System's Twilight

The game is a combination of puzzle and story, combining several different kinds of logic puzzles and word puzzles. The puzzles include variations of Set, Black Box, and Sokoban, as well as many others. The overarching story is an allegory in which the player and other characters are programs in a broken, dysfunctional computer environment. Originally, Plotkin released System's Twilight as shareware. Since 2000, it has been re-released as binary-only freeware. It runs only in the Mac OS Classic environment, but can be run in emulation on other platforms. ==Reception==

MacAddict commented that ''System's Twilight felt similar to 3 in Three'', with hard puzzles, quality sound and graphics, and a witty storyline. Adventure Gamers felt that ''System's Twilight'' improved on "Cliff Johnson’s metapuzzle adventures" by adding "some much-needed nonlinearity as well as a stronger narrative." The game "synthesizes abstract puzzle-solving into an adventure game to great effect", with an ending that is rewarding "in terms of both adventuring and puzzle-solving." ==References==