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Open Sorcery
"Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person.
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Very Positive
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| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | — | Y | Y |
"Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person.
Very Positive
356 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | — | Y | Y |
An absolutely brilliant text-based game that has a really interesting take on the combination of magic and technology. Along with it is an amazing premise about an AI Fire Spirit developing consciousness, which I adore as a concept. And both are executed amazingly.
I loved it since I first played it when it was first put online, which is where the majority of my hours are. It was a fun, short game- and with time it was expanded to be so much more.
A single playthrough takes only a couple of hours, but there are a LOT of different paths and possibilities to explore. So it's cheap, it's fast, and it's brilliant. Absolutely worth your time and money.
This is a really good and creative game with a neat story. I actually got it during an Itch giveaway a few years ago and liked it so much I bought it here on Steam, though it's taken me a while to play it again here and write a review.
The gameplay is simple but the story is fun.
Всем привет.
Советую данную игру к приобритению, нет русификации, что минус, но я думаю терпимо, базовые знания английского, которым обучают в школе, поможет.
Игрулька затягивает, но что-то все странно.
Shift + Tab не вызывает Steam, f12 не дает делать скриншоты. В остальном минусов не нашел
Short *and* sweet, like it's remarkable how much I cared about these characters given how brief a time I spent with them. It's over quickly, but it feels complete and satisfying, and there's a Speed Mode so you can delve into alternate choices and story paths on subsequent runs while skipping over things you've read before. Which I did, several times, because you need to have played a thing for 2 hours in order to leave a review. And also because it took me a few tries to figure out how to make the funbuns happen.
Anyway I liked it enough that I'm going to gift it to friends and get the designers other games, so.
An incredible investigation of what it means to discover, learn, and know.
语言很诗意，但因此更看不懂了，玩的云里雾里的，不知道作者在暗示什么，选择元素也是用的穷举法。因为是女主且独立制作人所以好评。剧情其实还可以，不算太无聊，有不同章节主题，比很多游戏有意思了
This is my second favorite game of all time, first is the next game in the series (open sorcery sea++) go play it
Pretty neat game for $4, with a lot of things that surprised me. The story opens up in very unexpected ways depending on your decisions, and it's surprisingly pulse-pounding near the end, I certainly didn't expect adrenaline out of a text-based adventure game. The main characters are all interesting, despite the game's relatively short length.
games like this prove you don’t need 90 terabytes of hyperimmersive 8D quantum ray traced graphics running on a reactor cooled GPU farm to make something memorable...just a nice concept and a bit of soul
[h1]以数据之身拥抱人类之情，当程序也会魔法 [/h1]
本游戏是由一名女性Abigail Corfman单独制作完成的锁女主游戏，主角的性别由游戏中的女性开发者确认过为“she”女性。作者还做过别的游戏，这是她的个人主页：http://www.amomentofpeace.net/Home
[h2]剧情简介[/h2]
你是两名法师制作的防火墙程序，名叫🔔BEL。你的责任是保卫大街小巷，除暴安良。Janet和Decker（男性）是你的开发者，当你发现哪里存在安全隐患时，你可以向她们寻求帮助。根据你做出的不同选择，你和她们的关系也会随之变化。
每天你都需要扫描四个地方 ：分别是高中🏫,有四户人家居住的居民区🏘，以及两位开发者的家🏠，确保没有“病毒”入侵。当你发现问题后，你需要分析"病毒"🦠，进行正确归类，再解决问题。
某一天，你发现了另一个程序Pyreworm🐛，她和你如此得相似，好像是你从未谋面的孪生姊妹。你应该消灭她吗，还是提醒你的开发者，又或许....你可以先和她聊聊
[quote=Open Sorcery] 女主Bel向Pyreworm解释什么是自我
🔔BEL:What‘s the part of [b] pyreworm.exe[/b] that is sending these messages?（哪一部分的pyreworm在发送这条信息？）
🐛pyreworm:...
🔔BEL:That part is I.It is also you（这部分就是“自我”，也就是“你”） [/quote]
🐛Pyreworm想和你成为朋友,如果你答应它，它会很高兴。你也很高兴，你终于有了第一位朋友.
