4/1/2023

7/12/2025 2:17 AM

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1 win / 0 losses

Architect

Lazarus Cage

They want to keep you bound in the dark, but you won't let them. You will get out, fight and flee, fail and die, then try again and again...

Nautilus

Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.

After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?

Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.

I think the incident where he got himself disqualified from the contest makes him a bit less of a good guy. Still at least he's not an alt.

Once you create a game under My stuff >> Storygames there'll be 3 options to chose from one of which is edit. That'll take you to the main panel from which you can just browse around and get familiar with the editor

Welcome and have fun. You can find a lot of articles about both writing and the storygame editor here: https://chooseyourstory.com/help/

It was slightly over 1600 words (The longest review I wrote on CYS before that was just under 900), half of which was what you've seen from my other reviews and the other half was me venting about End's specific approach to player agency in storygames. It is as always spoiler free when it comes to actual plotpoints so unless you're planning on reviewing it yourself soon there's not much risk in reading it.

That is not how I expected The Review Bored to reclaim the top spot, but oh well. And thanks, I'm glad so many people enjoyed my review. It has been a while since I tapped into this particular style of writing.

Yeah as somebody who deliberately avoids reading any reviews before writing my own (with those opinions? I know how shocking) I am kind of inclined to rescind that congratulations, but I'll leave judgement to others.

Wasn't nearly as bad as other times I had to review something either CYOA or from a different medium, but ultimately not for me to judge

Actually made me laugh multiple times. Great work. Also congrats to Daiki. Way to make everyone else feel inferior

Truly my genius is being limited by the technology of our time, but at least the decision to go on a raid turned out to be most beneficial. Voting wise I am culturally and also personally obligated to say C for the first vote and far as the second goes all options sound viable, but personally I think ignoring the obvious matter of ever increasing need for lodging a tailor sounds like something fun to do for a change and my votes have been overly pragmatic up to this point so I'll say D just for that reason.

Glad my suffering was at least entertaining to you, the achievement almost makes burning two bottles of whisky worth it. Honestly Epilogue 10 was probably my favorite (as soon as I ignore where MC had to stick his dick in to get there), or rather the story leading into it was since that one properly closed up most of its threads instead of taking a hatchet to those it didn't feel like dealing with. 7 is also up there for similar reasons and 4 kinda gets a highlight even though turning Mara into a last minute romance despite how that was setup up to this point made no sense. Initially I thought it was because every other epilogue had a romantic partner, but that turned out not to be the case so I was even more confused. At the same time the competition for the worst is much stiffer, even if I didn't actually hate any endings as much as I found a lot of them either unsatisfying or finishing a story that really should've been capped with a bad/neutral ending. Good thing that came out of it is now I at least know why people like your games, even if it'll be a while before I dive into another, especially one that long.