The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Finished the game in one day (15 hours total + breaks), so needless to say its an addictive one Vibes: 10/10! Dark and mysterious in a mostly very cozy way. Good game to play with a nice cuppa on a dark, rainy day. The point and click style feels nostalgically old school, and Yorkshire is a gorgeous setting. Gameplay: 10/10. It makes you exercise your braincells just enough to keep you feeling clever, while still being relaxing. Ending: This is where the game lets you down massively imo. All the choices youve made during your playthrough dont matter much because the game only has one ending. And so Thomasina has to make some very irrational and nonsensical choices to reach that one ending (even after recieving some information that really should have made her think twice about stuff). And the ending itselt just feels quite unsatisfactory and confusing. Its definitely worth a playthrough because the vibes and mysteries are awesome, but the devs could have made it soooo much better (and more re-playable) with a different sort of ending (or multiple different ones)

Finished the game. Cant complain about the story, its a pretty solid Lovecraftian doom thing going on. Where I have a real beef with is the game's 'puzzles' I got really annoyed at the having to click absolutely every single option and one held me up for hours because the one person kept going 'I cant talk to you right now, she's here' and nothing changes about the scene except you clicked on one person once then you have to go back to this person and ♥♥♥♥ this stupid puzzle sequence, it demands an exact sequence of steps you gotta do or you're just wandering around forever. It does feel like an old point and click adventure, good and bad. Day 3 was pretty much all just object puzzles and very straightforward if you can read Latin and the old journal. I dont know if I'd recommend it because of that, the game's puzzle format feels very very dated and rigid. They absolutely captured the feel of England being completely awful though, thats pretty good.