Primordia

Primordia offers a dystopian world to explore and interract with. It is a solid game with good-looking locations, nicely written characters and intriguing story. The puzzles are logical. Crispin, your floating companion, offers hints when you're stuck and sarcastic comments when you're acting stupidly. Primordia utilizes it's limited engine to its fullest and creates a memorable experience which is a worthy addition to the genre.

... this might just be the best adventure game I have every played. Elegant, with great depth and sadness, with warm comedic relief, a grand, meaningful and thoughtful story in a believable world-after-man, perfect voice acting, reasonable and surprising puzzles, a seamless hint system, a perfect soundtrack and beautiful visuals.

Primordium is one of these games that you emotionally really connect to...... like a favourite music album or a good movie . Its dark twisted melancholic and beautifull .

Great Story, Great Protagonists, and Challenging Puzzles. Crispin is the robot version of Morte from Planscape:Torment.

As far as bare game anatomy goes, I will just say that it is very well executed classic retro style adventure, looking not much unlike some of the legends of golden days of point and click adventure era, even graphic-wise. But, there are enough reviews here already about game details. As an older gamer, I'm more interested in story and it's execution, and this is what I would like to emphasize in this "review". Today it's more common than not that authors try to conform to as big audience as possible, we have many look alike blockbuster hits, professionally made, and delivered by a well known recipe, and very similar in flavour. Not the case here. In Primordia, authors carefully forged a beautiful story, but rather than paint it for us in detail, they chose to treat us as adults and give us just enough to figure out the main, but fill the gaps and nooks for ourselves. Yes, it's a short one and underused (though according to authors' comments in "Fallen" novella they themselves were certainly not of this opinion), but strong and captivating and I much more prefer it than thin, over-exploited plot. It's a story of a troubled robots, abandoned in a troubled world by their creators like a lost children too young to care fully for themselves, and trying to find meaning in the mess around them. They are trying survive in the fading world, and like us-humans in whose image they were created, and which this story mirrors, they bear many scars, both outside and inside. Like us they harbour many delusions and truths and are capable of much evil, but also of wonderful things. It's a story of battling concepts; justifying means to a desired end against making all the "right" choices to whatever end it takes us. Of exploiting against creating. Or, closer to the story setting, plundering and salvaging against repairing and building. But, if there is a layer of this short but thick story that I would have to single out, this is above else a story of sacrifice for perceived ideals and living with consequences. It grasps you and leave you pondering and reflecting upon it (and yourself) for days after completing this short game. I can only thank and congratulate the authors for Primordia. It's a small but adorable gem.