I’ve played through all of the Best Story, Best Writing, Best Game, and Best Puzzle nominees now, but I stayed away from some games like Stiffly Maka e and others. One author I avoided from the rumors was Robb Sherwin. But he has a ton of games on these lists.
Are any of his games relatively free of profanity/sexuality/gratuitous violence?
“Saied” may be the mildest, but it’s also the least interesting. If you want to experience Robb Sherwin, brace yourself and enjoy the ride. Or not. It took a while for me to get used to it at first, and I didn’t even know that I WANTED to get used to it… now I just love it.
Yeah, honestly you should try his games. I would recommend Cryptozookeeper first, but that’s probably due to that being the first of his games I really got into.
I’m not an easy person to offend, but I find that IF games that are purposely “over the top” are just… well kind of tacky or lame to me. Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis comes to mind. I wanted to like that one as it seemed like an interesting concept and the author seems like a cool dude, but I just couldn’t get into it. Robb’s games are not within in a group of games like that at all in my opinion.
The only thing I recall in a Sherwin game I felt “eh, that’s a bit much…” was a rather colorful reference to a “fat guy”. But that was before I realized Robb and people featured in the game all joked with each other about being fat.