A Night at the Watermill

Klare Empfehlung von mir! Vor allen Dingen für Leute, die normalerweise nicht so gerne Adventures spielen, da alle Rätsel logisch und lösbar sind. Bei den meisten Adventures bleibe ich irgendwann "stecken" und weiß nicht weiter, wobei es früher in den 80er und 90er Jahren noch schlimmer war als danach. Monkey Island ist ja witzig aber wie man als "normaler" Mensch die Rätsel im Spiel lösen soll, ist mir ein Rätsel (Da, schon wieder ein dreiköpfiges Rätsel...). Außerdem bin ich auch dankbar, wenn ein Spiel mal nur ein bis zwei Stunden dauert. Das ist nach Spielen mit 20-200 Stunden Spielzeit immer mal ein schöner Snack für zwischendurch. Die Story von "A Night at the Waterhill" ist interessant und erinnert mich an den Film [spoiler] Memento [/spoiler]. Die Grafiken sind schön gezeichnet und aufgrund der Farbgebung des Spiels ist alles übersichtlich gestaltet. Die Klangkulisse ist sehr passend. Abschließend sei gesagt, dass alle Achievements leicht und in einem Spieldurchgang zu erzielen sind.

[b]a night at the watermill[/b] is a really short 1st-person point & click escape room adventure, [b]won't even take an hour[/b]. absolutely not worth the asking price but it's done well enough, so something to contemplate during a sale. you find yourself at the eponymous location in the middle of a storm, gotta get out and hopefully recall who you are, the usual fare. there are a bunch of locations, even a few choices and [b]3 endings[/b], plus an inventory. items can be combined and inspected, the inventory hidden. [b]can't die or reach a fail state[/b] and don't have to replay the whole thing for different endings because there are [b]autosaves and manual saves, both with multiple slots[/b] and one of the autosaves is before the final choices. active cursor, shows item names on mouseover, as it should be, and an [b]iffy hotspot indicator[/b] is also in place. click to reveal them all for a second instead of it being a toggle, for a longer period or until the button is let go. the script would've been half as long without [b]all the unnecessary ellipses[/b]. use a comma or a single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ period. it was made with the [b]renpy[/b] engine, supporting visual novels, porn on otherwise, since who knows when. it's not the first point & click to utilize it, [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1511240]spacenet[/url] is another neat one, for instance. it also means basic functionality, including all the saving goodness mentioned above, is intact if not perfect. separate volumes ('voice' is for the occasional text display sound), resizable windowed mode, a couple of languages, [b]text speed setting that still doesn't make it instant in every situation[/b]. credits are unskippable, always with the ego, but settings and saves can be brought up anytime, so you can load or quit instead of waiting. I picked it up at full price on day 1 because these guys didn't have to be taught about basic point & click functionality that's been around and expected for decades. sure, comes with the engine, but it only shows the importance of an educated choice. not that it's flawless but much better than many lazy point & clicks these days. putting that aside, [b]4 eur is way too much for it[/b], and putting [i]that[/i] aside, [b]it's an enjoyable if brief escape watermill game[/b]. still, it should've come with the soundtrack and the artbook at this price.

Nice short horror game with puzzles and multiple endings. Worth your time.

Ein gut gemachtes düsteres Adventure-Spiel für eine kurze Sitzung. Die drei Enden entscheiden sich ausschließlich an der letzten Dialogoption. Läuft perfekt nativ unter Linux. Ich habe das Spiel als Curator bei "Hidden Linux Gems" gratis erhalten, finde es aber doch nicht "gemmy" genug, um es in diesem Rahmen herauszustellen. Aber eine positive Rezension hat es verdient.

If there was a neutral option, instead of straight up and down recommended/not recommended, I'd choose that. It's not that I'd go out of my way to advise against playing this game, but I wouldn't really say, "Yeah, totally worth it!" either. For me, the biggest pros are the art style and atmosphere. Cons were the characters/lack of substantial backstory. At this price point, I can't gripe too much about the playtime (40mins first run through) but aside from chasing achievements, replaying doesn't seem likely in my future.

A charming little point-and-click adventure with a nicely told story. As someone who isn't very active in the point-and-click adventure genre, this game was a welcome change, and its short playtime was perfect for me. It was nice to play a game from a small German developer again. Thank you for letting me experience this nice little story through your game!

It's a short game about a short, dangerous night in a rotten old watermill, and the [i]wonderful[/i] comic art just boosts it right up there, and I'll tell you -- I wish people made stuff like this all the time. So it's a pretty simple story, really, but I don't think everything has to be a [i]Game of Thrones[/i] chain of infinite backstabs to be interesting . . . and really I don't [i]want[/i] so much of that stuff anyway! Atmosphere! [b]That's[/b] what we have here, carried by beautiful, hand-drawn graphics and immersive sound! it's an easier adventure game of the point 'n' click sort, [i]not[/i] quite a VN. A scared, slender girl in a slip wakes up in a watermill. Half of her head has been shaved! She has a scar! Is she crazy? She better not be, because she's young enough that some dope (or dopes) will want to [b]fix[/b] her and give her lots of expensive gifts! There are three quite [i]logical[/i] endings and there are some things here that are a touch sinister without being [i]exhaustively[/i] explained, and that's good, because there's a big hint at more game to come! But is that bit at the end a cliffhanger, for real? You tell me! I want it to be!

A short, but great title. Loved the art and the story. Logical combinations of items, thankfully, and a highlight option. Escape the watermill!

This is a nice, short (~1h) puzzle game, with lovely artwork, some nice music, fun puzzles, and a compelling mystery that has multiple endings that all make sense I think the price of the game is very fair!

A short little game with a nice art style!