Player Comments on Tales From The Basement

General Recommendation: I recommend this game. Those fond of the lol random and/or offensive genres will have an excellent time. Those who are unfamiliar with the genre can be pointed to this game as a fine example of the genre done correctly. Even those who dislike the genre may find themselves enjoying this story despite those elements, as it has such a wide variety of possible plotlines and outcomes that there’s probably something for everyone.
Preview: Can you successfully get a life? Or will you retreat to the mediocrity of your basement, if you survive the outside world at all?

=SPOILERS BELOW=

General notes:
This is a game that really has nothing else quite like it on the site. The closest I can think of is Trash (with similarities in humor and setting, and the same episodic feel), but there are subtle differences in theme and character that make this one it’s own unique thing.
Despite essentially being three seperate stories, the grouping of these tales into a single game helps the narrative of each individual game stand out in its own way. Cave of time storygames are already seperate stories grouped around a single character; this game takes the logical next step by grouping its narratives around a theme.
Ebay Escapist: A fine exampe of a “lol random” game done correctly. There’s a through-line of theme between all the branches, and even the plots and events that make no sense seem connected and fit with the world crafted around them.
Good Girl: It’s impressive how grounded this branch feels despite dealing with situations that are as fantastic, if not more so, than the other branches in this game. The narrator’s more detached tone, coupled with Suzy’s less, y’know, crazy, personality slows down the plot here and makes each mini-adventure seem more serious.
Anime Addict: Not my thing, probably for the same reasons I didn’t get as much enjoyment out of trash. I’m not familiar enough with the subject being mocked to really appreciate the satire and humor here. I expect other people in the target audience will find this branch quite entertaining and clever.
I’m not in this game’s target audience, but I did enjoy it more than any other work in the genre I know of. I liked this game more than Trash, due to the existence of semi-sympathetic characters, and more variety in humor types and plotlines.

Specific notes:
-Ebay Escapist starts off efficiently characterizing the lead by showing that they prefer dreams to realisty.
-I can already tell this story is going to be something different when the first major obstacle I face is a homicidal plant. Earth is saved!
-I know that stopping the kudzu & dying unrewarded vs running away and being blamed is more a result of the narrator’s pathetic life than anything else, but I do like when stories allow heroic actions to go unrewarded. It gives stories depth and makes the player question whether they’re playing the game to do well or to do good. More realistic.
-Gosh darn exchange rates
-I usually dislike when actions have very random outcomes, but it seems to fit the tone of this story pretty well, adding to the surreality and randomness.
-…now I can buy that bomb shelter I always wanted? Is this a ground zero prequel?
-Chainsaw murdered because of inconsistencies in english spelling. My own fault, really.
-Lol, I like that the styrofoam island is in more than one branch. Details like this prevent this branch from falling into the traditional pitfalls of similar games. It simultaneously adds connectedness and randomness in a positive way.
-This Ebay Escapist branch is probably the most well-crafted “lol random” game on here. Things happen without any apparent reason behind them, but in a weird way, everything fits with the world in a consistent way.
-I can’t believe the freaking abestos car is worth more than the island.
-After switiching to the anime branch, I’m struck by both the subtlety and the power of the tone shift between the two pathes. The narrator’s tone switches almost instantly, becoming both harsher, and more personally involved. While in Ebay Escapist the narrator is simply telling the Escapist’s story, here the narrator is directly judgemental, laughing at the Addict, and providing personal commentary.
-The grammatical horror of the phrase “AN HERO” really hammers the point in.
-The Addict branch seems to have a lot in common with Trash, both in narrational tone, and a lot of the plotlines.
-“Yiff in hell”, lol
-The use of the narrator’s name (Brian) in the Addict branch is clever. You don’t learn Brian’s name until he’s decided to pull himself out of his anime addiction and developed a bit more of a personality. Meanwhile, you never learn the Ebay Escapist’s name (due to the short random naature of the branch), and you learn Suzy’s name immediately (due to the more involved character-driven nature of her story).
-I can already tell the good girl branch is going to be the most complex, as we’ve got an actual cast of named characters. This does a good job of differentiating this branch right off the bat.
-Oh somebody’s getting those ashes dumped on them.
-Ben should just get a job building people bunkers (and killing Chulocks) since he seems to be really good at it.
-In the Good Girl branch, there’s been yet another narrational shift. This branch is probably the closest to EndMaster’s usualy writing style; a more traditional unbiased narrator who doesn’t directly comment on the action.
-“You would’ve wrote it in already” lol
-Somebody got the ashes dumped on them but it was not how I expected

Grammar:
All good!
Mastery of Language:
I didn’t notice any sentence structure issues, and I thought the change in the narrator’s voice from branch to branch was a particularly clever way of showing the difference between the stories.

