The Temple of No

The Temple of No

released on Jun 21, 2016

The Temple of No

released on Jun 21, 2016

The Best Game Ever Made (but in twine form)


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Nunca tinha jogado um jogo em Twine, é interessante. Se assemelha um pouco àqueles jogos text-based antigões, só que você só clica em palavras pra progredir.

#FreshFebruary

The Temple of No is a free indie game released on itch.io made with the twine engine which allows developers to make interactive text adventures. Kinda like choose-your-own-adventure books but with a bit more functionality.
These twine games seem to be a pretty big thing in certain indie game circles but I'm not really familiar with them, so I can't compare The Temple of No with any others.

For being a web browser based game that only functions by clicking on certain parts of texts, it's pretty creative and carefully designed. It is full of humor, written in a very colloquial, quirky way, and full of quips and references to other things. It uses sound effects and music, as well as some illustrations to make it a bit more immersive and keep it from being just an experience of staring at blank walls of texts for 20 minutes. It has multiple options to explore and even a small little puzzle element to it. It's certainly charming.

But at the end of the day it's still "just" a twine game, an interactive text, and they only go so far. It's a neat little experience but nothing I'd call particularly great or very memorable.
Also I can't tell if there are different endings or not because I tried pretty much every option and googled around but wasn't able to find anything except the "very bad ending". I wouldn't be surprised if that's all there is and it's intentionally setting it up that way to fit the overall theme of dramatic failure, but I can't confirm that's the case.
Either way, I spent enough time with it to feel like I'm done with this game.

I love this silly little game! It's a real delight. I would most definitely recommend giving it a go if you haven't yet.