Tag: Point and Click

12 Minutes Review – Quite a bit longer than that.

KinglinkLeave a comment

12 Minutes is the latest game published by Annapurna Interactive. It’s a strange narrative adventure involving the player repeating the same time frame in a Groundhog Day-style loop.

Players start by coming home late from work when their wife has cooked dessert for them. After a nice average evening at home, a cop knocks at the door, and when you or your wife open it, the cop will quickly arrest you and your wife, and ends up striking or choking the player to death. And the game restarts.

This is an abrupt and disturbing scene, but it’s exactly what’s in store for the player in 10 minutes increments, each time loop usually ends with a horrific end, and the player is left to wonder how they can fix their predicament.

Read More »

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise Review – A simple but fun point and click adventure

KinglinkLeave a comment

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise is a “puzzle adventure” game which means that it combines a typical puzzle game with a stronger focus on the story. The player takes on the role of the silent “Agent A”, a secret agent on the trail of a nefarious villain, Ruby La Rouge.

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise is split up into five chapters, each focused on a different section of the story, but the entire game revolves around infiltrating and capturing Ruby La Rouge. To do this, players will have to solve a variety of puzzles and find several secrets in La Rouge’s private getaway.

Read More »

The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day – A completely average experience

KinglinkLeave a comment

The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day is a point-and-click adventure game where the player takes on the role of a robot in a society where humans have been extinct. That’s the premise the game starts with.

The main character is a robot whose primary job is a scavenger and builds tools for others as the game starts with a simple set of tutorial tasks. Sadly this job has very little to do with the game, but it’s an interesting concept. Instead as the player walks out of his house after the first night, a giant spaceship crashes in front of him.

Read More »

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure Review – A fun but simple “sequel”

KinglinkLeave a comment

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure is a followup to the point and click adventure game, Thimbleweed Park. It was created during the ongoing (as of the time of this writing) COVID-19 pandemic and released as a way to test Ron Gilbert’s new gameplay engine.

With that said, this should be treated more like a tech demo, rather than even a demo, as this is not intended to be an upcoming game. It’s just “a little more Thimbleweed Park.” for fans of that game and for what it is, it works.

Read More »

Thimbleweed Park -A return to classic adventure games by some of the greats.

KinglinkLeave a comment

Thimbleweed Park is a brand new point and click adventure from the minds who created Maniac Mansion including Ron Gilbert, Gary Winnick, and David Fox.

Thimbleweed Park starts with a simple tutorial which shows a mysterious murder, from there the player takes control of two characters, Agent Ray and Reyes. The two characters feel based on X-Files’ Scully and Mulder, and it’s hardly the only reference in the game.

Read More »