Reviews of Commercial Games
Since I
write games,
I'm interested in how other people write games --
even the massive CD-ROM art-fests that I'll never be able to produce
on my own. When I play a commercial adventure game, I try to write
a detailed review of it. Here are all the ones I've written so far.
Yes, I'm still a Macintosh person, so I prefer to play (and review) games
that run on the Macintosh. However, I now own Virtual PC (an emulator),
and a Playstation,
and even -- honest, I barely use it -- a Windows box.
So that range has increased some. The label "PC game" indicates a game
which is available only for PCs.
If you have any suggestions for games I should play and review, feel
free to email me. Of course I reserve the right to spend my money
where I like. (Equally of course, if you give me a free game, I'll
be happy to play it. Hey, it's happened before.)
I also have a page of
quick takes
-- one-paragraph comments on games that I never wrote full reviews of.
UPDATE, circa 2017:
The above blurb was written in the 1990s. Although, amusingly, I still
own a Playstation (2 and 3 but not 4) and a PC emulator and a Windows
box that I don't use much. But the games don't come on CD-ROM any more!
My reviewing these days occurs
on my blog.
I've linked those posts on this page, because it makes a nice index.
Reviews, in the order that I wrote them. (Dates in brackets are when
the review was written, not when the game was released.)
Now the reviews from the blogging era. (With some overlap.) I didn't
follow the same formatting or labelling conventions; some of these are
short takes, some are mini-reviews or non-reviews. Sometimes I write
a wrap-up post with a whole lot of short takes. Most of the games are
narrative or adventure games, but not all. I've even included a
couple of book reviews, if the books have a puzzly or game-ish nature.
(All reviews copyrighted by Andrew Plotkin)
Last updated August 3, 2024.
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