Unavowed

I love point and click adventures, and I always have an eye on Wadjet Eye, since they have produced some excellent ones. This is hardly a point and click, though. If you're interested in a sort of supernatural noir story, definitely pick this up. The characters are not bad and the game includes a variety of interesting "cases" for you to investigate, set in a New York gone a little bit weird. But if you're looking for challenging puzzles, look elsewhere. I will say that the game's mechanics are much more streamlined to assist the story focus; no manually looking at every object and trying to use every item with another - you can just pass your eye over and get the description. This just also happens to make the puzzles laughably easy in some situations.

Nice adventure, general design is quite similar to the Blackwell games (which shares the setting with Unavowed, there are at least two characters from the Blackwell games in Unavowed, so fans of the Blackwell games might especially enjoy this). As in those I found the puzzles a bit too easy, but that's just Dave Gilbert's design philosophy which privileges storytelling over puzzles. The rpg-like elements regarding the companions are well done, there really are somewhat different solutions for puzzles depending on who's in your party, so there is some replayability; I also found all of the companions interesting and enjoyed their backstories and banter. I didn't like the choices you had to make at some points in the game; those are supposed to be morally grey, but in the end I got the impression there were "correct" and "wrong" choices...seems like Bioware's binary morality might have infected Unavowed in this regard. I also didn't enjoy the main story that much, but going into any more detail would spoil it. On the whole: Nice game, if not quite as revolutionary as might have been hoped for. If you enjoyed previous Wadjeteye games, especially the Blackwell series, or if you're just generally interested in point and click adventures, you'll probably like this.

I played the game on Linux with Wine and it worked almost flawlessly. Regarding the game, the most important aspect is: this is a very light adventure game. There are not many puzzles. If you like puzzle-heavy games, this is not for you. Maybe try Thimbleweed Park instead. On the other hand, if you like story-heavy games, this may be a good choice. The game is separated into several smaller mysteries that you need to solve that are embedded into a greater story arch. It is fun to get to the bottom of the individual cases, but somehow it didn't fully click with me. I can't put my finger on it, but nothing felt special, everything felt serviceable. I guess I'm still waiting for another Primordia ...

i loved blackwell. it was different and engaging. i felt immersed and loved the characters. maybe that is why i expected a different game and i'm kinda put off by this game. did someone really care for the main voiceless protagonist? i didn't ... i was not shocked or frightened ... i was bored. rushing from mission to mission ...a little backstory here and there ... which didn't interest me. in blackwell there were also cases ... but they didn't feel like levels on a run and jump game. each case told you more about rosangela i don't know. kinda disappointed. people like it ... what i liked about it was the look and the sound ... but wadjet eye strength used to be storytelling ... and i didn't like that at all in this game. and i am really sad that i didn't like it.