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I almost turned this game off but I'm glad I didn't. Here's why: The first thing you will experience is a freeze-frame setting outside a nightclub. You click on different things to get snippets of dialogue between the characters. The scenery and the characters stay frozen, your only guideposts are your listening skills. It's crucial that you listen to what's being said as well as sounds in the background (e.g. a door shutting, a laptop closing, a paper being crumpled). Well -- the European accents were THICK and the English broken. The 2 main characters don't even natively speak the same language - they are Danish and Slovak -- so they are speaking broken English to each other to communicate. So I thought -- oh no, understanding what they are saying is the entire point to this game and their accents and grammar are totally throwing me off. I'm having to guess a lot at what they are trying to say. The slang is off, the grammar structure is off, the characters seem to be from all different parts of Europe. Stick with it!! Don't let it scare you. You will get used to it and it will become charming and it's 100% worth it. This game was exceptional. I rarely find myself genuinely moved by a game (or by most modern media in general). A good story moves us, it hooks us, we can identify with it, we are immersed and engaged and connected. A good story knows how long it takes to tell it, this game didn't overstay its welcome. I finished it around six hour -- played it straight through -- a practically impossible feat for most games. Plus....I always love a good sci-fi story - especially when it has to do with neurotech or bio-hacking of some sort. When playing it, I was reminded of movies like "Strange Days" (an underrated gem from the 90s) or, at times "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Anyway...play this, review this and support the developers....this was an epic story game. If you liked Firewatch, Life Is Strange, To the Moon, What Remains of Edith Finch - then you'll love this.

From a lifetime fan of point-and-click adventure games -- this is one of the best I've ever played. It puts a new spin on a classic formula by adding the element of danger and time into certain scenes. Forces you to think quickly and adds a level of excitement. All the characters are voiced, the voice actors are great -- very funny at times but also very heartwarming or tragic. I laughed, I cried, I felt -- imagine that, in a modern video game. Support indie developers who aren't afraid to put real-life, mature situations into a game. Who don't treat their audience like babies or like fragile snowflakes. Life is tragic, life is sad, life is bittersweet. This game is "a real one", loved it.

I can't say enough amazing things about this game. The storytelling was masterful. It truly felt like a Choose Your Own Adventure book come to life. As a lifelong lover of the adventure games, there are very few where you feel like your decisions really matter and affect the story. In this game, you see the actions of your decisions come to fruition as the story unfolds. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a few games where the decisions are truly meaningful. Fallout New Vegas is one, Knights of the Old Republic games. Games where you truly struggle with some decisions as the game progresses, since you have experienced the weight that your prior decisions have had. Games where you are tempted to go back a save game and make a different decision because the one you made ended up with someone's death or misery. If I could give one piece of advice in playing this game, only save your game at the end of your playthroughs. This way you face the consequences of your decisions. Just like in real life, in the moment you might have felt you made the wrong choice only to find out much later that your "bad choice" was not as bad as it seemed and actually led to an incredible outcome. This story continued to surprise me chapter after chapter. So many jaw-dropping moments. So many interesting twists and callbacks. It will make you laugh, it will make your cry, it will make you angry. A masterpiece for adventure game lovers and those who respect TRUE choice in the games they play.

If you like games like Syberia, Sherlock, the LucasArtsIndy games or The Dig, the Wadjet games -- then you'll probably like this game. It's a weird one but in a good way. Someone has gone missing and you are tasked with tracking them down and you traverse the landscape in your airship along with your robot sidekick -- you collect artifacts and piecing together the words of an ancient language. It's done fairly well too -- my game ended early because I figured out the mystery early and was taken to the end of the game without a way of going back. Which was a bummer cause I wanted to do more "sploring" -- however they do have a New Game + option (probably added for others who figured it out early and were livid that they couldn't go back to a previous save or just continue on their explorations). The dialogue in this game is unintentionally hilarious and kinda baffling. I have been reading reviews looking for someone to discuss this, to have noticed what I noticed. Everyone in the game is so harsh to Aliya -- even when you are only ever kind to them! They will flip-flop and be all "Hey!! Good to see you!" and then say something like "moral character was never your strong suit, Aliya" or "spare me your pity, you are so transparent". Like OUT of NOWHERE!! and it was so jarring and baffling every time. Even your robot talks to you like you are a child. Everyone is a jerk. The dialogue doesn't seem like it's the product of a lost in translation" thing, moreso it seemed to me like it was possibly written by a group of people who were on the spectrum?? Don't know, but it's nutty how you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop in the dialogue and someone say something bitterly awful to the MC. And all your response choices are spineless or oblivious (I couldn't tell which one) -- like "I'm sorry" or "You're right" or "Wow, didn't know you felt that way". With friends like these, who needs enemies.I LOVED this game though -- I'm actually playing New Game+ playthrough for the first time in my life.With that being said, there was one other thing that annoyed me. Your robot constantly wants to go back home. You land in this cool new world and you're discovering books and artifacts and solving inscriptions and the whole time the robot is like "you ready to go back to the ship?" or "should we go now?" --- it's like NO dude, STHU! I get the reason -- he is a fast travel way back to the ship. Got it. And sometimes I did want to go back to the ship when I was done looking around and he didn't ask so I walked back. But why not patch out the amount of times he asks you? OR make it where I can give him a signal when I'm ready to return? Instead of making it where he was like "now?, what about now?, ready to go now?, should we go?". The game is a quirky weird mess and I love it. I'm convinced it was made by aliens masquerading as humans. It's SO weird.

