Tally Ho

Tally Ho

Choice of Games · 2017

Wodehousian prose with immaculate comic timing

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The WhatsNext verdict

For Fans of interactive fiction, comedic farce, and witty classic British humor in the style of P.G. Wodehouse.: It delivers a hilarious, masterfully penned comedy of errors where you manage eccentric employers, navigate tangled social disasters, and shape complex branching outcomes. Tradeoff: The text-only format and occasionally opaque underlying stat checks can make optimizing specific outcomes feel unpredictable.

What it does best

  • Wodehousian prose with immaculate comic timing

  • Choices create genuinely different comic disasters

  • A sustained country-house comedy of escalating chaos

  • A cast of lovable eccentrics worth returning to

What might put you off

  • Opaque stat checks

  • Wodehouse-style absurdity

The setup

What you are walking into

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?

Where it lives

LinuxPC (Microsoft Windows)Mac

Genre

Role-playing (RPG)AdventureIndie
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