Posted on: April 21, 2010

Hecktari

Spiele: 336 Rezensionen: 24

Very average

Presentation-wise, Runaway is gorgeous. But everything else is terribly average. The plot is a confused effort that swings between a campy murder mystery to an "Indiana Jones" style mystic adventure. Add a few odd turns towards science fiction and you get a story that has trouble deciding where it is headed. Some fun can be had from the colorful characters along the way, but their silliness is at odds with the serious atmosphere the game tries to convey. It's a game that simply has trouble deciding what kind of story is it telling. Is it a serious crime drama? A light-hearted mystery? An odd-couple journey story? And all of these are simply at odds with each other. The puzzles start smart but quickly become contrived and forced. Runaway is by no means bad, but it is very average.

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Posted on: August 2, 2025

YgthylHywth

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Spiele: 83 Rezensionen: 24

Would not recommend it

I got a feeling that the game developers wanted to punish their players. Even though story-wise it was acceptable, just very campy, silly, and ridiculous, the gameplay and puzzles were awful. Half of the objects to pick are deliberately made tiny and barely visible, not standing out in any way. There is no way to highlight active spots, so you must constantly hunt for pixels. And multiple objects are often located side by side, so you may find one, but miss the other due to the way the cursor works. There is often no logic to the puzzles and sometimes no clear goals given, so you must try every possible option and combination. To make matters worse, even if you have interacted successfully with one spot or item, it doesn't mean it is out of the game. You may need to interact with it a second or even a third time later, but with a different outcome. Yet, there is no indication that you must do it, so unless you follow a guide or try to methodically brute force all possible action combinations, you will get frustrated with the game really fast. And the story is not worth the suffering. To make it worse, the order of interaction matters and you have to look at one spot first to enable interaction option somewhere else. And going back and forth gets really annoying. If you still want to play it, use a guide from the start. That way you will get some fun out of it. To run the game, first go into the game folder and run videocardsetup.exe, then set the main game executable to run as admin in compatibility settings, then start the game, press escape key to open the game settings, then switch graphics to low, then press "y" key on the keyboard.

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Posted on: June 15, 2015

Avatar.950

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 7

Ok adventure

Overall the story is passable but the game play suffers a lot of problems. 1. Pixel hunting. There is no clear indicator when you missed something. 2. Rechecking item/Backtracking Some items you cannot be gotten until you trigger an event so you may end up rechecking items and areas multiple time 3. Puzzle aren't always logical. There are puzzle that are meant to be funny which makes it hard to figure out how to solve it. There were some solution that I would never have thought in a million years 4. Needle in a haystack. There are similar item laying on the floor or other area but you cannot not pick them up. You can only pickup items that the game allows. 5. There are quite a few racial stereotypes that some may find it offensive.

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Posted on: June 25, 2017

Khandi-Mahn

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Spiele: 159 Rezensionen: 7

A very flawed adventure

The protagonist is boring. The lady only exists to be the 'damsel in distress', several times over, and the 'reward' at the end. The puzzles are mostly logical, but suffer from often requiring you to find objects that are difficult to find because they blend into the background, or searching objects you've already searched before, which creates too much frustrating backtracking. With a bit of polish it could have been a classic, as it is... meh.

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Posted on: March 19, 2010

Spaztastic

Spiele: 373 Rezensionen: 1

There are worse games...

Lovely to look at with some solid puzzles (and a few not-so-solid puzzles). The music is nice enough and the voice acting is fine, but the script tries so desperately to be funny and it's just...not. Worth a play-through for the hard-core point-and-click adventurer, but sadly its flaws coupled with a lackluster story make it a pretty so-so experience.

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