80 Days 2014

Is it still worth playing?

An interactive fiction game developed and published by Inkle for iOS in July 2014 and for other systems later, with branching narrative storytelling. It is loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days: in 1872 Phileas Fogg bets he can circle the world in eighty days, and you play his valet Passepartout. Everyone starts the same way, going from London to Paris by an underwater train, and then you choose your next city from the closest ones, with the whole globe visible from the start. You manage luggage, money, your master's health and time, and you buy and sell items in markets around the world. One circuit shows about two percent of the game's 750,000 words, and there are secrets and hidden endings. A world with so much text to find still makes each trip different.