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.
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.