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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #31 | 3.043 | 3.600 |
| Historical Accuracy | #46 | 3.296 | 3.900 |
| Gameplay | #51 | 2.704 | 3.200 |
| Overall | #52 | 2.874 | 3.400 |
| Thematic Relevancy | #69 | 3.212 | 3.800 |
| Graphics | #77 | 2.535 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
On what countries' history is the game based ?
East Anglia/The Fens of Eastern England
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In Fenlander, play as an ordinary person in the historic fens. Cut reeds, dig peat, smoke eels, and try and make your rent amid a world of wingbeats, water, and whispering reeds. This game is a text parser RPG.
Credit the makers of any assets you used below:
Picture used to create the village was from Wikimedia commons: the faces were from the ThisPersonDoesNotExist bank of AI-generated human faces.
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That's impressive work for 1 week!
Wasn't sure of the historical context, but you've captured a certain feel.
I like the way the options expand with new all caps words appearing as you go along.
This was really fun! Text-rpgs are challenging for sure. The day/night cycle added a lot of interest, and I really liked the mechanics and recorded music. Nice job!
Saw it on stream and wanted to try it out myself. :) Enjoyed the game, even though it was complicated at first. Great music too! :) Well done!
Thank you! Yes, the parser system is quite genre-convention-y and can take a bit of time to get used to (and I didn't have time to make much of a tutorial for it unfortunately!) But I'm glad you enjoyed it, hopefully the general feel of the place and landscapes come over a bit which is a lot of what I was aiming for: since most western European fens are now heavily drained it's an environment I think people aren't very used to nowadays.
It was hard to understand the commands for me, but I really liked the game nonetheless. Thanks for showing up on stream! Here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1259192401
Thanks for playing! Yes, I think there's a lot of sort of genre-norms stuff for text parser games where once you've played a few you get quite used to certain bits of how the commands are constructed and used, and I didn't have the time to write more of a tutorial section or anything as I might do for a longer game. I'm glad you still found some enjoyment from it :)
Took a minute to get the hang of it, but once I figured it out I had a good time. The music was also very nice
Thank you for playing! Yeah, I guess the text-parser system is a bit old fashioned nowadays, but I'm glad it works OK once you've worked it out.