Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice

This is actually the first adventure game I have ever played. It isn't too long or too difficult, but quite enjoyable nontheless.

The game runs well under Windows 10 and all of the technical aspects, graphics, sound, and controls are vastly improved compared to its predecessor 'Shadow of the Comet'. I only just started the game, so I cannot yet say if the story also holds up as well. My first impression is very good, though.

An interesting story but poorly paced. The twists are genuinely decent, but they have little weight because there isn't enough time spent interacting with the characters. Game play is decent, although there was too many times where the challenge came from pixel hunting and one puzzle where you had to go back and re-examine a background item to progress with logical reason to do so. Apart from that the puzzles are very logical, you won't use items for things they don't have a logical purpose for, but there is very little signposting. Only one or two inventory puzzles. Several times I had to use an item on the main character which didn't seem logical. The left-click and right-click actions would be better reversed in my opinion. The timed deaths are annoying trial-and-error sequences, but at least the game auto-saves just before them. The graphics seemed fine for its era, and cut-scenes are nice and moody as they should be. The designs of the environments could be more atmospheric. The end music seemed to glitch out. Only about 4 hours of game play, which is fine considering the price, but I'd recommend it on sale.

I was in the 90s playing a lot of point and click games, but this one passed me totally. I didn't know it existed back in a day, i just recently found out that it existed on FB group. Checked it out on gog.com if its available, it was and i bought it, i'll buy the shadow of the comet next. Now what suprised me the most, story is very interesting, i really was invested whats going on. Graphics and animations are for the time quite well, voice acting could be better because sounds emotionless in practially all the characters and not so diffrent from person to person. It had a little Indiana Jones vibe because Nazis are present, they spoil the party and it has that supernatural and magic stuff. I would say that puzzles most of the time are quite logical, you rarely get stuck (and if you get stuck is because item is so small pixel that you just don't see it, or puzzle at the end of the game with the stones which i don't know how you should know which stone to connect and in what order). And timed puzzles are not annoying, usually are in games but here you quickly find out what you must do in most of them, so they are not annoying and there is autosave present (so you don't get screwed by save games). But game is very short i finished it before 4 hours of playtime, yes it's faster because puzzles are not so difficult or completely illogical but i would see that it would be at least 2 hours longer, because story really gets more and more interesting but than its over before you know it. It feels like game was rushed a little bit so it would catch te release date or something. And yes it could have VA for when you look items and stuff, but again, maybe the game was rushed like i said. Overall, if you like point and click games and like Lovecrafts theme go for it and buy it.

If you like Cthulhu and adventure games, where you don't have tons of garbage with you, I think you'll like this one. I like how fast the main character moves. Makes it a game you can play if you have 20min.