Entertaining action caper that requires significant suspension of disbelief, but is well-crafted enough to be enjoyable anyway. Your car breaks down near a mysterious factory, and you stumble on some strange secrets. Impossible to die or otherwise render the game unwinnable, perhaps not the best design choice for this particular game (since the nature of the plot requires that you be in danger now and again, and the danger doesn't seem all that real if you know it can't do anything to you), but good for general player-friendliness. Lots of clever large-scale puzzles, lots of gadgetry to manipulate, and generally a well-built world with plenty of attention to detail.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (08 Jul 2000)

plant.gam (336.91 KB)

TADS executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry)

walkthru.txt (4.48 KB)

Walkthrough

plantsrc_2.zip (147.46 KB)

TADS source code (version: 2)

plant_2.zip (192.96 KB)

TADS executable (version: 2), solution

plant.hnt (4.45 KB)

ROT-13 encoded hints