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Estimated play time: 33 minutes (based on 3 votes)
Members voted for the following times for this game:
- 50 minutes: "got four different ending awards, went back to earth with 53 days to spare, didn't go out of my way to complete or explore a lot" — HereticMole
- 33 minutes: "back to Earth quickly" — JTN
- 30 minutes — vegetablegarden
About the Story
You wake in a spaceport to an alien demanding to know how you got there. The more important question is how you’ll find your way home. You’ve got a Lesser Species Guidebook, a list of jobs, and a map. You’ll need friends, money, and some luck. The galaxy has all of that if you have the ingenuity to find it and the stomach for a very wild ride.
This is a game you can play whimsically or purposefully.
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| Average Rating: Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
Wild Ride to Earth
This is a choicescript game with a cool space map. You basically get abducted by aliens and only have a year to return to earth to pick up your lottery winnings. So you hop from planet to planet working odd jobs to build up money to buy things to become better at other jobs to make more money to either pay for a ride or hitch a ride with friends back to earth.
I missed my deadline to get back to earth, but I had a good time with the different planets. Jobs range from professional scyophant to terrorist in training. You can get hurt, but you can also heal. Money feels both hard to get and bountiful at the same time, since you can get a good chunk from different jobs but have to spend a lot on planet hopping and items.
I was never quite sure how TUs mapped to days since sometimes I'd take a 3 TU job and a whole month would go by. Possibly I was skimming over in-game events that took up extra time.
Overall, it felt like a fun game, kind of reminded me of Roald Dahl-age books (not of Roald Dahl himself, but just that combination of reader age groups).
I don't know why, but this line made me laugh:
Her smell is part caramel apple, part..no, on renewed sniff, she's all caramel apple.
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First Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: ChoiceScript
IFID: 2FD30263-3D1A-4021-8E41-91985B5A7AB4
TUID: nuk59hsb6zuxv8kv
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