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You are the captain of a merchant vessel. A witch's curse sends you to a distant sea, and now you must make the dangerous journey home, facing monsters, storms, and pirates along the way.
In this interactive fiction adventure, what happens depends on your decisions.
Do you dare listen to the sirens' song?
Can you answer the sphinx's riddle?
Should you fight the pirates or surrender to them?
And more tough questions!
There are multiple endings -- choose wisely to get the best one, and play multiple times to see everything.
Cursed Odyssey is a CYOA-style game in which you have to bring a merchant vessel home after it has been cursed by a witch. You meet about five obstacles on the way, each of which you'll have to overcome by making the right choice out of two or three possibilities. If you choose sensibly, you'll probably get to the best ending in one playthrough; which is good, because most of the wrong choices lead to instant death.
There's nothing really wrong with this short adventure, but there's no particularly good reason to play it either. Perhaps its worst aspect is the layout: by using only a very small part of the screen, the game forces you to scroll much more than necessary, and if you scroll too far, the game itself scrolls away.
Apparently, the people who made this are also planning to develop commercial games. If so, they need to work on their craft. Cursed Odyssey stands to, for instance, the Choice Of games as a high schooler's short story stands to a professional novel.