Branching:
Quite excellent. Each major branch has literally dozens of different outcomes, with a wide variety of different ways the protagonist’s life can end up.

Player Options/fair choice:
Not great, but since this game has many lol random elements, that’s sort of the point and it’s not an issue.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:
In Ebay Escapsit I got the ending where you die fighting the kudzu. In Anime Addict I got the ending where you leave the house and immediately get beat up. In Good Girl I got the ending where you’re killed by Chulocks.

CONCLUSION: Another original installment by EndMaster in the CYS landscape.

This game is really three wholly distinct styles all together, with a single choice at the start that shunts you into one of them. The first, the eBay part, is not precisely a lolrandom game (it's too well written for that) but it's not really developed in the way the other thirds are. They are like microstories, some cleverer than other, and some with funny twists.

The Good Girl path is brutal. It's really wrenching and violent. I don't have the strongest stomach for the content. But. *Even* considering that, I was engaged by the story, and I think that's a strength of this path. In particular, the ring girl path was really strong, and the sister is compelling. I also particularly like how frequently in this game, when awful things happen, you have the opportunity to respond appropriately. It rarely does as you expect, because this is all a desperately black comedy, but it lets you try, and that's what I want in a choice game.

The anime path was grosser, going for more shock-gross at first, especially in the "pick a fetish" path which the game cleverer gives you if you try to "opt-out" of the adventure. But Patricia is hilarious, and all of the paths with her are great. The narrator in the Anime fork is especially funny. This is gross-out comedy, and it's done well.

I *hate* these genres of writing, but I *still* thought this was an entertaining game. So, End, I have to hand it to you.

Every now and then I read a story and think to myself that the author must have had a lot of fun writing it, and that makes me smile. Tales From The Basement is one such story.

As usual for EndMaster, the story itself was in the Cave of Time branching style. There were a few pages with multiple ways to get to them, but they were in the minority, and there was always a choice that led to a unique page in such situations.
The paths themselves are generally quite short, but there are a lot of them. So any of you faggots who actually read reviews before you read a story should be sure to play through all the branches and THEN complain about the story being too short.

The E-Bay Escapist path is very random and definitely the most ridiculous of the three stories. However, unlike what one might expect from a LOL RANDOM story, it is still actually well-written and funny. My favorite ending in that one is probably…oh, hell. I don’t have a favorite because there are so many funny ones.

The Anime Addict was by far the most disgusting of the three protagonists. That made it all the more fun to see the horrible results of Brian’s degeneracy. I’ll admit that pure, unpolluted delight in reading of a character’s self-imposed torment is very pleasurable in a non-gay way. If you are not someone to whom such humor ever appeals to, I would not recommend that path, but if you are, quit reading reviews and just click the link.
The FINAL FURSECUTION ending was my definite favorite in that path, but not because the others were lacking necessarily.

The Good Girl path is very wacky and has the best characters, I thought. The character who stood out to me the most was Moon Shadow. She is like an exaggerated version of flakes I know in real life, only it’s way funnier because I don’t have to talk to her. Uncle Ed was another favorite of mine, but all the characters in that path were highly entertaining in their own ways.
My favorite end was probably the one in which Suzy and her siblings fight the mutants together.

These stories were even better than I remembered, and if you’re still reading this, you should go check them out.

The Anime thing was so, so much worse than I remember. Still good though.

One of the first stories I read by you, and still makes me want to close my computer, but in a good way.

There's a line in the anime obsessed one: "I wish you were 12!" Something about it shook me to the core, really made me question myself and my... open-mindedness to the age of a potential partner. 🥶 Hope I shake this feeling soon! My personality has a much higher stake in incest loliconness than I ever expected.
(I'm exaggerating, if just a bit, so please nobody report me or smth 🙏)

After reading this, one quote will forever remain dear to my heart! “Tis better to have fucked your cousin and die, then to have never fucked your cousin at all.”

Suzy's path was surprisingly interesting. I look forward to reading the sequel to her story.

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I loved this game it was a religious expirence for me, I am done being mentally handicapped and so gain joy from fictional characters who suffer more than me

Very entertaining story! I picked the Ebay buyer and got the bomb shelter. It was just a random and silly game! Could give me an idea of writing a comedy storygame.

i become a murderer :o

Everyone wants to be entertained when they read fiction. This story is very entertaining, offering 3 paths with different styles at the beginning. The story contents are well enough described by other reviews at this point. I was smiling through almost every prompt in the first and third forks, which are packed with humor and shock humor. The second fork is a little more serious and involved; player choices relate more directly to the outcome. As with the other stories I've reviewed by EndMaster, he manages to make a lot of variety in each ending. I didn't find anything wrong with the writing here except spelling and grammar, which I find easy enough to overlook.

