The Moonlit Tower

by Yoon Ha Lee

2002
Eastern
Inform 6

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Super immersive full of sensory atmosphere, floor by floor, October 15, 2026
by The Elusive9 (United States of America)

This has got to be the most amount of flavor text in a game I’ve seen! You can touch every object, you can smell every room, you can listen to each room, and each room inspires you to sing a different melody—but only if you choose to sing. And even though there’s a LOT, it never gets old. The writing is beautiful, often abstract. Most thoughts the protagonist has reveals a fragment of his past.
So, when you play this game be sure to take in EVERYTHING the game mentions through each of your senses, even the small umbilical things like a tassel hanging off the end of a dagger, or individual elements of a mural. There’s even special dialogue if you try to break stuff, too! And every room has a poetic response to trying to walk through walls!!

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