This and Pestis Cruenta by Haplo are two "sister" missions from the same contest that apparently were bound to use the same map, and it's interesting to observe the differences in approach. The biggest obstacle in both cases was apparently the map which isn't that great, and causes some palpable incongruities in the feel of both missions as if b...

From the first moments this mission creates high expectations - natural environments done well are a rare feat in dark engine and here they manage to conjure a very special atmosphere paired with nitbits of intelligent communication with the player, including literary and cultural allusions, cool scares and original enemies early and later on. ...

And for Cptn. Nemo meets Cptn. Silver

I may be inclined to overshoot this one a bit but I like the theme and mostly also the execution, and for a first it is very solid. Very cute layout touches feel like the winter tunnels paired with "trademark" Sperry-style placement of loot and a touch of Alcazar/Into the Odd, with a few genuine moments of visual awe, minimal beginner mistakes (...

This is a hauntingly weird and beautiful specimen. Despite its postmodern guise, which may seem stylishly like a halfway in-game world evolution between The Metal Age and Dishonored with definite influences within Thief of authors like DrK and outside with occasional scent (given the technical environments) of a long lost Half-Life level (either...

Nice reproduction of the lost city style but the final post-tomb raiding puzzles are not well designed as the player might easily screw themselves if they do not pick up and keep all the readables that can be found (I know many that proud themselves on just that) (and/or use them or the three bricks earlier e.g. to mark the correct route but th...

This is a difficult one. It may well be the ultimate and the last dinosaur of the "mansion with huge skeletons in the closet underneath" subspecies at a time when they were already and decidedly out of fashion in the same way as undead invasions in which it also dabbles a bit and, to add insult to the injury, in its final woes it shamelessly bec...

Starts great with nice design touches (for example in and around the area of the pub within the walls of ancient evil keep) but later gets way out of hand in terms of size and the deja vu syndrome: it emulates the large vertical city mission style but this time it feels the author is not fully at it or fully authentic, it gets tedious soon and d...

Could be a solid mission (w simple but effective layout) were it not for a slew of technical and gameplay issues, sometimes combined, the most serious of which is a corruption problem of some kind with save files - about every other time on loading the game crashes to OS and some saves appear to be corrupted permanently, making frequent saving ...

An excellent mission though one does begin to wonder what the thing is lately with the fad of many better works using seemingly as primitive T1 graphics and assets as possible in stark contrast to let's say the late 2000s to mid 2010s - I like my FMs visually as good as it gets and preferably in T2, no nostalgia - everything T1 can do visually c...

There is one interesting thing about this mission in that its main exterior and to an extent interior layout quite resemble another relatively early mission by a different author - Heaven in the Garden of Stone: The Haunted Church, but whereas there everything and especially layout elements were basic to the extreme, here the interior extends an...