I really liked it! It was fun choosing all the different options and finding new endings

I am rereading this again and this time as a kinda proper citizen of the promised land, so here's my irrelevant comment and rating! I enjoyed it, especially the part where we the furfag got executed.Thanks for this one!

Pretty Good!

I scrolled through a list of games and when i saw that there was an anime addict option in this game i started playing this.

That anime part was accurate. Great now I'm feeling depressed. I think I'm gonna go dunk my face in a toilet or something...

Great!

This game made me into a proper man. From now on, every morning I kneel in front of my PC to repent and thank the author profusely for my once inexorable path of sin.


Good game enjoyed it and had a laugh 10/2

so uh, I would give a thoughtful rating, but unfortunately on my first run of The Good Girl narrative, I took a wrong turn and my run ended quickly. but from what I read I really enjoyed it :)

I read through a bit of each of the characters, and I played through every possible ending of Good Girl (mostly because I want to read the sequel and wanted to be in on all the possible references to this story). Lots of surprising twists as I assume are typical to EndMaster's writing (I haven't read a lot yet).
It's a pretty quick read if you only follow one path all the way to it's end (like maybe 20 mins?) so there's something to be say about the replayability of this story.

The so called "anime addict" is more like a weird fat pedo weeb :)

Your writing never fails to impress. I found all three paths of this story to be entertaining and amusing, as the writing never missed a beat, seriously. This story was fun to read the entire way through, and both the quality of the writing and humor remained consistent throughout each page.

I must admit that I found myself enjoying the Good Girl narrative the most. There was just so many characters that were full of life and each had their own interesting traits about them. It made for many interesting choices as to where the story could go, and where these choices went were all quite entertaining for me as the reader to experience.

How you manage to keep each path in your stories unique and fulfilling remains to be something that is rather awe-inspiring.

All in all, this was impressive storytelling as always. I enjoyed this very much, but enjoyment is something that I have come to expect from EndMaster's works.

Lol 8/8 it was gr8 m8 Anime Addict plot is so funny... :)

im gonna go buy a bomb shelter!

I always wonder how these stories never get an 8 out of 8 rating on maturity. Is giving it an 8/8 not an option? I mean, darkness, horror, it's all well and good, but holy crap, people! I like it. The Ebay escapist branch of the story was particularly entertaining. Asbestos car was my favorite.

I can't wait to read the sequel of 'Good Girl'!

I got rich and bought a bomb shelter!

6/8 very enjoyable. Just wish it was longer

Wow, this was good and hilarious. In a cruel kind of way. 10/10 would play again.

FUCKING GOT ME WITH CHRIS HANSEN! I mean i only did the anime guys story as i'm typing this. I gotta say if works like this has maturity level of 7 then what the fuck gets you an 8?

omfg that was so messed up. best to have fucked your cousin that not to have fucked your cousin. soo terrible end. but it was hilarious too.

Well, that was certainly an experience.

The anime story is actually kind of sad. :(

The good girl was a good story, the eBay escapest was funny but I didn't read all of the anime addict because like anime. At first I was offended but then I realized you were joking and probably didn't really feel that way. Good job

Jesus Fredrick Christ, I was entertained. It was funny (though crude) and DANG PATRICIA

Pretty quick, to be honest, but who cares? It's a joy to read! 5/8.

The writing is good.

Ok

I just did my first try and I found out I'm a child rapist. This game is extremely messed up to the point you want to play more.

>.< Why are anime otakus always attributed to dudes? *currently a messed up girl manga/anime otaku* But besides the gender issue, this story is pretty well written, if not a bit uh...messed up in the mind, but that's okay since I'm also messed up in some way considering I hit the GO BACK button like 50 times to try to find other routes to complete it.

I liked the girl's story the best, even if it was sort of sad. Somehow, I wish I skipped a couple of ends there.

But hey, I gotta hand it to you, this story is one of the most demented stories I've read with a great style of writing.

YASSSS! This is what will happen when I get older and stand up to my sister. Only she's slow, so I'll just kog away from her instead of getting killed.

Well, I shouldn't have gone with Dad.

Fairly fun storygame, I enjoyed it.

all I have to say is: WTF??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Messed Up man(in a good way)

This was creative and hilarious. You sir have a sense of humor!

