The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen

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Average Rating: based on 29 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 5
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- WidowDido (Northern California), April 20, 2025

- iaraya, April 16, 2025

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Funny twist on a sad fairy tale, March 3, 2025

This is a touching and funny twist on a well-known fairy tale (at least it's well-known to me, who am a Scandinavian, although I understand Ryan Veeder wasn't familiar with it before making this game). Mechanically it's a light puzzle game where you need to travel between places and perform a sort of Zelda-esque trading sequence. Thematically it's an interesting take on selflessly killing people and helping people with their needs, and the twist on the original fairy tale's ending was very funny.

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- biscuit_tornado (midwest u.s.), February 27, 2025

- aluminumoxynitride, February 14, 2025

- jsnlv (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA), January 20, 2025

- Geckster, January 12, 2025

- Irheh, November 25, 2024

- Adam Biltcliffe (Cambridge, UK), November 10, 2024

- leechykeen, October 1, 2024

- Guenni (At home), December 18, 2023

- elysee, November 24, 2023

- Tabitha, November 10, 2023

- Denk, September 20, 2023

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Twisted firestarter, August 23, 2023
Related reviews: Little Match Girl series

The "classic fairytale re-imagined" is one of the most heavily over-represented genres in IF, but when Ryan Veeder does it, you pay attention. You play the titular match girl, freezing to death on a street corner but able to teleport to different times/places/worlds by striking matches. Gamplay is super-straightforward fetch quests: find an object / find the right NPC to give it to, or find an NPC / figure out what object they would like. Superluminal Vagrant Twin-esque. It's elegant, clean and simple. Locations are varied and surprising. NPCs are deftly characterized and full of life, despite how little they actually say and do.

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- TheBoxThinker, August 19, 2023

- Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), July 11, 2023

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Light the fire up in the night, March 30, 2023
by Lance Cirone (Backwater, Vermont)

If there's one series that's interested me lately, it's Ryan Veeder's Little Match Girl games. I hear about the thing so much, and the increasingly crazy ways it develops and new games get revealed. So I took the time to check it out for myself.

I had been completely unfamiliar with the story, so I took a bit to do extra research before playing the game. Here, you're an unnamed little girl who's freezing to death at a street corner. You can light four matches to see different visions, each with new places to go and people to meet.

The writing is descriptive while using few words, and it made the text engaging to read. All the characters you meet have unique personalities and backstories. My favorites were Poseidon's two daughters, who are glad to accept you as their own sister.

The gameplay is a simple puzzle chain of finding an item in one area, giving it to someone, then using that somewhere else. Still, there's easy-to-follow logic with each. I always had an idea of what to do next, but it never felt boring or overly easy.

It's a charming story that doesn't take too long and is worth your time. I'm excited to see what the next games are like.

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- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), February 4, 2023

- Shaduf, January 26, 2023

- Emanuelle, January 1, 2023

- Edo, August 29, 2022 (last edited on August 17, 2023)

- Sobol (Russia), August 18, 2022

- Kinetic Mouse Car, August 2, 2022

- Fie, March 6, 2022


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