Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock

Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock is a point and click mini-adventure game. You collect objects, combine objects, interact with environment to solve the situation you are in. There is no time, reflex concerned mini games or such, pure point and click. I added "mini" because it's really short game you can finish it in 1 sitting. It took me like 2-3 hrs. +Story/Setting : You crash land on an uncharted planet. You need to get out and unravel some mystery. Sounds familiar right? Yes, but well executed so it's ok. +Gameplay: It's simple point and click, most of the time solutions make sense or obvious. Unlike many point and click games you don't wait your character to go to some place, you always have a scene and discover interesting points by moving your mouse. It's easy but fun. Only downside I can think of the voice acting, it's overly cheesy regarding the situation the character is in. -Technical: I happen to have a small bug where you can't select some objects, just quit and re entering the game fixes it. It really takes 15 seconds anyway. Good buy on a sale.

The game is ok. Things I liked : visuals, music, atmosphere, the way hotspots are presented. The story was interesting as well. Things that bothered me a bit : navigation, the voice overs, the dialogue, missing subtitles during the end movie. The puzzles where mostly of the type 'find something' and 'figure out where to use it'. The other type of puzzle was to figure out an alien language. In itself an interesting concept, but the execution could perhaps have been clearer. I also didn't realize that not all keys on the keypad did the same thing. For perhaps half of all puzzles I had to use a walkthrough, because, even with the captain telling me what to do, I couldn't figure it out ...

Clearing out my backlog, this P&C adventure game really shows its age with poor fast-travel, a horrendous inventory system (so glad I picked up that fish on the second screen that serves no purpose except cluttering up my inventory; I get the joke but it's still irritating) and highlights based on mouse-overs that lead to you wildly swooping over every room to make sure you don't miss something. All that and an incredibly obtuse puzzle at the very end that explains what it wants but not how to do it (do you enter the "off" symbols before or after the thing you want turned on/off?). But all could be forgiven if the writing and VA is good. Reader, it is not. We get two people who are not friends, are in fact openly antagonistic, unprofessional and above all seem irritated that they are even here. It's a bold directoral choice for two astronauts who are professionals selected to travel to interstellar destinations. The main character, Powell, is a particular lowlight, someone who seems to hate that he is even here today - but without any of the charm or surprise of a Han Solo type. At least it's short.

A favorite of mine.

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Really nicely done P&C adventure! I had never heard of this game and went in not expecting much but it was really pretty good. The production values were good, logical puzzles with an in game help system when you get stuck, good story, and best of all no bugs. My only critiques were the voice acting was a little stiff and lifeless and the alien part of the story was undeveloped, but maybe they were leaving that for a sequel. Overall a really nice 2-3 hour adventure you can get for a couple bucks on sale. Well worth it and highly recommended if you like sci-fi.

Very neat to see the original game remade and published on steam. Still the same game, just with updated visuals, and a tiny bit of new content. I kinda liked the voice acting in the old game a bit more, and wish there was a way to play the original game with voice acting. I haven't been able to play the original with the old voice acting since it was locked to approved websites (like armorgames) and it doesn't recogonize the rumble player or whatever flash player you have as one of them (I think, I haven't done any research besides downloading the swf file and playing with some flash players, but I'm pretty sure that's why the voices stay locked).

I loved this game when it was free on Kongregate. So when I was watching a streamer and the beginning scene started I was like "hey this looks familiar" and immediately stopped the video so I could see if I could replay it. In short, nostalgia made me get it and I had just as much fun replaying it as when I first found the game years ago. I didn't encounter any bugs this time, but I do remember having a few when it was on kongregate, so just a heads up on that. also the voice acting is a little awkward but it just gives it more charm in my opinion.

A nice point and click sci-fi adventure game.

Short but really good point and click game. Story is okay: u need to repair ur ship and escape from an alien planet. Puzzles were easy but there were two times that I did not know which item to use. Overall really enjoyable, loved it.