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Ratings by Relic

Machinika Museum


Stars - 35

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Space Rescue: Code Pink


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete


point-and-lick sex romp with good artwork


v0.5.5, Leisure Suit Larry in space with better graphics, a much greater success rate, or should that be an actual success rate and a few annoying mini games. You can also revisit your ‘conquests’...


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Time Played: 1-2 hours
Difficulty: Just Right

Suicide of Rachel Foster, The


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Dreamfall Chapters


Stars - 45

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Argonus and the Gods of Stone


Stars - 45

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Gemini Rue


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Sinking Island


Stars - 35

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Her Story


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Firewatch


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

The Mystery of William Moore


Stars - 10

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete


very repetitive gameplay


This is basically finding a series of keys within each room to open up the way further into the house. Game breaking bug in the finale which had me continually falling through the floor, had me watching the ending on youtube. An ending which lasted as long as the game itself.


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Time Played: Under 1 hour
Difficulty: Very Easy

Silence Channel


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Hitchhiker – A Mystery Game


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Ghost on the Shore


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Whisperer, The


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Lake


Stars - 45

Rating by Relic posted on Aug 17, 2023 | edit | delete

Painscreek Killings, The


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Jun 22, 2020 | edit | delete


More Mysterious than intended


Great atmosphere, the open-world, detailed graphics and 3D movement made investigating the town enjoyable. What a true detective adventure should be like, no hand holding, lots of doors remaining locked, occasional bits of useless information, inaccurate maps and unsolved mysteries: what happened to Joshua S. TAYLOR on 03NOV89?

The slightly annoying: long load times between areas, just down to memory management I expect. Lots of obvious places with no tools. I was also prepared to dig up that capsule with the hand spade from the garage, its good enough to do most buried ancient cities.

The perplexing: A lot of my deduction was hampered by unintentional(?) red herrings. Many of the dates/timelines disagreed. eg. both Andrew & Dorothy are said to be born 15NOV42 according to Manor Security. Were they twins? Andrew turns out to be born 22JUL51 according to medical records and gravestone. this is given as his date of hire at the manor. Dorothy on the other hand turns 60 in 1995 according to one diary, so seems neither were born on this date. Mary is hired 03JUN91 according to records, but FEB/MAR93 according to her diary. Scott’s baby blanket has ‘1995’ making him less than a year old at his death. Charles hasn’t seen someone for the last 2 days, after they’ve been dead for over a week (guess he could have been out of town till 2 days ago). One newspaper reports the death of the Dr a month before it happened. Charles writes ‘but what can i do. She’s my wife after all’ on 18NOV95, nothing Charles she WAS your wife and was murdered months ago. Conflicting dates and character’s poor understanding of their own timelines aside, some evidence is just bizarre. A keycard still around and valid years after the person has left.

The Bad: your action-villian Adversary has no presence in the game world until an 11th hour chase sequence, which had me leaving the safety of the locked basement door in order to make the killer aware of where I’d fled to so the ghost of Sofia (or was it Trisha given her choice of finale locale) could then appear the unlock it. So much for my well planned escape when I realised the game had immbolised me as I listened to the way too conclusive latest evidence.

The Good: you action-villian Adversary has no presence in this cold case until the last few minutes. Strange they weren’t destroying all that evidence, especially after they’d nearly been caught exactly the same way 2 years earlier.


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Time Played: 10-20 hours
Difficulty: Just Right

What Remains of Edith Finch


Stars - 50

Rating by Relic posted on Nov 29, 2017 | edit | delete


Cat, Owl, Shark and Sea Monster


This is what an exploration game should be like, though mainly confined to a sprawling house, even that is graphically rich. The series of stories told regarding the fantastical/tragic fates of a dozen or so family members are engaging and different enough to keep you interested.
The house is a maze, and I never did work out how anyone could ever access/use the back porch.

There is a many action/arcade type sequences, but they are appropriate…and you get to be a cat.


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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Very Easy

Town of Light, The


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Nov 28, 2017 | edit | delete


A slow trip through an asylum


From the start you’ve no idea who or what you really are. Taking place some time after the events being investigated, your avatar reads old documents while slowly traversing back and forth in an abandoned asylum. Too slowly, in fact after a mental break your pace becomes even more retarded and your current and previous locations ambiguous.

  Divided in 15 chapters, from chapter 6 to 14 your have 2 options (4 in the case of chapter 12). These appear to be whether you embrace your delusions or not, though if you don’t choose exactly the right dialogue combination, you seem to be left with no choice. I believed someone was a delusion, but was forced to look for them anyway. In any given chapter the highlighted of the four symbols at the base of the synopsis screen tells you what path you’re on. Though it is not clear what each represents, two being almost identical.

All however leads to the same ending, based not on your mental state, but the fact that eventually you’ve become a ward of the state.


