Restore, Reflect, Retry

July 12, 2024 9:15 PM

This is a haunted game about a haunted game. You've played this game before. You may not remember, but the game does.

You can play through the game once for free, but need to purchase it if you want unlimited replays.

posted by signal (4 comments total)

I was delighted to see this is by Natalia Theodoridou. He's published tons of SF/F short fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, etc. and also had two Nebula nominations for Best Game Writing for "Rent-a-Vice" and "Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires." I also played through the game once and enjoyed the literary references, introspective questions, self-referentiality, etc.
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:56 PM on July 12 [1 favorite]

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posted by HearHere at 3:43 AM on July 13

It's like an online Choose Your Own Adventure for adults.
posted by orange swan at 9:16 AM on July 13

The InteractiveFiction tag would go great with this! Plenty to explore in the MeFi archives if you liked this.

I'm particularly fond of Stay?

But back to the topic of this post: you can actually (re)play for free; you need to wait, though. (It's 20 minutes between games and an enforced 10 minute break in the middle of each playthrough.)
posted by invokeuse at 8:34 PM on July 13