GAME: The Casabian Virus
AUTHOR: GoblinBoy
PLATFORM: TADS 2 http://www.tads.org/
SOUND: no
GRAPHICS: no
REVIEWED: 29th May 2007
WALKTHROUGH: n/a
DOWNLOAD: http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/minicomp2007.zip


Amusing bug when I tried to DROP ALL and found the game attempting to drop my tits and pussy. Hmmm…

Echoes of "Children of Men" in the game's theme: no children have been born for twenty years and humanity is going to hell. Here it's apparently been caused by a virus created by some fellow called Casabian. You're sent back in time to prevent the virus ever being released. Or are you…? As I found at the very end of the game, there's more going on here than is indicated to begin with.

I first completed the game without reaching a single sex scene (though spent quite a while wandering around naked!) but hit the bad ending and then went back and got the better one. And got the sex as well. It was actually quite refreshing to find an AIF game that it was possible to finish, even reaching a bad ending, that didn't require me to have sex. As for the sex? One of the better ones, I'm pleased to say, and mercifully free of the usual guess the verb problems that seem to plague so many sex scenes in the AIF world.

There were a few rough edges - the game hinting that I was to try and seduce one character but then throwing a wobbly when I tried to have sex with him or take my clothes off - but nothing that ruined an otherwise excellent game.

Arousal: damn fine.