VERSUS: The Lost Ones

I've played a lot of choice of and hosted games. They are some of the relatively few games to be accessible to blind and visually impaired people like myself. I also read a lot of books. I often find the worldbuilding and writing in many of these games to be less developed than one would find in a traditional story. This felt like one of the most gamey COGs I've played, while not sacrificing one bit of story quality. This easily makes it to my top 5 gamebooks.

The game likes to waffle...a lot. Almost every page has a monologue about something irrelevant that just takes you out of what is happening before dumping you right back in for no reason. Then there's the weird abilities and the Mastery effects which feel like it forces you to act a certain way otherwise you don't get the 'Special points'. It's strange but back when I first got this game I liked it, but now that others have come out and I have played so many more great ones it really puts this game into perspective for me. I can't even play past the first couple of chapters now :/ Combined with how...lacklustre the later games in this series, and other works done by the same author, end up I'm gonna have to recommend people give this series a pass unless you want an unsatisfying ending to it all. 3/10

Probably the worst COA game that I've ever played. Makes no sense and gets me constantly annoyed with some of the options. It had potential to be interesting but is just ruined by over complicating ideas that are so silly and a honest mess by all means. Stay away. Honestly.

Every single person that likes sci-fi fantasy stories needs to play this game. I'm not joking. This game sent me back in time to when I was in middle school and high school, taking every opportunity I could to read the book I was obsessing over in that moment. The writing of this story is absolutely superb, grasping you in the beginning and keeping you locked in until you make it to the end. I bought this game on the 16th of September, and I finished it at 2 in the morning. I literally couldn't look away from my screen. The characters are all wonderful in their own ways, portraying personality as well as if they were real, living beings. The story itself is what I would like to call a masterpiece; expertly written in a way that piques your curiosity in the first few sentences, and leaves you spiraling with emotion when you read that last word. And so far I've only played through this game once. There are so many different possibilities to choose from, causing the story to be vastly different thanks to the decision you decide to make, both in combat situations, and in dialogue situations. But it doesn't just stop there. Oh, no, my friends. This marvel of a creation adds so much mor…

Full of typos and non-existing words. There is often no transition between "scenes", it harvests your email address and is simply unfinished.

Incredibly good game.!