Oh, I cannot recommend this game enough. It was such a lovely adventure, I wish it was at least twice as long! The dialogue never stops being funny, and you'll want to say "Awhh, Robeeeert"...and pat little Robert on the head every time his clueless behaviour makes you chuckle. And you will laugh. A lot. Puzzles are not incredibly hard, and the hint system provides you with enough info if, for example, you're actually missing an object (oh, pixel hunting :) ). The story is good, the characters are hilarious with great voice-acting, and Robert... well, he's just a sweet little boy who goes on an adventure! I'm hoping for a sequel actually, only cause I loved the main character so very much!

Plus, you can sing with your nose!

P.S. Part 2 is out now!

The Inner World is a point and click adventure game developed by Studio Fizbin.


The Inner World takes place in the fantasy world Asposien, a huge cavity surrounded by earth. Three large wind wells, each looked after by a wind monk, provide ventilation for Asposia. But the situation changes: Two of the wells dry up completely, the well of the wind monk Conroy gives very little wind, and the wind gods visit Asposia and petrify sinners. The player takes on the role of Robert, the naive novice and foster son of Conroy, when he is polishing a Conroy necklace pendant and it is stolen from him by a dove. While trying to catch the pigeon, he falls into the trash chute of the throne room and lands outside the palace for the first time. The game itself is divided into 5 chapters.

The Inner World is a point-and-click adventure. Figures composed of sprites act in front of hand-drawn, partially animated backdrops. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Robert can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects, as well as communicate with NPCs. As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked.


+ bizarre characters with humor
+ quirky design
+ Puzzles offer a pleasantly crisp challenge
+ matching background music
+ Help function replaces external complete solutions
+ successful settings
+ Achievements and trading cards


- Backdrops sometimes seem too inanimate
- Control not implemented optimally


The Inner World offers you a humorous, classic adventure, which is accompanied with great dialogues and puzzles.



The Inner World ist ein Point & Click Abenteuerspiel, welches von Studio Fizbin entwickelt wurde.


The Inner World spielt in der Fantasiewelt Asposien, einem riesigen, von Erdreich umgebenen Hohlraum. Drei große Windbrunnen, jeder von einem Windmönch betreut, sorgen für die Durchlüftung Asposiens. Doch die Situation ändert sich: Zwei der Brunnen versiegen vollständig, der Brunnen von Windmönch Conroy spendet nur noch sehr wenig Wind, und die Windgötter suchen Asposien heim und versteinern Sünder. Der Spieler übernimmt die Rolle von Robert, dem naiven Novizen und Ziehsohn von Conroy, als er einen Halskettenanhänger von Conroy poliert und dieser ihm von einer Taube gestohlen wird. Bei dem Versuch, die Taube zu fangen, fällt er in den Müllschacht des Thronsaals und landet zum ersten Mal außerhalb des Palastes. Das Spiel selbst ist in 5 Kapitel unterteilt.

The Inner World ist ein Point-and-Click-Adventure. Aus Sprites zusammengesetzte Figuren agieren vor handgezeichneten, teilanimierten Kulissen. Mit der Maus kann der Spieler seine Spielfigur durch die Örtlichkeiten bewegen und mit den Maustasten Aktionen einleiten, die den Spielcharakter mit seiner Umwelt interagieren lassen. Robert kann so Gegenstände finden und sie auf die Umgebung oder andere Gegenstände anwenden, sowie mit NPCs kommunizieren. Mit fortschreitendem Handlungsverlauf werden weitere Orte freigeschaltet.


+ bizarre Figuren mit Humor
+ verschrobenes Design
+ Rätsel bieten eine angenehm knackige Herausforderung
+ passende Musikuntermalung
+ Hilfefunktion ersetzt externe Komplettlösungen
+ gelungene Vertonungen
+ Errungenschaften und Trading Cards


- Kulissen wirken manchmal zu unbelebt
- Steuerung ♥♥♥♥♥ optimal umgesetzt


The Inner World bietet dir ein humorvolles, klassisches Abenteuer, welches mit tollen Dialogen und Rätseln begleitet wird.

very nice graphic adventure even if little known. Maybe the full price is really a bit high but the animations are well done and the humor is not lacking. my rating 7/10 the Italian translation is missing

This was a big surprise for me. I bought the Humble Bundle mostly for VVVVVV and I enjoyed this a lot.
It's really charming, has a pretty decent storyline, good puzzles, lovable characters, amazing voice-acting... good in general. Kinda short, but the 6 hours I put into it before finishing it was worth it. Every second. I loved it.
I even loved it so much I re-played it just to 100% it.

Huge yes! Deserves a lot more sales!

Cute adventure game with nice graphics and animation, situated in an interesting world. Yet I hated playing it most of the time. Why? Because the puzzles make no sense. It constantly uses this cartoon anti-logic, with random things doing unpredictable random effects. Common logic barely works here, you always have to do some oh-so-funny nonsense. Even when I figured out the right solution, there was often some twist that prevented me doing it.

