A giant flood has ravaged the countryside, sweeping aside villages and destroying homes. You were caught up in the raging waters and carried away to a strange land. The flood drops you off in the branches of an overhanging tree where you wisely stay until the water goes down. You are relatively unharmed, however, because you are a hobbit and hardy. Try to survive and find your way home to Bree.
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Short, simple, easy to work through but rewarding, and oozing charm - this adventure feels more like The Hobbit (the novel) than The Hobbit (the text adventure). I was a little surprised to see the game end when it did - not because of the length of the game, which I see as a strength for a lighthearted adventure like this, but because I found it a little anticlimactic; one extra encounter, just to say "you're almost there, keep pushing on!" would have made this a clear 5 stars.
I had a lot of fun playing this, for many of the reasons that make Quest games in general fun: the puzzles are the right amount of difficulty (they make you think, but they're all solvable with a little creativity), the characters were charming and very much likable, the descriptions were vivid but not exhausting, and the entire gameplay experience felt fluent (plus there are a variety of environments.) As another person recently stated, this game is a tad on the short side (and the ending is a tad abrupt), but for all significant intents and purposes, that is its only flaw.
What a great game! As a fan of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, this was wonderful! The only downside was that it was a little short, but that was it.
Average rating
(4.55)
Written by Crispin
Plays 8622
Downloads 1877 Download file
Written for Quest 5.4
Published 06 Sep 2013
Updated 07 Sep 2013
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