Player Comments on It Was a Dark and Creepy Night

Ok first off dark and creepy night? You couldn’t come up with anything more original? I mean you literally just replaced stormy with creepy.

Also why am I outside in the dead of night? My character is given no explanation as to why they are in this situation you are just thrust into it with no context.

The random deaths with no indication of what was the better choice wasn’t helpful either. Also you die climbing the fire escape if you don’t check out the dead hobo first which is just devoid of logic. The most annoying part was you berated me for making the wrong decision.

I’m the one who decided to read your stupid game so if you’re going to be a little jerk about it then I’ll give you a bad rating. Though I was going to give this a low rating anyway since it lacks branching, plot depth, or length.

The only arguably cool thing about this story is the dragon that can magically fit in an apartment building. I don’t know why it felt the need to offer me a riddle than just eat me like it does in the other choices when you don’t turn on the apartment lights.

Anyways this story could have added more but the writer clearly didn’t feel the need to elaborate on anything to make this story remotely interesting.

Well, it had good details, nice and gruesome, but each link was practically just a 50/50 chance of dying. Next time, don't call me dumb, a fool, or an idiot for clicking on a link. I can't read your mind - half the time, the truly smart and logical choice still killed me. Before you go and just make every link leading to your death, try to take the time to just make a more complete story with more pages after each link before you die.
I died twice on the first page. How fun is that?

I would prefer not to be called an idiot for not knowing a hard-ass math problem, thanks.

I just loved the pure chaos. Have a nice life or whatever.

Spoilers below.


My first impression was an extreme lack of detail. There could easily have been paragraphs elaborating on surroundings, emotions, and backstory, but there’s only one sentence per trait of the surroundings.

One sentence shows the existence of the homeless man. There could have been so many more sentences describing him. Before it’s revealed he’s dead, give some clues to the reader. Elaborate on how stiff he looks or how pale his skin is before the main character walks up to him. Or don’t, and expand on how not-dead he looks. Any elaboration would be better than what there is now.

The riddle was a math question, not a riddle. If you want to ask a math question that the reader will have to think over, at least provide a few more options so that they aren’t as inclined to just guess.

There isn’t any horror. The general attitude of the story is humor. Humor isn’t necessarily bad, but there’s too much of it to make this story spooky. There was a dead guy, but his death didn’t feel like a warning to the horrors of that building. The death traps in the building didn’t feel dangerous. The way to fix this is pretty obvious: Elaborate. Elaborate on the main character’s fright, elaborate on how warm the blood splattered down the stairs is, elaborate on the mold-green color of the dragon’s scales, just elaborate!

3/8. That's pretty generous, but this story was fun to insult.

Way too short and not at all creepy. Because of its lack of creepiness, I question if it was in fact at night.

Overall, nothing to see here. Click. Take your point and move along.

Just all around frustrating. I dont really have any motivation to continue playing an insta-kill game when I don’t even have any real motivation in the story yet.

I managed to only die once. It was a fun puzzle game though there wasn't much story. You were given no context and there wasn't a reason for there to be dragons or for a lamppost to kill you. I still had fun though.

Got to the end. The square root thingy was way different from the Internet answer that I received. Still too short.

WAAAYAYYY too short!

There was no logic to the choices. I was just guess and hope.

holy crap that was a delicious game

This was quite the unpredictable storygame. You can die on the first page - twice, in fact - and it seemed less about horror and more about some kind of black comedy. It's also not the best idea to insult the player when you lead them into a death ending.

I liked that you never really knew what would come next. It actually made me feel more cautious about what my next decision would be. Unfortunately, this didn't last long. Some readers may not even get past the first "puzzle" which requires you to check on the hobo first.

At first I thought I would enjoy this game. The pages while rather short, did set up a rather creepy setting, as I continued I was a bit eager to see what would happen...then a f'ing dragon randomly shows up in the story and wants me to solve a "riddle". The reason why I put riddle in quotes is because apparently this dragon can't tell the difference between a riddle and a f'ing math problem. So now I'm taken out of the horror setting to do math...fun. The story abruptly ends after solving the problem and which might actually be good thing, god only knows what random nonsense would appear if the story was any longer. Other then that there are no branching paths, only chose right or die options, with little to no indication of what the right choice could possibly be. Unless you really want a free point or are trying to get the top rated trophy, you would do best to avoid.

Took a few tries but I finally did it. It was actually pretty good and I think it was pretty descriptive but it could've been a little longer.

Awesome Story You Should Check My Demo.

-_- LAAAMEEE

While the writing I thought was enjoyable, certainly nothing to (drowsily) sneeze at, the story itself felt pretty random and linear. Plus, math isn't really a riddle and I should hope that I taste better than a PEZ®.

Only 2 outcomes, and both of them result in death? Lazy mothertrucker, Pythzilla is.

that was a little cool i suppose, i won through it all.

A fun, if short, story. The choices mostly made sense and while it was slightly creepy, it wasn't too hardcore. 5/8

That was wierd, walking down a paved street to a lit lamp is more dangerous than climbing old, rickety, flimsy ladders in the dark... Why?

It was okay, I guess.

nice story

A mildly enjoyable game, however I would have liked it to be longer and have more background on the setting and monsters.

Pretty good, I don't think the riddle was a riddle, rather a math question, but aside from that it was a pretty fun game.
No real story though...

Yay dark and creepy boo no real story.

It was quite entertaining, actually.

I thought it was pretty good. I liked how you usually got an option to study your surroundings before you chose where to go.

unbelievable, it was an alright game.

It isn't even long and this shit if you choose one option you on inmediately die. its crap, don't you even try it

Meh

random

Was kind of awkward comparing the way the dragon talked to lava flowing...

Was short and pretty random, a plot would have been nice.

Not so good.

Dying with the first choice is never good...

Too short!

It's not the best, but also not the worst. 5/8.

It feels like an text adventure game... only with strange logic. I discover the hobo is dead and then realize, hey I can climb this ladder after all. Don't think it would work like that in real life. Hell, it shouldn't even work like that in a story. Oh, well. It's still decent fun.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to short to be a 4, maybe a 2 at best

Seemed a bit random at times, but that's how it is supposed to be. The writing style is great, and I would have liked to see more of this game before the somewhat anticlimactic end.

Well, that was fun. But no reason to call me an idiot because I didn't find the square root of a ridiculosly high number.

Good writing and funny. Some of the similes are great, like the sumo's armpit. I dislike how the story calls one an idiot with any mistake (I click through everything, usually, just to read it all); I may be an idiot, because I didn't know there was any such number that starts with a thousand whose second unit is a million.

it should take longer to die, not two pages

Personally, I don't like games that have a death link on the very first page.
Still, the writing was pretty fair quality. Good effort.

A mathematical dragon. So Pyth, have I mentioned lately that I love you? :P

Not enough background information about my character or what's happening. Some of the events were random and the story did only seem to have one possible good outcome. Still, a grand first effort on the site - and in only a day to boot. Congrats on that!

4/8 preety goodbut linear

wasent very scary!!

I'm a bit confused about the whole party thing. It was linear, and any choice that didn't lead to the end was death. I know this is common in horror, but you should still make other followable paths. Good writing, spelling and punctuation, but the structure needs some work.

random

Hahahaha. It took me a while, but I got through!

hmmm, a bit linear. but better writing. though i didnt know what was going on.