I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect this to be so similar to 80 days. and yeah, almost everything I love about that game is here: interesting choices, subversion of your expectations, playful writing, a large cast of characters with a short time in the limelight, connecting threads through the narrative. 80 days is still the greater work, though, because for all that's great about sorcery, it says quite little about the world real people inhabit. you can't really blame Sorcery! for that though.

side note: man, I love short games