This is an awesome old style point and click game with great humour (yes, the British way ;-)) which made me laugh out loud a couple of times and decent puzzles as well. Add nice graphics and voice acting to the mix and you know you've got a solid game. Unlike some other indie games, it's pretty polished at release and I've only encountered one bug which was fixed by saving and reloading. Unfortunately way too short (about 2-3 hours, unless you want to go for 100% achievements) for the great quality, so let's throw some more money at those guys so they can make a sequel :-)

You might like if: You like a playful point-and-click adventure which doesn't take itself too seriously... but are happy with a short play time of 2-4 hours.

To be very frank (English... fnarr fnarr) - My one (and only) quibble with this game is its duration. With a lifespan 2-4 hours, it's just too little bang-for-your-buck to be able to comfortably recommend without mentioning this caveat.

Hats off to the team though, what's there is a promising, very polished rival to the Lucas Arts point-and-click adventures... if funnier. The graphics are superb and the puzzles felt nicely balanced to be tricky without becoming too laborious. They were also intuitive enough so that the solution made sense... meaning you don't have those frustrating moments of "oh come on! How the frick was I supposed to figure out that you needed a thong and a dart to lock-pick a cupboard!?" (true story). Your inventory is (graciously) kept quite lean as well, so you're not lugging around 20 objects which you torturously try and combine with every item you come across whilst shedding an exasperated tear.

The characters are great. And whilst the self-deprecating "this is a poorly-researched, cheap game" jokes felt a little strained, the humour is fantastic and made for several laugh out loud moments. Excellent cultural references (the Robot Wars one really tickled me), good interactions between the characters and some cracking one-liners to be had.

Whilst I'm generally indifferent to achievements: They make for some clever side-puzzles for you to figure out, which can help to squeeze a bit more life out of this title.

So don't get me wrong; the game's good fun... it just comes with the big, fat caveat of "it's very short".

I laughed. Out loud. Several times.

Usually when I see/hear funny things, I'm only smiling in my head. This game has just the right balances of smart and dumb humor combined with jokes making fun of point-and-click games. The main character reminds me of somebody (personality wise) from Family Guy (probably due to the art style combined with his style of posturing), except consistently quality bar and better humor. And no filler.

Gameplay-wise, it's a pretty standard point-and-click. No huge suprises, and while I haven't beaten it yet, I don't really expect any. (All the reviews I skimmed suggest that I'm already probably halfway.)

It took me about an hour to decide I wanted to show and/or get gift copies for 3 friends.

Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a very charming but short adventure game.

You're playing as Captain Frank Lee English, sent on a mission to locate and claim a new, inhabitable planet for Grat Britain and the Queen.
Moving around is done with WASD controls while all interactive objects can be used or inspected via a contextual menu popping up by right-clicking (all interactive objects will also be highlighted).
The puzzles are relatively easy to solve and mostly logical, the voice-acting is really good and graphical wise it's quite pretty.

There are also a lot of nice pop culture references, nods to other videogames, movies etc. which, together with the overall humor in the game, made me chuckle quite often.

However, apart from being a nice game, i think the price is quite high. Even if you are not an adventure veteran, you probably won't need much more than 2-3 hours for a playthrough, which compared to the price, is quite low.

I would definitely recommend it, though not for the full price.

A funny satire from before one starts playing (check the voice options) through to the end. I hope there will be more, as I thoroughly enjoyed the writing and jokes. It is also a really nice touch when point-and-clicks expand to allow using the keyboard to move the character!

This game feels more like a demo than an actual game, i.e. it is simply way too short, barely 2 hours long if you interact with every possible object. Despite having a good sense of humour and parodying the point and click genre, it really fails to deliver any interesting puzzles, and just when you think the plot is about the begin the game just suddenly ends...
I would love to know the budget for a game like this, but it is clearly not worth the asking price.

Her Majesty's SPIFFING it's a fun point ad click adventure game. Unfortunately, the game is not finished. This is just like chapter one, a long demo. THE GAME IS NOT FINISHED, THIS IS JUST A prologue of a game never finished. The fact that they are still asking 12$ for this , without any warning about not been a finished game is borderline scammy.

So good, honestly. I'm not even getting paid to say that. Wish I was though. The game feels fresh with it's jokes, setting and visuals. The whole thing screams quality, like a posh ponce quaffing tea in his country estate. The only gripe I had with it is that it is, as you might have already gathered, is that it is short. Honestly, that isn't that big of an issue if more of us buy the game the more of a chance there is we get a sequel. I deserve that. You deserve that. Your dog deserves that. Your chinese surveillance gadget hidden away in your home deserves that. The Queen deserves that.

Treat yourself, it's almost christmas.

See written review below or watch it here: https://youtu.be/PFQnHMaqYMo

Her Majesty’s SPIFFING is a short, but very good point and click adventure game with funny dialog and amusing characters.

You are part of a two man crew searching for a habitable planet to colonize on behalf of Great Britain. The story is cute, and silly. I was satisfied with the ending, but it definitely leaves the story open for a sequel. The dialog is full of witty banter, and has a whole lot of puns that made me smile several times during my playthrough. The game makes many references to outdated real world things and other games, which I found to be quite funny. Does anyone else remember clippy, and how cute, but annoying he was?

