Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth

delicious graphics, great storytelling, remarkable voice acting, great music. it's a must have for every classic point-and-click adventure fan. i'm sad it's over but i am enjoying the afterglow. priceless game!

Very good adventure! Not much in terms of gameplay/puzzles, so you won't get stuck or get mad while pixelhunting. This is mostly about playing through a long, engaging, grown up story. 21 chapters, and if you take your time it just might last as many hours. You switch between a bunch of characters, which might be confusing the first hour, but then you start enjoying the variation. Very high production values - great sound, great music, very nice environments! A bit cheap character animations but you get used to the style pretty quick. A bunch of moralic choices, but I don't know how much you can affect the story, but others have said that you can. All in all a great game, and I really prefer this style to all the impossible illogical pixelhunting adventures out there!

The game is based on the best selling book of the same name (1989) depicting the trials and tribulations of masons Tom and Jack building a cathedral in a fictitious medieval town of Kingsbridge. You get a historical account of the feudal aristocracy mired in a war for the English throne and how political machinations affected the peasants, merchants and the church. I borrowed the book years ago and it was a great read. You get to learn much about feudal England, the cruelty inflicted by the nobles to achieve their own ends, the hypocrisy of the church and most intriguing of all - the architect of the time. You get to cheer the well meaning protagonists and jeer the well written villains. The game is a novella with light puzzle elements. Game offers hints if you're stuck. There is no right or wrong answer while in dialogue as the story carries on regardless of your decisions. The only negative here is the quick time action sequences which seem out of place for this sort of game. Quick action sequences involve a fast paced dot that you have to time to colored rectangles. Fail those and the game may end abruptly and you'll have to reload. Not a big deal since you can save anywhere. Originally, the game released in 3 seasons (3 books) and you had to pay per season. Now you can buy the complete collection from GOG for a few pence (on sale). Each book has several chapters you need to complete to advance the storyline. As the story progresses you will get to witness Kingsbridge go from a backwards village to a thriving city. It would be impossible to portray the depth of the book but the game does a good job of hitting the main highlights. Ken Follett was involved in the game, voicing one of the characters. I downloaded the game from GOG and as games are DRM free, I copies the game folder onto my laptop and played from the comfort of the couch. Game took me ~5 hours to complete over the course of several days. A potato can run the game. No bugs to note.

Really well done piece of theater, and worth experiencing for oneself.

I wanted to give this "game" zero stars but I can't as the 'Save my review' button doesn't work so knock the one off that I had to give. Fed up with the way too long sequences where you have to wait for the auto speeches to finish. Very poor graphics. Nonsense way of having to try and stop a sliding disc on the screen in a rectangle to progress any further when carrying out an action. Similar method of answering questions, didn't always get a chance to read all the choices before the time allowed had expired.