[quote=Open Sorcery]
🐛pyreworm:：pingning BEL With 32bytes of data（拍了拍BEL）
🔔BEL:reply from BEL bytes= 32 times ....略（ 在）
🐛pyreworm：review the following（康康这个）
🐛pyreworm：friendship（友谊的定义）
🐛pyreworm：Can we do this？
🔔BEL：yes
🐛pyreworm：affirmative（收到）
🐛pyreworm：We should scheduel repeted ，informal encounters where we share ideas and personal feelings.(我们应该常常见面，分享自己的想法和感受)
🔔BEL：affirmative（收到）[/quote]
日子不会一直风平浪静，最终你将面临一场巨大危机，而之前解决事件中学到的经验和做出的选择都将在这次大危机中起到作用，所以CHOOSE WISELY。你会为了保护自己明哲保身，还是挺身而出保护你爱的人，即使不惜粉身碎骨？
[h2]优缺点一览[/h2]
+用语很独特，文中形容抑郁的心情是一种死亡的水💧：Matter：water Motive:Death ，很诗意形象的表达
+舒适的游戏体验
+女角色多
-男性角色有男程序员（疑似男同），女程序员的弟弟
-后期会有男程序员的前男友诈尸的剧情，主角需要解决这件事
-官方的community item里有女主蛋白质头巾（长发）照
-大概永远不会出中文翻译
[h2] 小而美的文字游戏，剧情不错，具有一定游戏性 [/h2]
Open Sorcery 1 is a fun programming themed text based adventure about helping a fire elemental security program protect her charge and learn about the world. There's a large world with a lot of elements to interact with, divided amongst a number of story branches.
Some emotionally disturbing content on particular routes.
I'm a grown ass manly man... and I cried a little. A very pleasant experience. The main storyline can be finished in about 4 hours, takes about twice that much to figure out all story branches. No issues, runs on a potato. Highly recommended for anyone who likes reading.
I liked this game way more than expected, I would recommend it even if you normally don't like Visual Novels. It's relatively short but you will have fun finding all the endings.
So fun! The developer makes wonderful text-based adventure games. I enjoyed "16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds" from the same developer as well.
A really cool and clean game. A lot of neat little programming jokes and references. One of the best gameplay I know for a text-based game. The system where you can choose how much extra stuff to read is also very handy since a lot people these days can't read (including me).
A really cute story with puzzle elements that are designed very well. It is one of my favourite small indie games as of now.
Probably the best kinetic novel / interactive fiction i've played. It's not a long game and there are heavy themes, but it's great.
Lovely little game
Nice sense of humour + self aware but fun
Pyreworm.exe my beloved❤️
This is a pretty cool game. It's mostly quiet, no sound except ambiance and one that startles me every time. As a text based game, it has little to know errors in its grammar, which is always a plus for me, and the few that are there make sense in the context. I like the characters, and it helps to be able to save and reload things to see different events happen. It also has the classic thing where I can do bad things to get certain achievements but I don't want to do bad things...it's tough.
Update: I got and played the DLC and it is fantastic.
This game hurts. it's a really good game & I'm in love with this game. One of the best games I've ever played.
I loved the ending
Beautiful little piece of interactive fiction, hitting many right notes in humor, heart and intellect. You are a fire elemental bound into a firewall, and most of your work is investigating other spirits by guessing their features from how they impact people around you. Puzzles are not hard, getting the perfect playthrough (or close enough) is a bit more of a challenge but still doesn't feel like too much work. The story and writing are really neat and I was happy to discover various facets of the world and narrative, which left me feeling a bit like in one playthrough of 80 Days, a series of glimpses into an intriguing universe. Now I guess I'm buying the sequel to see more of it!
Enjoyed the game a lot! I know I definitely did not go through all of the possible options but I did my first one (where I failed), and then a second run where I succeeded. This was a very enjoyable game, even if it is kind of short.
so good
Its so damn sweet and adorable and also very very replayable and i cant wait to start up the next game after the i just finished the dlc this world is great and i cant wait to see more of it.
The first run is shorter than I thought it would be, but there are more than enough alternate routes to explore to flesh it out. Pretty fun!
