A small murder mystery, very imitative of Infocom's mysteries, set on an expensive little boat in the middle of the ocean. Lots of irrelevant detail for the player to sift through. The characters are a bit buggy and disappointingly mechanical for a character-based genre. The whole game has a time limit. It is possible to win without figuring everything out, which gives the game some replayability.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

tow.zip (88.58 KB)

TADS executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry, game file and instructions)

tow11.gam (155.75 KB)

TADS executable (version: Release 1.1)

Undertow.sol (1.35 KB)

Walkthrough