Samorost is the studio's weakest series in terms of gameplay; this one likely the worst of the lot.
It's basically pixel hunting.
In a preset order that shall be respected.
Puzzles are either basic or arbitrary, and their results unclear, if visible at all.
Only Amanita's artistic chops are on display. Not on full display, since everything is so small and the zoom so limited.
Besides, animations are too long and traversal is annoying.
The end result is boring. Beauty is no saving grace.

being stuck at the first part of the game, having clicked on everything i could find, and still getting nowhere, i feel like this is a waste of money. with all the walkthroughs i feel like ill have to watch to make any progress in this game it would be more beneficial to just watch a lets play. i wish i could refund this but it's been sitting in my steam library unplayed for too long.

While I liked Samorost 1 and 2, a number of other Amanita entries, and intuitive puzzle solving in general, this one gave me no end of frustration and I ended up uninstalling without completing it - something I almost never do. I couldn't even stomach following a video walkthrough for long.

If you want to give it a shot, make sure you read the pinned menu guide on the discussion forums before you accidentally erase your progress and have to start from scratch like I did. I thought a vague icon of my house would fast travel back there, but instead restarted the entire smegging game. The time lost there prevented me from getting a refund.

+Charming artwork and animations
+Nice music

~Most puzzles are [intended to be] intuitive trial-and-error
~Pretty trippy in some spots
~You'll want a camera handy to take screenshots of some temporary hints
~In-game hint book, but requires two time-wasting puzzles to open every time

-Achievements don't appear to work
-Objectives are highly obtuse and require pixel-hunting or standing in specific spots
-No object highlights
-Frobbable objects and exits don't change your cursor unless you're in specific locations
-Frobbable objects may require clicking, dragging, or violent dragging (latter never explained)
-Menus are woefully unexplained and can easily erase your save
-No fast travel
-Lengthy required animations make repeating anything a chore

Played on:
i7-14700, RTX3060, 32GB DDR5-6000 @ 1920x1080
using KB&M

PAIN!!!

非常无聊，没有丝毫解密的乐趣，很多谜题就像脱裤子放屁没有丝毫的必要

I loved Samorost 1 and 2 - I played those games back on some flash game website when I was a kid and replayed them fully a few months ago. The somewhat "random" artstyle the genre has was always super interesting to me, and I can easily still recommend playing 1 and 2.

So it's a bit sad to say that Samorost 3 simply did neither live up to my expectations, nor to its price tag - 20€ is too much, thankfully I bought it on sale and would recommend for people to do the same should they really want to play it.

I'm gonna keep it short: The game is visually amazing, but most puzzles are so random you'd have to guess whatever you are supposed to do. And whenever a puzzle game does that, I usually just grab the first walkthrough I find and try to solve it that way. Sadly, this is also exactly what happened with this game. Had I not done it like this, I would've probably just deleted the game without trying to complete it. I'm blaming it on the "open world" approach the game has, as the two games prior were easily doable without a guide whatsoever.

And honestly, as good as they look, some animations are way too long ... a lot of the time I just felt like I was staring at the screen, wanting for the animation to finally be over.

3/10 just because the style and sounddesign are amazing, but the story they implemented could've easily not been in the game at all (I even liked "My dog got stolen and I want him back!" a bit more) and the puzzles are too random for my liking. It pains me, but I didn't enjoy any part of the game all too much.

Very pretty, but none of the puzzles make any sense, even with the hints, and are all just a matter of trial and error until you randomly hit on the right solution.

They clearly learned a lot from the mistakes in this game, because Mechanarium and Amanita's other subsequent games have been much better.

This game is gorgeous, but oh god the puzzles are overly cryptic and tedious.

I unfortunately found Samorost 3 to be just so incredibly tedious and boring. Sure, Samorost 3 has a very beautiful hand-drawn art style and pleasant music, but actually playing the game through its puzzles and traversing the world was something I just straight up suffered through, nor was I engaged in the game's story. I absolutely cannot recommend Samorost 3.

I think like many people here I brought this game as I had been a fan of Amanita Design and have always held them in high regard as the pioneers of the early 2000's point & click Flash adventure games that we all loved as kids and grew up with. The rich visuals and creative problem-solving puzzles really helped develop me as a kid and led to the creative background I have today. Trust me when I say I really wanted to be a fan of this game.