Yiff in hell...

Nice.

I think I became a serial killer. XD

This story as a whole is pretty fucked up (in a good way) but that's to be expected of EndMaster, really. Props for making a game with so many different paths and endings whilst keeping every single one varied and entertaining.

Good Girl was probably my favourite main path. Each quirky member of Suzy's hilariously messed up and weird family is a brilliant character. I found that Suzy herself wasn't as interesting a character, though. I suppose it made the story better by having a relatively sane protagonist.

Did the anime one. Hilariousaoriginal

A great game where the bad guys lose and the good guys win. You just have to choose which you are.

Haha, that was pretty funny. Good read. :P

I played the 2nd and 3rd paths, but so far I haven't seen any actual epilogues, even though I clicked on everything...

Random story game random plot but still well written just like a lot of end masters games

Okay, I hope it was just sarcasm for the furry part because that was the most intolerant thing I've ever read.

Another Endmaster classic. Sick and twisted, but it provides plenty of options. Game well done.

Tales From the Basement was a very entertaining story to read. I especially liked how there's 3 unique characters to choose from, all with their own personal quests to leave the basement. The strongest character of the 3 was the girl's story; after all, her wacky family really made the storygame quite the page turner. The EBay dweller was the weakest, especially because there wasn't much to read about. The Anime dweller was an interesting story, but not as good as Suzy's. Overall a very unique style of writing. Definitely worth the read!

This was awesome

hilarious endmaster, but seriously what the fuck

I loved playing as the anime addict! The story has a great sense of humor, and I could see the endmaster twist in it! 7/8.

OMG!!! SO FUNNY!!! Im an anime lover, so it was kinda wierd, but datz ok! I FINALLY KNOW WHAT ITZ LIKE 2 B A FURRY!!!

8/8 gave me the power of christ

Am I the only one who looked up gray building on ebay after this?

Still one of the few books where the best ending is when you end up dead. I've ended up dead in books lots of times, but that's usually a secondary ending when I scrude up the planet i was on at the time. Might have a sequel for this, depends on if I get my book published, wonder whow Brien would like walking through planes of reality... Ha, that would be fun to sea.

LOL 10K Dollar in Mexico only 2 Dollar
What the heck my mom married to lesbian -_-

I liked it. It was interesting, funny, yet mildly depressing.

not bad, but after reading Ground Zero, I have come to expect better from EndMaster

Great game! I loved Ebay Escapist, it was SO RANDOM! Good Girl was even better! Unfortunately, I couldn't finish Anime Addict since it was bashing my love for anime. Just a question, why do you hate it so much?

Interesting

I LOVE IT! All the story lines are forking amazing. KEEP IT UP DUDE!

I only gave 7 because I think the description for 8and 7 should be switched... Or combined. This story is hilarious and I only checked out 1/3 of it. Imma go see the others

Not as good as Endmaster's other stories but I think a solid 6/8. If it was a bit longer I think it would be a 7/8. :)

Just tried the good girl arc so far. Fairly disturbing no matter which arc was picked.

(The site didn't seem to save my first comment, so hopefully this isn't a repeat)
:D I loved this! I played as the anime-obsessed person which was hilarious. I intend on playing through again to try all of the stories, which I can only hope are as amazing. Anyone who rates this game less than an 8 deserves to be eaten alive by thylacines.

Too short mine ended in 4page........

I loved the humor that came along with all three of the stories. I played through every single scenario that could've occured in each story. My favorite would have to be Good Girl. I just wish they were all longer.

That was... interesting...

Self parodic, imaginative and very funny! Thank you!

I can't find an ending where I don't eather die, or end up stuck with a sadistic girlfriend/wife. Animay whatever it is.
I wish would yould make a sequal to Necromancer or mabie Iternal, might be hard for that one though, would have to decide which story branch to go with. mabie that dark elf kid comes back to task and you take up his story?

This was...interesting. eBay escapist was totally boss, Anime guy was just kind of, disgusting, but good job none the less!

terrible

That was absolutely hilarious!
i hadn't slept the night beore very well, i mean. That one gave several laughs. Excellent! keep making more like that! Hope to meet you, on the site, Sweetheart.
love you lots,
CathyAnne

I am actually interested in what happened with the girl and the Kragan time/space experiments. IF you could continue that story that'd be awesome. But you're EndMaster you're probably too busy reveling in your own infamy to do anything new.

It was a rather...interesting ending of mine. I decided to go with the ebay escapist and well, sold the elephant bones. Where should I hide the body?

