Runt of the Litter Reviews – Page 2
4/5 rating based on 27 reviews. Read all reviews for Runt of the Litter for iPhone.
Runt of the Litter is paid iOS app published by Choice of Games LLC
Choices, relationships, and adventure. Maybe love.
Alamath the Blue
Growing up, I switched from reading choose-your-own-adventure books to playing interactive fiction games that focused on solving puzzles. The books provided suspense and intrigue--What happens if I make this choice versus that choice? With the games, I experienced that intense sense memory--sights, sounds, sensations, and emotions--that I love so much about reading. Years later, I remember the grim choices required in Infocom's Planetfall, the ash-tongued feeling that came after I completed the puzzle. Kelly Sandoval's interactive novel, Runt of the Litter, rekindled my memories of those immersive experiences. I played a thrall, essentially a serf, in the service of an empire of gryphon riders who face invading wyrm riders and Dropfeather, a gryphon-killing disease. Somewhat stressfully and quite satisfyingly, the novel requires choices almost at every turn. I managed friendships with a group of four other characters, raised a gryphon, dealt with Unnar (he's a sh***y person who happens to be a gryphon rider and therefore has power over the main character), and explored the greater world. I've played the novel once, enough to get a sense of the world while still leaving plenty for me to explore. I've discovered the cure to Dropfeather, encountered wyrm riders, and made sacrifices. I've started a second game, intent on exploring other options and outcomes. (I'd like to live this time.) I strongly recommend the game. It leaves open the possibilities for relationships with the different characters, and there's quite a lot that I have yet to explore. Unlike the interactive fiction games I used to play, this novel contains many possible outcomes. Rather than puzzles to solve, there are relationships to build (possibly with the wyrm riders, or the exiled gryphon keeper, or people I've yet to encounter).
A headache to read
Shok Addar
I understand that companies are getting in trouble left and right for not being politically correct but I honestly believe this was done out of pure laziness it's not illegal to write his,him or her but instead I you put zer even when it's clear that the character is male or female just so you don't have to make two pages one with her one with his
Fun but Lacking
Lestat S-46
Game was alright but really really short. Beat it in little more than an hour and don't really want to play it again. Feel like decisions weren't as important with the ending coming up so fast. Decisions were also more difficult than other choice games because your own status compared to others is poorly described. Ex: the part with the ladder, it doesn't say how high you are so how am I supposed to know how safe it is to jump vs throwing things at/yelling at keepers gryphons when i dont know how they will react to a thrall interference either. Needs to be cheaper for how little you get out of it if not free to get people into the others like the Choice of Heroes, which was awesome and I highly recommend.
Too short!
Desperate for good music
While I thought this was a decent concept, I feel like the author didn't put enough time into it. Playing through the second time made me realize how little you can change the story. I don't expect too much from apps, but being able to change anything other than your stats is not too much to ask.
Strong entry to the COG library
Cover system fan
A little abrupt with the ending, but exceptionally written with an original setting and judicious application of common tropes
Not my favorite story game
Kalielle
Playing a young servant who has to decide between being diplomatically submissive or getting lectured by haughty superiors is not a fantasy to get excited about, and it's the role you're stuck in for most of the game.
Fun but a bit awkward
Unidraconus
Good concept. Reasonable telling of the story BUT the story makes a few leaps in time that you don't really "feel" as a reader. Simple stat mechanics. A short story BUT it did have some meat for the ending and that's always my number one complaint for choice games. So what would be a 3 star is now a 4 star.
Like a lot about it but can be frustrating
Martyrsdieyoung
I am not a fan of losing stats based off of decisions. I can lose a good chunk of the knowledge and charm I have gained just because I made one decision that isn't conducive to it, yet you don't gain stats every knowledge and charm check you succeed.