Finding Lake Chewaucan

TL;DR Cool idea, terrible game. You need to be willing to put up with a lot of issues, or the game won't be for you I love the idea of time travel to find clues. Learning about types of bones. And i love educational games in general. So I really wanted to like this game but sadly it feels like a prototype, not a finished game. It needs a lot more polish in basically every area: UI, performance, gameplay, ... The issues start with the main menu - there is no "New Game", only "Load Game" where you can then also create a new game. Also, the quit button in the main menu doesn't work! Yikes. And it only gets worse. You get thrown into a scene with a) possibly the worst screenshake i've ever encountered in any game (no settings to disable it, generally few settings). Audio is just as much a mess with volume level of music jumping around wildly when voices start or stop, which is incredibly jarring (at least you can disable music altogether as a workaround). Voicelines get cut off when others get triggered so you have no idea what they were going to say; there is no logic to prevent issues like this. The gameplay confused me as well. To be clear, i know nothing about fossils or bones, but i would never have recognized the type of bone you were meant to match in the very beginning so that part was just a "click on every bone until the game progresses". The carbon dating minigame i couldn't even finish because i couldn't see enough right rocks, and why are there enemies? I found those just frustrating, and the time limit as well. At least the match 3 minigame works well, the only part of the game that does. The performance is also terrible - at 100-150 fps this game feels like maybe 30 fps thanks to presumably microstutters. It literally feels the same with maximum and minimum graphics settings. And all while looking like a game from the early 2000s. In short, pretty much every part of this game is a mess. Literally the only positive i can find is the theme and the idea behind it, and i hate being so harsh but i have to be honest that the game itself is sadly pretty bad at this point at least. Which is a real shame, i would really have liked this type of game done well. Maybe if the theme interests you and you don't mind engaging with a very janky game you can still enjoy it, but otherwise can't recommend. It certainly is too much of a mess for me.

[h1] 穿越时空捡骨头，结果被Bug卡到崩溃♥ [/h1] 说是时间侦探，穿越回过去捡化石找真相。解谜、三消、平台跳跃小游戏穿插其中，科普内核挺扎实，还有NSF资助，看得出开发者想做一个“好玩的教育游戏”。 但我玩下来的感觉就一个字：糙。没玩多久电脑就开始吃紧，优化明显没做好。我觉得用真化石来设计谜题这个点子本身是好的，但执行上真的差太远了。 we need chinse！！！ [h1] 记得那年花下，深夜，初识谢娘时。 -- 荷叶杯·记得那年花下 韦庄♥ [/h1]

the invisible barriers are weird, the UI with the map didn't make sense at first, i didn't know how to activate the astrolabe until i randomly clicked everywhere because i don't know what an astrolabe is. i stopped playing after trying the rock dating game because literally not enough rocks spawn to complete it. it seems like a really great and fun idea but it is SO rough around the edges.

Это не игра, а г....лагающее, чуть не прикончившее мне компьютер. Нельзя такую недоделанную вещь выкладывать на общее обозрение. Игры, не запускающиеся совсем, и то в этом случае лучше. ОЧЕНЬ НЕ РЕКОМЕНДУЮ ЗАПУСКАТЬ ЭТУ ИГРУ!