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An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found Thereby Mandy Benanav2024 Fantasy, Humor Twine
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(based on 7 ratings)
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You have accepted a mysterious invitation for a weekend away at a stranger's home. You arrive to find a small, dark Victorian house in the middle of the forest. Your host is nowhere in sight.
Something about the house feels odd. There is clearly magic at work here.
Well what are you waiting for? There is much to explore. The House awaits.
PLAY THIS GAME if you want to befriend talking animals, a ghost, and perhaps stranger creatures still???
| Average Rating: based on 7 ratings Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 Write a review |
This was a cute game, written in Twine with lots of exploration and some puzzles.
You are given an invitation to a beautiful and magical house filled with enchanted objects and creatures. Almost everything has positive and wholesome undertones, although there are some disruptive or angry behaviors.
The house is full of animated things, like skulls or piles of clothes. Everything you meet has requests, from helping deal with a friend to basic needs like food. The puzzles have variety; even though the map is compact (with only 4 big locations and 2 smaller connecting rooms) the number of different tasks you can do and secrets you can find is surprising. New links pop up in one area based on actions in others, and there is some searching (like a big library bookshelf).
I think I liked the bedroom the best, because it had a combination of creepy and fun, or negative and positive emotions.
At times I wished for a little higher stakes, but the ending resonated with me emotionally. Similarly a few too many of the puzzles involved mechanical searching through a list of things, but at least the writing was interesting in each item and the other puzzles had more variety.
Overall, definitely a fun game to play. The reason I like playing IFComp games more than a lot of other IF is that you can tell the IFComp games have a lot of work put into them and were carefully nurtured and worked on until they’re a real gem. The love put into this game is reflected in its quality.