"Palace of Deceit: The Secret of Castle Lockemoer" (nice name) is a text adventure game, with one main differentiating factor that makes it stand out from the rest: It provides colorful ASCII pictures of each location that you visit. This simple addition actually adds a lot to the experience, and overall the presentation of the game is well done, using a storybook-like aesthetic. The text adventure itself is pretty basic, and the parser simply spews back "I don't get it!" at you whenever you type a command that it doesn't understand. It was also made by Cliff Bleszinski, formerly of Epic Games, before he made it big working on games like Unreal and Gears of War.
6/7/2024