is safe. A fairly good game overall. Gameplay was slightly clunky, and the lack of battles was a little disappointing. But, a fairly good play for choices. Grade: 92
JSin333 Sat Apr 8 10:26:57 2017
That was off the hook! No pun intended...
Raymond Tue Sep 12 04:26:51 2017
Seems like a hard ish adventure, which is appropriate for the theme. As far as I can tell, quite luck based as well as needing to make the correct decisions. A lot of instant lose conditions. Will be interesting to see if I can recreate the win conditions when playing again.
RogueOne Fri Oct 20 17:34:29 2017
Done!
Peter Fri Dec 22 10:45:04 2017
Very graphic
MIKEL Mon Feb 19 17:19:59 2018
Thrilling and suspense-filled!
Fra Tue Mar 20 22:15:50 2018
Grisly but fun :)
Fabio Sat Apr 21 05:24:51 2018
Gross! But I loved it. :)
Fabio Sat Apr 21 05:38:16 2018
After a couple of unsuccessful tries, I've managed to "escape" the Keep. Good but gruesome story, very good narrative, but a somewhat unsatisfactory ending. I'd hoped I'd kill them myself.
paul Fri Mar 22 11:34:54 2019
the wrong sort of escape! :(
Joejoe Mon May 20 04:43:05 2019
Well written but feels pointless at the end. What have i achieved?
Drugar Oakenhammer Thu Jul 11 21:41:16 2019
Passed it on my first try, with 1 stamina left! Brutal as hell, but well-written. Ending was a bit abrupt though.
oakley Mon Mar 23 03:46:14 2020
ok
s Sat Mar 28 05:44:21 2020
dont like it
Quasarsphere Wed Dec 2 08:28:13 2020
Yeah, not sure about this one. It really needs more brutally graphic descriptions of extremely sadistic torture. As it is, it's just a bit too cute and Christmassy, don't you think?
Lennon Mon Feb 8 05:23:31 2021
Super fun! Thanks for the gory adventure!
bored potato Wed Aug 18 17:42:14 2021
was not that enjoyable to me..
Mage Wed Oct 20 06:04:38 2021
Hey, the title is so misleading!
SPOILER
Escaping actually loses you the game. Should be called "Survive Neuburg Keep". :P
END SPOILER
Harry Paratestes Sun Mar 12 21:32:25 2023
Thanks for the endless descriptions of torture, I think the writer enjoyed it a little bit too much. Also this must be the only gamebook where your character has no agency or heroism, and just hangs around being tortured until they are rescued by a deus ex machina! In short I did not like it!
fairy Thu Jun 15 00:12:22 2023
i dead
Tammy Fri Jul 21 03:58:44 2023
You're very welcome Harry that you were and weren't entertained by the gore. It's supposed to be the sequel to beneath nightmare castle, so I had no choice but to up the gross, violence, and intensity. The ending is done like that on purpose unfortunately, but no information was given out from your lips and you save the realm. Maybe.....
Mage, No, you cannot and will not according to the rules of khul, intended to survive in this book. But there is a faint chance you could survive, but desperation ultimately makes you try to escape rather than care about everyone's safety and future. Your future and life is all that matters, and you will fight to get out!
YARD Thu Aug 24 15:05:16 2023
Meh. Other than this website, I mainly play rogueli(k/t)e games nowadays, and this reminds me of nothing more than Fear and Hunger. It had a similar torture keep setting (albeit you were more active protagonist there) and it had a similar feeling of the story essentially going through the motions of ticking off every awful thing it could think of, with no real imagination spared for anything else. Then again, I got more-or-less from the author's other works on here as well.
Proofreading:
2
"you watch helpless as an" + "a voice wakens your from your slumber"
5
"is thrown in to the cell"
"his ankles are a part"
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"Will you reply that know nothing of this guild"
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"that it at this very moment"
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"The torture takes a collar" + "and you chin is rested"
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"and your tossed onto" + "in who was chained"
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"by slithering there blood-sucking tentacles"
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"the remains... is still concealed"
LETÍCIA Thu Aug 31 23:06:29 2023
É LEGAL
MPerera Sun Sep 3 15:10:21 2023
I was able to beat this one by immediately scrolling to the bottom of each page (to avoid the stomach-churning descriptions) and refusing to say anything.