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“Delaney and Copi, as well as archival projects like a complete reprint of the legendary SF punk zine Search & Destroy .) Inpatient has also put out games geared more towards a fiction fan than a traditional gamer.”
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“(This isn’t to say they’re not doing “regular” books too—Inpatient has published work by Samuel R.”
“Think of “Ex Libris” like if Borges or Cortazar wrote for an old LucasArts point-and-click game.”
“I found the experience of exploring and reading similar to that of reading a hypertext novel like The Castle of Crossed Destinies or Pale Fire .”
“James Folta September 9, 2026 The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work.”
“The small publisher has been putting out fascinating novels, collections, zines and games since 2013.”
“As you raise your “logos” stat and begin to “understand” more of the writing and dialogue, the game’s text begins to form a coherence.”
“This was followed by “Mezzanine,” where you play as an HR administrator at the faux Y2K era multimedia start-up Zentropy.”
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“Or as “Mezzanine”‘s description says, “the lost potential of multimedia and how our current societal psychosis may have always been by design.” Inpatient’s latest game, “Ex Libris,” came out in April and is perhaps the most literary of the bunch.”
“In the same sense that you would never say, “I won Helen DeWitt’s latest novel by conquering the various challenges and trials it presented me,” there is no obvious triumph at the end of an Inpatient game.”
“You also run into lots and lots of books and scrolls, which you can slowly begin to understand as you “learn” the languages they’re written in and translations begin to appear.”
“The pleasure here is not a competitive chase to win or complete the experience.”
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