It is cute, kids liked it but you just randomly click at stuff and things happen. Did not finish after several tries.

What starts as a charming game where you click everything on the screen loses its charm quick in the second half when the developers try to add puzzle aspects that are very hard to follow (because the charm of the game is absurdity). When you are trying to find the random small thing to click on that you missed the game becomes a drag

I was enjoying the game up until the last couple of levels. The solutions for the last couple of levels are so obtuse and just frustrating that it soured me on the entire game. I also played this on the deck, which with the trackpad was not great. Good enough, but more difficult that it should have been.

The game was charming at first and I wish I could give this a thumbs up, but the charm does not make up for the later levels frustration.

The more I played this, the more annoyed I was

It's cute but super confusing I couldn't get into it because the way the story moved forward made no sense to me. There was also very minimal guidance.

This game is weird. Just the most random stuff happens, and the price is just... wow... i would not get this game if i were you.

Nice Art and Soundtrack but game play not really for me.

While I see a lot of people enjoy this game and posting good reviews, I can't personally recommend it. I've played other games by Amanita, and really like them. This one, however, was a chore and an annoyance to get through!

This game is all out space logic! Not that all of Amanita Design's games are the most intuitive(yet even Samorost and Machinarium are better, despite being older), but they have certainly gotten better at it after this game! Sure, you can gleam some logic here and there, but for the most part this feels like an "ADHD game", where the game design seems to be "how can we cram the most amount of randomness illogically into a couple of mouse clicks?"

There are some neat puzzles, like the water drop and spoons puzzle. But then there are other times where you use gameplay features that have not been established, and is only used once, like one where you have to not only click, but click *and hold down* the button to "charge up" a creature and make a big bubble. (Holding down the button like this having never been a thing before, and never really being a thing afterwards.) And clicking it normally makes tiny bubbles, so it looks like that's the function. Meanwhile, there's nothing to indicate you even need a bubble in the first place. This is absolutely terrible game design, and the game is filled with similar examples. It also contains pixel hunting of the kind I thought we'd got rid of in the 90s, and not just for the optional stuff, but even some

The game is very similar to Chuchel in art style and silliness, but Chuchel has good game design: Chuchel always cleverly teaches you the mechanics of the gameplay, almost without you noticing. Which makes sense, as Chuchel was made six years later than Botanicula, so the team has learned a lot since this game.

Botanicula was also an assault on my hearing. This is probably more a preference thing than anything else, and it's not that the sound design or audio in general is bad, it's just way too much at so many points in the game. Now, I do actually have hypersensitivity to hearing, which probably adds to why this bothers me so, but I can't remember any other game ever that has had such an annoying audio design.

I could write more criticism on the story and characters, which are fine, but there are certainly some flaws there as well. But I don't feel like getting more deep with this review. I'll just mention a couple of other annoyances: A lot of hotspots you need to interact with are so close to the top or bottom of the screen that you very often activate the UI, which then has to close for you to actually interact with the actual game again and click the hotspot you wanted. And the in game map is a joke, and is so useless that it's easier to memorize the level layout than decipher how the map works with the level.

All in all, I suggest getting just about any other Amanita game than this one.

100% in about 6 infuriating hours. (Do yourself a favor and use a guide. Also, save every level, as there's no chapter select!)

dose not work on windows 11. atleast it dosent work for me.

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