Shade

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- knockupwood, February 12, 2021

- Hazel-Rah, November 23, 2020

- JimB, October 16, 2020

- mifga (Brooklyn, NY), October 14, 2020

- C4rd1n4l, September 24, 2020

- Rainbow Fire , August 27, 2020

- bazbike, August 3, 2020

- Virix, August 2, 2020

- William Chet (Michigan), July 19, 2020

- Arrowhead12 (Edmonton, Alberta), June 11, 2020

- quackoquack, June 10, 2020

- kierlani, May 20, 2020

- Edo, April 29, 2020

- Zape, April 28, 2020

- Sammel, April 2, 2020

- Elizabeth DeCoste (Canada), April 2, 2020

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Good Story, Eh Execution, March 1, 2020

It's a unique experience, but the game is not very friendly. Help and Menu available on most IF's don't exist here (well, it does, but it's not helpful). Players are left to fend for themselves when verbs don't work. With the constant changing scenes, it isn't always completely intuitive what needs to happen next. Sometimes a player knows what to do, but doesn't hit the right word to make it happen, which leads to more frustration than anything. Great concept overshadowed by a frustrating lack of attention to the gameplay itself.

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- _firexe, December 5, 2019

- Tropical Gothic (Asia), December 2, 2019

- ImaginaryTalkingRabbit, October 2, 2019

- erzulie, September 24, 2019

- beecadee, September 15, 2019

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Innovative creative writing experiment. Boring interactive fiction., August 23, 2019

This isn't anything you haven't read in a college student's creative writing workshop. Or a no budget student film. The game itself is considered innovative. But there really isn't much to talk about. In general I'm not a fan of this kind of game. It leaves me going, "Huh. Okay." The author himself admits that he rushed to get it to a competition.

Often showing up in top 20 game lists. Frankly, I believe this is due to accessibility, and little to do with the quality of the title. Yes, you don't have to bang your head against this one for long to beat it, but are you left feeling fulfilled? I wasn't. Still, there isn't anything objectively bad about the title. Even if I consider it overrated. It's just not to my taste.

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