I don't even like point and click games, not gonna lie. Please don't attack me.
Swear to God i think I only bought this for the aesthetic, and literally no other reason.
Doesn't help that when I tried to actually play the game, I found myself stuck in one room and couldn't figure out how to get out to save my life either. The direction you're supposed to progress should be at least a little clearer than that.

One of the very few games I wish I refunded back when I was still eligible. I didn't even know refunds were a thing back in 2015 lmao

Atmospheric, but boring and not funny, despite desperately trying to be.

Click all over the place and still somehow miss the one thing I would need for the good ending. Walk outside of the room and can't go back in. Cool, glad I saved over an hour ago and the autosave activates after you step outside. Sadly no happy ending since the main character has an aversion to walking through open doorways.

Pixelhunting

Is it just me or the puzzles are needlessly obtuse in comparison to other games? I LOVED Gemini Rue and got into this one because I was genuinely intrigued. I sadly cannot recommend it, at all. My last straw was the monocle screen puzzle, got it up to that Redlien prompt, but hit a brick wall after that. I was determined to brute force it but it ended up feeling like a waste of time. Other puzzles that I ended up figuring out were also leaving a lackluster feeling, like there was no reason to make it work that specific way other than making it convoluted for the sake of it. TLDR I didn't feel proud i just felt frustrated after finishing half of the puzzles [/spoiler] (like the subway door and the "sticky" bomb.) [/spoiler]. Overall the experience got less and less fun with each step.

After throwing the towel I consulted a guide and found out the word I was missing was ART, somehow that had to be deduced from the result for "Redlien", because it was a poem and a poem is ART... Not gonna lie this royaly pissed me off, how is ART a valid prompt where before all others were capitalized and also all prompts had a very direct or clearly implied connection to what was displayed on screen. I could have kept going after reading the guide but felt cheated

Besides that, general navigation felt frustrating, something that did not happen with Gemini Rue. Having to pixel hunt the exit for a room is not what I'd call compelling design. There were also issues with a logics puzzle that I endlessly had to repeat to write down all the information needed to progress, with no option to streamline the whole process. It wasn't a bad puzzle per se, but the execution ended up being annoying and after figuring it out I was left feeling frustrated instead of proud.

Edit for developer: I think you missed the point of the review, I love more complex point & click games, I've been playing point and click adventure games my whole life but this is the first time -even after reading a guide- the solution seemed forced or even pretentious. And again, mechanically, the game could've used a lot more polish on the UX side.

The hint system was also hit or miss, the hint were not as relevant as I would have hoped and after some time and a healthy amount of compounded frustration I started to question why it was included in the first place. Not ONCE it helped me, instead Crispin just spouted something I already knew at that point.

I REALLY wanted to like this game but sadly I cannot recommend it. I did love the art though.

another pointless boring adventure game, this sucks badly

I want to start by saying the art is beautiful, which is a big part of why I picked up the game in the first place.

Unfortunately, the art style was a major hindrance to enjoying the game as well. Trying to figure out what I was looking at at any given time was a bit headache inducing.

The UI was fiddly, and some of the game's mechanics were very obscure. I didn't find the puzzles particularly satisfying, either - many were quite simple, and the ones that weren't were a bit too abstract for my taste.

On top of that, the plot didn't grab me even after getting all the endings. Also, I have a low tolerance for certain tropes from 1970-90s sci-fi, and this game was full of them.

Loved the premise and the art, but the game wasn't worth it for me.

Spent over half an hour clicking EVERYTHING in the junkyard area because the robot companion said I should spend more time there. I shouldn't have to look up a guide for the first hour of gameplay. This is coming from a big fan of point and click games, but this one just doesn't do it for me.

Got this game as a gift and I really tried. Love the voice acting and art style but absolutely hate the puzzles. Barely even got started, reached the robot's head and that's it. Been trying for almost two hours now, scouring every single location pixel for pixel and trying to combine every single thing in my inventory since none of the logical solutions seem to work. This is precisely what killed the point-and-click adventure genre in the first place.

At this point, even if I looked up the solution online, I have reached the point where I can no find any reason to play this any further because of the sheer frustration. The idea of having a sidekick drop hints is only useful of the hints actually help; I *know* I have to block the second nostril as well, the question is *how*.

An interesting world with nice art and ambiance that is held back in the later parts by gameplay mechanics that I found annoying. A generalized, spoiler-free example:

Search an area top to bottom, interact with every conceivable thing. Leave area. Find out you need a Thing. This Thing (which had been there the whole time) can now be found by re-searching in the previously empty rubble if you happen to go back to that area and search that bit of rubble again. Where was it the first time? In another dimension, apparently.

If you don’t mind puzzles like the above, you can find something to enjoy. For me, they sapped the fun I had been having.

Edit:
Response to the developer: You're reading something into the review that isn't there; this is the opposite of metagaming. What I described is being frustrated that what I'm looking for is in an area I already thoroughly searched. And it's actually a pretty easy problem to avoid from a development perspective. If there's something that I'll need later, don't make it nonexistant until I need it; either let me pick up a currently-useless thing like the hoarder I am, or lock it away in a box I need a key or tool to open and have the character comment as such (or the lazier but serviceable last resort, the character can say something like, "I'll check back on this later", etc.). I'm not huge into point & click adventure games but I've played others (including one also published by Wadjet Eye Games, Technobabylon) where I didn't run into this issue, so it's certainly not inherent to the genre. In any case, don't take it too personally; a guy on the internet was disappointed by something you made, but many more people had a great time with it. You can't please all the people all the time, and I don't think the game is terrible, I just wouldn't recommend it to someone who likes the same games as myself.