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Time Played: 2-5 hours

Preston Sterling and the Legend of Excalibur


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Nov 28, 2017 | edit | delete


Impausible action hero No. 23456566


Divided into 4 sequences each involving a stock standard puzzle and 1 or 2 action sequences (mazes, jumping and dodging). Your employer has spent half his lifetime looking for the sword, and you find it just by visiting two standard Arthurian tourist destinations in less than a week. Graphics are somewhat picturesque, dialogue only grates at a few points and action sequences are only slightly incongruous (tide can rise several metres in Cornwall, but isn’t quite a tsunami-like deluge). Ohh and this is only episode 1, just when you think only one more sequence and it should end..its ends


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Time Played: 1-2 hours

Bunker, The


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Nov 27, 2017 | edit | delete


Adventures of a post apocalytic shut-in


Well I didn’t actually finish this one. The last mouse mashing event was too quick for mouse skills and after having to repeat the previous 3-4 minutes to get to it again 4 times I realised I could be playing an actual adventure game and not a spliced television movie with several timed-sequences and mouse mashing events towards the end.
Most of the time it is extremely linear, your avatar is a 30 year man brought up in ignorance by his mother after an incident in a fallout bunker. The reasons for which become very obvious towards the end. Your daily routine is all you have and makes game flow very easy for the developers. Most of the time you are asleep at the wheel only to be surprised by a mousing mashing/clicking event in what appeared to be one long extended cutscene. note events in flashbacks are more flexible than the present for the bulk of the game. Other times the video is looping as you look for the only hotspot on the screen.
All in all a good watchable movie length movie with a few scratches on the DVD causing scene repeats, not really a game.


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Time Played: 2-5 hours

Artifact, The


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Nov 7, 2017 | edit | delete


...The End


All over in under 20 minutes. Features 4 chapters, essentially 4 puzzles and you’re done. Apart from the short game play, only the slightly clunky controls can be faulted. Had to use ESC and resume to get unstuck after leaving sleep pod. Supposedly had WASD movement mapped, but turned out to be entirely mouse driven. Puzzles were relevant but nothing new for experienced players of adventure games. Visuals good and sound ok. Not sure how to rate this, only very short length really brings it down.


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Time Played: Under 1 hour

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Sep 23, 2017 | edit | delete


Action... and a little bit of adventure


From the start you know you’re not going to have much control in this one. A strange woman has moved next door and is insinuating her way into the life of your adoptive daughter. Despite it being only 1894 and women only just now being able to smoke in public without being arrested, she (a complete stranger) seems capable of gaining access to your daughter at anytime and ignoring your angry objections. That however is the least of your problems, as you’re channeling Nancy Drew and walk right into the obvious danger of the first case, resulting in one of the too many life threatening action sequences and quick time events. Too much time is spent creeping about, dodging bullets, balancing, quickly hitting the A, W, S or D keys and selecting from multiple dialogue choices within a few seconds. Fortunately you can skip most of this, in the case of crafting a dagger with mouse clicks, it seemed the only way forward. In the second case you channel Lara Croft as do the thought experiment of a 1000 deaths… and with regards to the last case, you’re left wondering if it was ‘Fever Dreams’ as the title indicates.

Note although you can never need go there, on the streets outside 221B you can practice arm-wrestling, boxing and darts (all redundant) and ‘balancing’ (useful, but only time I actually fell) as well as pick up the local papers.

The Bad: more an action/stealth game. Watson is pointless. Your costumes don’t fool anyone if you accidentally leave them on.

The Good: being able to frame ‘innocent’ people for a crime. A certain annoying American will strut the boards no more.


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Time Played: 5-10 hours
Difficulty: Hard

Black Sails: The Ghost Ship


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Sep 4, 2017 | edit | delete


"But alas, it is 1888, and I am but a woman who..."


...must submit to casual violence from a stranger and then heal him in order to obtain items necessary to complete the quest. Although the game states your dialogue will effect how things play, the only significant choice occurs at the end. Until then you must help this impediment to a speedy progression. At the outset your relationship with Lex is strained, possibly due to the fact you’re wearing trousers, a jailable offense for another 30+ years. This escalated to the point where I would have loved to watch him bleed out on the floor on the Captain’s Cabin. Fortunately it only one requires one to manipulate a lifeboat.
The Graphics and atmosphere were suitably haunting. This type of third person navigation leads to a lot of missed items as you painfully try to manipulate your avatar to see all angles of the rooms. Also the dialogue was unable to cope with you moving too far ahead, resulting in Lex demanding I get my head together and solve problems I’d already resolved. Finally, anachronisms aside, the attempt to insert this episode into actual historical events seems unnecessary, especially since the fate of said vessel was not the same.


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Time Played: 2-5 hours

Cradle


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Sep 2, 2017 | edit | delete


Never leaving the Cradle


This game holds your hand the entire time, to the point where there is no use in stacking objects where they are needed. They just respawn at there original locations when you leave the area, and you can’t do obvious things like install your solar panel and battery array until the game wants you too.  Plenty of information is lying around to read, so much so that the questions your avatar asks seem pointless and ignorant if you’ve read enough. The story and the graphics save the game. The mini-games nearly kill it,fortunately they can be skipped and despite there being 10 terminals you only have to use 4. Dying is frequent in the ‘amusement park’: falling from great heights, overcome by black clouds and occasionally just flung up in the air for no reason…not to mention trying to manipulate a power cable quickly enough as lighting strikes in the same place again and again.


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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Easy

Serena


Stars - 20

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Paris 1313: The Mystery of Notre-Dame Cathedral


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Old City: Leviathan, The


Stars - 40

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Sentinel: Descendants in Time


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

RHEM 2


Stars - 35

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Stanley Parable, The


Stars - 35

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Night of the Rabbit,The


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Black Island


Stars - 25

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Lost Horizon 2


Stars - 35

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Celtica


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Anna - Extended Edition


Stars - 30

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure, The


Stars - 50

Rating by Relic posted on Jul 11, 2017 | edit | delete

Scratches (Director's Cut)


Stars - 50

Rating by Relic posted on Jun 30, 2015 | edit | delete

Dark Fall: The Journal


Stars - 50

Rating by Relic posted on Jun 30, 2015 | edit | delete

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