It's well worth the 4 bucks! It's rather simple and calm* but does a great job establishing its own world and premise!
I love the vocab used and the writing-- It really helped get you into the world without any imagery or sound design.
10/10 You should consider picking it up!
Wonderfully creative and philosophical. Brilliant.
:O
宝藏游戏，也冷门得可怕，在这篇之前，中文只有一条有效评测。虽然本体还未 100% 体验所有分支，dlc 也还没买，但还是忍不住写一点推荐一下。
目前 OS 有 98% 的极高好评率，虽然没被商店页类 terminal 的画面吓退，已经是一种对玩家的筛选，但也能部分体现游戏质量。这并非视觉小说 (visual novel)，几乎是纯文字，没有 bgm，图片和音效也少得可怜。而是互动小说 (Interactive Fiction)，强调选择对故事的影响，也有一些基于文字的演出。
游戏菜单页面标题下的一句话，概括了主要的内容。一款关于技术，魔法和成为人的游戏。 (A game about technology, magic, and becoming a person. ) 标题则是把 开源 (open source) 和 法术 (sorcery) 揉合在一起，游戏内也有一些类似的文字游戏或双关。
游戏性方面：
玩家扮演新开发的防火墙程序 BEL/S，负责保护本地网络免受威胁。最核心的游戏性来源，是玩家做出的选择。从过程到结局，不同的选择都极大程度影响故事，而不是像越来越多的轻度作品那样，只是影响某些对话或 cg 是否触发。围绕选择，游戏有几个简单的系统，学习 (learn)，关系 (relationship) 和 火力 (fire power)，决定玩家是否能成功选择某些选项。
此外，游戏还有轻微的猜谜要素。包括从环境的异状中，猜出威胁的元素与动机，从而探测到它；还有少量直接的谜语 (riddle)。初见会比较有趣，不过由于是预先写好的固定文本，多周目体验不同结局时，就仅仅是走个过场了。
全部文本不到 60000 词，需要 1h 多完成首个结局，之后可以解锁快速模式，跳过见过的文本，共10个左右的结局。
魔法与科技融合的世界观；如新生儿般逐渐学习与成长的程序；程序与人、程序、甚至别的超自然存在建立的友谊；程序的梦境...
log 式的文字，程序眼中的世界，产生的一些比喻也很有趣，甚至可以说诗意。比如 emit human error message = cry，或把 depression 和 water death 联系在一起。但这些有趣的点也让本地化难度很大。
开发者 Abigail Corfman 还做了许多别的游戏，不止一次获过 Annual IF Competition 和 XYZZY 奖 (它们在互动小说领域含金量很高)，可以在她的[url=http://www.amomentofpeace.net/Home]个人网站[/url]免费玩到。
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Creative as hell
I've only played like 2 hours but I finished one of the endings. there are still 51 achievements remaining.
this game is genuinely beautiful. it's hard to describe really in what way, but if you want to see a robot learn how to love & get overwhelmed by the beauty of the outside world & make harder moral decisions than most of us will ever face, I would highly recommend it. I need to 100% this immediately
Beautifully written little game. Engaging, lots of endings, definitely recommended.
Cool
I write this review with goosebumps still fresh from the ending of this game. What a masterpiece, to do so much with so little. I was invested immediately and now that I've finished it, I cannot stop thinking about it. Please give this game a try, it wont take you long to finish an amazing story
нет
heaven will be mine
Incredibly engaging for a text based game with only mouse inputs
Very creative method of story telling. The ending falls a bit short, but the overall experience is so good it's unreal.
it good :)
Probably the best text based game I've ever played
Enthusiasm!
Click on words, unlock emotions, save old lady, fight death, become human.
A fun text adventure. It's enjoyable to hunt all the achievements.
A solid multiple choice text adventure!
Good, inoffensive humor. Short, comprehensible narrative. Neat sci-fi/fantasy fusion world. Moderate choice significance, which I don't say lightly. (Still plenty of illusion, but there's nothing wrong with that.)
Heartily enjoy. Did three playthroughs in one sitting, will revisit to explore more.
Great concept executed clearly. Really tight storytelling with few words. Really well done.
Simply great game
Very simple in interface, but really great!
