External Links


amnos01.z5
Requires a Z-Code interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links.

Have you played this game?

You can rate this game, record that you've played it, or put it on your wish list after you log in.

Playlists and Wishlists

RSS Feeds

New member reviews
Updates to external links
All updates to this page

Castle Amnos

by John Evans

Fantasy
2000

(based on 1 rating)
1 review

About the Story

""crux ('kr&ks, 'kruks)
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin cruc-, crux cross, torture
1 : a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question
2 : an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome <the crux of the problem>
3 : a main or central feature (as of an argument)"

--From the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster 2000" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]


Game Details


Awards

30th Place - 6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2000)

Editorial Reviews

Baf's Guide


Fantasy quest inside a castle. The contents of the castle are wildly diverse in the manner of very early fantasy quests, so the atmosphere suffers a bit. Reasonably solid, technically, but suffers from some poor game design choices, including a large and frustrating maze and a randomized elevator. There are some good large-scale puzzles, and the writing and overall plot are quite strong, but the game design makes things more difficult than they should be.

-- Duncan Stevens

>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

All this is not to say that it's a bad game. It is implemented minimally, but competently. I don't think I found any major bugs, though the game's fascination with non-standard geography and randomness sometimes made it difficult to tell what was a bug and what wasn't. The prose, like the code, is sparse but error-free. Perhaps, if I was able to play it all the way through, I'd even think that Amnos is a really good game, or at least a draft of something on the way to becoming a really good game. With what I was able to see, though, all I was able to tell was that its entry as a competition game impaired my ability to enjoy it.
See the full review

SynTax
It is an open-ended fantasy game which gives you the opportunity to take multiple paths to find multiple endings.
See the full review

Tags

- View the most common tags (What's a tag?)

(Log in to add your own tags)
Tags you added are shown below with checkmarks. To remove one of your tags, simply un-check it.

Enter new tags here (use commas to separate tags):

Member Reviews

Average Rating:
Number of Reviews: 1
Write a review


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A large, sprawling fantasy castle with big bugs, July 16, 2017
by MathBrush
Related reviews: 2-10 hours

I was excited to finally play the first John Evans game, as he had become a legend in my mind from his other games.

John Evans is known for entering massive, extremely bold games into the comp that are just not finished. Games where you create the world, or where you can do anything you want, that kind of thing.

Castle Amnos is actually relatively tame and finished compared to the later games. There is a castle with five floors, reachable by an elevator whose buttons seem to work randomly. I was able to learn a variety of spells. It seems the game is mostly unfinishable, but the textdump showed me the ending.

Overall, it was fairly fun.

Was this review helpful to you?   Yes   No   Remove vote  
More Options

 | Add a comment 




This is version 5 of this page, edited by Paul O'Brian on 7 May 2022 at 1:47am. - View Update History - Edit This Page - Add a News Item - Delete This Page