Snowquest

by Eric Eve

Played for IFComp 2009: https://www.bradleycbuchanan.com/b/ifcomp-2009/

Grade: A

Wow! This is pretty good stuff. My first impression was of a kind of IF Ganakagok (which is already, technically, interactive fiction) and then the whole setting changed. I’m still trying to figure out how the different bits of it fit together, and I suspect there’s a great metaphor that’s going right over my head. Still, this is the first game I found to be compelling. It’s tight and polished.