The Forest of Doom (Standalone) Reviews

Look, I know it's an old book based on a mobile port, but it's a nostalgic novelty at best. The gameplay is basically a Sierra adventure game with a text dump and a still image. You're trying to find two pieces of a hammer and make it out of the forest of doom alive, how annoying could it be? Well there's no indication where either piece of the hammer is, there are about a dozen encounters, most of them all but require you to have the right item at the right time (again: no indication). Or you can have 3 lucky dice rolls in the beginning, look up where the hammer pieces are online, and skip 90% of the game. It's nice there's a bookmark button to save your progress, but it doesn't have the "fuck this book" button that it needs. That was the mental button we all pressed when our character died on page 200-or-whatever and you just wanted to see what happened at the end. When it's a book you just ignore the part where you died or forgot an item, but when it's a game it's reload and pray to God you remember if you went east or west at the fork 10 minutes ago, or you restart and run into this problem in 30 minutes. Not only is this an inferior medium than the original, it's just not worth your time when you could play the 10,000 other story based games on Steam that are better.