I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

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  1. Matseb2611
    Apr 25, 2015
    6
    I didn't know anything about the book when I started to play the game, but the concept intrigued me straight away. You get to pick one of theI didn't know anything about the book when I started to play the game, but the concept intrigued me straight away. You get to pick one of the 5 human survivors to play a sadistic game by a god-like AI where your task is to redeem the character. Then you get to pick the next one, and so on.

    I was really impressed by the story and setting. If I had to rate the game on story alone, it'd be a 10/10. Each of the 5 human survivors is developed well, and you get to explore their fears, likes and dislikes during their challenge, and AI itself is really likeable and somewhat charismatic, despite being a horrible, sadistic thing that has been torturing these people for years.

    The music and the visuals are also very impressive and greatly add to the atmosphere.

    The only aspect of the game I really didn't enjoy were the puzzles. Most times they didn't make much logical sense and involved a lot of trial and error. Worse yet, if you make a mistake, that character fails the campaign and gets taken back to the starting area, so you'll have to redo their campaign again if you haven't been saving regularly. Because of this, I'd highly recommend you to have a walkthrough at hand when playing, or better yet, just watch one of the Let's Plays on Youtube, because the story is well worth experiencing.    … Full Review »
  2. beeanadou
    Apr 16, 2018
    3
    If you find the game is just so so, then you haven't read the even worse book......
  3. curzon_dax
    Jun 23, 2019
    5
    I just played “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” and I’m forced to say It’s extremely overrated. It’s considered one of the better games ofI just played “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” and I’m forced to say It’s extremely overrated. It’s considered one of the better games of the genre and it has so many severe flaws. I understand that some of it is a matter of preference and I respect it but while it is subjective, I hated even the subjective parts.

    In short (nevermind, it’s not short),

    1) It did the cardinal mistake that almost all newer adventure games avoid because it annoys people: it produces dead ends that they don’t just create a “bad ending”, in many cases it creates NO ENDING AT ALL. You are left running around the rooms/areas trying to figure out of any way out, even if it’s death or a bad ending and there is nothing at all to do in some cases. You have to literally use an old save and restart. And if you don’t have such a save you can’t go on at all. But that’s not the real issue. It’s that the game doesn’t let you know - in some cases - that that’s what happened so you are left wondering what’s going on. After spending days being stuck you may eventually realize or assume that you may have hit a bug or a hard dead end and a walkthrough may help in that case but that ruins the entire thing. Walkthroughs are giving up or in any case, they are not gaming.

    2) It has bugs! Actual bugs. In various cases it would crash or it would be unable to use an item after a rare action of the player, and it would literally show on the screen “BUG! Unexpected action!” and stuff like that. The game was simply not finished.

    3) And that’s the worst of all, in my opinion, it’s way worse than even the 1st or the bugs: while it can be subjective if you like it, it relies extremely on very abstract concepts that make little technical sense. In some cases you just guess randomly.

    Ok, the 3rd while it’s technically the worst thing a game of that sort can do (being nonsensical with abstract concepts that need guessing and not logic) it’s not done that much in quantity; the 1st problem is probably the worst in total followed by the bugs.

    All in all this game doesn’t deserve better than a 6 for the way it’s constructed by allowing hard dead-ends (not “bad endings”, dead ends that give no clue it’s a dead end) and because of the bugs and the non-sense a few puzzles have, it must be at most a 5.

    So it’s a 5/10. I won’t give a 4 or lower because it’s at least old and doesn’t deserve any hate for its old graphics etc. The voice acting isn’t horrible but not the best but at that time not even most games had voice acting so I won’t even consider it a negative.    … Full Review »
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