College Dropout

A horror storygame by jd1976

Player Rating4.11/8

"Too few ratings to be ranked"

Based on 22 ratings since 03/05/2023
Played 361 times (finished 31)

Story Difficulty3/8

"Trek through the forest"

Play Length5/8

"Not going to lose any sleep"

Maturity Level2/8

"Choking hazard for children under 4"

Contains content that may not be suitable for persons under age 6. To compare to the movie rating system, this would be G.

Player Comments

I don't know what I was expecting when I opened this game, but tentacle monsters with many mouths and zombies wasn't really what came to mind. I played through a few different branches to see if anything got more fleshed out than the monster, but not too much happened besides surviving with other people or getting out alone.

So let's start with the positives. While not entirely original, the monster was absolutely the driving force of this story. In this sort of genre, a lackluster monster is a killing blow. So while this didn't break new ground, it did provide a decent threat/villain. The zombies were more interesting to me, however, since they reminded me of TLOU infected mixed with a Boomer from L4D.

Now for the negatives. There wasn't a lot of detail. Most of the sentences were very bland and it felt very bare. The characterizations felt very two-dimensional and the main character didn't really have a personality besides just trying to survive and a few comments about the mechanics major. Grammar is a bit rough on some pages with weird phrasing and sometimes misspellings (which isn't the end of the world haha). I also wasn't a fan of the lack of explanation throughout. We never really find out what's going on or why or what the creature is outside of "biological organic weapon" (which is one of those weird grammatical phrasing earlier since organic and biological is a bit redundant). the only other thing I had an issue with was the endings. It just felt abrupt and there wasn't any real conclusion outside of 'you survived' and whether or not you got anyone else out. While that's mostly fine, it would probably have been better for there to have been an actual conclusion with more characterization and emotion instead of a: hurray, you lived!

All in all, this story is not bad! I enjoyed reading it while being bored at work and while it could be significantly better it is a good start here on the site. Hoping to see more from you, for sure!

— TrueParanormal on 3/6/2023 1:46:09 PM with a score of 0

I mean, I wanted more…a lot more. What caused stuff? What was those “creatures”? Why did he fail OSHA? The last part is a corny dad joke of course…but still…way too short…like shorter than Peter Dinklage in a foxhole…it was shorter than a bow-legged caterpillar…