Ratings and Reviews by ChanceOfFire

Another subway game in the Neo Twiny Jam. There is a really nice touch in the form of a subway map to the left, which updates itself with each station.. The art and design, while simple, is still pretty nice to look at.

This is a short story where you travel down station to station, thinking through memories which happen in each, memories from a past romance. You get a few options, mostly around going to the next stop or switching trains, but nothing complicated. Still, it is good for a short read.

Falling defenses, surrounded castle, a burning tower. This short game covers your last few moments in a burning tower before the enemy comes for you.

A few choices are offered here, which branch the story and take you down the road to different endings. I think I found most of them, but all were a bad ending in some form, reflecting the inevitable doom in the situation. The art is pretty nice - I think its a filter applied to some images? I liked the consistency and effect. There is a bit of sound too, although I don't think it added much to the game

A Korean protagonist's experience in an English speaking place for some time. Their thoughts are told through their musings in the text, with a typed out animation effect.

There are some parts where two separate paragraphs of text are typed out at the same time. I'm guessing this represents simultaneous thoughts, or maybe I messed something up. That said, my eyes aren't quite able to focus on two separate things at once.

The game is pretty much linear, and the read ends fast. Still, it was an interesting read.

On another note, all in-game text is in lowercase. I'm not sure if this is a stylistic thing representing thought or something.

Cats can be pretty smart animals, but I believe they have yet to pass the mirror test. Explaining this test would make the review wordcount longer than that of the game, so to give the short version, it tests whether an animal looking into a mirror knows that it is looking at a reflection of itself. A cat probably thinks it's looking at another cat.

Amusingly, that's largely what this story is about, as you play as a cat confronted with a mirror. It's a branching choicegame, with different options and different endings depending on how you decide to respond to what you see. All in all, a short but cute read.

I've seen many interesting ways to fit a game in a 500 word limit, but this is a totally new ball game. Here, we have a game which makes a mind-blowing reference to the limit of five hundred words

Existential and mystery vibes run strong here in the writing. This is largely a branching choicegame, where you are told that you have 500 words before your very end. You can choose to accept it or flee from it, but you can't escape your fate. When the numbers go up and get close to 500, prepare to start counting your final words.

The music was pretty nice too.

I'm giving this five stars as this is the most creative take I have seen on the 500 word limit thus far.

This IF is structurally similar to Twenty Four, in that it is a linear IF which reveals lines of a poem with each click. The choices here are important words in the poem, highlighted to place emphasis on the important parts. Or at least, that’s how I read it. It’s a beautiful poem, revealed with each click, and the game description also provides a link to a video of the author reading it.

Wild Geese appears to be a poem by the late American poet Mary Oliver. I’m unsure of the poem’s current copyright status, and I’m guessing that it was used with permission to be included in the Neo Twiny Jam. It’s not specified exactly.

It reminds me of the Hosted Game, My Day Off Work, except that this is a comparatively nanosized entry compared to the six figure wordcount HG gigabeast.

You wake up, feeling lazy, and decide to figure out what to do next. In 2025, this usually entails putting your face before a screen. There are a few choices here, so a bit of branching in the narrative. Mostly figuring out whether to do the active stuff or the before the screen stuff.

On another note, the design and colors are pretty simple, but it looks pretty nice too. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just like it.

Twenty four is basically a poem, built into a linear IF. Well, what you mostly do is tap the single choice and let the next line appear, until the entire poem is out.

The poem was still pretty amusing, poking fun at some of the more negative parts of being an adult. It was (thankfully) not too relatable to me, since I don't really mind doing the dishes promptly, but yeah, still a fun read.

A story told in a series of adverb verb combinations, both in the story text and choices. Yep, you get choices and branching here. Honestly, I got so distracted by the stream of adverb verb combinations that I could not quite keep track of the story. On the other hand, presentation is pretty good, with the text above and a large image below. Remember, this is meant to be played in fullscreen.

I am not really sure what to make of this experimental idea, so I'm currently not leaving a rating.

Our game begins with a picture of (...image analysis in progress...) Singapore, featuring the world's largest ferris wheel before the Entertainment Capital of the World decided that it wanted that title. Thankfully, our apocalyptic tale does not quite take place there.

It's a short choice game of humanity's final moments, in a sci-fi city which seeks to distract them with entertainment before life comes to an end. There are a small number of choices and branching, with the game showing the intense feelings of the final moments before it is all over. As with the writer's other game, the writing here is evocative and does plenty with the tight word limit.

It's a short but good read.