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Showing All | Show by Page <insert food pun>, August 15, 2023 by SharpNaif I don't want to say that I liked this game, but I applaud it. You know when you get a brilliant idea-- like genius!-- and you'd sell a family member for a piece of paper to write it down; and then by light of day, you try to decipher your scrawlings, and it's just BATPOOP INSANE? What I'm applauding is the way Chandler Groover really leaned in to that. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
A delicious treat!, May 10, 2023 by Cody Gaisser (Florence, Alabama, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe, ???) Eat Me is an absurd, whimsical, bizarre, and often disgusting game about a child with a bottomless pit for a stomach who lives in a fantastical world where everything (and everyone) is edible. The puzzles are simple and straightforward (try eating stuff), but there's a built-in hint system in case you aren't sure what to do next. This game had me smiling throughout and occasionally laughing out loud. Highly recommended! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Delightful even while barely awake., March 31, 2023by egostat (1st Level, Abyss) Sorry in advance for my wording. I am writing this at about 2:30 A.M. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Wow! I was so wrong about this game!, May 24, 2021At first I thought this game was stupid. How much fun can a game possibly be when the only thing you can do is eat? Oh but it is much more than that. It’s not like you just sit there and repeatedly type the word eat over and over. Though the puzzles are pretty simple, they are much more complicated than they seem at first. I would recommend this game for beginners and experienced players who are just wanting something easy and fun. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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The way out is through, May 16, 2021by Snave Adventure game protagonists tend to be greedy-grabby types, yeah? Fitting, then, that a child is the protagonist here, with sickly sweets in the very first room. Transgression without judgment, that's what Eat Me offers, and an engaged player will quickly become complicit. Thankfully, Eat Me draws you in with a deft touch rather than going hard-meta, and even on the latter front it allows a chance of subversion by the end. It's also unabashedly weird and gross. I loved it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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a monstrous feast, February 23, 2021by meadowmower The basic premise of Eat Me is that you’re a child with a hole in your stomach, and you’ve been thrown into a strange, magical castle made entirely of food. What follows is what you’d expect, and it was so much more horrifyingly enjoyable than I could have imagined. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Truly bizarre, but strangely beautiful, October 5, 2020When I first started plaything this game I didn't really like it. It seemed confusing and I wasn't sure what my purpose was. The writing seemed thick and I had trouble getting going. There was also a shade of the grotesque to it all that I wasn't into at first. But as I stuck with it I eventually came to appreciate it more and more until I was hooked. Groover's writing is wonderful, even operatic at times. The puzzle components were kind of hard to pick out from the flowery prose, but the solutions made sense in the internal logic of the game and every time you completed a "course" the reward was great. I'll definitely play through it again sometime to see how my opinion of it has grown. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A strange but delicious feast, October 18, 2019by Steph C An excellent game - original idea, wonderfully grotesque and evocative writing, a highly 'voiced' parser, and creative puzzles using a severely limited toolbox of verbs (you can do little but EXAMINE and EAT.) Your options are constrained enough that none of the puzzles are TOO hard to solve - I finished the game in about an hour and never needed the walkthrough - but they're complex enough to make you explore the castle thoroughly and think about what you're doing. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A beautiful six-course meal, October 13, 2019by illuki This game was not my first playthrough of interactive fiction but it is one of my earliest ones. It definitely was a great experience. The descriptions were fantastic and the narrator's diction was a nice touch, darling. This is absolutely, positively one of my favorite games, not only because the food was spectacularly described, but because it is slightly grotesque, strange, and amazingly fantastical. Right up my alley. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Visceral, lush, a grotesque escape game, July 17, 2018Chandler Groover’s work often mixes the decadent with the grotesque, the macabre with the picturesque. Think rotting roses; mouldering filigree. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A grotesque limited parser game about consumption, November 16, 2017I beta tested this game, and it was my personal choice for winner of IFComp 2017. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Gloriously Grotesque Parable on Gluttony, October 4, 2017This was so much fun. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Cool in a grotesque way, October 3, 2017by Sobol (Russia) A fruitful idea: taking one common action verb and building a whole game around it. We already had SMELL: The Game by the same author, KILL: The Game, GO NORTH: The Game together with GO WEST: The Game, last year's TAKE: The Game, and even USE - I mean, UNDERTAKE TO INTERACT WITH: The Game. Now it's EAT: The Game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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