Mahadev

I gave this game a try and - like lots of other players I guess - got stuck on the first two locations. After some help from the comments on this site I broke through and managed to visit and investigate more places until the end.

Every location was evocative, interesting and with lovely prose. The text tells only enough details for one to make a mental picture and fill in the details with imagination. The references to hinduism (as far as I can tell) add a layer of density and incentivize the player to look further and further. My experience with the locations, however, was not very interactive: I smelled, listened, touched... But could not affect the world in any way, making it feel like a walk through an intriguing landscape.

On the minus side, I dearly missed an "about" command that would point me in the right direction on the first steps (there's a response to "help", very much in character) and more details on possible alternate endings. Because of not really knowing what and if there is something beyond my experience, I refrain from giving a score.