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Average Rating: based on 54 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 4
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- gattociao, August 16, 2023

- elysee, April 24, 2023

I've been training like a Pavlov dog, January 6, 2023

by Lance Cirone (Backwater, Vermont)

Dinner Bell is a one-room game full of silly humor. Your goal is, from inside your test chamber, to find 16 food items. You instinctively put them in a grocery bag, despite starving, due to the conditioning from Dr. Beagle.

In Dinner Bell, it's worth trying some weird or silly stuff to see what it has to say. My favorite joke involved either the bucket of wax pears, or the Shiptogar. The game's theming is also pretty interesting and unique, and I haven't seen anything else like it.

It's a quick game, but there's a lot to like here. I recommend it.

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- Sobol (Russia), September 16, 2022

- Kinetic Mouse Car, August 8, 2022

- TheBoxThinker, July 28, 2022

- Ray Leandro (Philippines), January 27, 2022

- godzillaposter, December 12, 2021

- Zape, July 2, 2020 (last edited on July 3, 2020)

- Edo, June 17, 2020 (last edited on August 17, 2023)

- Sammel, April 25, 2020

- felicitations, September 30, 2018 (last edited on October 1, 2018)

- xochie, September 3, 2017

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
technically wobbly, undeniably original, June 9, 2017

For a game made in 2012, Dinner Bell is surprisingly underimplemented (a lot of synonyms weren't recognized, and I was especially surprised when (Spoiler - click to show)the message blocking interaction with the candles didn't change while I was wearing the oven mitt). But in terms of atmosphere I think it mostly accomplished what it set out to do. That atmosphere - gross and disturbing, leavened in appropriate measure by "zany" humor - is one that I don't think I've ever seen attempted before. So props for that.

And, hey, it was a fun game.

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- Kaesa, March 3, 2017 (last edited on March 4, 2017)

- imelda, January 31, 2017

- lkdc, January 31, 2017

- KGH (North Carolina), September 15, 2016

- nosferatu, July 21, 2016

- Matt Bates, April 11, 2016 (last edited on April 12, 2016)

- Teaspoon, January 29, 2016 (last edited on January 30, 2016)

- Deboriole (San Diego, CA), January 15, 2016 (last edited on January 16, 2016)

- Harry Coburn (Atlanta, GA), September 3, 2015

- ZombieHam, August 20, 2015

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
An amusing one-room food game, August 10, 2015
Related reviews: about 1 hour

In this short one-room game, you reverse the roles of Pavlov and his dogs by being the subject of experiments by dogs.

Your goal is to correctly find all of the food in the room. This requires varying amounts of ingenuity. Some of the puzzles are 'leap of intuition' puzzles.

As others have noted, the writing is the strongest point of the game. The strange mix of obedience and resentment makes for a funny game with a sad undertone.

The game has enough easy puzzles mixed in with the hard to let beginners get pretty far without consulting a guide.

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