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Beautiful variety of floating planets and phenomenal photo imagery mixed-media artwork which immerse you in the psychedelic creative world of Samorost. The artists once again completely knocked it out of the park with the vast array of different terrains and creature designs. My favourite planet by far being the overgrown lush jungle planet of the monks, however that is unfortunately also the SHORTEST planet with the least explorable areas and the MOST backtracking which is such a shame.
Nice that at least the visuals remain consistent to the rest of the trilogy.

Oh yeah there is a full STORY in this one, an actually thought out adventure and not just 'dog lost, go find'. I love it, despite being simple and easily understandable by children (the whole thing is based on a bedtime story your character finds) it still has good depth and goals. Sometimes you are left wondering how exactly making a bird poop on a tent to have a hit of a pipe progresses the story. Just don't question it xD
Extremely fun concept and is supported nicely by the awesome visuals.

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Full open world exploring is disastrous for a point and click adventure game. Linear story worked much better for the previous 2 games of the series and promoted a less entangled direction which is needed for these types of games. Each are you explore is like a panel, which requires creative thinking to solve puzzles, grab/use items from different areas, or in many cases; click around and watch a boring animation of a little ghost float around your screen. The amount of confusion and loss of direction that is caused by the full open world exploration is insane, but it adds an even worse feature along with it:

Backtracking. Throughout this game you will wish your little wobbly hat white fellow had 2X speed, as there is a LOT of walking back and forth between areas to fetch items and progress. Once again this is an issue with the open-world design choice and would have been completely avoided with linear story-telling. The game overall feels extremely dragged on and gets boring.

The final and crucial design flaw is the travel system. I seriously don't mind watching some white floaty ghost swoosh around the screen for a few seconds as long as it somehow adds to the lore or progresses me through the story, but the extremely repetitive PLANET TRAVEL SYSTEM is just an absolute JOKE. Entering and exiting your little mushroom UFO is a chore. Its essentially just another unskippable unneeded cutscene. Hated it.

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This game has a major problem, and it is the redundancy of memory puzzles disguised as 'musical sequence patterns' with no actual in-game answers you can find. You're left wondering and essentially guessing if you skipped over the area where the correct sequence was displayed. You have to go through trial & error to GUESS the correct ones. Truly rediculous, and there is SO MANY of them!

This is evidently a poor and forced incorporation of the flute and musical aspects, which were not present in the other 2 games. Another reason why this system fails so badly is that by interacting with a creature/object and playing the flute, you are either TOLD THE WHOLE PUZZLE and what to click etc, or they tell you ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and waste your time by watching a floaty ghost animation. It does not work.

I want to preface by saying that it's not like the sound design is BAD, the musical elements at least SOUND great for the most part and I appreciate the designers who were tasked to create it, but it simply should not exist. It feels incredibly intrusive and takes focus away from the gameplay and story.

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The flower pollinating puzzle. I'm not even going to try & explain it here. It made me loose braincells. If you know, you know.

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Achievements were AWFUL to obtain. Absolutely dreadful and I would never want to 100% the game again.

You will have to follow a tedious tutorial to not only show you where these secret achievements are located, but also what random musical sequence you need to click on a obscure bug's antennas which is hidden underneath the 4th rock on the planet you visited 2 levels ago. It's insanity and not fun whatsoever. You will loose your mind.

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Overall it feels bad writing such an in-depth critique since it's clear the developers put a lot of heart and soul into this game, this is especially evident in the last HIDDEN cutscene which rewards no achievement so most players skip over it entirely:

After completing the full game and returning to your home planet and sleeping in your tower, you receive a beautiful small dream sequence of the adventures you had, with the monks, the robot warrior, as well as Joseph the Machinarium robot as a cameo!

Like I mentioned beforehand, this game could seriously benefit from not being so dragged out and by not implementing the musical elements so heavily. There was a lot of good ideas packed into it.

The previous 2 games were shorter, and that was not necessarily a negative. The Samorost series is based on very early Flash web browser point & click games. The original 2 games were a fun seamless experience that did not try to be a full indie title with weird gimmicks, but a short, sweet, and visually stunning art project that resonates with you for decades.

Ultimately Samorost 3 tries something different but fails at being both a puzzle game and a point & click adventure. A more appropriate theming would be a poorly executed musical set of annoying mini-games.

This one had me disappointed so I had to share my thoughts. It MIGHT be a good catch for like 2 bucks on offer, which is what I got it for. Make your own decision.

Love ya Amanita, long time fan (NOT a hater), please make Haluz 4, I want to support further ❤