Anna's Quest

I'm not sure who "Anna's Quest's" target audience is. Despite storybook cartoon graphics, and a young girl for a heroine, a lot about the game doesn't seem like it'd appeal to kids. Parents/guardians may wish to check it first. Is it vulgar? Well, it does have one disgusting puzzle, an off-the-rails moment where the heroine must secretly put mucus in someone's drink. But more frequently than that, it seems to me a lot of the game is too intellectual, and will simply go over kids' heads. The plot leads to a lot of talk about abstract concepts like "Wyrd," a medieval notion of fate. Not helping matters is how conversations between characters tend to be very long, which would be boring enough in a game for adults. Since most of the dialogue and acting are mundane anyway, I resorted to turning on subtitles and skipping most of the lines. Eventually, the plot makes an attempt at tragedy and moral complexity. I'm not sure kids will be up to that, especially since the game treats it in a shallow way, and then just leaves it sitting there. This is probably too advanced for kids, and likewise, other parts of the game are odd at best, inappropriate at worst. One long chapter sees Anna trying to escape from an underground prison implied to be a sort of Hell for living people, decorated by lava pits and devil statues, where the warden is literally The Devil. Besides a guillotine, Anna must save an old man who's about to be hanged, and we are shown him in the noose. Other violent subject matter includes skeletons of murder victims whose ghosts talk to Anna, including a man left to die in manacles. Not enough for ya? How about child death? Anna talks to a ghost boy whose tragic death is later shown in flashback. Some customers complained about puzzles. I thought a few were actually above-average in quality. The problem is just that the game overall is below-average, and ill-conceived as a kids' game.

Just wanted to raise the score for this one since I really, really love it. Especially the voice of Anna made this game to one of my absolute favorites. Ive played it together with my daughter and we've had a great time. Just buy and enjoy!

i love point and click adventures and had high hopes for this game but its just too darn boring. gameplay for me is get to the next scene then spend a few minutes enjoying the new surroundings and adventuring then spend the next 30min to hr randomly clicking objects or combining objects in order to get something to happen. the puzzles are obtuse, items response changes to gate keeping actions so you have to reclick repeatedly to see if you can now do an action.... its too boring for words. graphics are ok, nothing to keep you enthralled and the voice acting while well done can grate as its just on the side of whiny. add in how clueless and whimpy the main character is just doesnt pull me along. not going to finish it. i tried but have a ton of new games to play and some old favorites to waste my time with a forgettable irritation as this

Linux version and windows version mini game, lol.