Syberia

I read in many forums bf buying but was the best I could seem to find for adventure games after the myst experience. I enjoyed the storyline but it was very slow in most places, which was frustrating (which I also read). I did learn hints of skipping annoying repeat conversations by pressing esc button to speed that up. You have to be careful though, if you hit esc too many times it could back you out of opportunity for a clue in conversations. I must admit I looked up hints at the universal hint system more than a few times when I just couldn't figure out what was left to do. I was able to figure out how to get places though, and did find most of what I needed by chance. My only complaint is waiting for Kate to walk everywhere. I hear the next one is a little better, I'll let you know!

Literally can't play it. I wonder if I buy it on Steam if it will work on Linux using proton?

After the game not being able to update, i reinstalled it and git an error: installation failed (e2) DO SOMETHING GOG, it has been a few months already.

Kept giving the game the benefit of the doubt, but it never really redeemed itself. And by no means is this a case of playing a game 15 years later - I've played and am playing many other older games, and can enjoy them now, but this one was hard to. - Slow and tedious movement: there are a lot of "empty" screens, put there as visuals but adding nothing to the puzzles or stories. But you have to walk through them - generally multiple times. Sometimes a screen will be used just to show a walking-up-the-stairs animation. Kate can either walk slowly, or if you double-click, she runs, but then wastes precious seconds doing this slowing-down-looks-like-i've-run-into-a-wall animation. Even the original Myst had the lighting-bolt method of quick travel, something this game really needed. - simplistic, linear puzzles: the puzzles were nothing to rave about. Generallly pretty linear, as there are only a few items to collect at one time. Doesn't leave you feeling immersed like many other puzzle games. - unlikable characters: everyone was one-dimensional, annoying, and pretty horrendous voice-acting. And really - you're going to include a "village idiot" kid in a 2000's era game??? - weird story: not a big fan of steampunk in general, and the rest of the story doesn't much help. The long-and-short is that this was more of an Interactive Fiction kind of piece, rather than a puzzle/adventure game, and a fiction that wasn't very engrossing.

The game is ok, but the slow animations (which you can't skip), will make you go nuts. Not worth the time.