Today we’re talking about a game that really excited me. In “The Turing Test” we don’t just want to solve a big mysterie, we have to solve lots of puzzles to do so – sounds confusing, but it also is. You can read about it in this article.
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Sailor’s yarn with a twist
Today we’re talking about the sequel to a game that I really liked: “Another Fisherman’s Tale” is the sequel to “A Fisherman’s Tale”, and it came as a complete surprise to me. The first part wasn’t too long at around two hours, but still very entertaining. Can the second part also convince me?
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Today we’re talking about a title from the Heureka-Klett series of educational games that I like so much. While in Physicus we had to solve a lot of puzzles involving, well, physics, Mathica is about math – that can only be a lot of fun, right?
Continue readingI Expect You To Die (for the third time)
I’m always very happy when we discover good new VR games. I have a lot of fun playing and you seem to enjoy it too – it couldn’t be better. I’m also happy when games I like get sequels. In the case of “I Expect You To Die 3” we get both; So can this third part excite me as much as its predecessors? Let’s talk about it!
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Today we’re talking about a very short, but still very entertaining game: “The Franz Kafka Videogame”. Anyone who learned to hate this writer in high school like I did is probably just as surprised as I was that he got his own video game. I plunged into the adventure and can tell one thing: it was Kafkaesque.
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Today we’re talking about another game from the “developers apparently hate their players” category. It joins the list of already discussed point & click adventures that are based on the “classics”, such as “Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard” and “Justin Wack and The Big Time Hack” – because of several reasons. Unfortunately, I was also very disappointed in “Thimbleweed Park”. You can read why exactly here. Contains spoilers!
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Today we’re talking about one of those games that you play through in an afternoon: “Cocoon.” Advertising “world-leaping” puzzles and the unraveling of a “cosmic secret”, this game sounds very promising. The screenshots and videos also look interesting – but is it actually fun? Contains spoilers!
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In the article about “Justin Wack”, I already mentioned that we recently have played several games from the classic point & click genre. The selling point here (besides the shameless exploitation of romanticized memories of old times) is that you bring back the brilliant humor, the innovative puzzles and the good storytelling of the masterpieces of the time. You can read here whether and how today’s game, “Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard”, succeeds.
Continue readingJustin Wack or just whack?
Today we’re talking about a point & click adventure game that aims to revive the spirit of the old classics. There are lots of pop culture references and crazy humor, time travel and robots! Wait, you don’t know which of the many “reboots” of the good old days I’m talking about? No wonder, there are enough of them now. You can read here whether “Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack” can stand out from the masses positively!
Continue readingIndiana Nino is looking for Atlantis
Each of us has films or series that we can watch over and over again without ever getting tired of them – for me the Indiana Jones films definitely belong in this category (yes, even the fourth one – I haven’t watched the fifth one yet). So it probably didn’t surprise anyone that I loved the “Lego Indiana Jones” video games. What I didn’t know for a long time: there is also Indiana Jones Point & Click Adventures! We’re talking about one of them today: the fate of Atlantis!
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