The Van der Nagel Papyrus

by Ryan Veeder profile

2026
Fantasy
Inform 7

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Cool puzzles, except for one boring mechanic, March 2, 2026

Be sure to play the Vorple version on the author's website, which includes fun font stuff and color changes.

This game was developed under time crunch as part of the IronCHIF competition. The prompt was "a scroll that alters the world around it." This game has that! And a ton of puzzles to solve. Puzzles interwoven on top of other puzzles.

My only complaint is the mechanic at the end game.

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Near the end of the game, you have to solve a bunch of puzzles via a sliding tiles puzzle. The game asks you to line up certain specific tiles all in a row, and it is an enormous pain in the butt to do it. There are tricks to solving it, but it's kinda like the Towers of Hanoi, where you have to count very carefully; if you mess it up, you'll ruin your own hard work.

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