theramblingvoid:

Fallen London is an experience. You get hooked on “oh hee hoo eldritch browser game!” and yes, it absolutely does not disappoint in that area, the writing is fantastic, but also one day you wake up and realize that your character’s current state of being is “dumping all of their limited time into dangerous and repetitive factory work to fund even more time consuming and risky academic pursuits, all while struggling to maintain friendships and reply to social requests as their sleep deteriorates into nothing” and you just. This was supposed to be escapism. This was supposed to be escapism -

…but other times you end up standing in a sealed-up former prison filled to the brim with bees from Hell (which is a place that is both real and easily accessible by train for business purposes) that are constantly being fought to the death over by a hoard of honey-addicted zombies in an intense decades-long game of capture the flag, so yeah, I guess you could say this game has some range to it