Open Sorcery is a gem of a game: a text-based adventure in a unique urban fantasy setting where computer programmes are actually elemental spirits forced into digital servitude. You embody one of these spirits gradually learning what it means to exist in the 'physical' realm of humans. It can be completed in not very long, but multiple playthroughs are encouraged as getting an ending that isn't downright depressing is quite tricky.
[i] Who is most important, and who will be >saved ? [/i]
I suppose this is a text adventure/interactive fiction game, though it plays differently than any I have played before. Gameplay consists of reading and clicking highlighted text to choose options or get more details on things. There is no typing, just choosing options, maybe that is common now-a-days. I haven't played a text adventure in ages. As for the story / setting, it is odd. You play as a fire elemental, that has been captured and is being used as a firewall protecting the people and contents of 4 different areas. You have choices on how you want to behave and can learn new things and change, or just do your job. Along the way you learn about yourself, people and other things.
Personally, for me, the game just wasn't for me. The setting was a bit too weird for me to relate to. It has interesting stuff going on, but after doing two of the endings, I struggled to find the motivation to try and find better endings (my endings were far from ideal). I can see how some will enjoy this game, but for me, I wasn't interested enough in the setting and dialog to continue.
Great writing, loved it.
hi
The injection of contemporary sexual fetishes and propaganda was extremely jarring and spoilt the game and story, at least for me.
Enjoyable until gay. I'm sick of globohomo propaganda.
Degenerate/10
"I am Abigail Corfman! I'm a white cis woman. I'm queer and polyamorous. I wrestle fairly effectively with anxiety and depression. I was born in New York City, my family is affluent, and I come from privilege. I freelance write and consult for larger game companies and sell my own games."
>Corfman
>white (jewish)
>queer and polyamorous
>anxiety and depression
>New York City
Of course.
REALLY COOL
This game was, frankly, incredible. It's short, and it's pretty predictable. The moment you grasp the premise, you understand a lot of where it'll be going, thematically. Don't go into this expecting massive twists or meta rug pulls or something like that. But... Wow. The writing quality sells it. I was completely immersed from start to finish, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
What's not to like?
I cannot believe I did not know that this existed. A severely underrated gem for those with minds and souls who like to use both. There is no better value for the money.
I haven't had this much fun with a text adventure since Zork Zero. Interesting plot. Many branching storylines to find on subsequent playthroughs. Great game.
Short and sweet but also cheap, this game is worth it's low price. You play as a sentient firewall brought to life from a mix of magic and technology. A good game with multiple endings, but you should look up content warnings if you want to pursue some of the dark achievements. You will play the game multiple times trying to get the good ending and a full run takes about 30 minutes to two hours.
I was gifted this game, but bought the DLC.
PROS:
-Well written game with excellent wordplay
-A decent level of puzzle difficulty
-many ways to complete challenges.
-fun characters
-point and click gameplay
-Jingle Bel/s DLC basically doubles the game time and gives a cute Christmastime story that happens after the cannon ending
Cons
-There is no chapter select, you have 20 save files, but you cannot label them. they will be labeled with the day, and current decision, which was semi useful, but not useful for remembering which run was which
-In Jingle Bel/s, you get ten slots, and don't get to see the day
-In Jingle Bel/s there was one puzzle I could not figure out, looked up the answer, and could not find any explanation of how to arrive at that answer besides brute force.
-No form of phishing
My level of experience with this game:
I beat the game, then bought the DLC, then 100% the game. I used no cheats or exploits, but I did look up the solution to one puzzle.
Genuinely one of the best games I've play in a long while, 10/10 would recommend
Awesome game. Very interesting story.
Its great
Weird and original. True RPG where choices matter. Like it.
Open Sorcery is my first text adventure but something tells me it was a great place to start. Although the gameplay is simple, the amount of depth presented through simple dialogue choices is reminiscent of text-based adventures of the 80s.
If you have even a passing interest in text-based games or interactive storytelling, I would definitely give Open Sorcery a go.
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Very well written Choose Your Adventure story. You can play through it numerous times and get a different outcome each time!
epic
A surprisingly engaging story that would feel perfectly at home in the Shadowrun universe, where cyperbunk meets fantasy. More emotional connection that one could rightfully expect from a text game.
