Conan Kill Everything

by Ian Haberkorn

Fantasy, Humor
2005

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- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), February 22, 2014

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Knowing what to do, February 19, 2014
by Simon Deimel (Germany)

There is not much time spent on finding out what to do in this game: the player simply has to behave like a tough barbarian, destroying everything which can possibly destroyed.

The game offers some little puzzles, but they can be solved quite easily. There is hardly anything like a plot -- so the story is about doing what the title of the game is, and there is not much more to be done. Just kill everything. And if there is not any such a thing, try to find it. And then kill it.

It sounds dumb and it probably is, but in a funny way. The ending highlights the joke behind it all. As the puzzles are quite easy, this game is recommendable for beginners of the genre. It is short, straight to the point and positively worth a try.

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Some missed opportunities, June 28, 2013
by Guillaume Voisine (Montréal)

I liked this game. Short and simple.

But I feel that there are some missed opportunities. For example :

(Spoiler - click to show)> wait
Time passes.

> kill time
Conan cannot see that.

> kill
What do you want to kill?

> everything
You can’t use multiple objects with that verb.


Still, it's amusing.

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- DJ (Olalla, Washington), May 14, 2013

- Stewjar (USA), January 29, 2013

- Artran (Taipei, Taiwan), December 7, 2012

- Neowulf (Sweden), May 16, 2012

- zylla, May 2, 2012

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Funny Enough, March 27, 2012
by Jim Kaplan (Jim Kaplan has a room called the location. The location of Jim Kaplan is variable.)
Related reviews: ian haberkorn, one-room, short

Play it if: you've got a few minutes to kill and a few brain cells to waste.

Don't play it if: you want a bit more ambition in your IF than - well, almost nothing - and if you are easily enraged by the dumbing-down of the character of Conan as portrayed in external works.

A seemingly one-note joke of a game that actually does have a few puzzles, I'm not sure whether to praise Conan Kill Everything for keeping its admittedly simple premise brief, or wonder if a longer pastiche of the (now ubiquitous) dim-witted caricature of the character is in order.

But I won't be too picky. This is a fairly funny game, and the point of the joke is made. There are even some minor puzzles and a number of nice touches like Conan's reactions to kissing or cutting things. In sum, it's an OK time-waster.

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- loungeman (Bilbao, Spain), January 7, 2012

- amciek (Opole), December 18, 2011

- heleneotroy (Washington, DC), September 20, 2011

- Nemansphere, June 27, 2011

- Emily Boegheim, January 17, 2011

- Bernie (Fredericksburg, VA), December 20, 2010

- Stickz (Atlanta, Georgia), December 14, 2010

- perching path (near Philadelphia, PA, US), November 25, 2010

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
One Room, One Puzzle, October 29, 2010
by Sylvia Storm
Related reviews: parody, fantasy, single room

A mildly entertaining 15-minute play with a single-premise joke - kill everything. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny, but I enjoyed it enough for it to be memorable.

A game best described as one of those roadside games where you have to jump wooden pegs until you have one left. While it's possible to die early, it is also possible to get stuck in the middle. The game prevents you from making kills that may prevent later kills, which means you really can't get dead-ended. It also means you may be stalled without a clue on how to proceed.

Some of the puzzles infer a solution I couldn't apply, (Spoiler - click to show)as I kept trying to reach the torch to burn the wood golem; and others it seems where not enough clues are given in the descriptions to suggest an action, (Spoiler - click to show)like the table is killed not as you would think. Most of the solutions were obvious, but those last few unfortunately required a walkthrough. I would have liked a hint system.

Worth a short puzzle-solving playthrough.

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- samuraipoet (Fayetteville Arkansas), October 27, 2010

- Nusco (Bologna, Italy), September 11, 2010

- Mark Jones (Los Angeles, California), June 7, 2010

- schifter (Louisville, KY), May 27, 2010

- smurfas666 (Klaipeda, Lithuania), December 30, 2009

- Nicholas, December 27, 2009

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
A short joke, December 26, 2009
by Grey (Italy)

It's a pretty simple game to review, since it's just a joke game, the idea is somewhat funny, the game is very short (5-10 minutes), with only a couple "puzzles".

Still, the idea isn't bad, if you have some minutes to spare.

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