Strange Antiquities

You know... I'm gonna say it. Not as good as Strange Horticulture. There are so many plates to spin that sometimes the puzzles feel less like something to solve and more like making a poorly educated guess until you hit the right item. Especially before you unlock the lens, which... [spoiler] the first few times I clicked on the flower amulet, nothing changed about it so I assumed I'd have to get something else to make it fit later. It only took until I was physically unable to progress the game before I looked it up, clearly missing something, and realized it just hadn't worked when I tried it before. [/spoiler] So you can go several in-game days without having the tools necessary to even guess at certain puzzles just because the controls occasionally don't trigger properly. That feels kinda bad and isn't a problem I had with Strange Horticulture. THAT BEING SAID. Despite my gripes with it, I still think it's a game well worth playing. You might need to take a break from it when it pisses you off, but the story is good and the puzzles that work REALLY work. Plus the art is much improved from SH and god is it beautiful. Same style as SH but with more polish.

Such a cute original concept that keeps you wanting more! Love it sm. Definitely a good game for you if you love a little solo whimiscal game to work on.

Прийшов після написання рецензії на гру Strange Holticeltures. Хочу відмітити гра набагато краще ніж попередня. Розробники попрацювали над зручним керуванням. Загадки набагато цікавіші, якщо в попередній грі був один посібний то в цій грі різноманітність книг набагато більше і варіацій вирішення загадки збільшується. В попередній грі одине натискання і вся інформація відома, в той час в даному проходженні можна оглянути кожну частинку предмету окремо, відчути чи він холодний чи теплий, чим він пахне. В цілому можу сказати що гра заслуговує всі 10 з 10, для поціновувачів головоломок рекомендую придбати цей шедевр.

I love everything about this game. I love the unique premise and how well it delivers on it. I love the brooding, mysterious atmosphere and story. I loved puzzling over all the little strange and fascinating objects you slowly collect and learning about each one. If you like solving puzzles and uncovering occult lore, play this. But get Strange Horticulture too and play that one first!

I absolutely love how cozy this game was I started playing it at 8 and before I knew it, it was 1 in the morning.

Excellent. If there ever is another installment in this series, I'll definitely be back for it.

This was such a fun game! Highly recommend

The genre-defining investigative first-person thinker and study-'em-up returns! That's referring to Strange Horticulture, in case you were wondering. A similarly calm, intriguing, sometimes ominous and engagingly cerebral game which shares a minor link to this one, mainly in its setting. So then, you may ask: Does one need to play the other game first? The answer is no; this one is quite self-contained and does not expect you to remember a bunch of things from the previous one. The gameplay consists, quite unusually, of listening to people, looking at unusual objects and examining them in a number of other ways, as well as taking mental notes (or scribbling notes on the label of each item, if you like). You then look through the body of information contained in your book(s), which tends to be reasonably concise and sometimes outright minimal; draw conclusions and form hypotheses based on what you know about the object and its known characteristics, as well as the context, any relevant illustrations, in some cases even visiting a relevant location to fill in some of the blanks. Ring the bell, and a customer enters; find the mystical object they request, or process more vague requests into a recommendation, or - in certain cases - decide which of two objects to use. You can assign a color, a shape, a symbol, and some writing to each object's label to help you organize your collection. You can explore the surrounding town based on various clues and tips you may receive over the course of a given day. This in turn tends to yield new artifacts, or information about the ones you have (or may later obtain). Your decisions at the branching choice moments will shape the story to some extent, in simple little ways or in dramatic, tragic or catastrophic ones. I would heartily recommend this game as a lovely contrast to the many games concerned with constant, tireless activity, as well as the games where you largely switch your brain off and run on instinct. It's nice to flex the mental muscles from time to time. Nice to puzzle over tricky problems, riddles and vague clues, have your eureka moments and deduce where to go, or what to do, with limited information. A little like those escape rooms that some people enjoy - or video games like the Zero Escape series which involve the aforementioned. So... yeah. Give it a try if you're in the market for something a little different, a little less hectic, while still engaging, loaded with stakes and tension and curious things to discover. And an adorable kitty to scratch.

Me gustó mucho strange horticulture y no sabía que me iba a encontrar y mi sorpresa ha sido enorme. Para mi mejora en casi todo al anterior título porque aunque son muy parecidos estéticamente, en la forma de gestionar objetos, la narrativa y los puzles de mapa, todo lo hace mejor. La historia más cohesionada, tiene un vehículo desde el inicio con la aparición de la casa con cuervos en cuyo interior se encuentra a la primera persona con ojos negros, el abanico de pistas y formas para averiguar la identidad de los objetos es mucho más divertida, teniendo que "excavar" las pistas de entre 4 libros distintos y numerosas otras formas de interactuar con ellos, los puzles dentro de la propia tienda también son muy entretenidos y los puzles de los mapas mejoran. Sigue siendo un juego muy original sin nada parecido en el mercado y para mi jugarlo significa enfrentarme a un reto fresco.

Among puzzle games, I would say this is quite challenging. Moody, dark, and intriguing. Atmosphere and immersion is top-notch.