Bik - A Space Adventure

Bik: A Space Adventure is a must-play, especially if you love point-and-click adventures or plan on designing one. It serves as an excellent model for point-and-click adventure games and other developers could learn quite a lot from it. In particular, this game flawlessly executes three objectives upon which the entire genre depends. 1 - Avoids punishing the player for guessing. If you've ever played one of these Zork descendants, you know that sometimes the solution to a puzzle is unclear. Sometimes one wrong move can be the end of the game. Bik circumvents this somewhat with a sense of humour. Some of the deaths are outright ridiculous and great for a laugh. Not only that, but if you make a fatal mistake, the developers were kind enough to include a feature that autosaves your game retroactively to your critical error so that you can try again from exactly the moment you fumbled. It keeps the game fun, especially in the middle of difficult or complex puzzles, of which there are very few in the first place. Short loading times mean that you're ready to try again in seconds. 2 - Leads you in the right direction. As I played through this adventure, I felt a mild disappointment at how neglected some of the object descriptions were and how mundane the non-essential parts of the game were. I saw it as a missed opportunity to develop the world. But then I considered it in a new light and realised that it ... might have been on purpose. All point-and-click adventures suffer from one critical conundrum--in the effort to build an immersive world full of detail, the player is often overloaded with information. When every object seems significant, none of them stand out clearly enough to lead us to what we're there to do. A few pictures or disheveled bedsheets in the background may have lackluster descriptions, but that's the point. It's directing your focus toward the puzzles' real elements so that you can progress without ever feeling 'stuck' and clicking every random combination of items in frustration. 3 - It still tells a solid story. This ties into the previous point. Even with the background and details somewhat simplified, Bik manages to tell a good story with a classic outline. It strikes a perfect balance between storytelling and puzzle-solving and shines by that accomplishment. It's simple, it's relatively short, but it's consistently satisfying to progress. The characters' personalities are not sacrificed to this end, the integrity of the world remains intact, and it really feels like a window into a new universe. Sure, it's not the whole space opera, but it's enough of it that we want to see the sequel. I'm waiting for Bik: The SET Strikes Back and Bik: Return of the Sandwich. Take my money, Bik. You've earned it.

Impressive little point & click. Bik has a great story, highly likable characters & a hell of a lot of charm. Sure at 1st glance it looks a little ugly. But it quickly becomes apparent the look was intentional. The grainy amateur looking asthetic actually turns out to be quite beautiful. The puzzles posed a little bit of a challenge. Although there are some sequences that can be a little annoyingly repetitious, until you figure it out. Overall Bik left me wanting more. I hope to see more of this in the future. This is well worth the $1.19 I paid for it, but at $5.99 it may be a little steep. I'd say grab it fast if it's $4.00 or less.

Obviously this is one large big love letter to the likes of Space Quest, from the silly tone of the game, to the many weird ways you can accidentally kill off the various characters, to the plenty of references to classic Sierra adventure titles throughout. Thankfully it also has the brains to avoid some of the more unpalatable Space Quest issues (aka: dead ends) and offers up an incredibly fun and smart adventure thats well worth getting.

Great oldschool game. The control scheme reminds me of the Amiga. :)

What a great game! It reminds me of the Sierra games I played as a child and it has a nice soundtrack too. There is nothing really new or groundbreaking here but simple fun like in the older days of gaming. I highly recommend playing this!

I loved the music and the story, overall everything about this game made me smile; The soundtrack is lovely too plus not forgetting the fact this game doesn't take that long to play and complete, but makes me want to return to it! Would recommend to any fans of point&clicks with SPACE ADVENTURE in them.

Bik: drink booze -> "Your IP address has been sent to the authorities." This game cracks me up so much xD

A wonderful game. 10/10, easy!

A fun little game in the tradition of classic comedic adventure games such as Space Quest and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although thankfully less difficult. Funny writing, likable characters, and plenty of easter eggs to find.

I had a lot of fun with this game. It's super remniscent of old Sierra games, especially Space Quest. I realize the old style graphics are kind of off-putting to a lot of people, but they really reminded me of my childhood. The puzzles are well thought out and some of the ways to die were pretty humorous. All-in-all, this was a solid game!