80 Days

Moby ID: 72226
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All over the Victorian globe, Great Powers prepare for imperial war, colonial states strive to overthrow the yoke of oppression, and everywhere, steampunk marvels of the Artificers and other new technologies unlock previously unimaginable wonders.

In this game, inspired by Jules Verne's 1873 novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours and set the year before, the player controls Passepartout ("goes everywhere"), the valet to a British gentleman by the name of Phileas Fogg. Mr. Fogg has undertaken a wager to circumnavigate the globe within 80 days, and it is up to his unflappable valet to accompany him and make all of the arrangements needed to assure that the undertaking is a success. This boils down to a series of decisions made managing travel itineraries, finances, inventory items and Mr. Fogg's health, all presented with striking minimalist graphics and a great deal of lush gamebook-style textual passages.

There are numerous potential successful routes -- will the player be conservative and go the long haul on the Orient Express and Trans-Siberia Railway, or will they gamble on experimental airships and submersibles and new routes through canals at Suez and Panama? Perhaps a polar expedition will act as a fruitful shortcut? Of course, there are just as many ways to fail -- laid low with cholera in Manila, enslaved in an opium den in Hong Kong, or simply arriving back home one day too late. A great deal of role-playing side-business along the way help to break up the routine of getting from A to B.

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Average score: 86% (based on 10 ratings)

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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 21 ratings with 1 reviews)

Not as Good as the Critics Say

The Good
The highlight of this game is the writing. Jon Ingold is no stranger to interactive fiction and this is a fine effort on his part. The graphical style is also pleasing. You get some of the feeling of travelling around the world, seeing interesting places, and meeting interesting people.

The Bad
The main issue with this game is that it strays way too far from the spirit of the original book. In the book, Phileas Fogg is an orderly gentleman who makes a wager to travel around the world in 80 days based on knowing the optimal route up front and having enough cash on hand to safely get him there (barring any unforeseen obstacles). In the game, you don't even know a single complete route at the start, and you need to discover routes as you go. Often, what seems like an obvious route will not be available, and you can get stuck in random places with no apparent way to proceed onward. In addition, you start the game with far too little cash to be successful, certainly much less than Fogg had in the book. You can go to the bank to take out additional funds, but this takes way too long (and the more money you need, the longer it takes), and the lost time will cause you to lose the wager in any case.

The Bottom Line
This game is nice for getting a feel of travelling around the world in a Steampunk setting and having nice conversations with other travelers, but falls short as a game based on the famous Jules Verne novel.

Windows · by Stuart Feldhamer (11477) · 2020

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Nintendo Switch added by Kam1Kaz3NL77. Windows, Macintosh added by Sciere.

Game added May 14, 2015. Last modified September 20, 2023.