^ Gamecenter staff (January 28, 1998).With a 20 price tag, I highly recommend it for mortgage company receptionists and poor college students who love to kill time. "CGW 1998 Premier Awards (Puzzle Game of the Year)" (PDF). Lose Your Marbles is a solid puzzler, one that acts as a nice diversion. ^ a b Freeman, Nicole (September 10, 1997)."S'marbelous ( Lose Your Marbles Review)" (PDF). The staff called the former "the best Tetris clone we've seen since last year's winner, Baku Baku." The game won the "Best Arcade Game" award at the CNET Gamecenter Awards for 1997. St Marks Church School aims to provide a high quality, holistic. The game was a runner-up for Computer Gaming World 's 1997 "Puzzle Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Smart Games Challenge 2. She concluded, "It's no Baku Baku, but Lose Your Marbles is not a total loss." Next Generation found the single player mode sufficiently challenging, but agreed that the multiplayer is much better, and stated that " Lose Your Marbles is actually quite fun, even if it doesn't grab players quite like Tetris or have the same staying power." Nicole Freeman of GameSpot said that the AI is easy to defeat, making single-player mode too lacking in longevity, though she acknowledged that the multiplayer mode is much more fun and long-lasting.
Humans and AIs have to figure out how to cooperate in Will McIntosh’s refreshing novelette about Nic and Viv’s. In his near-future novella, Derek Knsken offers a complex and compassionate account of Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County. GamePro lauded the game as "one of the most addictive PC games to come out in recent memory", giving it a 4.5 out of 5 for graphics, sound, and control, and a perfect 5 for fun factor. The long works in Asimov’s July/August 2020 deftly explore the human condition.