Still Life

If you love Syberia, you'd love this. If you love this, play Syberia too.

crazy good point and click with really intriguing lore and atmosphere I sure hope the sequel will be just as good if not better Clueless

The story, characters, atmosphere, and twists are phenomenal, and while the puzzles can get ridiculously hard/annoying at points, if you can push past that flaw like I did, you've got one amazing adventure game here.

Despite the fact that you play an FBI agent, you never use a weapon. Still Life is an adventure, through and through. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3616650623

Story is pretty good. Characters are mostly likable. Main problem is that there isn't much gameplay here. You just talk with one character, who tells you to talk to another character, who tells you to talk to another character... Occasionally, you'll have to pickup an item and use it on another item in the vicinity, but there's no real problem solving. The only time you'll really get stuck is if you miss an object and then have to wander around till you find it. It seems the developers were aware of the lack of puzzles, so they compensated by throwing in one utterly baffling puzzle per chapter. Several of these have no good explanation for why they exist. My favorite of these was a cooking puzzle where you had to stop in-between murder investigations to bake cookies for your father, using a pretentious recipe that coded every ingredient into things like "love" or "generosity". A lot of trial and error and some bruteforcing was needed on all of these.

The cookie puzzle is half my play time. Beside that its good point and click game. This game melted my brain because I am stupid and have an iq so low I can not fry an egg.

Played all Three; the Sequel to This is the Best of the Lot My total play-time 23 hours Objective Review 6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great game-play. 4 of 5 great story average game-play. 3 of 5 average story great game-play. 2 of 5 give it a go if it's you're favourite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do, 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Still Life score is 4 of 5. Subjective Review If not for the strangely difficult puzzles I'm sure I would've finished this one in 12 hours; some of them are extremely difficult and I needed to go back to places in order to gather objects and information I had missed; and even then, when going back to the puzzle, would find I was still missing something and had to scour the areas for more clues (make sure to keep reading the updates to your journal). This was not fun. However, the story is very good and the game mechanics (not counting the puzzles) are really very good. There is an "action" part where you must guide a robot through lasers which could be difficult for some, but I found it to be quite enjoyable. Good voice acting, graphics are okay, music is fine. It served as a sequel/prequel for me, because I finished Post Mortem, then Still Life 2, before playing this.