Reader reviews for Nine Witches: Family Disruption

Lacking any sense for good storytelling and gameplay, it’s not remotely as witty and funny as the creator think it is; the constant fourthwall-breaking and dull jokes are getting annoying quickly, as well as some of the repetitive gameplay elements. The few “action”-scenes are ruined by subpar controls. I give it credit for nice graphics, some decent ideas like switching characters for different skills, and maybe about every third joke that remotely works.

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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Easy

Great atmosphere, incredible immersion. it’s like playing Indiana Jones 3 or 4 again. Same quality! I think this could be the best adventure game in 22 years, together with Thimbleweed Park.

The map in particular is something never seen before in an adventure, and greatly contributes to the immersion and the sense of setting. Also, the very well done (and skippable) gunfights increase the immersion a lot. (If you don’t like them, you can skip them , asking for the devil’s help).

Very good puzzles also. The game is not easy and you will get stuck, but all puzzles are fair. You understand a game is great when it’s nice to be stuck and wander about, looking at the locations and racking your brain at the same time. This is one of the few games where this happened to me. At that moment you understand it’s a masterpiece.

There are some small flaws: the game doesn’t take itself seriously enough, and makes IMHO too many weak jokes. There are many funny jokes, but also too many recurring “HA HA” jokes which weren’t funny to me. I didn’t mind the toilet humour but there was too much insistence on it. Also, there was way too much fourth wall breaking. Finally, the keyboard controls are not configurable, and walking with the left hand was painful.

But these flaws do not alter the fact that this is possibly the best adventure game since Fate Of Atlantis. Its strengths are just too big.

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Time Played: 5-10 hours
Difficulty: Just Right

“Nine Witches” is disgusting: toilet humor and Nazis - two in one. For lack of better ideas, developers joke about physiology, but the bad taste is doubly so - to combine this with the theme of the Second World War. However, developers were reinsured: offscreen laughter and frequent remarks “Ha ha!” will tell players where to smile.

Any interesting puzzles? Nope. The search for coins throughout the district is not far from pixel hunting. You can control two characters - in theory, it has potential for interesting puzzles for cooperation, but game does not develop it to the fullest; all astral actions of Professor Krakowitz are monotonous. You also have to, for example, collect the urine of a drunken Nazi in order to wake up a naked woman with its smell. The highlight of the program: counting chicken paws in a bloody “pile of small” to figure out that not all hens were dismembered, but some ran away.

Developers promise an original story (quote: “99.9999% guaranteed”). Well, let’s see: zombie mutants, the occult plans of Nazis, astral exits from the body, breaking the 4th wall - yeah, it’s unusually fresh.

Instead of music, there are monotonous howls. Instead of dialogues - insipid porridge. The only good thing in this game, imho, is graphics.

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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Easy