Olivia's Orphanorium by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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Comment LinLin_713

07 Aug 2022

The game itself is pretty fascinating and easily can take up a couple of your hours. However, the interface is really making things difficult...

Here are some tips if you get lost:
– type "inventory" command
– use "examine" a lot. You can examine orphans ("examine Tawny" but replace Tawny with the name you need) or items ("examine a dinner bell")
– use "read about" to explore different entries in a certain book
– consult catalogue and then buy items from it! You can assign several orphans to one item. Wish I knew it when I started. :D
– the game is over once 30 orphans have gone through your hands
– you can type "whip" instead of "discipline"
– "ring the bell" to end the day

Review archerqueen08

05 Jan 2019

Very fun game, I've played it many times. Involves resource distribution.

Review myNameIsJeffery

23 Apr 2018

I am not an or-FAN. My first goal was to try and find a less reprehensible set of orphan children (im not a fan of ugly kids), but it wouldn't let me toss them into a back alley. Next.

Comment 645Kitty

06 Aug 2017

Nevermind; I found how to progress to the next day xD (checking your inventory helps a LOT. Something I managed to completely overlook the first 3 or so times I played this game xDDD )

Comment jorocks30

04 Jun 2017

It would be cool/fun if there was a freeplay mode where you could just play endlessly for hours.

Review 645Kitty

11 Mar 2017

I have started and restarted this game so many times and I can't figure out how to do anything. The most I can do is discipline an orphan, scrub another orphan, and sell the fairy tales and tricycles, but nothing else. It's almost impossible to advance in the game if you don't have the cheat book right next to you (which I'm pretty sure there is none).

Comment 645Kitty

27 Feb 2017

I'm utterly confused on what to do. How do you get a task?

Comment jorocks30

27 Jan 2017

I really wish you made another game like in this style, like a boarding school. Idk I just really enjoy this game.

Review Jesse Richardson

10 Jan 2017

A good game!
It seems as if the author was from Dickens' time.

Review aceofspades1

30 Nov 2016

I loved the gameplay and it was simple to memorise the commands needed. One thing has come to my attention though which makes the game seem not very well put together. I had a huge problem with overcrowding and it was difficult to figure out which children need what. The children were dying left and right because I had no way to take care of all of them before the end of the day. Many of them also escaped because of this and because I had to pay for burials and none of them were getting hired I didn't have enough coins to make precautions against it. Overall it was a fantastic game, but I do wish that the overcrowding had a solution.

Review jorocks30

29 Mar 2016

This game is great! It's a go to for me whenever I visit this website. It's fun exploring and every time I play I try to make my orphanage more efficient. The challenges are fun and make you think, even though they are quite simple.

Comment jorocks30

29 Mar 2016

I finally solved the spider problem!!! I am so freakin happy that I solved it. It was simple, but specific.

Review ethanlu121

07 Jan 2016

Highly addicting and very funny.

Review Maxwell82

06 Dec 2015

I wasent the biggest fan of this, Maybe make one that appeal and make the game fun to all "Types" of people. Please try to make the game a little more fun.

Review Angelofdeath1762

27 Nov 2015

Highly addicting, very well done.

Comment the_ringmaster

29 Jul 2015

Arrgh... I am so frustrated! How do you do anything? I already sold the tricycles and the Lungfish Fairytales so that I have enough money to get food and a bath for the kids, but it won't let me buy anything! And when I try to go to the entries on discipline, vigour, looks, and morale, it wouldn't let me. I've tried "READ ABOUT VIGOUR", "CONSIDER ON VIGOUR", "CONSULT ON VIGOUR", "TURN TO ENTRY ON VIGOUR", and even just "VIGOUR" by itself, but nothing works!

Review iwillbegentle

24 Jul 2015

Outstanding!

This game was really fun and engaging and I liked how easy it was to get tips on how to operate it. I was surprised that I enjoyed this game, expecting it to be much darker and disturbing. As questionable as some of the content was, how terrible of a person the player character is really depends on the player.

Review DaNiX88

13 Jul 2015

It's a really intensive campaign-like game that keeps you on your toes. You have to raise and maintain orphans in a rather feudal-esque manner. It is also riddled with dark humour. It is very replayable!

Good work!

Comment RadiantDawn

13 Jul 2015

how do you do anything?

Comment jorocks30

13 Jul 2015

how do you solve the spider problem?!

Comment Hallux

22 Apr 2015

I can't solve the problem of the spiders. I've tried searching, looking, finding, and examining on the kids, houses, corners, nest, and spider, but it either says "cannot see/do such thing" or it's useless. Help please?

Comment stella1

25 Feb 2015

Also stuck on how to find the spiders - I can't seem to find the right command for it. Help please!

Review Dlaeyn

14 Dec 2014

I liked the idea of being able to take care of and oversee the welfare of my charges. The humour in the descriptions and special tasks also made the game quite charming. Though slightly simple, the game was appealing and addicting. I'd definitely replay this!

I also noticed that there was a bug-some of my charges' stats would become worse, or stay the same after being scrubbed and disciplined even though the end result of those activities marked an increase in their stats.

Comment Dlaeyn

14 Dec 2014

I've solved it now, thanks anyway!

Comment Dlaeyn

14 Dec 2014

I can't seem to solve the spider problem! I've tried searching all houses, corners, for the nest, and for the spider, but nothing seems to work D:

Comment AtomicMegadeath

12 Jun 2014

For some reason, whenever I try to play the game, I end up at a "Parchment could not load" screen. Is anybody else having this problem?

Review Eaten By A Grue

15 May 2014

Well-made, well-written game with a creative premise; one can almost feel the Dickensian despair radiating from the horde of urchins. Like Broken Legs, this is another game where you play a fairly appalling character. For some reason those are always fun!