Oedipus Nix, Reluctant Plaything of the Gods
This game is optimised for:
- Phones in portrait mode
- PCs, laptops, and tablets in landscape mode
OEDIPUS NIX, RELUCTANT PLAYTHING OF THE GODS
Oedipus Nix is an old-school text-only adventure. No images but for those you imagine for yourself. No sounds but for the shrieking voices in your head! One beginning, fifteen endings, and hopelessly entangled paths in between. Oedipus Nix can play very short, or very long; it can end pleasantly, or perversely; it can be an engaging read, or a waste of a half-hour; it can make you giggle on the bus and endear you to your cute seatmate, or it can make you giggle on the bus and enrage the other giggling weirdos on the bus for encroaching on their territory. Choose your path carefully!
Have you the moral courage to slip into the yellow flip-flops of forsaken Oedipus, to test your resolve against the cruel machinations of destiny? Can you guide his swollen feet around the snares of fate, around the riddles of sphinxes, around the Faustian doubletalk of seers, around the excruciating purple prose of this interactive adventure?
Beware! By doing so you risk your very soul, not to mention your precious eyeballs—you put them in uncommon peril! And the crimes you risk committing—! Crimes so sickening, so unspeakable—
Let's leave them for now unspoken.
If you are somehow not familiar with the story of Oedipus, open a tab and do a search, I'll wait. If you haven't the time nor inclination for further research, good. Suffice to say Oedipus' fate is particularly repulsive. And the point of his story—not the point that interested Freud, the other point—is that it is impossible to escape fate.
The interactive adventure before you, however, offers the tantalising possibility that, perhaps, you can—?
Accept the challenge at your peril.
A sincere note from the author: I played this game through ten trillion times, I’m almost entirely certain there are no logical gaps, but the game branches into such a narrative thicket I’m no longer entirely certain about anything! I hope you enjoy it regardless of its little defects. Focus instead on its big defects! More of my work can be found at this nifty little Blogger page:
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