I don't like giving bad reviews to indie devs, but my god, this is game is just so unbelievably bad. It looks like most of the reviewers have definitely not played the full game because it takes waaaay longer than that. I haven't either. I was planning to trudge through the whole game, but I only got halfway through the third of 15 levels before I decided I couldn't keep wasting my life like this. On the third level, a bunch of the puzzles are literally JUST WAITING. There is absolutely nothing else to do, you JUST WAIT. For what actually looks like HOURS. Can't confirm because I wasn't going to find out, but I already spent probably more than an hour on that level, and all signs pointed to waiting several more.
To the dev:
I understand that you're a solo indie dev and that this is probably your first game. This game is very long (and not only because of the waiting level), and it takes a lot of discipline and follow-through to actually complete a game, so I commend you for that. You seem to have the right mindset for game dev, but you need to seriously work on your design, storywriting, art, and general quality if you want to be successful. I'm trying not to be mean, but let me just go through some of the reasons why I think your game is so terrible.
First, and worst, the puzzle design. It looks like you designed the puzzles to be hard, NOT fun. You have to think from the player's perspective when you're designing puzzles. As an amateur dev myself, I know it's difficult because, as the designer, you already know the solutions, so everything seems obvious to you, and you don't want to make the puzzles too easy. But then they end up being WAY harder than you think. If you design puzzles that YOU think are too easy, they might actually be the right level of difficulty. And in either case, it's better to have puzzles that are too easy than ones that are too hard. In fact, if you have a great story, people often won't even care if your puzzles are too easy.
As for specifics about some of your puzzles... the waiting stuff? Literally the worst puzzle design I have ever seen in a game. It's not clever, it's just terrible puzzle design. People play games for fun, and sitting around for hours(??) with absolutely nothing to do is not fun. That is the precise thing that people are playing your game to avoid. The spider minigame is also terrible because it seems to literally be unbeatable if you only use the mouse. Why on earth would you design it to be that hard? Did you test the game [i]at all[/i]? And the pixel-hunting puzzles with the garbage bins... people [i]hate[/i] pixel hunting. A good game should not have [i]any[/i] pixel hunting. And I saw in a let's play that you have a password puzzle at the end of the game that uses the Spanish spelling in the English version? Are you serious, man?
The general design of the whole game is also bad. Most first-person point-and-click games let you click the bottom of the screen to go back -- a back button in the top corner is very unintuitive. Next, the save menu makes no sense. Thank you for implementing autosave, though. The backpack inventory is also weird because you can't actually take items out of it like in a normal point and click. And what's with all the "choices" that are basically just "do this thing you obviously need to do to advance" or "don't"? There's no point to that. It just makes it feel like a poorly designed game.
And the whole thing with critical items only being usable after you do some other actions, with no indication that you now need to go back and get this item that you previously couldn't interact with? Bad and frustrating design. I don't care if it's more "realistic" because it doesn't make sense to just take random items like the protagonists in point-and-click games always do. They do that because it's much better design. It's a game, it doesn't need to be exactly like real life.
Moving onto the graphics... they look very amateurish. If the rest of the game were well designed, it would be fine, although it's [i]definitely[/i] something you should work on if you want to make better games. You hand-drew everything yourself as a solo dev... okay, that's fine. Art is hard, I know, trust me. But you can still make it look less amateurish. I saw the page for your soccer game, and, uh... actually the art is even worse in that game. I'm sorry, but the color balance is just hideous. Even if that were my genre, I would not get the game literally just based on the graphics alone. Study some color theory and practice your art. You clearly have the discipline to learn, so just take the time... it'll be worth it.
Also, font design... don't use boring, basic, default fonts like Arial. It looks so amateurish. A nice, fitting font can really elevate the feel of your game.
And then, there's the general quality and language issues. The English is bad. I'm guessing you wrote all the English yourself because it sounds very Spanish and a machine translation would have actually been much better. If you can't afford a pro translator or even a proofreader, okay, that's fine, but you could have AT LEAST googled phrases in quotation marks to confirm whether they're things that people actually say. Poor translation will really ruin a gaming experience, so take it seriously.
As for me, I'm a native English speaker, but I was playing in Spanish for language practice. I'm not that good at Spanish, but it seems like you had typos even in the Spanish version (e.g., "mal royo" instead of "mal rollo"). And you tagged the game as being available in both European and LatAm Spanish, which is not true. I don't care if they're mutually intelligible, it's deceptive. As someone who only wants exposure to LatAm Spanish at the moment, that sort of linguistic deception really annoys me. If Steam has separate tags for the two variants, then just respect that.
I'm sorry if this feels overwhelming. I genuinely hope it's helpful. Good luck with your future projects. :)