I really couldn't tune my mind right to start thinking like the designers did. In the end I've spent most of the time trying everything on everything, or checking the hints all the time. And that was no fun.

A hilarious and adorable adventure game that I will remember fondly as one of my favorite point and click advetnures in some time. Phenomenal voice acting, cute characters, charming dialogue, good puzzles, and just an overall fun experience watching the characters try to save their people.

We begin with Robert, an orphaned boy who is being raised by a man named Conroy. Conroy is the ruler of this little world of Asposia, and right away, as you can in all animated tales, we realize that Conroy isn't the nicest of fellows. In fact, he seems like a downright meanie. :P One day while Robert is playing his flute nose (yes, I said flute nose) for Conroy in his favorite 1 note tune, a pigeon that Robert has been playing with as one of his only friends comes in and steals Conroy's necklace and flies off. Robert, being the ever dutiful 'son' goes after it and finds himself down in the city of Asposia with all the peasants for the first time outside the walls of Conroy's castle. His adventure is ready to begin...

Robert soon meets residents of Asposia and quickly starts to realize that Conroy may not be the great hero that he was raised to believe he was. Most importantly he meets Laura. A wanted thief, general troublemaker, obvious anti-establishment hero, and the girl of Robert's dreams. Robert is incredibly naive, but falls in love with Laura at first site. She is more worldy and they play off one another fantastically as she teases him and he shows his innocence again and again as a kind and generous boy. Their conversations are great, and Robert is pretty funny no matter how innocent he is.

I didn't find any issues with the game UI, or the puzzle mechanics. They are the standard hover over the bottom of the screen to pop up the item menu, with options to drag them to world objects, combine them, etc. Some of the puzzles are a bit strange and take some trial and error of jsut screwing aroudn finding what items interact with things, but overalll they aren't too illogical most of the time. The game has a few loading screens between areas that on my medium level PC took about 3 seconds to load wasn't a problem for me.

I had no bugs in the game that I can recall. Certainly nothing that made me stop, although the save system is not one that is the type to be friendly for Achievement hunters. The game can be saved manually, or using auto-saves, BUT you don't have a choice about where you save other than picking a slot for your current game. So you have one save and if it auto-saves and you miss an Achievement you will have to start the game over. So...if 100% Achievements is your goal then you better take a look at some Achievements guides BEFORE starting. There are a few that are full game achievements and a couple of them contradict. One side is really easy and can be gotten with a quick restart early on, but the other requires the full game to be played a certain way so you want to make sure you understand these early on before finding out halfway through you will have to play all the way through again.

Game is probalby anywhere from 6-10 hours long. My playtime is longer because I left the game on for 12 hours one day. :)

If you are a fan of point and click adventure games, love games such as the ones made by Daedelic, love cute and adorable characters with phenomenal voice acting, then The Inner World is a fantastic game for you. While this is an Indie studio, and this is their first major game, I consider this adventure game to be as good as any of the Daedelic games I have played. It definitely could be considered as comparable in quality to those. I highly recommend it to any adventure fan. I loved the characters and would love to see more from this studio.

Bringing me to this...

NOTE: While looking at videos for The Inner World on Youtube I noticed this trailer from 2013 that suggested there might be an animated cartoon coming called 'The Inner World', but I ahve found no other news about it. I would have definitely watched, but it gives you a pretty good idea about the voice acting in the game as it is similar to this cartoon. If anyone knows anything else about this animated series I would be interested. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsqPrG8L7E

The Inner World is developed by Studio Fizbin and published by Headup Games. Dev team’s first and so far only foray onto Steam. I’d say they managed to offer an interesting game even if it never stands out really.

It’s a coming-of-age type of story, at least at it’s very beginning. Inner World’s protagonist, is a shy and rather naïve little boy named Robert. He starts this adventure like most video game heroes do, fulfilling errands. A less common element would be that you start by working for the game’s main antagonist. The game’s world, Asposia is a rather intricate fantasy realm in which a force of nature (in our case, wind itself) is used as a leitmotif. For an adventure that is also addressed to younger audiences, Inner World contains satire and pop culture references that will amuse older gamers. As far as its storyline is concerned, this title won’t disappoint. Especially if you’re accustomed to 2D adventures and you can imagine just what sort of odd characters you shall interact with. The other almost classic features of the genre, such as the inventory system and dialogue options are under a familiar interface with the occasional mixing of two components, in order to create another one.

What I found intriguing was that even wild combinations seem to work and even when they don’t, you still receive an Achievement for trying. A nice touch indeed, from the developers. Story seems long enough, since I’ve only seen a small part of the map so far. A minor complaint from me, would be related to the way all the in-game items you collect seem to blend in so well with the scenery. You really have to keep an eye out for them and click on every little nook and cranny.

