Going to be honest, I didnt care what this game was - I was buying it just for the word "dragon".

But I'm really happy I spent that £2.50. Good art, great voices, a little short but we all know size doesn't matter all that much (PLUS it has a dragon). I love the humour and I'm curious as to where the story is going.

I found this game while looking through the steam market results for "dragon background", I stumbled upon Norb and I HAD to buy the game. And I'm glad I did.

Can't wait for Episode 2.

Out of all of the Point and Click games I've played, I've never experienced anything so creative and so humorous like this. The Tale of Doris and the Dragon: Episode 1 was without a doubt the best Point and Click game that I've played in a long time. The artwork, the characters, the gameplay and the story are all amazing, and I'm looking forward to the next episodes!

Short, but very good! The voice acting is genius, i personally laughed quite a few times. Soundtrack is great. Great puzzles even though i did struggle a bit sometimes, but the more challenging - the more fun. The text that rolls is honestly a bit annoying because it's really hard to read that way.
It's all in all a great and original game, love the creativity behind the game, and it's definitely worth the 3,99€

When is Episode 2 coming out?

I found it very pleasant. Easy puzzles, funny dialogue and perfect voice acting. I ment to say that you found the perfect old lady for Doris voice, and when I watched the endcredits I saw that it was Ben doing her voice. Good job man, fooled me for sure. Looking forward to the next episode!

Lots of funny moments, lovely visuals, has some difficult sections to spice it and the story so far seems really awesome, with lots of questions needing to be answered! The episode itself is a little short but still good to pass the time with!

Rightio, I know two of the chaps that worked on the game and promised I would give an honest review back about it rather than being nice.

However...

It's lovely, despite the art style (which personally I am not normally a fan of) being pixelated, they have managed to create a grim realm in the inbetween where nto all is at it seems.

I am genuinely intrigued as to who the shadow man is and am looking forward to the next installment, the story so far is well written and presented, it's funny in places, the highlight being the boatman and his random question about Robert Smith.

The game plays smoothly on my crappy pc, which is always a lovely bonus for me, the music is dark and forboding, the sounds are excellent.

There are however a couple of gripes and I know this might annoy them a little bit.

The first is the music puzzle, I am extremely well versed in point and click games having played pretty much every single one I have ever found, including the discorld games and their ridiculously obscure puzzles. This music puzzle ranks up there with the octopus puzzle from the first Discworld game with frustration levels. I can play a couple of instruments myself so have quite a good sense of timing for beats, rhythm etc, but had found it hard to get it right.

Doris, at times her speech is spot on, but sometimes it can get quite annoying, (sorry Ben :( ) but mainly when she is viewing objects.

Also more annoying puzzles! It's a great intro into the genre and apart from that bloody music puzzle, very accesible for new players to the genre. But please ramp up the obscurity on puzzles for it! That would be awesome for someone with my levels of anger. I need an excuse for a new mouse anyway.

Please also have more of the boatman in the next episode, he is brilliant.

Definitely check out htis game, it's short but worth the £2.79

I loved this story episode from the second I saw it, while looking for games about dragons. Finally, a story where an old woman gets to have a proper adventure and meet a friendly dragon! I got exactly what I expected: a short, endearing, straightforward homage to point-and-click adventures, with the kind of story and characters I always wanted to see. It felt like rediscovering a favourite little cereal box bauble from twenty years ago.

Of course, this retro experience includes all the frustrating little things, like feeling 'stuck' often and clicking and right-clicking and dragging every pixel on the screen to figure out what I was supposed to do. Each puzzle was relatively straightforward though, since there's only one or two puzzles you can solve at a time with your entire inventory. The game also has lengthy conversations that, though amusing, are hard to skip through until I figured out that you're supposed to "use" an item on a person, not "interact" with them, to give it to them. It's also hard to tell when a character has something new to say. I'm sure many of the less fun things will be smoothed out in the next episode, though.

The music box puzzle was my favourite because I love music puzzles and bone/fossil xylophones, but it took me a while to figure out because I had sound effects turned off, because after a while the Fur Elise snippet playing every time I clicked on the box reminded me too much of all the times people wanted me to play it on the piano. I sympathize with the demon entirely. So basically I couldn't figure out why nothing was happening when I clicked on the ribs.

I'm very glad that The Tale of Doris and the Dragon is being told. It's the kind of pure, snarky, cute adventure I always wanted, with just my type of humour. Its "clunkiness" doesn't get in the way of the story. I'm very much looking forward to Episode Two!

I'll be honest, the voice acting could be better. But it is a neat little game, around an hour or longer.

What I expected: A magical, kickass adventure of a girl and her dragon pal.

What I got: A dead old lady and her tech support dragon.


Way better then what I was expecting!

I don't have much to say about this game, the episode was quite short and the puzzles were not too tricky. The character designs for the dragon and the demon are cute. The music is nice and sets a nice tone for the game. Unlike games such as Undertale, I don't think the pixel graphics are used to the game's advantage, but rather makes it look very basic. It's not a bad game, but there's nothing special about it. Not too sure whether I'll buy the next episode.