Maize

Maize is a pretty average adventure game. The story revolves around its attempts at comedy, but it all just ends up with characters calling each other stupid. That's it. The script repeats "you're an idiot", "this is so stupid" and "moron!" over and over as if it were a punch line. If you have the sense of humor of an 8-year old, you'll probably love this game! Everyone else: don't bother.

Competent and colourful visuals. Tolerable music and good voice acting. Non-stop failed attempts at humour. Trash dialogues. I wish I could return to an age at which I'd be able to find this funny. My rolled-eyes count is twenty times higher than the number of times my nostrils emitted a slightly accelerated breath. Which was twice. I got this for 5€ and feel bad for wasting two hours on it. Item descriptions more often than not tell you exactly where to use stuff. Piles of boxed randomly close off or open paths. On screen messages or character lines tell you about those changes. Oof. Not going to muscle through this. Sorry :-/

To be blunt, Maize is a pretty generic puzzle adventure that tries too hard but is, occasionally, pretty funny. It feels like the developers really poured themselves into this game, and I honestly wish I could rate it higher, but I'm not going to. The puzzles are simple and lacklustre at best, and nothing more than annoying treks back and forth across the facility/farm at worst. They're all too often the later. The story, while somewhat original and somewhat humorous, is fairly contrived and spends way to much time trying to be funny. It fails most of the time. In all, Maize is a good diversion if it's on sale and you have an afternoon to kill, but it's not worth more than $10(as of writing, it's $20) and, to be honest, you probably are better off playing one of those games you bought on a summer sale for $1 and just haven't gotten around to yet.

Maize is a fun little adventure game/walking simulator. Decently written, funny more often than not and has a good heart. Recommend when it's on sale and you want something a bit different.

I'd personally give this game a 4/5, but my 11 yo and 6 yo loved this game. It's essentially a walking simulator, don't be fooled to think there is any deep gameplay or puzzle solving in here. But it is nonetheless a pretty unique experience that is worth your time and money. Especially in good company.