Goetia

A really nice atmosphere. A lot more narrative than puzzle however some of the puzzles took a while to figure out. All in all a pretty good game on sale.

this game taught me how to summon demons 6.66/5

Généralement pas très intéressée par la mise en scène de l'horreur et l'occulte, le jeu me plaît. Le ton, les musiques, l'aspect visuel sont charmants. L'attention aux détails est très mature. C'est un coup de coeur pour moi. Ne démarrez pas le jeu si la patience et la volonté de lire entre les lignes n'y sont pas, la plupart des indices sont donnés textuellement : cliquer, lire, cliquer, lire, cliquer, lire, résoudre, cliquer, lire. . . Il faut analyser et se poser les bonnes questions.

7/10

10/10 puzzle exploration game. you wake up as a spirit your house that is abandoned and need to figure out what happened. the music in the game was brilliant and added to the atmosphere. would play again

Though I really appreciated the atmosphere, the overall plot, themes an writing, and thoroughly enjoyed the mood of the sound design and music, the game unfortunately often devolves into puzzles that fall into three categories: -far fetched, as in when (if) you come up with the solution, it's more baffling than rewarding; this is often caused by the game poorly telegraphing that an action is possible (like rotating a photograph on a wall...a thing you can do precisely once for one puzzle amongts the dozens of pictures in the game) -lost in the mass, as in you have so many places to visit an so many documents, and so many screens to search for in terms of interactions, that you might have already stumbled upon the solution, but missed it in the noise of small interactions and remarks from your character -very tedious to actually perform even when you understand the solution and/or how to manifest it (the sigil puzzle with ten docs to connect together was a highlight...) All of this isn't helped by a pretty finicky interaction system, that's having a hard time conveying what type of interaction each interactible object can propose; also, while the game is relatively polished, the occasional bug might not help make a puzzle clear. Now, to be fair, occasional bug aside, the game does try to mitigate all that. There isn't pixel hunting per se for example, a staple of boring point and click games; this is because you can display on screen every interactible object for every room. Each document is accessible in a menu, and is sorted by places. Also, the game does a good job tracking each new element of the plot in a journal, likewise sorted by places. Despite all this, I feel like the devs went just a tad too far. I don't know if it's the open navigation that ends up hurting the readability of the puzzles, the puzzles themselves that are a bit obtuse or laborious to solve, or the surprising length of the game for its genre, but I felt pretty exhausted playing this one, when I rarely back off a point and click or puzzle game. And it's too bad...because the ambience is really good, and I actually was intrigued by the plot.

Интересно, необычно и довольно сложно - заставляет основательно призадуматься иногда.

Goetia is an excellent, eery mystery detective point-and-click. You play as a restless ghost, haunting a medival mansion. You float around and find bits of information that unlock areas for you to explore further, until eventually you solve the mystery and complete the game. Playing Goetia I feel constantly on edge, like as if I'm physically there, exploring a haunted mansion. There's a constant feeling running through my spine that there's some evil presence watching me. A presence that doesn't want me here. To unravel the mystery I have to continu, even if it feels like stepping deeper into the abyss. Completing this game is a fun little exercise in perseverance and in overcoming fear. I highly recommend it. Play it if you have the nerves for it.