At Wit's End

Baf's Guide

You're a baseball player thrown into a series of wacky mishaps. Strong storyline--this is one IF game that can't be dismissed as an excuse for a bunch of puzzles--but the puzzles themselves vary a bit in quality. The more complicated ones are also highly frustrating, and it's pretty easy to get something wrong without realizing it and to have to backtrack. Still, the writing is good, there's all sorts of funny stuff around the edges, and the story itself is wildly improbable but no less fun for that. One of the year's most entertaining entries.

-- Duncan Stevens