From Beyond Prologue

A short and fun game in the style of NES Shadowgate and similar games like Deja Vu/Uninvited. On the plus side there are sometimes multiple places to get a needed key item, and an experimental timed mechanic used late in the game. On the negative side the script is sometimes overly pedantic with minor grammatical errors. It's marketed as a prologue which seems correct -- there is enough game here to play but not enough game to encompass more than about 2 hours of play. The setting and theme are consistent, strong, and engaging.

It's sad, but despite wanting to love this game it's simply not fun. The pixel art is okay, nothing spectacular, the sound design though gets grating. It's so overreliant on trial and error, compounded with navigation sometimes seeing one mouse click as 2 so that it feels like padding. It's a little facsimile snuffbox of a NES adventure game, one sneeze and you're done.

The best Shadowgate-style game I've played on Steam. Mixing in the Lovecraftian stuff makes it even better. Not sure why the author has not made more games like this. We need it!

Cool game. Reminds me of an old text based adventure game.

グロくていいすね

So where's the horror? The character died because he fell through the rotten floor and that was that. I did not feel like loading the last save to try walking in a different direction / explore / continue with the story. I decided to give it another go and go to a different direction and the death I faced was random and made no sense. At this point I do not care what else there was to discover as the game just doesn't grip me.

Just like Shadowgate, I loved it. Retro point-and-click adventure, I think the $3 I paid was definitely worth the 2 hour playtime and story. I missed a note in the beginning so I restarted after beating it the first time on my own, and used a walkthrough to make sure I got everything, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.

This game does a great job at paying homage to the NES ports of the Macventure games. Overall, this one isn't too hard to complete and the steps are all logical. While I got stuck a few times, it wasn't too hard to figure things out after taking a few steps back. I would absolutely recommend this game and look forward to the next part's release.