And of course there’s tons of others to find during your journey. His employer Mr Fogg acts as a foil: ridiculously (and hilariously) unflappable, with a very deeply hidden heart. Regardless, he’s a very entertaining character to follow his rare serious moments feel genuinely sweet. Speaking of Passepartout, your choices can make him either snobby or with a zest for new experiences, either clever or bumbling. I also found it endlessly amusing to play Passepartout as a kind-of travelling revolutionary, subtly and unsubtly encouraging revolt from Serbia to Peru. That’s way more exciting than “Everyone else is a savage, may the British Empire last a thousand years”. There’s a mechanical travelling city in India, a Zulu Emperor who can control deadly automatons, a floating First Nations city, etc etc etc. This not only helps the game discard a lot of the baggage associated with Victorian novels, it simply makes it more fun.
But Meg Jayanth, the game’s writer, purposefully updated its themes and morals. 80 Days keeps the original book’s spirit of adventure. To be fair, I have a particular weakness for the setting: post-colonial steampunk. This makes 80 Days a crazy, extremely replayable, ever-changing novella. But a run-through takes me under two hours, and I typically only visit about 20 cities per game.
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To make the scope clear: there’s about 150 cities to visit the full game is 750,000 words. (While the graphics are lovely, they’re deliberately abstract, so the focus is on the words.) You choose both which city to travel to as well as how Passepartout interacts with Mr Fogg, the locals, and the world’s wondrous steampunk technology. My excuse for reviewing a SFF game on a SFF book review site is that 80 Days is a modern choose-your-own-adventure book. On my first playthrough, I got us kicked out of the Trans-Siberian railway by a fake waiter on the second, Passepartout kissed Death in New Orleans on the third, Fogg calmly asked me to arrange a mutiny so we could cross the Pacific faster. It is your job to choose the best travel routes, obtain the necessary funds, get into and out of all sorts of scrapes, and still iron your master’s shirts. Monsieur Fogg has left all the actual planning to you though.
You play the valet Passepartout, whose new master has just made a wager that he can travel around the world in 80 days or less. (Available for Windows, iOS, and mobile devices!) Inkle’s 80 Days is a text-based adventure game that adapts Jules Verne’s 80 Days Around the World, and it’s my latest obsession.
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