The Sleeping Sickness

I played this on stream after getting a key on Keymailer, and I'm so glad I did. This experience is excellent. If you enjoy choose your own adventure style story books with a light horror theme, this one is for you. It's reading heavy, with a very well written story and characters you'll instantly love to hate. Each chunk of reading is broken up by a choice section, where you can choose where to go next. This influences the story and leads you onto the path to one of 6 different endings. I got ending 4 on stream. I highly recommend playing this for a good read, or if you're a streamer, it's a great way to get chat involved, get them talking and have them choose your next steps, it's entertaining for everyone! Even had a cheeky jumpscare! at the end. Fantastic! This one gets The Pirate stamp of approval!

Overall I thought the creator wove together a very fine story with bits and pieces of lore or insight stashed away here and there. For me it was very satisfying to trek down one path, gaining a knowledge of the eldritch events going on, and then later go down another path and understand the reference or the why they saw/said what they did. I know that's what these games are supposed to do and at least for the path I took it was spot on. For an indie developer, I thought they did a nice job on the audio. The music and sound bytes are just simple enough that it doesn't distract from the reading experience, and yet they are well placed and effective in establishing the mood of each sequence. My favorite was one later on involving Cassandra. I won't say more, but that one was so unsettling and unending that I had to mute my sound momentarily while I read through the page. I tried to just work through it but could not; the heebie jeebies were too much haha Definitely recommend this one though. Even as someone who doesn't play these types of games often, the price was well worth the time invested and the satisfaction I got going through it.

I enjoyed this game a lot more than I thought I would. I'm not much a reader, but it kept me on the edge of my seat and I even replayed it trying to find the best ending, which I did in the end. I think it's worth the price if you enjoy choose your own adventure books or horror stories. Don't expect much visuals-it literally is a virtual book with very few pictures, but the writing was very good to me making it a fun experience even if the story itself was very sad. I streamed my experience live, and you can watch it in full at: https://youtube.com/live/dUO9FLod6tI Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from https://www.keymailer.co