The Gate

Short story about a meteor landing on earth, and the consequences. There are several endings, some of them short and not so sweet, and one where you survive until the end and get the girl or boy. The artwork is comic style, as is the story, and it reminded me of some of the old Alfred Hitchcock horror stories I have come across from a long time ago, with apologies to the Little Shop of Horrors. The basics of the game is to steer through the various choices you come across as you read, and not get killed. There is an auto-save at each choice so you do not have to backtrack, the game takes you back to that choice and you can try again, so its good for a bunch of runthroughs to find out what is really happening without worrying about surviving. A successful runthrough is about half an hour, depending on your reading speed. Definitely worth a try at this price! Now i am off to have a grisly death, I hope!

A short graphic novel with an relatively interesting story if you like sci-fi. It´s beautifully drawn. The rest is "meh" at best. There are no settings to adjust volume or font size or such things. There´s no way to play it in full screen (at least i didn´t find any). There are a bunch of choices but there is no way that you know which ones are the right ones and which ones are the "wrong choices" that lead to an instant death scene. At least the game autosaves at the branching points and let´s you pick the other way/choice, when you picked wrong. Apart from that you can´t save the game. This doesn´t matter too much because it´s pretty short and in the end it i was told that this story is available as a book, which is the better choice of medium in my opinion. All in all i give this short story a 6/10 which is almost negative but just not yet.