Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business

The game is very short, it ends in the middle without any closure.

Completado en apenas dos horas en julio del 2025. Este va a ser el primer juego que pago en Steam al que le doy nota negativa. Si los votos tuviesen una escala de 0 a 10, le daría un 3, porque, la versión inglesa, que es la que he jugado, está bien interpretada, y bastantes de los muchos juegos de palabras me han parecido graciosos. Y de primeras, estéticamente los gráficos me han parecido divertidos. Pero hasta ahí, porque todo lo demás es un desastre. La historia no puede ser más lineal, los puzzles son inexistentes, en las conversaciones no hay posibilidades de réplica. El juego consiste en ir pulsando en lo obvio en todo momento, apenas hay posibilidades de pasar algo por alto. Y así se va avanzando en un relato que además es casi infantil en su simplicidad. Al final del juego aparecen una serie de organismos británicos y europeos que participaron de la financiación del desarrollo, dentro de algún tipo de programa que perseguía váyase a saber qué objetivo. Mi sensación es que estamos ante la comercialización de lo que parece un proyecto de curso de una academia de programación de videojuegos. Me parece muy bien que la gente se forme, que de algo hay que vivir. Pero el caso, es que aunque pagué menos de dos euros, para este juego, cualquier precio por encima de cero euros, me parece un engaño. Y lo malo es que lo compré dentro de un pack, con la segunda parte... ¿La jugaré alguna vez?

A short, very easy point and click game that's set in world that's a parody of the Victorian era, featuring a posey attitude and alleys that smell like a turd! Sadly, it was a mixed experience. Protagonist has no personality except that of your average satirical british gentleman, and his accomplice- Gaven, is not a big talker and his only skill and use is that he's... strong. Unlikeable characters, a big minus. Puzzles are also incredibly easy to figure out. Basically you click all the interactable spots and the game will progress maybe except the times you merge some items to make tools. Every single line is voice acted but after a while(which wasn't long with how short the game is) it got tiresome to hear the jokes this game offers. If you're wondering about the story, it's nothingburger. In the wider scale(of actually solving a murder) nothing happens at all. My final verdict is... it is just okay to play if you can get it very, very cheap and really can't find anything else to play. But can I recommend this to other people who are unaware of this game? That's a firm no. Game has its charms(mostly its artstyle), but is forgettable and not a good example of the genre. 2 outta 10.

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Short but super entertaining, I loved it

I am giving this a positive review, but the game was not really for me. The voice acting was great, and there were numerous scenes to interact with. The puzzles were a bit too easy for someone who might regularly do point and click adventures. I was not very engaged in the story. However, for a younger or inexperienced audience, this game would be really good to start on.

While playing episode 1 I did not feel I'd recommend it. The store-page calls it a "classic point and click adventure game" but it so easy that a puzzle component is more or less absent. Not very classic. I then however played episode 2 (as realistically most anyone would) and that [i]is[/i] in fact a bona fide classic point and click adventure game. With both episodes taken together genre-fans will find quite enough to like here.