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2.3 days
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Loved every minute of it. Fun story and challenging (but not insanely hard or unfair) puzzles, and a versatile parser where one can try out all kinds of silliness - just like the old days, but without the deadends, finally.
Oh, and although I summon Greek
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2.1 days
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Nice work! Loved stepping into a story like I did a long time ago. I would love to see more of this stuff!
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1.4 days
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All in all, I liked this game. I'm an adventure game fan but I never much liked text-based adventures because of dying all the time, illogical puzzles, etc.
Thaumistry is well written and mostly fun (I particularly like the no-death aspect) that has most
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23 hours
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I played only a few text adventures (aka interactive fiction games) before to completion, because either the interface annoyed me or the story couldn't keep me interested, but Thaumistry was different: I enjoyed the story a lot, the forgiving parser combi
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22 hours
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Fantastic game. Well-written and well-crafted. Thank you, Bob Bates!
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14 hours
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I thoroughly enjoyed Thaumistry: In Charm's Way. It reminded me of when I was a teenager and played Infocom's text adventures. The game was developed by an Infocom veteran - Bob Bates.
A very well thought out and cleverly designed game for anyone who e
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11 hours
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Two thumbs up.
This is a text adventure game, which is very much like a HOG game but without graphics, so I recommend this to all puzzle lovers who enjoy looking for keys to open doors to get scissors to cut paper, etc etc. As a text adventure, it is
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11 hours
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Playing "Thaumistry: In Charm's Way" was refreshing. It brought back the text adventrure game playing of my youth. It's an interesting experience to play a text adventure these days. It makes you realize how much we've lost by adding in all the graphic
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10 hours
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Thumbs up! This reminded me of classic text adventures by Infocom. Text adventures are something of a lost art these days, but they were very popular in the 80’s. If you haven’t tried text adventures before, this is a good introduction. It’s a fun g
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8 hours
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Okay, I kickstarted this game, so I'm not sure if I got this game for free. Technically I'm backing the project and got the game as a result. Anyway...I just love these old games. This is a love letter to the throwback text based games of old. I've lo
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7 hours
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A well written, funny and very accessible interactive fiction (text adventure). It therefore possesses a very good flow for the genre.
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7 hours
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This was my first experience with a text-based adventure game, and I must say that it was a very enjoyable one. A game like this is clearly not for everyone, but I thoroughly enjoyed all the reading and puzzle solving. The game features a great hint syste
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7 hours
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You're a magician trying to sabotage technology expo and everything about it is absolutely gentle. Humour, puzzles, bit bonkers yet fully intuitive logic of this world... all done with utmost tenderness. Text adventure from old school not due to difficult
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7 hours
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This was really great. I grew up playing the Infocom games (although I don't think I actually managed to finish more than a couple of them), but I hadn't played a text adventure in years and wasn't sure how I'd take one at this point. Turns out I was ho
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6 hours
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This game is great.
It's a text adventure. There's no sound, no music. No mouse needed.
In this game you are a failed inventor who is approached by a secret society of magicians. There is currently a convention of strange inventions in progress, and
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5 hours
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It's fun, not too hard and doesn't take too long to play. It feels just right and has all the right touches. Playing this took me back to the 8-bit days. Thanks!
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4 hours
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A funny, interesting game with multiple paths to take toward the ending(s). I was stumped by some of the puzzles sometimes, but nothing that a more experienced fan of the genre (or someone with recourse to the handy Hint menu) would find challenging. The
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4 hours
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Thaumistry is a great little text adventure. I haven't played one of these seriously in over 25 years. My memories are of mysterious wide worlds, reams of scribbled maps that loop back on themselves and being stuck for weeks or months trying to get throug
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4 hours
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This is a really good example of interactive fiction (IF). The primary input is text.
It was primarily written by Infocom and Legend Software-alumnus Bob Bates. It is not particularly serious. There is a lot that is funny in this game. It is not as
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1 hours
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Only the second text adventure I ever played, but I enjoyed every minute of it (first playthrough was outside of Steam, so please disregard my playtime). The game has a funny and interesting story, excellent writing as well as logical puzzles. It is way w
