Fine-Tuned is a free, text-based game, playable in many formats. From a review by Adam Cadre: “Not only has the author created an absolutely wonderful world, full of ‘anti-autoists,’ roving herds of goats, and fist-shaking train engineers, but it dares — and manages to pull off — a number of pieces of participatory comedy, which is much harder to pull off than just writing a bunch of funny lines that always show up…. I laughed so hard I thought I’d die. But what really impressed me was that I had to make the joke happen, or rather, the author had to set things up such that I would…” —Fine-Tuned: An Auto-mated Romance
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