Recent reviews by Rouzeki

I'm not surprised at how much I enjoyed this game. It's a "Choose-your-own-adevnture" style game that is largely told through the story. You do have a limited inventory that you have to manage, but other than that it plays almost more like reading a book. There is some strategy, of course, and I can see myself playing through this again. After an initial failure of getting stuck in Russia, not being able to afford my way out, I figured out what I was doing, and made the trip in 74 days in about two hours playtime.

Aside from the adventure and story telling that make this game enjoyable, I really appreciated the decision-making process. In many instances you have to move quickly because you have a choice of taking the fastest route out of the city or exploring to find more options but possibly costing yourself more than a day. In some ways this game reminded me of the board game "Tales of Arabian Nights" as you often make decisions that seem like they will have one outcome, but something entirely different (for better or for worse) happens!

I also loved how you could see the progress of other adventurers traveling at the same time as you; this really helped it feel more like a race.