Yeti's Parole Officer

by KT Bryski

Science Fiction
2014

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- bertilak (UK), July 20, 2023

- Sobol (Russia), August 13, 2020

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A Choicescript game about keeping alien criminals in line , July 24, 2020
by MathBrush
Related reviews: about 2 hours

This game is one of the older Choice of Games entries, and one of the shortest.

It's a comedy about you, a parole officer for all of the aliens that live on earth (which is now a galactic penal colony). There's a single romantic option (that I found, at least).

I found quite a bit of it funny, and there was quite a bit of local idioms from different cultures I learned, but this game suffers by comparison. In the six years since it came out, the standard for these games has generally crept higher and it shows.

The text feels sparse, often just a couple of paragraphs per choice. Many of the choices feel very on-the-nose and in-the-moment instead of the slow build-up of small choices leading to big consequences that marks newer games.

Some though, may find these characteristics refreshing, giving a quicker game with less labored choices and less weighty subject matter. In any case, it was polished, descriptive, and funny, and I might play again.

I received a review copy of this game.

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