A deceptively simple premise: You get stuck out in the rain. This is one difficult little game, made of interlocking time-sensitive parts with ample opportunity to get things irrevocably wrong. Consists of two acts, one before and one during the all-important and landscape-transforming downpour. Well-polished prose. Excellent building of tension. Odd and twisty map. Very satisfying.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

weather.z5 (91.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 4, original competition entry)

weather.z5 (91.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 6)

weather.sol (1.68 KB)

Walkthrough

Weather.zip (1.88 KB)

Map (in GUEmap format) and walkthrough, solution and map in GUEmap format