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A strange but delicious feast, October 18, 2019An excellent game - original idea, wonderfully grotesque and evocative writing, a highly 'voiced' parser, and creative puzzles using a severely limited toolbox of verbs (you can do little but EXAMINE and EAT.) Your options are constrained enough that none of the puzzles are TOO hard to solve - I finished the game in about an hour and never needed the walkthrough - but they're complex enough to make you explore the castle thoroughly and think about what you're doing.
With a truly new and distinctive concept, and rock-solid, bug-free implementation, this is everything a modern parser game should be. The gruesome images may turn off a few players, but unless you've got a weak stomach, this is one morsel you shouldn't fail to sample.
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A beautiful six-course meal, October 13, 2019This game was not my first playthrough of interactive fiction but it is one of my earliest ones. It definitely was a great experience. The descriptions were fantastic and the narrator's diction was a nice touch, darling. This is absolutely, positively one of my favorite games, not only because the food was spectacularly described, but because it is slightly grotesque, strange, and amazingly fantastical. Right up my alley.
I got both endings, though neither were particularly satisfying. They fit the story, however, and made sense. (Spoiler - click to show)I do wish I could have eaten her...I wonder what sort of description she would have...?
A beautiful six-course meal sure to fill your stomach. Bon appetite.
- lonikk, August 31, 2019
- Harry Coburn (Atlanta, GA), July 10, 2019
- Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands), July 7, 2019
- lunaterra (GA, USA), July 1, 2019
- IanAllenBird, May 5, 2019
- gildedSnail, March 18, 2019
- Kiyo, March 8, 2019
- JoQsh, January 16, 2019
- hoopla, December 21, 2018
- Molly (USA), September 30, 2018
- fooberticus, August 13, 2018
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Visceral, lush, a grotesque escape game, July 17, 2018Chandler Groover’s work often mixes the decadent with the grotesque, the macabre with the picturesque. Think rotting roses; mouldering filigree.
Here, bound in a prison made of food, your only way out is by eating.
Who knew that eating could be so visceral? This is not just simple eating, it is consumption for consumption’s sake, for pleasure, for satiation. This is not going to be a game for everyone: the descriptions are so detailed as to be cloying, and there is heavy use of cutscenes to denote scene transitions.
This game is generous in allowing the player to backtrack and figure out what to do. As the name suggests, the range of actions available for the player are limited to eating, with the occasional exception clearly signalled - similar, then, to Arthur DiBianca’s games, such as Grandma Bethlinda’s Variety Box and Inside the Facility.
Eat Me resembles Groover’s Bring Me A Head, both in setting and in grotesquerie: both set in crumbling castles, each compartment holding just one singular occupant, doomed, it seems, to pursue their one occupation for the rest of time. Eat Me is not for the faint-hearted, definitely, but well worth playing, perhaps alongside other games with a similar setting.
For a lighter version of an eating-oriented game, try Jenni Polodna’s Dinner Bell; for more of the same, Bring Me a Head and Open That Vein by the same author.
- Seth Fisher (Texas), June 28, 2018
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- DustyCypress (Hong Kong), May 19, 2018
- dgtziea, May 9, 2018
- csitrin, April 20, 2018
- G_G, April 16, 2018
- piehole, February 12, 2018
- nosferatu, January 25, 2018
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