The point and click gameplay was as expected. You click around to move, and choose what you want to interact with, and then decide how you want to try and interact with it. The puzzles are clear-cut; they don’t offer much of a challenge, and the game even acknowledges that fact. Movement felt on par with other point and click adventure games I’ve played, like Sam & Max. The character usually cooperates, but sometimes when the camera angle change it causes you to walk the wrong way.

• great dialog with the witty comments, jokes, and puns will make you smile or laugh quite often
  
• point and click gameplay is what you would hope for, and it's comparable to other point and click adventure games (i.e. Sam & Max, The Tales of Monkey Island)
  
• the puzzles are straightforward, and make sense, but they are also on the easy side (which may be a con for some)
  
• character animations look good, and the environments look decent as well
  
• voice acting was decent, and the soundtrack was fine
  
• full controller support

• very short, and lacks replay value, unless you plan to go back for achievements (I completed the game in just under 2.5 hours, but I expect some people will take around 3 hours)
  
• (nitpick) even with the anti-aliasing turned on, it still looked like there were some funky edges
  
• (nitpick) one small area where you try and click on the arrow to move to the next screen, but the character doesn't go, and another area where both characters are moving around, and you collide - it’s not a big deal, just a minor nuisance
  
• (nitpick) keybindings are not customizable (but the default controls are standard, and will be fine for most people)

Overall, I enjoyed the game, especially all the witty banter, and out of game references that came along with it. It’s a good pickup for those who enjoyed Sam & Max or Tales of Monkey Island. Although, it is an extremely short game, so you may want wait for a sale.

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her majesty's spiffing is a 2-hour sci-fi point & click adventure. queen elizabeth 2 herself launches a spaceship at the beginning of the game because brexit means brexit and might as well leave the entire planet while they're at it. only with a small ship and crew for starters though. who knew big ben was just a disguise all these years? well, it was probably not erected as a missile silo back in 1859, but still. (and yes, I know big ben is the bell, not the whole building.)

it's not only short but also easy and will probably appeal more to fans of british humor and lifestyle in general. your first task, inevitably, is to make some tea and there's a debate over jaffa cakes, as old as time itself. there's also a lot of 4th wall-breaking, 'retro' stuff (dial-up internet and floppy disks feel like yesterday to me) and the usual smorgasbord of references to everything from star wars and airplane to michael jackson and resident evil. not everybody's cup of, well, tea again. I really enjoyed the writing but found jones' (the other guy) voice acting awful and his constant boyoing in every sentence was annoying as ♥♥♥♥. another issue is, dialog can only be skipped sentence by sentence, not based on what's currently on the screen, so if you're a fast reader, still gotta wait for the second half to appear.

you'd thing a point & click adventure would default to a mouse that's actually capable of pointing and clicking, but no. the game shows a controller prompt on startup whether you have one plugged in or not, only changing it to a mouse icon after clicking once. keyboard and mouse controls aren't rebindable, nor are they great. wasd or left click to move, shift to run, that's about it for the good part. there are some hotkeys but most of them don't work and a few are only shown on the gamepad controls screen for some reason. there are arrows on the side to make awful camera positions easier and more confusing to navigate at the same time and you need them to get off chairs or back out of close-up scenes instead of a simple right click. that one brings up interaction options, something left click should already do. as it is, it only does so when pressed with ctrl, but that's a whole other inconvenience.

inventory management is also a nuisance. mouse wheel would be ideal to bring up and hide it (or right click if it wasn't otherwise occupied), but only clicking the bag in the corner works, the hotkey for it doesn't. you have to equip whatever you want to use by clicking it, then the equip button (sometimes it won't work, so try again), then right click an item in the world and choose 'use inventory item'. it's that simple... I'm pretty sure these people never played an actual mouse-driven point & click adventure in their lives, including their own. nothing wrong with having controller as an alternative, but the whole game seems to prioritize that and proper kb+m controls took a backseat. mouse wheel is supposed to be 'quick inventory swap' and it would be great if it simply cycled through the items, but I never got it working, nor the previous/next inventory item hotkeys.

the presentation is great all around, though I could've done with less of the 'feet thumping on metal surfaces' noise and music is really repetitive. options are plentiful: separate volume settings, various subtitle languages and english voiceovers (and an americanized one), plus resolutions, windowed mode, target fps and a bunch of graphics customization, so you can get rid of nonsense like bloom, motion blur, depth of field, etc. that's where the object highlight toggle is hiding, still gotta mouseover but it's not too bad. autosave and manual saving over 4 slots with an overwrite prompt are available, always good news, though limiting slots is never great.

as good as most of it is, it's a mixed bag overall and only recommendable on sale, mainly due to unintuitive and buggy controls and the camera. and of course lack of content and a relatively high price to go with it, but there are always sales and bundles to look out for. I don't mind short games anyway and there are a few optional/hidden things to find if that's your thing.