Fear

SPAG
An imaginative exercise in using memories and symbolic puzzle-solving to overcome your fears of heights, sounds, spiders, and the dark. The puzzles are, for the most part, refreshingly unique, and difficult.
-- C.E. Forman

The vividness of the setting lies not in what you see but in how you experience it--i.e., through the eyes of the phobic PC. It may not sound revolutionary, but getting the player to focus not on the PC's external goals but on the internal barriers he has to clear represents a real shift in goal-orientation--and even if the puzzle-solving gets projected into external tasks, it's still worth pondering.
-- Duncan Stevens
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SynTax
FEAR has a clever plot, a flair for the dramatic, and maintains tension all the way through. I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat through most of this game, absolutely determined to get into that blasted attic. This is an interesting, absorbing game to play, with loads of atmosphere.
-- Bev Truter
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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

The concept here gave a new spin to the “locked-door” genre of puzzles, and it was a delicious irony that the purpose of the game was to get through metaphorical “locked doors” of emotion and reach a final climax of unlocking a physical door to get out of a house rather than into one. However, this key feature of the endgame also provided one of the game’s logical flaws — how many houses lock from the outside?
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