Briar by Hanon Ondricek

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You are young, dumb, and full of hope for the future; on a secret quest that may change your life forever! Or it may end in death and utter humliation. Good thing you're not really all that bright.

This is an adult fairy-tale encounter for grown-ups. It contains explicit descriptions of sexual behavior, attitudes, and deviancy that may not be suitable for all readers. Discretion is advised.

2nd Place, 2013 AIF Mini-Comp

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Information in this game listing is copyright Hanon Ondricek, is taken from IFDB, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Comment leeisgay

29 Apr 2025

cant figure out how to get past the bramble-choked stairwell pls send help lol

Review raimeinaginata

20 Nov 2022

This sucks. I can't do anything or go anywhere.

Review Delta450

23 Jan 2018

Im sure it would be a good game, however on portable devices, push space doesnt work to continue past first screen.

Comment Magicdave

30 Sep 2017

What do you do once you find the maiden?

Review Deckrect

13 May 2017

It is a good game, for sure! The author put a lot of work and energy on it and the text is elaborate and catches your attention. The beginning seems to be more "error free" than the rest of the game, because in time complexity increases. There is a little mispelling on the first page, I guess, and some wrong text scripts running later, but not compromising the experience.

I am not sure if I am a fan to repeating the same action in order to complete a task, but it is a way of seeing the game design and not a problem itself.

I got stuck at some point, but I am not sure if I was just not finding a way to progress or it was a design problem. I hope the first. What I missed a lot was chances for gaining information. Specially inside the tower. The usual "look at room " did not respond.

Also another typical Parser problem is dealing with NPCs. In this case, the only reasonable character I could interact was not of much use. However, it is pretty cool seeing the author's finesse on bothering on some non vital details.

Review Sponge

30 Oct 2016

It's too cryptic. There isn't enough prompting on what you can and can't do. While it's written very well, it lacks any type of direction. You can observe a room, but each room I encountered has probably one intractable object. You'll spend all your time figuring how to even to work it. Oh 'get sword' to cut the vines to start the game btw. Even though it should already be in your inventory and doesn't show up when you look around the room.

Review animus28

17 Jun 2016

Good writing with interesting, sexy and funny gameplay! Cannon Laundrycheck definitely put time into making this, and it shows!

Review art926

22 May 2016

Amazing game! A little bit difficult in the beginning, 'cause you need to figure out how to interact with objects. Could be simple, of important intractable objects were hightlighted somehow.

Review Whisperofwraiths

30 Jan 2016

Briar is a well written and well constructed short text adventure, equal parts funny, erotic, and nightmarish. I have a deep fondness for retellings that turn fairytales on their head, and so this was a delight.

Comment Jindary

18 Sep 2015

I found only a path for two ending.

Review Jindary

18 Sep 2015

Loved it once i figured out what i was doing. I just wish there was more to it. If you ever come back and read these reviews, perhaps you could add to this!

The flowers were really original.

Review Mr0Haxo

31 Aug 2015