[quote=Dipper]
More trite than Depression Quest (which, as a sufferer of Depression, Ironically enough, ended up triggering me) or Gone Home, two 'games' that are little more than Choose your own adventure books?
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Oh sorry I edited without looking at this. Zork was a game too once. Gone Home is different in that it's literally a 3d environment and you can directly manipulate objects and explore in a manner not unlike the Adventure Game genre. Is The Secret of Monkey Island suddenly not a game? Any 3d or 2d environment with a beginning, middle, and end, and interactions can be considered a game. Just because you didn't like it doesn't make it any less of a game. You had a clear goal in mind: figure out what happened to Sam. You had to collect items to advance this goal.

I actually like "choose your own adventure" book games. They're fun and they do something that books/movies can't do. Give you control. I doubt that market will overtake the "SHOOT THINGS UNTIL ITS DEAD GENOCIDE GENRE".

Of course I LOVE reading. (I love everything. I'm kind of a Pollyanna I think. Didn't consider a reality where someone could dislike Gone Home.)