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Average Rating: based on 19 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 4
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- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), June 27, 2025

- peachesncream, March 25, 2025

A Quick Fun Play, June 12, 2024

This delightful game consists of some simple, quick puzzles and a heartwarming story. You play as a lonely troll who finds a mysterious object, and must discover what it is and what to do with it. Full of beautiful ASCII art, this game is a great introduction to IF.

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- Zape, December 13, 2023

- Catalina, August 1, 2023

- elysee, May 4, 2023

- William Chet (Michigan), May 2, 2023

- egostat (Purgatory of Social Ineptitude), May 2, 2023

- TheBoxThinker, April 21, 2023

- MoyTW, March 29, 2023

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Clear, Bite-Sized, and Satisfying Adventure, July 30, 2022

This is likely formatted for kids, but can absolutely be enjoyed as an adult, too; the game never talks down to you. I feel like it is also a very excellent introduction to parser-based interactive fiction; definitely better than what I had for an introduction many years ago.

The world layout easily maps in your head, even if you're as terrible about navigation as I am, and the interactions between the puzzles is engaging, but not too complex.

You can read the verbs, easily remember them, and identify where to use them. Honestly, I might have over-thought something at the beginning, but the game was able to hint me in the right direction.

It was a lot shorter than I thought it was going to be, but I feel like this is the perfect size for an introduction.

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- NorkaBoid (Ohio, USA), July 20, 2022

- Jade68, May 31, 2022

- Shaduf, May 27, 2022

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Small but dense fairytale adventure with great writing and fun NPCs, May 24, 2022*

Absolutely nails the objective of the Text Adventure Literacy Jam: to make an enjoyable easy game for text adventure first-timers. This would be the Day One exercise in Text Adventures 101 if such a thing existed. You're a troll in a world of fairy-tale mythological creatures, trying to raise a dragon (literally) by the book. The set-up could have been cloying and twee, but the author has lots of sly fun inverting expectations: the cyclops is friendly, the fairy is angry, the unicorn is unruly. The ASCII art images are pleasant (the troll's house looks like cross-stitched embroidery). It's a kids game at heart but still requires some thought and lateral thinking to get through, even for adults. Everything just works!

* This review was last edited on May 25, 2022
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- josephine17, May 14, 2022

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A cute smallish game about a troll helping magical creatures, May 13, 2022
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

I think this game does exactly what its creator seems to have wanted to do: make a light parser game with intuitive commands in a fun environment with lovely ascii art pictures.

You play as a troll who is lonely. All around you are magical creatures (one per region, each depicted with ASCII art). They all have desires found in a book, and essentially give you a bunch of fetch quests you have to accomplish.

Overall:
+Polish: The game is very smooth and polished.
+Descriptiveness: The characters are vibrant and unique.
+Interactivity: The game is simple, but has enough resistance (through multiple sources of info and several possible targets) to make it fun.
+Emotional impact: I enjoyed the game and art.
+Would I play again?: Yes, and may recommend it to others.

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- fafalala, May 8, 2022

- Edo, May 8, 2022 (last edited on August 17, 2023)


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