Beep
Nice game
Boop
Definitely recommend this game. Its short and text-based but has a great story.
Quiet nice game with great writing. If it would be a little longer (actually, like 2x longer) it would be one of my favorite games.
One of my absolute favorites that I wish had more attention. Charming characters and quality writing more than make up for the fact that this game is fairly short. Absolutely love the way this world blends technology and magic. This being a text-based game is perfect for the AI POV you're working from, and it has you explore gaining consciousness (if you so choose that path) in a really compelling way.
Just a fun and nice game to play. (Just a smig short) Buut i love it
my friend told me this game's premise while he was helping me fix some computer issues i was having, and i immediately stopped what i was doing to google it, because just from the name i knew it'd be exactly my sort of thing. and it was!
this was such a lovely story. if you like AIs, interesting blends of technology and magic, and questions about life and being a person and all that, highly recommend checking it out.
Well-crafted
Fun
Outstanding writing
it very good
A nifty experience. In a world where technology and magic are intertwined, you control a fire elemental / software firewall hybrid, protecting a city from constant attacks from spirits, curses, and malware. It's a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) affair where there's barely any graphics or sound, yet when those occasionally show it's always in an unconventional way.
So, the important question is: does the story deliver? Aye lads, it does. Every situation has a variety of dialogue choices on how to tackle the underlying problem. Trying to understand their causes and motives allows the AI to grow, but sometimes she/it will be better served in taking an aggressive stance and feeding on the defeated spirits. Those decisions shape the relationships between the AI and the different characters in the story, eventually leading into vastly different results in what situations pop up later and how the game ends.
After your first playthrough you are encouraged to see what different outcomes you can get by trying other approaches, interacting with different characters, sparing/destroying pesky spirits, and figuring out a few more annoying puzzles. Taking notes and activating the speeding up options definitively help here.
All in all, a short but entertaining experience valued appropriately. Seeing how the AI grows until she becomes the fire that burns or the warmth that protects, transcending her programming was definitively worth it.
This game is fantastic, and I feel bad that I don't think I'm quite articulate enough to do it justice in this review. It is a brilliant, albeit short, text adventure with a unique premise, and a compelling narrative that evolves around you.
Every time I felt like the game had shown me all the premise could offer, it threw something at me that was somehow entirely new, without ever feeling like it was stretching the core concept.
Your every choice matters, and I can't believe they managed to make a game in which you play a kind of spirit-AI, handled entirely through text, so immersive and engaging.
Again, I'm really not able to do my fondness for the game justice, but to think I'm this overjoyed with the experience of a game that costs <£3 (and I got it at half that on sale) is quite incredible. If any thing I've said appeals to you, I really don't think you can go wrong giving it a go.
I can't even remember how I ended up finding this game, as it's not a kind of game I'd usually play, but here it was on my wishlist, and here was a steam sale and that's just how things go sometimes.
Finishing the story once doesn't take long, just about under 2 hours probably (No DLC - haven't gotten that yet). How much time you'd get out of this depends on if you would want to get all achievements/a perfect run. There is a speed up mode that skips all descriptions up to the selections, which makes replaying easier. You can also skip the puzzles where you have to type your answer, if you solved them in the previous run.
There are (optional) hints in the game how to get the different achievements.
You are an elemental firewall, protecting 4 locations from evil spirits. Every spirit has a matter and a motive and your task is figuring out from the descriptions of the places which matter and motive the hidden spirit has, so you can find it. Depending on your choices, you can learn about other matters and motives and become friends with people, all of which will help you in the last part of the game.
Honestly, what you see on this page is what you get, and if that doesn't appeal to you, I won't be the one to try and convince you otherwise.
I find it interesting to try a different action and see what happens, and I hope that I manage to find out how to get the canon ending before I give up and look up a guide :p I have to manage and save everyone, I HAVE TO. But if that is something you're absolutely not interested in, this game might be a bit short for you.
I loved the writing. It was often funny, and sometimes sad, then funny again. There are two relationships mentioned in the game, both are gay and I love it.
My complaints about this game are purely technical:
- The Linux version didn't open.
