Syberia

Provides a huge dose of what adventure gamers are hungry for: a rich story, complicated characters, tons of puzzles and exploration of a series of beautiful and intriguing environments.

Beautiful? Stunning? Breathtaking? All words that can safely be used when describing Syberia's graphics. The level of detail is simply immense.

The setting is rich, the characters are captivating, the interface is clean and easy to use, and the puzzles are just obtuse enough to be challenging, not frustrating.

Easily the best new adventure game in years, though it loses some steam after its outstanding first act. [Oct 2002, p.112]

It is a great quest game that is definitely aimed to appeal to the generation of gamers that grew up in a time when the adventure game genre took center stage.

Syberia will return as much as you are willing to invest.

Overall, the game puzzles are too easy, which makes the game boring at times.

Masterpiece adventure This game was my first adventure ever. And since then I'm a big fan of this genre. This game is like good book. You don't need to speedrun it it's about relaxing and feeling strange atmosphere admring scenes and enjoy strange but funny characters. I've refreshed my memmory in 2022 playing this game, just before it's 4th part and can say it's still playable. You can't admire views as it was long time ago, but other part of game still great. I think such masterpiece need a full 4K rework. Well done mr. Sokal, thank you!

Great atmosphere and art style, but there's too much tedious backtracking if you can't solve a puzzle immediately.

Good adventure game with immersive ambientation, tends to become boring because of slow pace

This flawed game really falls on its insistence to hold you hostage behind its worst feature. The movement. Many objectives are designed around running all over the place, and movement is extremely janky and time consuming. 30% of your game time will be waiting for Kate to shuffle into place before she can trigger the proper animation, or spamming the mouse button because she won't run due to bad mapping. If ever an NPC has scripted movement, you will be locked in place until you've experienced the entirety of its janky animation.Other than that, the voice acting is very uneven, the worst performance unfortunately coming from the main character. The script is bad, really bad at ****, I do like the mystery, how the story unravels at the beginning. This quickly turns into detours and "filler". I also quite like the artstyle. It's nostalgic and honestly still not bad to look at. It conveys a certain emotion that is quite unique even today.Unfortunately, the negatives far outweigh the positives in the end. I was invested enough to complete the game, but in hindsight I would never buy it if I knew what I now know.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]