Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard

I've played it with my 11 y.o. kid and it was fun. Some highlights: * The game is neatly designed story-wise. The atmosphere changes considerably during the game, but there's always a goal to follow that looks natural. * I've liked the characters. They feel believable and nice. The Magpie specifically even went into our local vocabulary that I use with my son :) We reference it or quote certain phrases at times * On the downside, the "failure" moments are a bit too brutal to my taste. Gameplay-wise yes they show a danger icon and you know you should save, but I'm speaking about the emotional and visual impact here, not whether you'll lose game progress. This could be done better. Maybe have a checkmare to see/hide the more violent moments? ("Violent" is a pretty strong word, but these failure moments aren't too nice either.) Overall very well done. This game is not just about puzzles to solve, but also about characters to follow / be part of. Comparing to other 3 or so point-and-click games that I still remember, this one scores a bit higher than the others for me.

This is one of the most enjoyable recent adventure games I've played. The characters are adorable, puzzles are reasonable, good voice acting. The one negative is that I had to manually set the rendering backend to Direct9 as the default setting of software renderer caused the screen to be misaligned in fullscreen mode for me.

The game is very cute, the art is nice, the enigmas are never outright nonsensical, for its price, I definitely recommend. I played in modern mode, and I'm glad I did 'cause the game has pixel hunting for you in store if you go with classic. Also, a very low spoiler advice going forward: The game gives you the option of opening and closing. Get ready to use it on anything that looks like a door to avoid being stuck assuming such and such cannot or need not be opened or closed.

Looks deceptively cute on the outside, contains lots of graphic scenes and violence