The Little Acre

The Little Acre is a beautifully-animated and voice-acted adventure game! The game prompts you to click on things with a little orange circle, but otherwise gets out of your way. I really enjoyed the music score, and found the characters to be hilarious! The Linux installer worked flawlessly. My only gripe is that the game was a bit short.

The graphics are charming, the characters likeable and the story and world interesting. It should be a perfect point & click adventure. It could have been a new classic. But it's basically unfinished. The game only lasts a few hours and then sort of... runs out. It's barely a first chapter of the story. A fun experience cut short with a disappointing...

Took me about 1.75 hours of relaxed playing to get through, this short playing time is the main reason for my only 4 star rating. It's a really easy and straight-forward game to play, there's no 200-item inventory, no countdown action, no sliding puzzles (THANK YOU!), sensible auto-highlighting of objects, and I think I saw a button to click for hints somewhere, but I never needed it. The walking speed isn't annoying, the characters don't nag, and there are ZERO puzzles that make you cross the entire world, pick an item up there, cross the entire world back again to apply it to something else, and then let you walk all the way back again to see what it did. THANK YOU for that also. It's a bit shallow at times, especially regarding the story or background plot. While I do appreciate not having to read novels, I feel like a bit more dialogue and information here and there would've been beneficial.

I played it with my son. Suited for children, I would say at least 8-10 years old as there are some monsters which in the way they are depicted they could be scary. Very nice drawings and music.

I had a total blast playing this - something that rarely happens when I play point-and-click adventure games, even ones I really like. In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of even one adventure game that I enjoyed more than this, out of the dozens I have played. Four stars instead of five due to purely technical issues, as some of my clicks weren't registering properly.