Gone Out For Gruyere

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2019
Scavenger Hunt
Inform 7

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Worth going out for, May 4, 2023
by Lance Cirone (Backwater, Vermont)

Gone Out For Gruyere is a fun puzzlefest. In this one, you're stuck in a room with a giant cheese mocking you every time you move. It's pretty obnoxious, and your goal is to get rid of the darn thing. There are eight directions you can go, each connecting to a single room with one or two things of interest. Rooms will close off once you've done everything there is to do in them, which helps keep it more manageable.

I had one problem with this game, where I got locked out of an item I was supposed to use. (Spoiler - click to show)I multiplied the rope, but left the room without shrinking it, so I wasn't able to go in and get it back. I had to restart the game for that. I was also unsure about how the game drifts into more abstract concepts later on, which made it a bit harder to understand and visualize. Despite this, I managed to reach the end, which was pretty satisfying.

The funny concept of this game and the variety of vignettes you can enter make it worth checking out. Definitely play around with it.

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