Abominable behaviour: Yeti’s Parole Officer is the latest IF from Choice of Games

Doing “Harry and the Hendersons” was actually part of his sentence.

If you’ve heard a better pitch for a game this year than one in which you play the parole officer responsible for giant cryptid in the far future, please post it to me immediately. That’s exactly what Choice of Games have for us this week in their latest iOS & Android gamebook, Yeti’s Parole Officer.

You are the case officer for the Pan-Galactic Prisons Bureau, responsible for not just the Yeti but also Mothman, the Chupacabra, and Nessie. You’re the Men in Black’s version of Loren Coleman, keeping the people of Earth in the dark about the existence of monsters among them. I sincerely hope this game is as entertaining as its premise.

There’s good reason to believe it is: Choice of Games’ interactive fiction is reliably good. Their sci-fi epic The Fleet warped off with our Interactive Fiction Game of the Year runner-up award last year. CoG’s engine is looking increasingly dated in the face of the exquisite artifacts that Inkle make like 80 Days, but good IF writing is still good IF writing, no matter how lovely the wrapper.

Yeti’s Parole Officer is going to be out this week, September 26th, on iOS and on Android.