mentioned as "Here is ...". The text is written in caps lock, which is annoying, if only mildly. The parser does not accept abbreviations. The room descriptions do not indicate available exits. Sudden death is possible if you move in the wrong direction.

Back in 1980 this might have been a smasher, but really, I'm too old for this shit.

* This review was last edited on September 2, 2022
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Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand, by AZ / ParserCommander
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Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
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Ein später Besuch, by Markus Witzmann
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Escape from Byron Bay, by Allen Heard
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Meh, June 27, 2022

Okayish setting: You're an employee in some medical laboratory, something's turning the population into zombies(?), you got to escape and maybe find out what's happening.

Problem is, Quest (the engine used here) seems to entice authors to be sloppy about implementation. Objects in room description can't be examined, verbs are not working, everything's underclued. I didn't get very far. A pity, for I would have loved to know whether there's a good story behind the game.

In terms of tech, there's photos of rooms and some objects. Good in general, but not very well implemented - the pictures don't blend in well with the general interface, and don't have a common style. A general problem if you're using pictures from the net.

I would love to love this game more, but in its current state I found it annoying.

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A Simple Survey, by BenBonk, Deynum
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Disabled by..., by Beest
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Argh!, June 25, 2022

Physically disabled PC goes through college. Not the worst setting, but the "game" is in fact just one big rant against ignorant society, and a link container for websites dealing with the topic. In other words: A primitive infomercial for a good cause. Injunction: Support the cause, ignore this "game".

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African Adventure, by Ralph Fullerton, Becky Fullerton, Carl Russell, Karen Russell
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The Raven Circle, by Cressida St. Claire
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Below average, May 22, 2022*

Great premise: A self-invented game world with a self-invented religious system, and some ritual is going on. Plenty directions to go from here.

Unfortunately, neither the religious system nor the game world are being fleshed out. You're a vampire, you've done bad, you're punished, then you go to a dungeon to fight a deity, and that's it.

The game world has potential and I really want to know more about it, and because of this I was very tempted to give a third star, but in the end the game disappointed me because of its shallowness. I'll follow the author tho, because potential is definitely there.

* This review was last edited on May 16, 2024
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Schief, by Olaf Nowacki
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