Don't Read the Comments

For such a short game with so little content, this game sure has a lot of reviews.

To pretty much sum up the thesis of all the reviews here, this isn't so much a game as it is a long joke with a singular punchline. There's only one real choice: read the comments or not. If you do, you get one ending. If not, you get the other.

If the joke is something you'd appreciate, then this will be worth the five to ten minutes of clicking that it takes to reach it. If not, then this is a total waste of time.

That's pretty polarizing and it's why we have reviews from "Short, Simple & Sweet" to "Never Play this Game."

In my opinion, Don't Read the Comments' prose isn't particularly good or bad. It's yet another Twine "not-game" where the "player" is actually just a "reader" clicking through passages. That alone makes three stars the very highest score I'll give this "game" on Interactive Fiction Database. With adequate writing, one can rate two stars from me so that's what I dolled out.


— Richard Sharpe