Un Songe sans fin

In this game, you fall asleep, and wake up trapped in a strange dream world.

The game is choice-based, using Moiki, but it has a strong world model, with most interactions based on finding and using items, movement, and working with NPCs.

It's pretty short, but took me a while to work through, as there are many options. The writing was a highlight, with humorous quips, strong metaphors, and some just straight-up weirdness (like licking the horizon and discovering it is yogurt).

Overall, it was nice to have a short, kind of goofy break. There are almost certainly parts that went over my head; I bet if I were a native French speaker I'd appreciate it even more.

I did find a portion that resembled a parser game pretty funny, especially since it was a 'prairie informe', where inform can either mean the language or, in this situation, 'shapeless'.

Cette histoire nous plonge dans le rêve médicamenteux de la Mère Michel qui n’arrive pas à se réveiller. Ainsi, le jeu nous fait avancer dans un monde psychédélique sans queue ni tête à la recherche d’une solution pour se réveiller.

De nombreuses options nous sont proposées pour interagir avec ce rêve, et même si l’absurde n’est pas mon pêché mignon, j’ai bien aimé y jouer. J’ai également apprécié le clin d’œil à inform7 qui avait été envisagé durant la création du jeu.

J'y retournerais volontiers.

Un Songe sans fin is a relatively short Moiki game where you play as the Mère Michel (from the nursery rhyme), a depressed older woman, who lost her cat, her partner and her job, AND can’t manage to sleep anymore. You were prescribe a strong pill to help, which… worked a bit too well. Will you find a way out of this strange and surreal place? Will you manage to wake up?

Being in a dream, the setting is obviously surreal (you first meet cats playing AIR-PING-PONG!), the objects around you are nonsensical too (the BABELFISH xD)…
and your available actions are not even closer to logical either. In the great French IF tradition, you can lick and taste many objects, like you would… the sun (which you can pick up, at your own risk and peril…). The prose is humorous to boot!

What cracked me up the most, was the Prairie Informe section. This game was originally meant to be a parser in Inform, but, due to time constraint, was transferred to Moiki at the last moment. Still, remnants of the other engine can be found in the page layout, choices available, and responses. It does give extra charm to the game.

Really a fun and cheeky time.