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Strange Geometrical Hinges

by mkane

2023

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About the Story

I know death hath ten thousand several doors

for men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways . . .
(The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)

Your ship is currently orbiting Ganymede. It's also about to be destroyed. You only have so much time--and so many bodies--left before the end.
Written for the Single Choice Jam.
FEATURES: 
BEASTSCULTISTS SPACESHIPS THAT TALKTHE THEATER
WARNINGS: 
Character death, past and present Fantasy violenceMentions of past catastrophic major disasters of an unknown nature
CREDITS: 
All quotations (and title) taken from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Cover image uses "PA24791: Ganymede in Infrared" from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument on the Juno spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM.


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A race against time, August 28, 2023
by manonamora
Related reviews: singlechoice


Orbiting around the largest moon of our solar system, your ship is in a dire situation, and you are no better. Waking up with missing memory, and no way to get it back, you must find what happened to your ship… and how to get out of it before it is too late!

With choice options formatted like parsers, with the trusty > before the text, or even behaving like one, when looking at the actions (examine, move to a different room, interact with…), the game still restrict you in what you can actually do, giving you humourous reasons to why you can’t do a certain action (YOU REALLY DON’T WANT TO KNOW). Until the final show down…

This final part is actually quite interesting in terms of gameplay, giving you the option to a limited NewGame+ after your choice. I highly recommend to play through it all, as it will provide even more context to how you arrived to this situation, why you got there, and maybe even find a way to save yourself.
Some locked actions on that screen only become available if you perform another one before the reboot, giving you multiple multiple opportunities to reach a satisfying end. It was fun to piece the whole backstory together from the little bits and pieces each option provided.

I’ve quite enjoyed my time on the ship but I’ll let the fighting the cultist mecha dragon to another player now…

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