Posted on: October 17, 2022

yreneb

Spiele: 281 Rezensionen: 24

I liked the Game a lot!

At a time when I am eagerly awaiting some point and click adventures that have been announced for a long time and whose release dates keep getting postponed, this unexpected new release was a really nice surprise. I + A high level of tension, gloom and creepiness runs consistently throughout the game. + Despite the gloom, there are moments where you can smile. + The story is well done and logical. + The puzzles are logical (easy to moderately difficult) and fit well into the story. + The characters are well developed. The protagonist is likeable. + The music is superb and very atmospheric. + The voice acting is excellent and achieves the usual high Wadjet Eye quality. + The game is solidly realised. + There are unlimited save slots and still an autosave. - The graphics sometimes look a bit simplistic and crude without being artistically justified, especially the cutscenes and backgrounds. Overall, the graphics are not of a consistently high quality. However, this is not due to the retro pixel look, which I otherwise like. - The dialogue scenes could have been a bit better graphically. Faces are unfortunately missing. - While it is basically positive that there is parallax scrolling, it is not implemented very well. It seems rather crude, as if backdrops are being shifted back and forth. Even if not everything is perfect and the game may not be at the absolute top of the genre, it is still a good game that I can recommend. The focus is more on psychological horror, on an exciting story and not on jumpscares and gore. Especially the things that you don't see, that are only hinted at, are scary. The game seems to be unspired by titles such as "The Last Door", "Shadow of the Comet", "Kathy Rain" and "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" as well as "Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers". If you like these games and generally enjoy exciting, dark mystery and psychological horror adventures, you can't really go wrong with "The Excavation of Hob's Barrow".

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Posted on: December 26, 2022

giuper74

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Spiele: 110 Rezensionen: 1

A gem! What a story!

I'm not saying anything so as not to spoil the surprise, but that ending... Great job Cloak and Dagger Games & Wadjet Eye Games ! Chapeau!

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Posted on: February 15, 2023

Tdroszko

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Spiele: 287 Rezensionen: 1

Curses! I absolutely love this!

Those were my first words when I saw this game. I'm a lifelong fan of anything folklore and if it's horror and deals with the occult and black magic, then I'm even more sold. To add to this - I love retro gaming, retro graphics, retro adventure games... There's no point in saying more, you get it. This game caters to the specific audience and my point is, that I tick all of the boxes. So I'm more than biased in my judgement. The Excavation of Hob's Barrow draws heavily from the things folk horror aficionados love the most - niche 70s movies, gothic novels and folk tales. Our heroine comes to the sleepy English village to do the titular excavation and as you can guess, she discovers much more than that. The said village is made amazingly! Confused at first, you quickly learn the land, meet the locals who aren't really friendly at first and unravel the mystery of the place. Voice acting and lines are so so well done. You really feel like being in a small village, not even because of what those villagers are saying but HOW they are saying it by details like dialect and specific phrases. I gotta say, if you are feeling like this game is your jam, it probably is. As I said, specific audience. If you are this audience, this will not disappoint you. I found some flaws - last day is very rushed in my opinion, it's really jarring comparing to the rather slow earlier game. I get the culmination effect... this wasn't it. It's also a short experience, pretty easy. Hard to get stuck on something, things are pretty logical. That is, logical for a game that is dealing with occult. The ending might be a bit underwhelming if you're building some kind of huge payoff in your mind. I would say it's still pretty good, considering the framing of the story you kind of expect where it might go. Anyway, this is my only review so you can guess it: highly recommended, loved every minute. Go play it.

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Posted on: February 21, 2023

ShinGnosis

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Spiele: 46 Rezensionen: 14

Great classic mystery adventure game

Starts slow but soon evolves into a game with plenty of lovecraftian vibes, a little classic Sherlock Homes in here too. A pretty unique and interesting story overall, great voice acting and logical puzzles. if there's anything holding the game back it's probably the low resolution and lack of multiple endings. A few unresolved threads as well (The Fair Folk?? Violin girl??). I think the team should start right away on an "enhanced version", double the resolution, more detail and two more endings depending on your choices. This could potentially be a real timeless adventure game classic that goes on to sell +100k copies over ten years.

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Posted on: March 19, 2023

Elektrolurch

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Spiele: 301 Rezensionen: 11

Pretty good.

First of all: What really amazed me about this title was the atmosphere, the feelings of dread and isolation the game is able to convey through very simple means and which are consistent throughout the experience. It's a dark,rather serious point and click adventure, which gets really..dark and supernatural as it goes along. The puzzles overall are for the most part simple, sometimes challenging, though it falls a few times into the "randomly ask everyone about everything so you can advance" trap of adventure game design, but it's nothing too bad. The graphics are typical low res affairs, with weird technical mishaps (weird sprite scaling), but to me,that didn't matter because through the means of colours,mood etc,also helped by the great ambient soundtrack, brings the sorroundings really came across nicely. The voice acting is mostly pretty good as well. And the narrative... Most people really dislike the ending. I really loved it, it's dark,depressing and simply, how most horror stories of the era that games plays in work- so for me, it was a very good experience overall. There are some minor flaws,granted, and compared to my favorite of the wadjet eye cataolouge, unavowed, it is the weaker game for sure. But still recommended highly. Though probably not for everyone.

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