An introspective one, with some incongruities. Alone and moody, you find yourself snatched away by supernatural forces to a small and symbolic world of magic and hallucination, dominated by a river that flows through a desert. About halfway through the game, there's a great deal of exposition, in which you learn of your destiny to - and here's the incongruous bit - fight off an alien invasion. Well-programmed, detailed environment, a few nice puzzles, some possibility of getting locked out of victory.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

lethe_noio.zip (140.59 KB)

TADS executable (version: 2, Same as lethe.zip except without the configuration file [some systems cannot handle it])

lethe.txt (1.26 KB)

Readme associated with version 1 of the game.

lethe.zip (140.58 KB)

TADS 2.2 executable (version: 2, ZIP file containing readme, game file and default config [NOTE: you must ensure that 'lethe.cfg' is all lowercase when playing on a case sensitive OS])

lethe.step (2.82 KB)

solution