The Ouroboros Trap

by Chad Ordway

Experimental, Science fiction
2019

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nicely written but ultimately unfulfilling, February 1, 2021
by cgasquid (west of house)

The Ouroboros Trap drops you, the faceless player character, into a ... well, i hesitate to call it a labyrinth, because there's a lot less branching than it seems. there are many instant, unfair deaths and a lot of guesswork, but Trap is written in Twine with an undo command so it's not as obnoxious as it could be.

what is, however, obnoxious, is the massive overuse of pauses, particularly given how many times you're expected to cycle through the pages with the longest pauses. there's only one spot in the game where the pauses couldn't be replaced with some equivalent of "click to continue."

overall, while the writing is fine and there are some good ideas here, way too much of the actual gameplay is just repetition and guesswork. despite Trap's trappings of puzzle IF, it really isn't, and i'm not sure what else it's trying to be.

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