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Bogeyman

by Elizabeth Smyth profile

Horror, Fantasy
2018

About the Story

You can go home when you learn to be good.


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McT's Interactive Fiction Reviews

What begins as a fairly unsettling depiction of this child’s imprisonment by the bogeyman, turns into something darker. And then darker again. It builds slowly, this horror. It pulls no punches – all your worst imaginings of what might happen to children who can’t learn to be good are here. All moving towards an inevitable, uncompromising conclusion.

...If I had a criticism of this game, it would be that I would have liked to have had more in the way of a result of some of my choices – there are many times when I can make a decision to be, for example, nice or nasty to the other children – it would have been nice to have had those choices gradually reflected throughout the game.

This is my favorite choice game of the competition so far. 9/10
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Bogeyman postmortem (by the author)
Hey! I’ve written a long, spoilery postmortem about my ~process.~ [...] I have a lot to say. I hope somebody will find part of it either interesting or useful.
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