Thaumistry: In Charm's Way

$3.99

Release Date:: Oct 7, 2017
Developer:: Bobbates LLC.
Publisher:: Bobbates LLC.
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Adventure Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy

Eric Knight is a confused young man who was a famous child prodigy inventor, but who hasn’t seen much success since. Strange things always seem to happen around Eric—door knobs fall off in his hands, computer screens go blank when he touches them, alarms go off randomly as he walks by.

Today, he will find out why.

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is a hilarious text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.

Set in present-day New York City, the game is a joke-a-minute romp filled with offbeat characters, improbable spells, and well-crafted puzzles.

Spoiler-free, context-sensitive hint system
In-game map
Fully customizable fonts and colors
Screen reader-friendly (NVDA) option available for visually-impaired players
Steam Cloud save games
Advanced parser, for a modern update of Interactive Fiction
Digital CyberFeelies™ to round out that classic text adventure experience
Thaumistry is USDA approved,* gluten-free, and contains 0 grams of cholesterol

*No it’s not.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

2 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #603125 english

48 min at review

Recommended

What a cool game! And what a crazy trailer too. They've got Al Lowe, Tim Schafer, and Steve Meretzky...in the trailer, not all involved with the game, haha. But if you read those names and you imagine a certain type of humor, then you're pretty close to what to expect with Thaumistry. It's a modern-day fantasy style game, and casting spells is an essential part of solving a lot of the puzzles. Think LOOM but in a modern setting and you're an inventor rather than a weird little cloak guy and there's no graphics and also you don't have to play music to cast spells... Ok, maybe I just wanted you to think about LOOM, isn't that a neat game? This one is definitely worth playing for the humor and the footnotes (yes, footnotes, with external links and everything)! The price is definitely right for the amount of gameplay you have here - by which I mean it's really cheap! Give it a try.