The beautiful hand drawn locations and characters clearly show the efforts undertaken by the devs in order to separate from similar titles. And from the artwork perspective, I’d say they accomplished that. Voice acting is more than decent, both in English and in the game’s original language, German. I stuck with English dubs and subs and found no typos or mispronunciations so far. Worth mentioning as well, is the musical score which I found particularly soothing and proper.

+ Original storyline, filled with humor
+ Intuitive puzzles and a comprehensive hint system
+ Steam Achievements & Trading Cards

- A few dialogues tend to drag on, thus slowing the story down
- Items blend in too well with the scenery

If you’re looking for a good fantasy adventure that won’t strain you too much, you should give The Inner World a chance. Since it targets a large part of the gamer demographic, it’s ideal even for a novice as well as a veteran of this genre. While I’m not exactly okay with its pricing, I do realize that a lot of effort is being placed into such games, from concept art and down to the skilled voice actors.

Rating 7/10

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A Point and click game with great voice acting, an interesting story, and a good mix of cut scenes/story driven dialogue.
We are brought to the world of Asposia where Conroy monk rules the empire and controls the wind resources. The world's air is provided with three wind fountains and you will go on a journey with Robert to find about his past and helping Laura (a thief) along the way.

Pros:

- Variety of Easy/Medium Puzzles - use objects, fetch quests, etc.
- Story is well developed and broken into chapters. You can pause or exit the game without losing your progress. With 5 chapters, you learn more about Robert, Laura, and how Conroy took control of Asposia.
- Funny characters throughout story including swamp monsters and other mystical creatures (Fosfos)
- A minigame to play called Flutenose, basically Guitar Hero on the keyboard with score based on accuracy.
- Protagonist goes on a journey of learning about his parents, Conroy, and making choices for himself. This feels like a book or movie with a great cast of supporting characters.

Cons:
- No replayability and play one time to get all achievements. Game can be done in 4-6 hours.
- Some puzzles are hard to figure out without using a guide. No hint system and need to click around to find subtle clues. If you click wrong object, Robert or Laura tells you this does not help or not useful at this time.
- No way to speed up cutscenes or long dialogue. This should be allowed in any Adventure game since certain parts can be feel dull or too long for players to read through. You can skip by pressing enter, but you have to do this each time a certain cut scene appears.

A quirky cartoonish adventure game in the classic adventure game style.

Backgrounds are lovely, Character Art is cartoonish but nice. Voice Acting is great and generally Sound is good. Writing is interesting and the dialogue is delightfully "oddball".

Keep in mind the bizarre nature of the puzzles will require equally bizarre solutions. "Pixel hunt" & "Item Clutter" is never really an issue (hold Spacebar for hotspots). So yeah, you can brute force your way through quite a bit. The hint system is good because it will give you clues (more specific each subsequent time when used on the same puzzle), and doesn't just hand out answers.

This is a quality game at a reasonable price. What isn't to love about this?

As modern point and click adventure games go, this one is fairly decent. It's not a mind-blowing experience by any means, but it's definitely not bad either. You play as a guy named Robert who finds himself thrust into a quest to save the world (naturally). Robert is a very naive and unassuming sort of fella, so a lot of the plot and humor centers around his clueless innocence. The story and dialogue is fairly good for the most part, in turns charming, funny and dark. The voice acting is hit or miss, though - mostly it is decent, but a few lines here and there are inexplicably bad (wrong pronunciations, improper emphasis of words, etc). Mechanically, the game also has its ups and downs. Being a point and click game, you would think that the pointing and clicking would be spot-on, but that's not always the case. Sometimes you can't click on things that you should be able to click (though it usually fixes itself in a second or two). Additionally, half of the achievements don't seem to be working properly. However, the developers have started to release patches to fix some of these problems, so a lot of these things may not be issues in the future. Regardless, none of these faults are deal breakers by any means, anyways.

The puzzles are fairly standard in adventure game terms. You basically just go around talking to people, picking up objects, and using those objects (or combinations thereof) to solve puzzles and progress further. Thankfully, none of the solutions are overly ridiculous or unintuitive (as is the case with many adventure games), though you will need to really think some stuff through from time to time. Apparently there is also a help system in place if you need it (which I didn't even realize until after finishing the game), so you probably won't ever get stuck for long, if you even get stuck at all. The game is divided into 5 chapters, each of which consists of a self-contained series of puzzles that take place on 3 or 4 "screens". Playtime is probably around 7-8 hours or so, give or take. So keep that in mind in terms of how much you are willing to pay. All in all, the game is pretty good. As I said earlier, it is nothing mind-blowing for the genre, but it's a nice experience while it lasts. Probably the worst thing I could say about it (aside from the minor glitches noted above) is that the pacing is very slow. The dialogue in particular seems like it takes foreeeeeeeever sometimes, especially with a main character who is so low-key and slow. The pace may test your patience at times. But if you don't mind that and are into classic adventure games, this is probably worth a look at some point. I would probably recommend waiting for a sale, though, unless you are hardcore into adventure games and need something new to play now.