Zombien 12+

My first text based game. I really liked it. It flowed along, you got immersed in the storyline and it stayed true to its characters. Not bought it yet, but suspect I will as I have enjoyed it so far

As text adventures go, this wasn't a good effort. Granted, the storyline is detailed and engaging if you are playing it for the first time, but there is little real opportunity to make decisions through your choices except at a few key points in the game. And playing it through more than once means having to wade through pages of text.

And if you make the mistake of choosing Sarah as your partner in the game, you can NEVER undo that decision, no matter what choices you make later. She's a really clingy, needy character and makes no contribution to enhancing your gameplay at all.

I got bored with it quite early on. All of the characters are one dimensional, I really couldn't have cared less what happened to them. None of your choices made any difference to your relationship stats; none of your abilities (or lack of them) effected the role play. And again, decisions made later in the game made no difference to skills and ability stats.

The lengthy and detailed text, the lack of opportunity to make game changing decisions, the one dimensional characterisation and the teeth-grittingly annoying partnership with the vine-like Sarah character, meant I was doing little more than racing through what was left of the story just to get to the end.

This has easily been my favourite choice of games as it is so massively varied in its genres throughout the game - you have the ability to create drastically different storylines, which gives it immense replay-ability.
I love the fleshed-out characters and felt myself getting truly bonded to them through all their little quirks. Felt deep pangs of guilt for every one I couldn’t save.
I’m writing this at 0155h after replaying this game for god-knows which time. I come back to it every so often because it’s just that good.