Looks like a love letter to The Colonel's Bequest, not that I mind though :) That was my first ever Sierra game purchase!

Finally. Been waiting for this. The game looks amazing.

Wishilisted for now! No income this year, or else I'd send the asking price to the dev asap! It's the thought that counts?

Purchased! Been waiting for this to come out on GOG.

It is good to see that this game is on GOG now.

The soundtrack by Dan Policar is also available on Bandcamp:
https://dantheband.bandcamp.com/album/the-crimson-diamond-original-soundtrack

It was recorded with a Roland MT-32!

I was just about to link that. Roses is my favorite when it comes to adventure games.

That said, despite her glowing review this one ain't for me, I dislike text parser games and was never a fan of the Sierra games in general. I enjoy listening to fans like Roses talking about them much more than playing them.

Well, at least in this one, the worst of the more notorious "Sierra trademark" gameplay elements have apparently been removed or softened.

I already got it on itch.io otherwise I would be picking it up for sure. It was a great time. Hopefully you all enjoy your time with it as much as I did.

I got to play this one on other platforms (but I bought it here as well). I definitely recommend it if you enjoy adventure games with a text parser. A lot of care went into this one and it shows. There are a couple of weaknesses, since some of the scenes are easily missable (they aren't mandatory. however you can lose some interesting details this way), and at least once or twice you can get dialogues you shouldn't be able to unlock because you lack the pre-requisite knowledge, spoiling some details.

If you can look past that, this one was pretty interesting and despite not being terribly complex, it made the process of gathering clues and putting them together feel very rewarding and fun.

So happy to see this here!

Not interested in this game, as I'm not into pure adventure games myself, but since it's a text parser game, one should be able to type in anything.

This would, for example, include "xyzzy".

I think someone should buy the game, type in "xyzzy" at the prompt, and see if anything interesting happens.

Text parser? Really? Not even a verb button system?
Of all the things they could emulate in a retro-esque game...

- "Ah, friend....let me buy you a beer!"

*Buy ber*
-You cannot buy ber-
*Buuy Beer*
-System does not recognize that command-
*Buy Beer damn it*
-Don't Swear!-
*Buy Anything, I give up*
-Game will now exit to dos-

Does that mean you can't die at least one way every scene? And you don't need a hint book to get anywhere?

I almost didn't even look at this one since I'm not a fan of EGA graphics but nostalgia is a powerful thing and the develper got the Sierra visual style down really well so I'm going to wishlist it. I didn't make it too far in Mage's Initiation which has nicer graphics (but I mostly got it because I enjoyed their remakes of the King's Quest games) so I doubt I'd get far in this one either unless it is quite a bit easier.