Cool adventure game with challenging puzzles, an engaging story and a unique art style. The world itself is really interesting - imagining a retro-future alternate timeline spin on Europe in the pre-WWII era. You can really tell this was a labor of love for a small studio, and it's kind of a crime that I am not seeing more reviews for it online, so I wanted to come and spread the word. This game is great fun and if you like point-and-click games, you should check it out and support the studio that made it. My only gripe is the common gripe with these Eurojank games -- the English translation needs work, especially when it comes to expressions, idioms, slang. It's not overbearing like some other Eurojank games (ahem, The Thaumaturge). But it does happen here and there, where you are reading a sentence and go "huh? oh that must be a Polish expression". And most of the time, you get the gist and just move on. And it doesn't affect gameplay in this game, it's just funny. Eurodevs: throw a few hundred dollars to an unemployed English major in the US (there are tons of them). Have them go through your script and translate your slang into our slang. Gamers: Support these small creators! This is a fun game with a lot of heart and it deserves a look.

As a lover of narrative adventure games, I really enjoyed this. A clever twist on the vampire genre, there were lots of inventive plot twists, interesting character arcs, choices that matter. Much like the countdown to sunlight each day, the game itself creates a sense of urgency. It always felt like the clock was ticking....that it was going to be over soon or a window of time for each quest was going to close, and that I wasn't going to get all the things done that I wanted to get done. You have to read books to get your stats up (arts, literature, history, science) and you are locked out of certain dialogue options if they aren't at the level they need to be. In most games now (especially the Bethesda kind), your choices don't matter -- and you can do everything you want to do in one playthrough. Good games inspire multiple playthroughs by NOT letting you do "all the things" - leaving you to wonder What If? Loved this game - highly recommend it for anyone who loves a good story, great characters and some tough choices? The only negative might be that the voice actors were sometimes not the greatest -- but that's also kinda charming because that usually means that this game was someone's passion project, enlisting people they know to do some of the smaller parts. An excellent AA game - reminded me a bit of Yes, Your Grace. Really enjoyed it.

Wow...just wow. Let me preface this by saying that I am a HUGE fan of the 80s Indiana Jones movies - the trilogy - with The Last Crusade being my all time favorite, a perfect movie, it had so much heart and humor. I hate what they have done with the last two movies, especially the last one. Indy was a little too old in the 4th ****...aliens? The villain's name is Ivana Spankov, so stupid. And the last one was just unconscionable - never watched it, don't want to. Disney and Kathleen Kennedy have done everything they can to ruin this franchise and to emasculate Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones fans know that no one can fill Harrison Ford's shoes. He IS Indy, but time marches on for us all. But that's what makes this game a perfect medium -- Indy lives on, in his prime, taking on more badass adventures around the world in the 1940s. Troy Baker nails Harrison Ford's voice. Masterful - I got teary eyed because I thought my favorite character was not only dead but completely buried and ruined before this game. There's now a New Hope ;) that Indy will live on in video games - in AWESOME video games, like this one. It makes me SO happy. I've played ALL the games - with the Last Crusade on PC being my favorite, followed by Fate of Atlantis. THIS is the Indy game I envisioned as a kid when playing those LucasArts games -- that I hoped to see one day. This IS a perfect Indiana Jones game and a proper Indiana Jones sequel to the movies. The problems with sequels is that they are almost always just the 1st movie's plot repeated, but with Indiana Jones that works because he's like Sherlock or James Bond -- off on another adventure, another mystery to solve, another puzzle to unravel, another treasure to be found with loads of history and culture mixed in, dry sardonic humor, wacky hijinx, **** over-the-top villians. So it lends itself to multiple sequels because it's just another adventure. BUT it's hard to write because the history has to be good, the MacGuffin needs to be intriguing (Holy Grail, Ark of the Covenant) and it's hard to nail that particular brand of humor and Ford's masterful delivery of it. THEY NAIL IT .....they friggin nail it. While playing this, I've had this stupid smile on my face in parts, I've yelped out in parts (OMG!), my eyes have widened with amazement or shock. I've spent hours just goofing around with the **** - throwing dynamite on their bed while they were sleeping, chucking wrenches at their head, beating them to death with a flyswatter, kicked them off watchtowers. Much like a Skyrim or a Fallout game -- I have completely ignored the quests for hours at a time and just went around and wreaked havoc and did side quests or searched through ruins for treasure. It seems like people aren't buying this game because maybe they have judged too soon that it's woke, because of the fruity dude with the orange hair and the rainbow t-shirt who said "for modern audiences" in the promo. Maybe it was woke at one time and they cut it all out after seeing the recent monster flops like Concord, DA:V. Maybe it was full of non-binary thick-jawed Mary Sue girl bosses who repeatedly emasculate Indy and "don't need no man". Let me tell you - from an Indy fan and a serious opponent of this movement that is antithetical to a good storytelling. When your story has no conflict, no romance, no power dynamics, no edge, no contradictory human nature, no underdog....well, who would want to read that book or watch that movie. Yawn. This game is a masterpiece. GO BUY IT. GO SUPPORT IT!! You will love it. You will have a blast. It is one of the first good stories I have seen in years - this should be a golden age for TV, Games and Movies -- but it's not. We gotta get back to our roots and this scores!! GO BUY IT so they make more!!

This game is one of the funniest games I've played in a long time. I belly laughed at parts...reminded me of the 2000s comedies -- remember comedies? It's because it's created by one guy and so he is beholden to no one. It's designed to be highly re-playable since your decisions matter and will lead to different outcomes. He released a "pirate edition" (i.e. free) which you can find on the right sites if you know where to look. And it's such a smart move because you get a chance to bask in the game's brilliance and then want to go give the guy money to make another game. I can not afford right now to go give the dude money so I'm doing the only thing I can do right now and that's to leave some good reviews and spread the word. Please try this game out!!!

This game is just plain fun. They give you a jet pack at the beginning of the game. There’s tons of humor throughout even if it is corny…it’s appreciated. Loving the game so far!