Fireplace Vibe

It's listed under interactive fiction. I couldn't find the fiction, and there isn't much of the interaction either. It's an ambience piece, and a small one. The maker is upfront that this was a pivot after a bigger cosy idea didn't come together, and you can feel where the scope went. Nothing wrong with it. There just isn't enough here for me to send anyone to.

It's a fire. You watch the fire. I know how that sounds, and I also had it open for a good while and got up measurably less wound up than I sat down. There's a whole category of thing that only wants to sit in the corner of a screen and be warm at you, and this belongs squarely in it. Nothing to lose. Nothing to finish.

Opened it, went quiet for a bit, closed it slightly less frazzled. Is it a game? Not in any sense Id stand up and defend! But it does the precise thing the name promises.

It is, and I want to be clear about this, a fireplace. It crackles away and looks warm, and you can click on it. I left it running in a tab for half an hour and that was pleasant enough. The maker says plainly that this is the salvage from a bigger idea that didn't come together, and it shows. Nothing here to come back to.