I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

A mix of body, ethical and psychological horror as you play as 5 different characters each being tormented by a sentient computer at the end of the world. Graphically it still looks pretty good considering its age and the full voice acting and animation is impressive for its age. The music is annoying and overbearing, which I guess is the point as it makes you feel uncomfortable, and the world is bizarre yet recognisable enough to be relevant with its stories of ethical dilemmas and redemption. The story is good, but the puzzles are poor as they are very unclear and it’s far too easy to make a mistake and be locked out of completing a chapter, forcing you to restart and use a walkthrough. As it’s not a long game this isn’t too much of an issue, but is off-putting, especially in the final act where you have to follow a nonsensical sequence precisely otherwise you will fail to get a good ending.

I would have gave it 5 stars but this one is censored. Besides that, it's a very interesting game.

Maybe it's because I normally don't play a lot of click-and-point adventure games, but playing this one was an infuriating experience. The story is well written and a great extention to its source material and the main reason I continued pushing through this nightmare of moon-logic puzzles. I kept soft-locking myself without a guide, which lead me to saving every few minutes, after every bit of progression I managed to do. Suprisingly this game didn't crash on me once. It did bug out frequently, though. I think this game is best experienced watching a walkthrough or with a guide. Solving the puzzles yourself stops feeling rewarding after half an hour and maybe I would have appreciated the symbolism behind them a lot more if I didn't just try combining different items until it worked.

Played this first time when it came out. Never finished it but learned later on that due to several bugs you could get stuck with no hope of getting forward. Unfortunately none of this bugs have been fixed in this new release. You can still play as Nimdok and get stuck if you do wrong things in wrong order, and the game doesn't even hint that you should've done things differently. Much worse is the fact that you can actually complete all five tales and the get stuck in the last episode without a hope to complete the game successfully.

There are radical changes when compared to the original short story, some who are comprehensible because it's a short story after all, there is not enought material, but some are really strange and not necessary at all. Read the short story and play the game and see for yourself.