ANYTHING NICE: A Dark Room (Doublespeak Games)

By Failbetter Games, September 29^th, 2014

The opening scene reads in its entirety

the fire is dead.

the room is freezing.

A Dark Room

[light fire]

I don't know if I've ever seen a more compact and compelling opening.

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'Anything Nice' is is a series of very short posts highlighting things I liked about the treatment of narrative in other people's games. It's a deliberately magpie, grab-bag approach. Some of these games I adore, some I don't even like, but I learnt from all of them.