Fran Bow

Wanna escape reality and see creatures beyond your wildest dreams? And I mean it - no medieval fantasy here. Buy ticket here! Setup being a murder-mystery (which will get solved at the end), it's really about you getting to know how to live in different worlds to escape one, and open the next. Difficulty wise it's on par with King Art's Book Of Unwritten Tales, meaning: for adventure beginners - not hard, which is good if you have limited time and nevertheless want an adventure ride. Length - it took me about 9 hours to beat. Music/Audio fits scenes perfectly in my opinion, ranging from organ to ambient piano, never being annoying. Graphics is a breath of fresh air beneath the other more pixelated adventures coming out lately, it's rather crystal clear like from e.g. King Art studios.

Reminiscent to The Cat Lady, Downfall, Silent Hill, and American McGee's Alice. I'm in the middle of the second chapter as I write this. I've tried a number of point and click games now, so I can say the difficulty is appropriate. The artwork is beautiful as you can see above with interactive dialog. The story takes place in a 1940's asylum and is seen from the perspective of a girl of that era. Fran sees the real world as well as an alternate darker perspective of the world. She uses what she knows of both in order to find her lost kitty, but it appears there are some more sinister things going on as well. This is a true indie game and so it won't be quite as long as some others. It looks like it will be around the length of The Cat Lady and Downfall. So far I am very much enjoying it as I love games like this and worth the $15. You could wait for a sale, but when I saw this I just couldn't wait :)

I absolutely adore this game. If you like point and click adventure games, please give this one a whirl. And if you've never tried a point and click adventure game, I think this one will make you love them forever. The art is gorgeous, the animations are beautiful to look at, the sound effects are plentiful and well designed, and the ever changing music adds so much to the ambiance of the game. But above all, the story of the game is so detailed and rich and keeps you interested to see what happens next. If you're like me, when you finish the game, you'll definitely wish the story wasn't over. This game has two major game mechanics which are truly original and inspired designs of the developers. Both make the game a joy to play and allow the player to see even more of the delicious art design of the single artist who designed and single-handedly drew all the art and animations in the game. There are so many little details built into the game, involving art, animation, and programming--the footprints made in the snow, which are made as the characters walks over freshly fallen snow, which then fill in as the snow continues to fall, with the sound of crunching snow as the character walks, for example--that absolutely show the level of detail and love the two indie developers of Fran Bow put into the game, all to make the story feel so very real for the player. I believe that if you play this game, you will not be disappointed. You will fall in love with the characters in the story, you'll root for the success of the main character, cheer for her, feel both happy at times, and sad at times for her, and boo and hiss at those characters who appear to be against her. I both laughed and cried while playing this game, and I believe that you will too when you play. You will likely want to play the game more than once in order to absorb all the story told in it--it is that intricate. The result is a wonderful story that you will remember for a long time. Recommended

Fran bow is a great point and click adventure game. It has a great art style and a creepy sound scape. The central plot revolves around you trying to find what caused a family tragedy and find your cat, Mr. Midnight. While this sounds simple it belies that brilliance of this layered game where every room has a dual purpose due to the game mechanics involving medicines. Several times I jumped as the game managed to shock me but what engaged me were the interesting and varied characters who felt like real all be it slightly off kilter people. I made a video of me playing the first 20 minutes for those who are interested in seeing more: http://youtu.be/A-NmgBw74QU