It's been several years since Harley Leger left New Bretagne and headed west, hoping to leave the past behind and make her way as a freelance writer. After arriving in the sleepy border town of Rosewater, a seemingly trivial assignment for the local paper leads to the hunt for a missing man's fort...
It's been several years since Harley Leger left New Bretagne and headed west, hoping to leave the past behind and make her way as a freelance writer. After arriving in the sleepy border town of Rosewater, a seemingly trivial assignment for the local paper leads to the hunt for a missing man's fortune—and the story of the century.
Harley and her ragtag posse embark on a harrowing journey across Western Vespuccia, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on their quest for fame and riches.
A thrilling treasure hunt with 5 travel companions. How you treat and interact with them affects the story.
Inventory is back, but logical, streamlined, and easy to use—no banging things together to see what sticks. Many situations have multiple solutions based on play style.
Randomized encounter storylets on your journey, with different situations and outcomes that depend on your previous choices and available resources.
Fully rotoscoped animations, including cinematic closeups.
High resolution 1280x720 graphics (yes, that's 720p!)
Full music score by Lamplight City composer Mark Benis, featuring live instruments.
Meet over 60 characters, voiced by a star-studded cast of professional voice actors including Cissy Jones (Firewatch, Call of the Sea) Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead) Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) and many more!
Rosewater is a wonderful Wild West Adventure point-and-click game.
Great story and characters.
Voice acting was on point for all the different characters.
Your choices do matter for the outcome which is nice so you have a reason to replay it.
The puzzles makes sense not like in some of these type of games.
Enjoyed it all the way to the end.
The score was a bit of a coin toss for me. Rosewater is a great point and click adventure, no doubt about it. If you are like alternative history settings and wild west themed stories, then picking Rosewater up is well recommended. It has a great story, solid puzzles with alternative methods of solving them, it's lengthy, but not too long and the voice acting and music are very well done.
There are some minor blemishes here and there, which made made me juggle in between 4 and 5, but all said and done, those blemishes are just so minor nitpicks, that 5 it is. There's nothing game breaking or unfair puzzles and there's even some rather rare replay value for a point and click game, considering puzzles with multiple solutions. Also, the story is quite well written and the setting is stellar, so those help as well.
There simply is nothing bad you can say about this game. It's a fantasy western point & click with lovable characters, a LOT of scenes and riddles and a lot of love put in.
The game features multiple paths and endings, so if you want to see everything and get all achievements you have to play it way more than once.
I wholeheartedly recommend this game for any adventure enthusiast.