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The IFWiki Cruelty scale page describes a rating system devised by Andrew Plotkin for measuring how difficult interactive fiction makes it for a player to progress past in-game obstacles. The classic scale has five ratings: Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty and Cruel, with definitions and examples.

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