Canalboy

London, UK.

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Member since February 15, 2016
Last visited July 16, 2025
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55 year old IT analyst, Wine Buff and Arsenal supporter. IF acolyte. A bit battered with pieces falling off. Lover of the Seventies and cheese. Although not cheese from the Seventies as it tends to be a bit too mouldy.

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Recommended Lists by Canalboy

Games Where The Shape Of The Map Is Relevant To Game Completion - 4 items March 7, 2025

As an inveterate cartographer of text adventures I was considering which games require accurate map construction to solve at least one...

Excellent IF Games With Unfair Puzzles - 5 items May 18, 2017

A Selection Of Enjoyable IF That Contain(s) Ridiculous Puzzles. All the games mentioned are enjoyable to me and of a very high standard...

Polls by Canalboy

Games Where Moving In The Dark Is Essential - 17 votes for 16 games; created March 16, 2025

As a compulsive map maker I recently came across two games where you have to know your location exactly as you need to move in complete...

Games With Extended Underwater Sequences - 18 votes for 18 games; created October 24, 2024

That is games that have immersive (pun intended) sub aqua areas of more than, say ten locations.

The Most Humorous Scenarios /Characters in IF - 18 votes for 18 games; created August 1, 2022

I was recently re-essaying Castle Ralf and if you "Cogitate" in a certain location there is a seemingly authentic sequence which appears...

Games That No-one Has Ever Knowingly Finished - 8 votes for 7 games; created June 23, 2022

I mean games that have no posted solutions. I realise that a lot of these could be buggy and therefore unfinishable but some will be just...

Games With Unfair Beginnings - 23 votes for 16 games; created October 7, 2021

By this I mean games that can be made unwinnable near the start or have hellish opening puzzles.

Reviews by Canalboy

Village of Lost Souls, by Martin Moore and Glenn McAuley May 6, 2025

"Village of Lost Souls is an excellent and rather creepy puzzlefest set in the once sleepy village of Dinham. You play as a fairly..." - See the full review

The Dungeons of Dunjin, by Magnus Olsson April 21, 2025

"Magnus Olsson is perhaps best known for writing Uncle Zebulon's Will, a game which won the TADS division at the First Annual IF..." - See the full review

Stonequest, by David H. Strelitz March 16, 2025

"Stonequest is an archetypal "complete quest for king and usurp evil tyrant" adventure which would pass as unremarkable but for possibly..." - See the full review

Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin February 28, 2025

"Où sont les neiges d'antan? It must be said that I had many a Proustian moment replaying this excellent Level 9 offering. It is 42 years..." - See the full review

Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright February 27, 2025

"This is another large and finicky Epic adventure with interminable dull paths and real-time elements; there are a whole host of winding..." - See the full review

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Canalboy's Played Games List

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
Thief's Adventure, by Anonymous
Enthar Seven, by Rob O'Leary
The Dungeons of Dunjin, by Magnus Olsson
Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth

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