I got a hippy happily ever after, and LOVED it! That ending is exactly what would happen to me.

wow didnt know my mom was worth so much

Played with the first and the third characters, they were just some sick stories without a slight sense. Still, it was good. I think I'll start again.

Uhhhh... Random. I LIKE IT

Aww......Bobby...... *swoon

I might have rated this a little low, but I'll have to try again. It wasn't as long as I thought, but then I died, after I sucked some thugs cocks, you know.

This was, hands down, the BEST interactive story I've ever played. Well done, EndMaster!

my absolute favorite author

died within a minute

Hilarious.

Meh. It was a good game, but I would have liked it if there were more happy endings and Suzy didn't end up to be a lesbian xD

I got the Ground Zero easter egg. I am pleased.

This was the badest one by EndMaster.

I did!

In Ebay Escapist you can have sex with your mom.

In Anime Addict you can have sex with your jailbait cousin.

In Good Girl, the whole Morningstar family is incestuous since Bobby mentions that he's fucking his sister.

You disappoint me by not having incest in every story line.

This rocks!

Interesting

I really like this story.
I especially like the Anime Addict one. It was funny!

.... what the hell i ...

I'm pretty sure I read every page. (I always knew the Ebay one would have sex with his mom.)

I win

Not the best of your works but im really happy that we don't actually die like most of your games

i would like to know more about the Gray Building, lol i think you could even start a whole new story on it.

I can't even imagine what goes through your mind. But it was a great story nonetheless. 7/8

I won! YESS! Best ending! Now I'm very proud of myself.

Thought I went through all of your stories last year but this one I must've missed. Great stuff. I really admire your talent to write quite "sick" and "tasteless" things and then still find the discipline to keep on pursuing the issue... -everytime I start to let my phantasy 'flow freely,' i totally lose it and "snap" without hope for recovery. You somehow manage to walk the line without going too far, which is remarkable.

Best quote: "Half of this shit is inane and stupidly childish, and the other half is really fucked up and twisted. And some of it manages to combine the two halves. [...]"

Funny stories, nice job.

I did? I get a lot of complaints about my stories, but I don't think they've ever managed to change someone's gender preference before!

You made me a lesbian?

I Lauged pretty hard at times, and alterd the stories as I went, to the point where i actually enjoyed them.

I started as a basement worm, and I ended as a basement worm. I can't say that there was really a story to the path I took. Then I took another, and there was a little bit of a story, but I think it needs a stronger plot and more pages. Moreso, it needs some sort of large conflict or plot twist to keep the readers interested, despite the length keeping their attention for long enough to read.

That would totally awesome! Though I'm not sure about the f*uckin' scene about sex.... Still awesome!

That game left me with this felling......WTF!!!!!????????

Greatest... Story.... EVER....

I don't even want to know your browser history.

I experimented all endings and was laughing my guts out in the good girl and anime addict. Good girl has homo or rape endings

I think you mean "vain". Unless he's got Jesus in the blood. You douchebag.

Don't use the name of the lord Jesus your God in vein

Among those stories which do not make sense, this one stands out as one of the best.

ITS CHRIS HANSEN!!!1one!!

Very funny and well written

wtf? it ended goodly after only 3 clicks?

Umm ok then.

Intresting. Very intresting

I lol'd. XD But seriously, fun, fun stuff. :D

I make a living the same as anyone else, by looting the dead bodies of my victims.

I can't figure out how the author supports himself financially while cranking out these long, verbose, and well-written stories so frequently. 7 because the epic scale just wasn't there.

Twinkie overload? That sucks,lol. The Anime Addict story is weird and then some,but I thought it was funny as hell none the less. I like those visual novels from Japan, like Let's Meow Meow, those are good... if strange.

YES!! THE FURRIES ARE GONNA DIE!!!

At least I stopped the evil Kudzu Plant. lol!

Ha, ha, ha! I will forever remain a vegetable... man what a horrid life that would be. Jeeze, I'm glad I have no real urges like that.

Apparently this guy (or girl) has never played Love SICK. Lol.

I think this game is REALLY gross and is the product of a very sick disturbed mind. Do not even start playing it.

The Ebay escapist story was the most hilarious thing ive ever read keep it up.

B.T.W i am starting to think that you believe inbreeding causes mutant children births O.o

Great Stories. Very original ideas, lot of choice, and absolutely hysterical on many (some very creepy) levels. Congrats on this.

I played Ebay Escapist and got a weird and funny ending! Still giving it an eight, great job once again!

That's fantastic! Even though I've only read one story of these basement dwellers, I'll get back to the rest in a bit. I managed to get the pedo ending in Anime Addict... which was weird. No comment,lol! 8\8