Orchid Species of the Erastian

This is a small, unfinished game. It is, however, the only game by Ryan Veeder on IFDB that doesn't have any ratings or reviews, so I decided to write the first one.

The goal of the game is (or seems to be) to find orchids and DRAW them in your sketchbook, which does not display a nice drawing of the orchid or anything. There are no rewards in this game. Games don't need rewards. (The game does contain one reward, in a way: The solution to a fairly simple puzzle in Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing.)

You can explore two islands. Besides orchids, you can also find mysterious items and ruins that hint at a deeper backstory. Perhaps some of them hint to connections to other Ryan Veeder games. In fact, his game A Rope of Chalk hinted to this game, by containing a book called Orchid Species of the Erastian. So anything is possible.

Due to the game not being finished, I feel I can only rate this game 3 stars, which IFDB suggests could mean "An average game; or a mixed bag, with some real strengths but some serious weaknesses". If this game is ever finished, I hope to amend this review.