I was too lazy to dig deeper and find out why and just played with proton, which worked fine. Still disappointing ;)
- It's a lot of clicking. Some way to control with keyboard would have been nice.
I wasn't good enough to defeat the death spirit, but I was good enough to take it with me.
I am the fire that protects.
Honestly, the tagline says most of what I have to say here. It's a game about becoming a person. It can be other things, depending how you play it, but it's overall an excellent text-based game centred on what, depending on your point of view, either is a trans experience or is a very interesting representation of a not-quite-trans equivalent. The characters are all lovely, and they all do really feel like — well — people, despite or perhaps because of how the protagonist's nature makes directly perceiving them as such all but impossible.
Also, as a note, this game (and the series as a whole) is very queer and disability friendly in its storytelling (although I'm not qualified to judge whether the same is true of its mechanics and presentation).
I'm not going to try and convince you that this is a good game. Instead I think it's simpler to tell you that, whatever your first reaction was to seeing this game, it was almost certainly correct.
If you thought it was interesting looking and might have some depth and a good story, well, that's true. If you thought it doesn't look like it has enough going on to hold your attention, you're probably also right. If you thought it might be worth your time and money to check out, that's probably on the mark, while if you thought it wasn't, I'm sure you've gotten it.
This game isn't really anything more than it seems, a little indie game with great writing, an interesting story, and something interesting to say, but only if you want to stop and listen.
This is one of the absolute best games I have ever played. Longing for something that goes beyond the same rehashed themes so prevalent in games these days? Look no further. A beautiful and powerful viewpoint is expressed here. It's freeing and imaginative and entrancing. I had to stop myself from playing out all the timelines at once. I've longed for games which have an actual concept of what magick is about and like and finally this one makes the mark. Just incredible work. Thank you so much for the love and time you put into this.
A really good game with a lot of replay value and fantastic writing.
I absolutely love the writing here.
I love how your choices come back to you later. I really want to explore all the possibilities!
I deeply enjoyed the writing, and I felt a weight to it I wasn't expecting. Thank you for this.
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good short story. I played it after sea++ and enjoyed all the references in reverse
A beautifuly written little story. The storytelling and decission making style of TellTale-Game-ish videogames brought to it's essence. But best of all: it connects with you. The characters and situations made me feel a great deal considering the briefness of it all. Anyone who enjoys a good narrative should play this.
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I adore how this game is about high technology but is text-based and fires the imagination through words. And that high technology, in this game/story, is you. This game is a great example of the immersive effect of an interactive story, where the player gets to play the main character and whose decisions effect the outcome. Easy to get into this game for an evening or two. It must be a well-written story to carry itself as a PC game with such a simple design.
Very interesting game. As someone who enjoys text-based projects, I found the attention to detail effective and at times even experimentally poetic. The character development was astonishing considering the lack of visual detail; these kind of projects prove that nothing, no strong graphics nor interesting music nor slick controls, trump good writing.
MAJOR/MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
I particularly liked all the details that went into the poltergeists 'riddle' and the following optional quest. These were perfect; you could guess them without help, yet they weren't ridiculously challenging in the way videogame text-based puzzles often are.
The details with the teenager's mental health also stood out to me as a relatively fresh take on magic, technology, and boundaries. Very cool. This game is made with a lot of forethought and empathy, two things that are as difficult to capture as an elemental firewall.
A labor of love full of charm and with a gripping story.
Your choices matter and there is such a wide variety of different routes the story can go in. "_____ will remember that" is a meme for telltale games, but actually true here.
Dope game, does so much with minimum text. Definitely worth multiple play throughs.
It was a pretty good interactive fiction game.
I love this game. It's absolutely beautiful, for all that it has very few visuals. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Loved this game. Its short, something that can be played in about an hour for a full run, but I enjoyed every second of it. A must have in any library.
One of the best urban fantasy stories I have ever read, and I've only played it once. I have a feeling I'll be at this one for a long time. Huge recommendation to any fan of urban fantasy or interactive fiction.
I started the game thinking I'd just play for a second so that I could see what it was before I moved on to something else.
I was shocked to see that I was totally captivated after a few minutes. I got super into it. Great game!!
10/10 for the price, no regrets
