Chronostasis

This short Twine game managed to surprise me quite a bit (although me saying it is surprising will likely make it less surprising to others). It just didn't go where I thought it would and sat and made me think for a while.

You are working in your office when your clock stops. All of your clocks stop, in fact, even digital ones. You try to figure out what's going on, but things seem slow for everyone.

This game is less than 500 words long, and is part of Twiny Jam. It only has one choice, I think, with the rest being linear. Overall, it was refreshing to play.

Chronostasis is a short almost linear Twine piece about time… or lack of. Your evening ticking away, tempo’d by the metronome-like rhythm of your clock, it is without surprise that you notice when your surrounding suddenly turn completely silent. The eeriness of the situation, where nothing you do seems to help, brings a lot of tension in the way it is simply conveyed. The culmination of the piece, when time starts again, is really clever.