The Eye of Borrack
JimJams Games · 2019 · Adventure, Indie, Text-Based, Retro, Puzzle
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About The Eye of Borrack
JimJams games are a small, indie development team with a love for the retro games of the '80s and '90s. We only develop games that embrace that era, aiming to provide true classicly styled gaming, with a massive retro feel, maybe with a slight hint of what these games would have been with a little more processing power.
We don't aim to develop AAA games, but simply to bring our passion for a time gone by to those who love truly classic themed and inspired games. If this is a genre and era that you love, then our games are for you.
The Eye of Borrack will take you back to yesteryear, with our take on the classic text adventure. You'll put the world of action games to one side, as you delve deeply into a rich, funny, imagination lead, text-based tale.
You'll control your actions and that of other characters, not with single keypresses or controllers, but through typed English sentences, In The Eye of Borrack, you'll solve puzzles, and mysteries, through the manipulation of a host of objects, exploration and interaction with others you'll meet along the way.
Find 20 treasures, as you seek to unlock the strange mystery of The Eye Of Borrack.
Features.
Advanced language parsing.
Numerous and entertaining text-based puzzles.
A rich, witty, magical and slightly strange land.
Many hours of game-play.
Full English language manual to help you get started.
A true taste of classic gaming.
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 0 of 1 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$2.99
to own everything
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Have played a bit and generally enjoyed (but also kind of hated) this blast-from-the-past text adventure. It suffers from the problems that these games suffered from 30 years ago when I played the original zork, adventure, scott adams etc - basically there are not enough clues on the correct terminology to use or how to proceed when you get stuck. I will keep plugging away.6 found this helpful
Being a big text adventure fan back in the eighties I was so excited to find this game! Reminding me of Magnetic Scrolls The Guild Of Thieves. I loved it. This is a huge game as text adventures often are. It took me 50 hours to complete. The game therefore is a bargain. I would have paid a lot more. There are some great puzzles to solve. You will need a lot of paper to make maps. Yes there are the same frustrations of finding the right words needed, but it wouldn't be a text adventure without that. Please make more games like this.5 found this helpful
This is the second text adventure that I've played from these guys, but it might be their first released.. I've been a massive fan of this genre, so it's great to see it make a comeback. The Eye of Borrack is a classic fantasy text based game, with some great humour, a powerful parser, challenging puzzles and some lovely images. It really reminded me of the old school games, especially the works of such greats as Magnetic Scrolls and level 9, which in my book is a very good thing. Overall a great, fun game, and worth anyone's time .4 found this helpful
A great little text-driven graphical adventure game that takes me back to the glory days. Descriptive locations, interesting characters and a retro feel makes this game a mini masterpiece. Highly recommended!2 found this helpful
This a creative game with NPCs you can communicate with and lots of good solid puzzles. The artwork works well but can be removed for a text only experience. A lot of fun and worth your time! Note: Be sure and read the manual as it has lots of good tips on how to play and how to use the game's interface. They did this deliberately to make it feel more retro! Very cool!2 found this helpful
The vocabulary used by the game is far too small, leading to a lot of frustration when trying to accomplish small tasks.
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