Whispers of a Machine

I really like point and click adventures. As far this one goes, it is not bad. Story is captivating, gameplay is smooth, albeit quite linear (which is to be expected given it is a police investigation story). Multiple ways to approach a situation and 3 possible endings. Puzzles are logical and with one small exception quite intuitive. So the main highlight is the story, which i can recomand as it will have you thinking. Great voice acting also.

This great game combines an excellent story with technical innovations (eg forensic scanner) that should please old timers like me and younger players.

I had fun playing the game so far. One problem i had was that I wanted to play it in a window instead of fullscreen. The winsetup.exe helped with it but the only resolution available was 640*380. Searching the net gave me this info: Open acsetup.cfg in a text editor and edit it. Setting windowed=1 runs the game in a window. To manually control the window size or full screen resolution, use gfxfilter=StdScaleX, where X is a multiplier of 640x360, ie gfxfilter=StdScale3 equals full HD 1920x1080.

The story, writing and dialogue are well put together. Puzzles weren't too over the top nor did they hinder the gameplay. Voice acting and the soundtrack were also top-notch. Overall a great adventure game that is on par with Wadjet eye -studio's games.

This game is a good point and click with an interesting mechanic that shifts how you need to solve the puzzles based on dialogue choices you made throughout the game. However, if you only do one playthrough, it will feel very short. It seems like the game is counting on you playing through and re-solving the puzzles in each branch in order to get the most out of the content. If that doesn't seem like something you would do, I would wait on this game.