The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Hard to recommand this one. It would desserve a "meh", but I will go to negative review. The qualities are just overwhelmed by the defaults. The story is intriguing, but [spoiler] will let you down at the climax [/spoiler]. The moors atmophere are very well depicted and atmospheric, but well, they are pretty much empty, with plenty of screens with almost no interactions (and no use). Thanks God, there's a map to teleport. 95 % of the game is about wandering in the neighbourhood, for many petty tasks, divided in smaller quests. Your adventure will be interrupted a dozen time by tiny flashbacks (mainly useless and repetitive). The last segment simply don't stand the promise of the game. Too long to build the story, too little to deliver. If you are sure to not play the game : [spoiler] you will never seen what lay in the basement of the excavation. It will be only described by a text that is supposed to call for your imagination in a Lovecraftian way. And that's the climax![/spoiler]

Only buy this game if it is on sale, not worth the $15 right now. ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** I hate putting "no" as not recommending a game. This game is not awful but like most point and click mysteries, they always end up being possession/demon type stories. The beginning sets up the story really nice, the voice acting is phenomenal but there is a lot going on, and most things that happen never reveal why they were happening. It was like they were just throwing in things to make the character struggle. What happened to her assistant? What was the point of the cats? Why was the Goblin trying to help, was he even real? Maybe I did not pay attention well enough. During Act 2 they just had a lot of running Thomasina back and forth and I became bored with it, hoping the story would make up for the lack of creativity, but no. I like a good horror ending, but this game just comes up short.

Kinda meh. Gameplay is too linear, puzzles are too obvious ("use key with key hole" sort of "puzzles"), the story is too trite, and has too many fade outs to save on animations. I'd rather you just put the combined item in my inventory instead of fading out-and-in immediately to simulate that the character did something. Overal 5/10, but can't recommend... just okay-ish.

很棒的點擊解謎冒險遊戲，恐怖氛圍也營造的不錯 ( 雖然我覺得其實不可怕 ) 遊戲的解謎思路有對到電波，難得可以不看攻略一路玩到結尾，物品間的解謎方式和劇情都有一定邏輯，不太會有卡關的問題 ( 還有地圖的設定很貼心，但有些劇情要繞還繞處遇到新的人才能觸發，會像遊魂依樣一直晃來晃去 ) 配音非常用心，英國腔很有魅力 ! 美術動畫也很精緻，適合練習英文聽力和閱讀，用詞不難不用漢化也能玩。 最後這間開發商的遊戲都是精品 ( 從 the blackwell legacy 系列來 )，也都有開發者模式能聽創作者描述遊戲畫面的設計、彩蛋等等，很期待其他遊戲作品 ! [spoiler] 真正進入墓中的遊戲時間太少，恐怖氛圍也渲染得不夠多有點可惜。很棒的是結尾邪神現身時沒有展現任何畫面，只能從女主的表側寫她所面對的神秘力量，大大增加人的想像力和對未知的恐懼 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行，看女主角不顧外人勸阻一步步走向絕路也是偏無奈，他親手解開了邪神的封印，最終迎向悲劇收尾。 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 明明父親的筆記都在暗示他停止了?為什麼不聽勸呢?但劇裡人物的核心思想是 " 想要拯救父親 " 並且不論一切代價，有著個前提再對女主的做死就稍微能體諒些 [/spoiler]

Nice point-and-click game with great voice acting, beautiful music and great folk-horror vibe. The puzzles themselves are quite easy (which is a plus for me because i don't usually play these sorts of games). The atmosphere is thick and gloomy, the mystery builds up nicely, it has nice tense moments, characters are grear, there are interesting visuals (most of them are in the trailer). The fisrt half of the game is fantastic. Everything after the excavation itself dissapointed me a little, the ending as well. However, i enjoyed the game a lot and would totally recommend to play it for the vibe and the story!