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RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - ClusterLizard - 11-19-2025
I just finished 1954 Alcatraz.
I think the overall premise - a crime story involving stolen money, a prison break out, and being able to switch between a character on the 'inside' and another character on the 'outside' - is good but the actual game doesn't quite deliver on that. Story has gritty elements but I think it should have been grittier, the occasional choices the game gives you should have been more meaningful, and the puzzles are a bit mundane at times. Also the game has a known issue with random soft locking which I had happen at least three or four times while playing so you need to save often and replay sections if it happens.
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - LeftHandedGuitarist - 11-20-2025
I just finished playing Deliver Us The Moon. It caught my eye a while back and looked like it fell in that sweet spot between a walking sim and a puzzle filled adventure. I was hoping it would be a sci-fi version of Call of the Sea.
It's not quite there. It has quite a few puzzles along the way, but they are all very simplistic and don't require much thought other than looking around the environment. What it does do fantastically well is the setting; there's a great sense of loneliness as you wander across the moon with some nice graphics and an evocative soundtrack.
Yet it fumbles in a few places where it counts. Movement is often frustrating, especially in an early zero-G section. It takes an absolute age to turn yourself around, and this also carries over to the simple act of spinning the camera around to look at things. This can make the puzzles feel more difficult than they actually are, as you are fighting with the controls just to figure out what's in the space around you. There are a surprising amount of unintuitive moments throughout where it isn't clear what you're supposed to do or where you're supposed to go. A lot of the time I felt this could have been tweaked with some small change to the objective list just to make things slightly better explained.
The game also takes the approach of using personal logs and recordings for storytelling. This is a tried and tested method, but personally it's one of my least favourite narrative devices. I never get invested in the characters or plot, and it always leaves you as a bystander witnessing things that already happened and you have no interaction with. Strangely, your character almost never speaks, which only adds to the disconnect. Despite the game going for some emotion, I didn't really feel anything.
And yet despite all this, there is some magic to the game. The atmosphere is fantastic and there is quite a bit of variety as you go through, despite it falling back on the same tactics for your progression (find door, unlock door, move obstruction, power this device). It feels like a 7/10 game, but given all the criticisms I've thrown at it I'll probably go for 6.5.
I'm not sure if I'll continue with the sequels.
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - Wild Boar - 11-24-2025
Gerda: A Flame in Winter https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771360/Gerda_A_Flame_in_Winter/
Face Noir was too linear for me and therefore too annoying.
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - BobVP - 11-24-2025
I'm about to play Blackwell Unbound, in preparation for the upcoming community playthrough.
At some point I will finally play Kathy Rain 2. -_-
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - Piero - 11-26-2025
I just played Amos Green, one of the older Carol Reed games and no less brilliant. I absolutely love the atmosphere in these games - kooky, sinister, surreal, sad...
Now I'm trying Grim Fandango for the 2nd time. I think I dislike it just as much this time around but we'll see...
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - srnickolas - 11-26-2025
I just started "Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit" . Seems like a nice investigative game
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - Guyra - 11-26-2025
I'm replaying Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller. It's a pretty good game in almost all aspects, but man is it janky!
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - Hexenwerk - 11-26-2025
I have started playing the sequel to Dominique Pampelmousse. Not the typical point & click adventure.
https://squinky.itch.io/dompam2
The intro was quite entertaining already, addressing the problem of games with multiple endings and their sequels. Wondering if I should have played the first game again, since it is years ago and I don't remember the story clearly.
This sequel already feels different to the first game (very episodic), while at the same time still recognizable. An experimental adventure. I have no idea what to expect from the rest of the game. Let's see. I like it when devs dare something.
I started late this evening and won't be able to finish it today.
It has no proper save system, just auto saves for each scene. So beware if you don't have much time and want to have look.
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - Hexenwerk - 11-27-2025
I finished the sequel to Dominique Pampelmousse today. Overall, it felt more like an interactive movie to me than a usual point & click adventure game.
I have to confess that I do not have much patience for such kind of games (where you have to wait for people to speak and do stuff while you cannot walk around, and can't really click around and check things). But I truly like the overall idea and theme of this game. The developer seems to be pretty brave and honest, and I am happy that I found that sequel with the help of this forum.
There were some funny and surprising/unexpected ideas in this game. While I preferred the gameplay of the previous game (as far as I remember it!), for me a game like this is art.
While I may not want to play this game again (because of the gameplay style), my life feels richer after having played it. It just resonated with me in a way. Not many games I have played accomplished that.
RE: What Adventure Games are you playing - ClusterLizard - 11-27-2025
Since I've seen the Syberia series mentioned a few times around this forum recently I decided to replay the first game. Not the recently released remake but the actual original version.
For some reason I found the story far more interesting now than what I remember thinking of it back when I first played it. The pre-rendered backgrounds look amazing even to this day too.
I plan to continue on to replaying the sequel soon, and then onto the newer games in the series that I haven't played before. Hopefully I might find the time for all that over the upcoming Christmas break...