Cryptozookeeper Reviews

If you're into text-based games, cryptids, and like to laugh, this is the game for you! In Robb Sherwin's award winning game you play as William Vest, a man on a mission -- multiple missions, really. Solving the puzzles in this game is only part of the fun, as Sherwin's wacky world is filled with colorful characters and witty humor. Cryptozookeeper pushes the genre of interactive fiction to its limits as players must ultimately collect cryptids and combine them to create fighters, an idea Nintendo may or may not have stolen for its own Pokemon Go. The game also includes tons of pictures of all the characters and locations you will encounter, which, along with the music, adds to the overall experience. Give your joystick a rest and reward your brain with this goofy, somewhat challenging, and side-splitting romp in the world of cryptids.

This game is pretty excellent. It's basically an old-school text adventure just like Infocom used to make them, except with weird pictures and cool music (so maybe a bit more like Level 9, Legend or Magnetic Scrolls used to make them), a ton of jokes, some violence and a strange & somewhat grindy RPG-lite cryptid-fighting minigame. I don't think I'd recommend this to complete newcomers – it's got some rough edges and tricky puzzles, so you should probably be somewhat comfortable with the genre before trying it. But I played it for almost 20 hours, had a ton of fun with it, and now I'm sad that it's over. Oh well.