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Rosewater
Created on 16 December, 2025 07:57
Rosewater

Only second act is good

The game had potential but mostly wasted it. I was intrigued by the weird west setting, but the weird part of it is mostly ignored. You'll occasionally see some anachronistic technology, and its an alternate history, but most of the time its just your standard wild west setting. It makes the rare moments when something like a computer shows up stand out. I think if you are going to have a weird west setting you should go all in. The only act I really enjoyed was the second act where you going on a journey through the countryside. It was fun to have little vignettes where you have to solve a problem. The character development was also better compared to the first and third acts, where the characters feel pretty lackluster. I also feel like the choices matter aspect dragged down the gameplay and story. The third act's story was really negatively effected by it. Alternate solutions are nice, but not if there is a "wrong" solution. Especially, if you don't know if an alternate solution exists. At least the game isn't annoying and lets the player do manual saves. The puzzles are boring and tedious in act 1 and 3. You will also probably need to use the hotspot indicator, because sometimes you need to interact with background objects like chairs, but only very specific ones. While act 2 was mostly fine, it did have an annoying puzzle where you have to exhaust the dialogue tree with every NPC multiple times in order to progress. This is despite the character having the relevant information. In act 3, there was multiple puzzles that required you coming through a bunch of stuff in order to find a solution. It wasn't challenging and felt like pure busy work to pad out the length of act 3. The game isn't completely without merit, but honestly there are other better adventure games out there. Act 2 alone isn't enough to redeem the rest of the game.

7 gamers found this review helpful
Rue Valley
Created on 15 November, 2025 23:49
Updated on 16 March, 2026 16:22
Rue Valley

Weakness in gameplay drags it down

The game has good story but the gameplay has problems. It really is frustratingly linear at times. There were multiple times where I figured out the solution to a puzzle, but the game wouldn't let you just solve the problem. I'd have to go through this huge process just because the game arbitrarily blocked progression. I don't think its actually possible to succeed a stat check except at predetermined times, no matter what stats you have. Also the game likes to have to overstay its welcome in establishing the protagonist is stuck in a monotonous and repetitive timeloop. I don't need to go through the same experience the protaganist went through. You have to spend inspiration points to unlock objectives, but it really doesn't do anything but force you to limit how many objectives you can be trying to do at a time.. Which can be a pain if the objective is one of the harder ones. The story is pretty good, but I do feel like it wraps up pretty fast right at the end.

8 gamers found this review helpful
Foolish Mortals
Created on 09 November, 2025 05:58
Foolish Mortals

Good game with QoL issues

The game has good art, voice acting, and writing. The characters have a lot of personality and are entertaining. There is a decent amount of unique environments and the game does a good job of making it feel like time is progressing throughout the night. The game also has a good sense of humor. My main issue with the game are QoL problems. The game's walk/run speed is a bit too slow, so it takes forever to walk across the screen. There is no pausing or dialogue skipping during cutscenes and some of them are quite long. You also can't overwrite existing saves, so you have to manually delete saves to keep the save file list reasonably sized. Its not a major issue, but I still think its enough to cost the game half a star. I found the puzzles to be logical and not too easy. It is sometimes hard to tell where to go next because the game has a large inventory and you often have a bunch of potential objectives. The hint system is helpful in that scenario, and it usually just guides you where to go. There are also a handful of puzzles that aren't what I call illogical, but its a bit of a stretch for the player to figure out the solution. Overall, though, I'd say the puzzle design is really solid. This is a good game, and I highly recommend playing it. Hopefully the minor QoL issues will be fixed, since this has the potential to be a classic.

10 gamers found this review helpful
Old Skies
Created on 26 April, 2025 22:05
Updated on 26 April, 2025 22:17
Old Skies

Great game with issues

I really enjoyed most of the game. The individual stories in each chapter are great. My biggest complaint is that I wish the game was more of an anthology. I did not care for the main plot at all. The final chapter would have been a fine ending to the game without the extra stuff at the end. Most of the puzzles were logical. I felt like one had too many red herrings, which made it difficult to tell what the actual objective was. I was worried the puzzles were going to be too simple at the start, but it does increase the difficulty.

4 gamers found this review helpful
Harold Halibut
Created on 23 February, 2025 06:42
Updated on 23 February, 2025 06:50
Harold Halibut

I really wanted to like this....

First off the game has amazing visuals, but unfortunately that isn't enough to save it from being a mediocre experience. There is so little gameplay aside from fetch quests and really simple minigames. The sidequests don't add much and just slows down the pacing of the game. The characters are fun, but they overstay their welcome. The game had the potential to be really great, but it needs some cutting down, and some actual gameplay to justify being a game instead of just being a claymation movie.

11 gamers found this review helpful
Created on 26 October, 2024 08:07
Updated on 26 October, 2024 08:07
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
Created on 24 April, 2023 18:43
Updated on 24 April, 2023 18:58
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

Solid Detective Game

The game is relatively short, but I don't see that as a negative. It doesn't drag things out with pointless filler. The game is mostly logical. there is one section of the game where its not completely clear about what to do next even if you have figured out exactly what is going on and know what you should be doing next. Its only a minor issue though. I enjoyed the story, and it does a pretty good job of building atmosphere. I wish it would lean a bit more into the supernatural elements. If you are doing a Lovecraft Sherlock Holmes story, you might as well go all in especially with a Sinking City 2 coming out being unlikely. I guess that might cause issues because it seems to be canon with Chapter One. Overall, I enjoyed the game, and I look forward to what Frogwares does next. I will happily back another kickstarter, especially considering the situation in Ukraine.

2 gamers found this review helpful
Dracula Trilogy
Created on 21 November, 2022 18:12
Updated on 21 November, 2022 18:28
Dracula Trilogy

Games have bugs, poor design

The games have great visuals for the time (although the second game sometimes has a hilariously cheap looking game over screen). The story is servicable. The puzzles themselves are fine, but there is way too much hotspot hunting in the games. I can't imagine how much of a pain playing the game without a guide would be. The game even actively hides stuff. I had to be constantly moving my mouse across the entire screen, and I'd still miss stuff. The second game has multiple game breaking bugs. Also, the default shortcut points to the wrong exe, it should be pointing to game.exe. The third games cutscenes don't work for my game, and might even pose a health hazard to people with photo-senstive epilepsy because I just get rapidly flashing images when the cutscenes play. You should not buy this pack until GOG at least fixes the third game.

4 gamers found this review helpful