The Mystery of the Druids

The Druid face does not appear in the game collector icon, therefore you cannot fill up your profile with these hot and salty memes. Cannot reccomend.

Get the GOG version. This version has multiple persistent crashes during necessary actions to complete the game. To my knowledge, it is literally impossible to finish the Steam version without working around these crashes using the GOG version and transferring save files. The best thing I can say about this game is that it's very fun to laugh/scream/maybe pee a little/cry at among friends. I look forward to the sequel.

I've played The Mystery of the Druids through to completion on an older computer before it was released here on Steam, so I know more about it than anyone would ever want to. Without giving away too much about the plot, all I can say about this game is that the cutscenes are utterly ridiculous, the puzzles are obtuse and violate pretty much every ounce of common sense the average person possesses, and the main character, Brent Halligan, might just be the worst video game protagonist of all time (yes, even worse than Darkseed II's Mike Dawson). Being that this is a point-and-click adventure game, a genre well-known for having ridiculous puzzles and, at times, even more ridiculous characters... I do, in a twisted sense, sort of recommend playing it for yourself. Alas, the game was originally designed for computers running Windows 98/XP, and Nordic's attempts to get it working properly on modern systems haven't quite been perfected yet, so you will most likely experience crashes every five minutes or so. Until the day this becomes more functional, I'd say just hunt down a copy of the original retail game and fire up your old XP computer instead.

Comfy 00s era point and click. Here are the fixes: 1. Grab DDrawCompat from the GitHub and drop the .dll into your install folder. 2. Get the fixed meshes or whatever from the Steam Discussions post "Fix for crashes involving giving bone to Chris and taking bone from Melanie." Install instructions are in the post. You now have a game that saves and doesn't crash.

It crashed literally. Instantly. It crashed Nvidia Control panel along with it. It also stole my wallet and rummaged in the fridge. The Mystery oh... the mystery... the drama...the suspense ooooh I need to know the secret now. I won't stop, can't stop. I will ascend the mountains and cross the seven seas until I can catch it. Heed this warning stranger and get the GOG version. Stay away, only evil lurks here... EEEEVILL!!!

hideo kojima really did an outstanding work on this game, this game was so good it literally caused my lungs to collapse, i am now in the hospital... Breathtaking !

I played this game once when I was younger but it kinda didn't get me very far. Recently I decided to pick it up again and I assume it could be quite an entertaining game if it weren't for all this crashing and screen flickering (Windows 7). Plus the fact that most major items are literally indistinguishable from background visuals. You may need a guide for even the earliest plot advances. So... yeah, it's not really playable as is. Might work on something like Windows 2000 with everything on drive C: for safety reasons. Not recommended anymore.

I would like to preface this by saying if you are interested in playing this game I would highly recommend you download a patch created by a fellow Steam user that should stop most of the bugs related to items from crashing the game (I will include the link at the end; it fixed the problem entirely for me though I cannot guarantee it will work for everyone.) Where to begin with this game... The Mystery of the Druids is an obscure (though at this point somewhat of a cult classic) point-and-click adventure game originally developed by House of Tales and CDV Software released in 2001. The story puts you in the shoes of Brent Halligan, a Scotland Yard detective who is suddenly put in charge of a case known as "The Skeleton Murders" after a fellow colleague named Lowry (who you may know as the psychic wizard who levitates above his desk in his office) had made some critical mistakes in his investigation. You are given Lowry's case file, but quickly realize that it isn't of much use as it is complete non-sense and as a result are tasked with essentially starting from scratch on the investigation. Along the way you will find yourself meeting several different characters, some which you will interact with multiple times throughout the game, and some which basically only serve one purpose. Along with these interactions you will also face many roadblocks and puzzles along the way which are very much fitting for a point-and-click of its time- that is to say, many of these will have you banging your head on your desk in frustration at the sheer lack of logic or reason. Though this game is often made fun of for its ridiculous story, horrible graphics which already looked dated when it first released, and mind-bending puzzles (among other things) I actually had a fun time with it and enjoyed the varied environments and characters along the way. Make no mistake, this isn't a great game, it is riddled with bugs (which can be fixed with the patch below) and has a lot of puzzles which make absolutely no sense and involve pixel hunting for items that do not immediately stand out upon first glance. The graphics as I said are not great, they look more like something that would have been released in 1996 and the cutscenes are hilariously poorly animated (please do watch them though they are worth the laugh). However, if you can look past these shortcomings this game actually has a pretty interesting and novel story and I actually really enjoyed the lore even if it isn't 100% historically accurate as some have pointed out. Overall I think it's a game that could have been much much better had the developers put more effort into the areas I mentioned, but regardless, I would recommend you try it if you are a fan of this genre. LINK TO THE PATCH: https://steamcommunity.com/app/343000/discussions/0/1471967615842468311/

worst thing to happen in 2001 - no Saving and loading - not completable. the guide used a guide for one section - sometimes softlocks the whole computer - had to download a mod to function properly - paid money - literally indecipherable puzzles - completely broken animations. - walking sideways through ground - disappearing sometimes - hours of dialogue - when there is a music, does not match. laughable - every character is unlikeable - everytime the romantic subplot is brought up, a character literally says "is now the best time?" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wait until we're not literally 1000 years in the past and getting executed in less than 48 hours - important objects are often invisible to the average viewer - inconsistent 3d and 2d art - no transformation. not even once. - objects will explode if you throw salt on them - unbearably long - cat - random death pitfalls - audio setting reset every time you close the game - druids - maze section - mystery of the druids appears about 1/3 of the way through the game and is answered by the halfway point. everything else is just a goose chase to steal a book from a library or steal money from a homeless person or steal the livelihood of a fisherman or steal from a grave or steal from scotland yard or steal from your co-worker or steal from a druid that you know everything about or steal worms or steal from a bird or steal [spoiler] your lover's life [/spoiler] or literally commit arson on the property of a rich person or steal items from a rich person's house. who is also a druid. or steal laboratory alcohol. or steal a key from a high druid. god ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ damn it - lowry - multiple entirely useless areas and loading zones - the maze section again - death of 2? 3? characters - magical top that will transform you?? - didn't actually transform me :( - ♥♥♥♥ - no important information that should have been supplied in the jewel case - incredibly specific conversational flags needed to progress. very easily missed.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Mystery of the Druids. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of celtic history most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Halligan's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Mystery of the Druids truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Lowry's existential catchphrase "Women do like a winner" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Martin Ganteföhr's wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. And yes, by the way, I DO have a The Mystery of the Druids tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.