The Witch's Yarn

[b]- Endora: Samantha, I will not stand here and be insulted by something which is 94 percent water. - Darrin Stephens: Oh, yeah! Well, what about something which is a hundred percent hot air? Bewitched (1964 - 1972)[/b] Well... This is the first of Mousechief's games that I've tried, and... I am bored out of my wits. First and foremost, the game doesn't deliver anything it says in the store description: no, it is not a delightful reading - the narrative is boorish and the humor is forced; it has nothing to do with any kind of theatre experience aside the usage of the word "cue", and as a game that claims to be a hybrid between a P&C adventure and a visual novel, it fails at both genres! Okay, let's begin with the story. Here we have a middle-aged witch who has foresworn magic to live happily with her chosen mortal. She gets married, has three kids and lives happily ever after until she loses her husband to cancer. Wednesday is now alone and apparently on a full-blown midlife crisis, since she opens a yarn shop to become a productive and independent woman of the 21st century, alongside her familiar, Greta - who is a mushroom in a pot. Her mother and most her other relatives beli…

The Witch’s Yarn is a distinctive narrative adventure that combines the structure of a visual novel with point-and-click puzzle solving and the presentation of an illustrated theatrical production. Developed and published by Mousechief, it is less interested in conventional exploration or mechanical complexity than in allowing players to manipulate the threads of an unfolding story. The result is an experimental, highly text-driven experience where paying attention to characters, conversations, and relationships is often more important than searching rooms for traditional inventory items. At the center of the story is Wednesday, a witch who gave up magic after falling in love with a mortal man. Following his death, her family encourages her to return to her supernatural abilities, but Wednesday instead chooses independence and attempts to build an ordinary life by opening a small yarn shop. Naturally, her plans for peaceful entrepreneurship quickly become complicated. Rivalries, family problems, eccentric neighboring merchants, supernatural trouble, and the challenges of keeping a tiny business alive gradually turn her supposedly quiet existence into something considerably more ch…

The Witch's Yarn is an unusual and confused 2D "adventure" game where you click on various screen elements to "construct" some kind of nonsensical story. The game appears with flash/HTML tier execution and doesn't deliver any cohesive or engaging storyline. I'm really not sure what the overall point is, just to click on things or something? If the story is good eventually? If so, why not write a novel and go through a publisher? This barely qualifies as a game, and there's no working fullscreen, either. There's over 12,000 proper video games on Steam now. How on earth can I recommend anybody buys this and plays it over any of those?

The store page claims that The Witch's Yarn is the successful fusion of Visual Novels and Puzzle games yet the actual product somehow fails at being a compelling version of either. The puzzles are very poorly thought, you have to click a number of "cues" in the right order. However, the intended solution for most of them is to randomly click the various options until you get the right order as there is no rhyme or reason or even hints as to which order you are supposed to click them in making the progression feel slow and removing any sense of accomplishment from completing them. The Visual Novel aspect of it, the story mostly, is boring and bland and although I am perhaps not the best judge of Visual Novels, I feel fairly confident saying that you can easily find deeper and better written stories on a random fan fiction forum.

Awful, boring, trash. Mostly just clunky and boring. Do not get this. Thankfully my copy was a gift but. UGH. Avoid!

Hard pass. Just... read the other negative reviews, they say everything. I don't hold every game to a high standard but I can't even hold this one to a modicum of mediocre.