It was probably the best point&click adventure I’ve ever played. And the ending… I don’t get it. Those people wrote some good jokes. They seem smart. Why did they do this. It’s like a writer writes a detective story proudly presents a story where the narrator is the murderer and you realize they never heard of Roger Ackroyd. Was it intended to be disappointing? Well good job then.

We were just discussing why we seem to enjoy and finish games like Samorost and Botanicula, but peter out on games like Monkey Island. We think it’s the running around – in Stray, Firewatch etc running around is part of experience, and is made beautiful and there are triggered scripts etc. In Samorost & Botanicula, puzzles are plentiful, intellectually engaging, and tend to be mostly screen based. In traditional point & click though, there’s just so much running around from screen to screen to screen, to get the nugget of content & funny; work which seems to be easier to process alone, but tends to make a second person restless when played co-operatively. So far, the only traditional point & click we’ve finished is the Day of the Tentacle remake.

Oh, and FWIW, the game plays great with controller on TV, better than virtually any other Point & Click. For once, we did not feel interface was in our way .