MIAZMA or the Devil's Stone

Excellent game! Tt's a treat to have such a good FMV game with well-constructed puzzles (the final scavenger hunt is very good, it's on par with GK3's Serpent Rouge, but scientific instead of esoteric) and a good story to boot.

Playing this game was a great fun. I forgot time and enjoyed it. The psychological description in detail was remarkable. The diary book in the game helped me when I missed closed captions. I'm looking forward to the next work of this team.

Well this sucks! Anyone else notice the pattern of Steam creators who make an otherwise good game, players encounter a game breaking bug, then the developer disappears and never answers?! This WAS a very good FMV - not cheesy, good locations, characters, story etc - then I encountered the PLASMA Puzzle and cannot progress. I even used the Skip button but it doesn't let you progress. My gripes are.. cut-scene with every location change (once would have been enough!), Too many locations available, only to be the wrong one which creates lots of unnecessary backtracking for no reason, too many objects with too many characters only for them to say, I don't know about this. Most of the puzzles were just mega difficult or completely dumb. And never ever an in-game hint about what to do or where to go next. Not even the slightest nudge. But despite all of this, it was a very good game up until the bug. IS THE DEVELOPER EVER GOING TO ADDRESS THIS??!!!

This is not as good as the first game in the series, Yoomurjak's Ring, the plot of which was far more intriguing, but this one is still worth playing. primarily for the puzzles in the second half. I think part of the problem with this game compared to its predecessor is the pacing. Here all the detective/investigation work is in the first half of the game and all the puzzles are in the last half. Because of this you get a bit bored of each before they are done. Additionally, I really wish this Steam version had an option for Hungarian voice with English subtitles. It only has English dubbing, and while a couple of the actors are okay, the majority are terrible. It's also a bit disappointing that, although it bills itself as a full motion video game, this is only once in a while. Mostly you look at still images of the actors. Overall, the game is unique and you learn a bit about Hungarian scientists, and their contributions in physics, which is very nice. I might have heard, at some point, the Hungarians found the first evidence of the neutrino--for instance--but this put it in context and made me care about it. The puzzles are all logical and solvable without a walkthrough, though a couple of things take quite a bit of trial and error since they don't work the way you'd like them to. What I don't really care for is all the walking around required to solve them. And quite often you see just what you are supposed to do and where to go to do it, but even if you go to the proper place, the game won't let you do the thing until you've talked to another person in a different room who tells you to do the thing you already know. So, yes, this is a very weak recommendation. I'm sure there are better adventures games than this out there to spend your time with, but I suppose I'm clicking the positive button on the review because I didn't regret my time with it and I would like to see another similar educational game in series.

Really disappointing. We gave these guys another chance after that poorly designed Yoomurjack Ring game but sadly this is another wasted opportunity with absurd puzzles - going nowhere without a walkthrough - uninstalled halfway through the game, so many superior titles to try

I really enjoyed [i] Miazma: The Devil's Stone [/i] and honestly think it was better than the first game. the story picks up in a cool way, and the voice acting was pretty great, which made the characters feel more understandable, and you weren't too late with reading the subs, lol. the devs didn’t exactly expand on the original concept (about the main character etc.), but it still felt like another good part of the story. the gameplay and visuals also got a nice boost compared with the first part. the only thing I didn’t enjoy was the last puzzle — it was pretty tough and kind of took away from the flow. as for Jonathan, the main character, I wasn’t a big fan of the fact that he was after so many women and seemed like a bit of a womanizer, which made him a little less likable. he also sometimes behaves very arrogantly, but I think that was just his character designed by the devs from the begining. [b] overall [/b], if you’re into FMV games, I’d definitely say give this one a shot. it’s def a solid sequel,

Après avoir bien aimé "Yoomurjack's ring" (voir mon évaluation), j'ai acheté Miazma sur Steam malgré des avis moins bons que le premier volet. Grosse surprise: Miazma parvient à être meilleur que ce soit dans la réalisation et le gameplay mais aussi au niveau de la difficulté des énigmes. On galérait du début à la fin avec la soluce dans "Yoomurjack" alors qu'ici il faut attendre les 3/4 du jeu pour commencer à en utiliser une et si vous ne comprenez pas certains passages vous pouvez les passer ou même entrer le numéro d'un des 6 coffre-forts à ouvrir (donnés sur le site web du jeu) et l'histoire continue. Pour un petit jeu indépendant hongrois, je trouve le travail remarquable. Les acteurs font le minimum pour que ce soit crédible mais on accroche bien à l'aventure malgré quelques scènes de poursuite un peu invraisemblables. 15/20

Interesting story and that last puzzle is a doozy.

Miazma or the Devil's Stone is an adventure, puzzle, point and click game with FMV elements. This game is the sequel for Yoomurjak's ring, where you playing as Jonathan Hunt, an american journalist, who lives in Hungary and want to buy a house, but for that, he needs to check the water at his property, so he goes to Debrecen to a laboratory to check his sample, however a boy disappears from the laboratory and he needs to uncover his whereabout and the secrets of the place and the city. I mostly played the Hungarian version of the game, which is not on Steam, so my playtime is not accurate, I have around 12 hours in the game. I'm going to compare the game to Yoomurjak's ring. This game has bit bigger soundtrack, with modern, instrumental tracks, which I enjoyed through out the game. The game is from 2015, and for it's time, it looks visually all right. The new "room camera", where you can see the main character waiting for instructions, is a clever idea, and it has it's moments, however sometimes it looks weird when the character standing roughly still. The main menu is minimalistic, but in a modern way, I liked it, and atleast it had a bit more settings option, than Yoomurjak's ring. The more detailed view of objects and items is a good idea, and it also add more puzzles to the game. The UI is okay in the game, however sometimes is in the way, when the cursor is around the top or the bottom of the screen. This game has more different characters, then Yoomurjak, which I liked it, however they are not "stick to the ground", they all have their on monomania. The area which the player can discover (Atomki labs and Debrecen) are well made and interesting. Really good easy mode, which actually fix the pixel hunting and let the player skipping puzzles However, the game sadly not perfect. Probably the most annyoing thing in the game, is when you do a dialouge, the game will immedietly throw you to the room screen, so you need to choose the character again and choose a topic for talking every single time. The base situation and how our character got into the lab is somewhat a mystery for me still and I think it's not well written. Also a few characters background with the player's character is also not really understandable. Some puzzles are still overdone and overthought, but only just a few. There are some weird moments in the story, which has no sense at all. Some items, which the player helps from the beginning is literally useless and only good around the last hour. In the game, it's really easy to skip some cutscenes. The ending is clashed. The English voice lines really sounds wrong to me. Maybe it's because I'm Hungarian and I'm not into the English voices, but still sound horrible to me. In general, Miazma is definietly a better game, than Yoomurjak's ring, so this is definietly one step ahead. In general, the game took away some, but give some too for the player, and I somewhat liked the game, even though there were some puzzles which was beyond on my knowledge, but most of them were all right. To be honest, I can recommend this game for a shot, but I suggest to get the Hungarian voice lines. For 8.2€, try to get the game for 7€.

Interesante aventura ambientada en Hungría. De dificultad media-baja y con pocos puzzles y (hasta ahora) saltables. Está basado en vídeos y fotografías y me está pareciendo buena historia. Un problema que tiene es que está en inglés, pero con la traducción hecha por el lobo rojo y Walas 74 y algún otro lo he jugado íntegramente en castellano. Desde aquí doy las gracias por traducirlo, que hay mucho por traducir, a veces 8 páginas de un libro o más. Y, en fin, merece la pena. Si lo pillas en rebajas es muy barato. Lo recomiendo mucho,