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About the Story
You start at the entrance to the Gold Coast Casino's new Virtual Reality Gaming Room. There is a neon sign over the doorway that says: GO ON A VR ADVENTURE! WIN BIG!
This parser-based game features puzzles, turn-based combat, leveling up, treasure, loot, weapons, armor, and classic adventuring. There is an integral non-spoiler hint system, and an in-game, contextual walkthrough for each puzzle and location. The player kit contains a map, a Windows interpreter, and instructions for setting up a Mac to run the game.
Awards
26th Place - 23rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2017)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:    Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
This game is a fairly traditional RPG, where you find better and better weapons/armor and equip them, and gain gold. It's framed as a VR story in a casino to better explain why items disappear in a puff of smoke and why all treasures get converted to their cash values.
I found the game enjoyable, and fairly long, although I bug kept me from going from the novice half to the expert half. I would recommend it for fans of RPGs.
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Narrativium
IFComp 2017 Review: VR Gambler by Robert DeFord
There is pleasure to be taken from simple things done well. VR Gambler may not be the most ambitious game in the competition, but it delivers on its straightforward premise: it's a well-implemented, largely bug-free, entertaining old-school RPG, which is both tidily written and technically sound.
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Game Details
First Publication Date: October 1, 2017
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Alan 3
IFID: ALAN-38181449FEEF421231D1C27573C77CCC
TUID: 6iykmlp156u87mww
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Recommended Lists
VR Gambler appears in the following Recommended Lists:Best of each authoring system by Denk
I intend to try the best games of each authoring system, so there will no doubt be many changes to this list in the future. So far, I think the following games are the best for each system I have tried: (games in alphabetic order)
Favorite IF with randomized combat by Denk
All the games on this list use quite simple turn based combat, similar to "Leadlight" and "Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom" (both on this list). A few well known titles with randomized combat are not on this list, since I have not been...
Polls
The following polls include votes for VR Gambler:Lost Treasures of the IF Comp by Molly
It seems that for every Comp game that's still talked about today (e.g., Slouching Towards Bedlam, Shade, Photopia, etc.), there's ten or so that have been almost completely forgotten; some of them even placed in the top ten or higher....
Great treasure hunt games by Molly
Good treasure hunting games in the vein of Zork and Adventure, although they may not necessarily be set in caves.
For your consideration: XYZZY-eligible Puzzles of 2017 by MathBrush
This is for suggesting games released in 2017 which you think might be worth considering for Best Overall Puzzles in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination. The category will still be text-entry, and games not mentioned...
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