Only War - Warhammer 40.000: The Text Adventure

by Simon Christiansen profile

2021
Science Fiction
Inform 7

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Average Rating: based on 7 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 3
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Minimal source code for an April Fool's joke, June 15, 2024
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I found this game by searching for the games with the highest standard deviation.

This game is just a Warhammer quote fed into Inform 7 (with one extra line, I think). It's amusing because it compiles, thus creating the crux of the Warhammer setting but...that's it.

Pretty funny as an April Fool's joke.

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- Hellzon (Sweden), July 10, 2021 (last edited on July 15, 2024)

- Edo, April 2, 2021 (last edited on August 17, 2023)

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
April Fool....., April 1, 2021
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If only this had been real!!!

I HATE April Fools day...................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: OK, I'll change the star rating, but I still hate this nonsense.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
An impressive feat!, April 1, 2021*
by Rovarsson (Belgium)

The width of the map and the depth of implementation are awe-inspiring.
Only War relies on the strengths of the parser-IF medium to produce an experience that no other medium, no matter how strong its graphics interface or how numerous its pages of static text, could deliver.

The old-school adage holds strong with this epic work: the best graphic engine is the human imagination!

This game also has a masterful technical ace up its sleeve in the handling of containers and contents.
Revealing too much would spoil the surprise and the imaginative journey for other players. Suffice it to say that I was baffled when I found out how deep this game actually went.

[Edit: This is a 2021 April Fools' Day joke-game]

* This review was last edited on April 2, 2021
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