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Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time is a point and click adventure with plenty of puzzles to keep you busy for a while. Following in the footsteps of the first game, this one has a more fleshed out story, more puzzles, and additional tools for functionality while you play, including a notepad with several pages for you to draw and to write notes to yourself, as well as a screengrab function ingame that removes the HUD for better screenshots but mostly for taking notes for yourself. I played this game through from beginning to end once while a friend did the same, and we noticed that many of the puzzles we were looking at had the same ideas/puzzle types, but the puzzles themselves are quite different from each other. Because of the difference in puzzles from playthrough to playthrough, I assume this is why I cannot get all of the in-game achievements after one go. The game really encourages you to go again even you know the progression of the game and story, the puzzles themselves will offer new challenges. It is unclear whether there are randomly generated puzzles or if there is a database of several puzzles for these variable points for the game to randomly choose from.

Just like the first game, the entire game takes place on an island, there are quite a few NPCs who you will interact with, who will give you clues or random thoughts about puzzle solutions or game progression. There is a map to look at easily to see where you are. Again, no fast travel option, but completely unnecessary.

The game is quite heavy on reading at times, and you want to pay close attention to the things you read. Quite a few NPCs will have a good number of lines to tell you, explaining to you a bit more about the story and background, etc. While the game was developed by a Chinese team, the translations in this game are very good. You would hardly know that it is a translation.

As mentioned above, this game improved upon the first with giving you a couple of in-game tools to take notes or snapshots for future reference. In the first game, these were not present. This facilitated more smooth gameplay for a better experience.

Once again, everything you see, every little detail could mean something later on, as part of a clue to solving a puzzle. So make sure you are paying attention!

The artwork is in the same style and just as good as the first game. They did not cut any corners and there is plenty of hand-drawn details to look at. The music is relaxing as well, served to create a good atmosphere to tackle these puzzles.

I had a blast with this game. I hope that you will as well! I absolutely recommend this game!

I received the product for free. I did not receive any compensation to write this review. The opinions represented here are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way.

That was really fun and interesting experience! Thank you very much! ❤

游戏由17173萤火虫提供
Disclaimer: While I received this game from a review community, the following review are my own personal opinions.

This adventure game is a nice hidden gem!

It has a nice art style and fantastic puzzles. The devs don't hold your hand at all. You are basically thrown in with a very simple tutorial and you get to explore at your own pace.

Puzzles do not come with any instructions. The challenge comes from understanding them either logically or via clues from characters dialogue. Yes, in this game, reading dialogues are actually useful! (Though you can choose not to - read below)

None of the puzzles are out of the world, everything can be solved with logic and the clues you find. In fact, the game actually has an option for 'alien' language which will not give you any clues from characters.

Ever heard of a new game+ mode in a point and click adventure game? I think its rare?? Well correct me if I am wrong. But new game+ modes are quite common in games developed by Chinese devs. Yes, this game is made in China. Surprise! No worries, the english translation is pretty good, a 9/10. Basically upon finishing the first playthrough, you do get an ending. You can stop there but why not go ahead and restart the game for a new game+ with some extra new puzzles (some things are now different) and find the true ending?

Even though this is the 2nd of a series (there is plans for a 3rd), one does not need to have played the first title. Although there are a few easter eggs related to that but you won't miss out much.

Overall, a very nice (and cheap) adventure game! Took me about 5hrs to complete both runs. If I must really find a bad thing about it, that would be no steam achievements! Its a pity because the game itself do have achievements.

Nonetheless, do TRY IT!!!
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游戏由17173萤火虫提供

玩完这游戏才发现迷失岛这系列真的很棒。如果不是萤火虫，我可能都不会发现这游戏呢！

我挺喜欢它的艺术风格和它那些具有挑战性的谜题。你可以按自己的步调进行探索。 谜题不附带任何说明。我也很喜欢这样的挑战。基本上都是可以从逻辑或通过游戏线索来解锁它们。有部分线索都是可以和人物对话而得知的，所以和人物对话其实是有用的！当然你也可以挑战 “外星人”语言的选项，那样就不会和人物对话时得到任何线索了。

游戏也有二周目，对于一个点触解谜游戏来说，这应该是不太普遍的吧？二周目除了结局不一样以外，也有一些新的谜题。从游戏的各种彩蛋可见开发团队的用心。
游戏真的很棒，尝试一下！！！

In general, "Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time" plays almost exactly like the first "Isoland." So, if you played that, you pretty much know what to expect with this game. The one exception is that two of the hidden in-game Achievements (not Steam Achievements) are, essentially random. You have to enter an area any number of times until an item therein randomly decides to change form (and then you click on it). I was a bit miffed with that, but since it's just an Achievement and not necessary for completing the game, I'm willing to let it pass. Anyway, it took me 4.9 hours to complete the two run-throughs needed to get everything done. So, even at the list price, it's worth it.

Enjoyed this Game. Like the first Isoland game it is visually appealing and has a surreal charm all of it's own. I found the first Isoland a bit too demanding (eg randomly having to click an object more than once to make something happen) and resorted to a walkthrough a few times. However Isoland 2 got the difficulty level about right for me - so pretty well ticks all the boxes.
PS The second time you play through you get altered puzzles and an extra challenge/mission - what's not to like

I wanted to like this game - I liked the original Isoland. There were two problems that prevented me from liking it however:

1 - there were too many (for my liking) puzzles which sere just puzzles, not connected by clues in the game to help solve them. Theses were mainly sliding block type puzzles, and were pretty difficult, which is OK in general but:

2 - they were slightly different each time you started the game; I can see that would increase replay value, but in my case, when I was not able to solve one, all the Walkthoughs and videos available showed different versions of that puzzle, so I was stuck.

I just decided the game was not worth the effort for me.

If you like point-click adventures, then you'll almost certainly like this. I don't like that genre particularly, but I got this because having played the demo for Isoland 1, I had to buy the full version of that. And I liked it so much that this was inevitable.

Like the first one, this is definitely worth it for the price. The slightly surreal atmosphere is even better here, as is the artwork.

I found I got stuck in quite a few places, which can get frustrating. But finished without using any guides simply by stopping playing for a while and returning to it later when I'd forgotten what I'd tried and what I hadn't.

One puzzle I had to brute-force, and I'm still not sure where the actual solution is. So I'll definitely replay it just to find that.

It's the kind of game you can come back to in a year or so and replay with a kind of uncanny, haunting feeling that you are suddendly immersed in something vaguely familiar, and yet still quite puzzling. I look forward to that feeling.

A lovely game has lots of fun. i hope they publish next gen soon.

A little bit worse than the second part, but still worth recommendation.

难度中等，80/90年代画风，流程较短。总之算是一款还行的解密