Beneath the Weeping Willow

Beneath the Weeping Willow is a short, sweet ghost story in which you play the ghost. It's written in Ink, using a tasteful and well designed custom interface. It's the "open map" type of choice-based game, in which the player is free to move back and forth between rooms much as they can in a parser game.

The player character is a ghost who has a limited time to alert the new owners of her house to her presence and guide them towards discovering her fate. Being incorporeal, this is not as easy as it sounds. I must have the right instincts, though, because I solved the game on my first go!

I enjoyed this game despite it only taking me a few minutes to complete. It's well written, though I feel the descriptions could be more atmospheric. I noticed one typo (a repeated word, in the letter). The presentation is excellent, including one innovation I hadn't seen before: the page refreshes each time you make a choice, but there's also a history option which shows you the whole text of the game so far.