
Play as Markus Ritter in this short full motion video game in the style of the famous 90's point-and-click adventures.
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Languages: English*, German**languages with full audio support
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very campy, very fun, very gay
"Markus Ritter - The Lost Family" is a FMV choose-your-own-adventure game, and I have a soft spot for FMV games because they found a neat way to work with gaming as a visual medium without having to put in hard yards doing the complicated but otherwise necessary job of creating high quality visuals. That doesn't mean every FMV game is a masterpiece... game design is also about narrative and storytelling, and if you tell a boring, garbage story, you get a boring, garbage game. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming idustry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.
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Short but tedious FMV game, the storyline is flimsy to non existent. And there are hardly to no puzzles at all, a majority of the game even consists of taking pictures the game has in mind for you, while walking endless paths to find them. 4/10/
Хахаха, ребята закосплеили Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within! Причём так плохо (во всём!), что даже хорошо. :)
I've realised I don't like this type of game. I mean click and play style. Plus I don't like this movie type story. The coffee adicted actor... in this game he looks like a dummy, than the person. While I was playing this game, I even didn't know what to do. Everything went so slow and it was boring. I seriously hope this game was supposed to be some kind of a school project. Despite the good reviews, I don't recommend this game.
They (!) take brilliant Gabriel Knight 2 (Beast Within) and add extreme ID-politics and then design an utterly crappy UX... voila u got this trash of a FMV.
One word, Boring.
Hallo liebe Video Enthusiasten. Ich will mal ganz ehrlich sein... Ich habe noch nie im meinem gesamten leben einen so großen zesty Haufen an Scheiße gesehen. Die Gangart des Hauptcharakters war so als würde er einen dicken fetten Stock im Arsch haben, dazu hat er sich mehrere male wie ein behindertes Kind verhalten das denkt, dass der Maincharakter währe. Die Geschichte war offensichtlich und genauso wie sein Ausschnitt. Die Puzzels wahren vergleichbar mit Malen nach zahlen und bestanden aus: drücke links klick so oft bis du Nervenzusammenbruch erhälst. Außerdem ist der wahre, einzige und legendäre Charakter diese GOTT VERSCHISSENE kAFFEEMASCHINE DIE IMMER UND IMMER LEER IST. DAS INVENTAR WAR DIE GRÖßTE SCHWIERIGKEIT IN DIESEM GESAMTEN SPIEL, WEIL ES NIE DIR DIE OPTION VON ZIEHE DAS OBJEKT ZU DER GEWÜNSCHTE STELLE ZIEHEN KANN SONDER ES ERST AUSWÄHLEN MUSS UND DANN BENUTZEN DARF UND WENN MAN AUSVERSEHEN DANEBEN KLICKT BEKOMMT MAN ERSTMAL IRGEND EINEN DUMMEN KOMMENTAR. Müsst ihr wissen.
90'ların klasik point-and-click oyunlarına nostaljik bir yolculuk. Kısa ama etkileyici bir hikaye, dramatik anlatım ve eğlenceli bulmacalar sunuyor. Eski tarz oyun sevenler için ideal.
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