The Lost Oregon City Gold

This was one of my favourite Oh, A Rock! Studios games yet! As a departure from many of their other games, this game was less of a straightforward visual novel with different pathways, and more of a first-person point and click adventure game, similar to a more simplified version of something like the Carol Reed series. I personally find the point-and-click gameplay more fun and engaging than just reading through a visual novel, so this was a treat! The game features quite a lot of different real-life locations to explore, and you will learn some history along the way while solving light puzzles and scavenging for clues. The game was about 3 hours long for me, but could be longer or shorter depending on whether you rush it or take it slowly and explore every frame of each location. The game relishes each location it depicts, and allows you to explore all sorts of interesting corners that aren't strictly relevant to progression, but are just fun to look at, which I appreciated! A couple of minor criticisms: Firstly, if you save the game and come back the next day, you'd better remember what you were doing, because sometimes you can't access a character again to ask them what to do (I got stuck on a puzzle searching for a comb after going to bed and forgetting my task in the morning). Secondly, I think that the photos were sometimes a bit wonky, which disoriented me a bit when clicking between frames, but it was overall quite well shot. Both of these criticisms were quite minor, and do not detract from the overall charming game! The writing was also excellent, and I especially loved the ending, but I won't explain why, you will just have to play and find out ;) Finally, the funniest part of the game was a little homage to another game with a similar name... I'll let you also play and find out what I mean, but you will laugh a lot. :D Overall, a wonderful game, and one of the best games from this studio! I really, really hope Oh, A Rock! make more point-and-click adventure games in this style in the future. Great work!! :)