Tom McFeel Ain’t Poor: Rio Giver

Game Overview & History

For years, you’ve awaited the arrival of what promised to be the hottest it strategic space combat. Which, in all honesty, was a glorified dual-stick shooter with extra work involved. Deadline after deadline has been missed, with intermittent promises as to its eventual full release trickling out from its producer.

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Gameplay Mechanics & Systems

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Release & Industry Impact

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But it’s the next best thing, I’d wager. A quick-ish, multi-ending Twine game looking at what it’s like to talk a big game but never deliver. An exploration of trying to cover up one’s mistakes rather than trying to fix or learn from them. Perhaps something of a digital diss track, but whatever. It’s (mostly) in good fun.

(Threw it up as a download instead of play-in-browser because some of the passages are pretty hefty, and scrolling didn’t seem to work. Works fine if you just open the index.html in a browser manually, though.)