Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

Why should you play this? Because this is the most unique adventure Lucasarts ever made - from a gameplay standpoint. Most puzzles have multiple solutions, the game can be beat with entirely different approaches. You messed up a task? Try a different method, it might work just as well. You can't screw yourself, there are multiple ways to succeed. This makes the game feel VERY organic, and gives it a level of urgency and realism. It also has great voicework, some beautiful art, and good music. Now, what are the issues with it? The steam slowly but surely runs out around the halfway pont. Spoilers: you'll eventually find Atlantis, and while it looks great and has amazing atmosphere, it's a pretty infuriating place. Exploration is great but constant backtracking is not. Imagine this: you come across a gateway to the inner city. Where are your keys? You mean you didn't pick them up at the enterance? Well Indy did pick them up automatically each time before, but not his time. Go through the labyrinth and fetch it, then come back again! Done? Good, now operate this robot! What, you're missing a part? Go through the labyrinth rooms again and look for that little blob on one bg that meant to be a cog. Got it? now come back and try agin. Still doesn't work? Oh, you have to dismantle a robot you've put together eariler, you'll need one of it's parts. So go through the place and come back again. Got it? Great, now it works, you can go in! Let's operate this other thing! What, you've run out of orichalcum beads while experimenting the earlier machine? Too bad, now go back trhough the labyrinth and the sewers, harvest some lava, go back to the bead making machine and come back. But don't forget to dismantle the robot again, you'll need the parts! All done? Brilliant! Have a MAZE! It's not hard, just a waste of time... Jeesh. Also, though it is an actual movie licence this is one of Lucasart's least cinematic games. In short, starts our brilliant, turns into a chore. Too bad.

When it came out, it was regarded as the best adventure game ever made. 20 years later, it still is.

This is one of the best games ever made and replaying it brings back a lto of joy and memories. However, missing Save/Load option makes the game impossible to progress in multiple occasions. If you do not answer questions correctly you get stuck in a loop in certain areas of the game. Please, please, bring back the Load/Save option, other wise you would have ruined this game :\ Basically, as it is right now I woudl have to follow a manual and be devoided of any pleasure of actually solving things on my own. As a suggestion for the GOG team: for future when dealing with quest games always add Load/Save features please.

To me this game was the summum of the point and click. I missed a few of the great classics like green fandango, so I don't want to say this one was the best, but it's definitely up there. I have played it many times over the years, from when I was 8 to now that I'm almost 30... But let's be honest a second, it's impossible to finish the game without Sophia, right?

The graphics are beautiful and there's a good sense of humor, I also like how you travel for adventures... But there stops the fun for me. The puzzles are usually very tedious (pixel hunting in a pitch black room, or slowly wandering around a giant space to solve an obscure puzzle isnt my idea of fun), they are usually boring to solve, or absurd in their resolution. The story hasnt drawn me in either. I know it's not very fair to judge this game by today standards, but neither is doing it with nostalgic eyes.