BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION

While I really enjoyed the world setting, characters and story, I found the actual gameplay overall less enjoyable than the previous Stasis and Cayne games. Some of the "figure out the right sequence" puzzles later on were a bit aggravating as well. I also was expecting to see more weird wildlife as was depicted in the early Kickstarter footage. Some of the animals in the actual game look way too normal. =/ Also, it's at times incredibly easy to miss something which may be tied to a clue given in a conversation - at one point I ended up self-sabotaging myself due to an action of mine I didn't know prevented me from talking to a person which completely halted my progress until I accidentally fixed it again - that has the player backtracking all over the place. Backtracking can be a major pain with the spread out world maps since it can take a while to hop from one area to the next and then actually run around said area to see what may have been missed. So yeah, I think it's a bit of a hit-and-miss.

This game really creates an atmosphere. The character design is great and really makes you wonder how this world with their partly undead partly cybernetic creatures came to be. It takes the nostalgic weirdness of a Sanitarium and adds more full-motion cutscenes, more individuals and more scenery. The sound design is also top notch and even the menus are memorable But... somewhere along the line they forgot to insert a decent game. I would even say the gamplay is so inept that it makes me wonder why anyone in development was ok with it. It would be better if there was no gameplay at all and all you did was walk around and talk to people. I would have preferred that, really. But instead you have kind of a hidden object game. There are no true puzzles, you just have to walk around every piece of every map to find every item you need. If you're stuck, you're probably missing an item you didn't find. Good luck on walking over every single piece of land all over again. This is by no means fun. There's also my pet peeve of the useless morale system. It's determined by how you talk to people - either you ask them about the plot, or you spew insults in their faces. Great. All in all, it's a good game to try on sale - or even better, watch a let's play. If you don't have to play it yourself, you get to enjoy the really superb parts without having to suffer through the horrible slog of the gameplay.

Beautiful Desolation is a point-and-click adventure game similar to LucasArts classics such as The Dig and Monkey Island, with a bizarre memorable game world that brings Tides of Numenera's setting to mind. The game world is rendered in gorgeous details an accompanied by an absolutely stunning soundtrack. I can see where the Fallout comparisons come from; even though it's not an RPG, the UI elements are straight out of Interplay's first two Fallout games with the satisfyingly mashable red buttons. Highly recommended!

When word beautiful is in tilte, they mean it. Beautiful Desolation is adventure game that feel like rpg but it's not, there's money and combat but they are kind of puzzles and I love it. You end up enter post-apocalyptic future with your brother and dog-robot and you need find out way to back home in world of surreal beautiful world. I must said it does not hold your hand and you neeed write down notes and there's codex but it get easy if you use pan and paper for needs, missions, and clues. I would remcommed this game for any fan of adventure, sci-if, and art!