Strangeland

Very strange but good true to life filosophy , excellent voices. The game sucks you in after a while. Puzzles are good but you have to go back and forth a lot, but fun wit a lot of jokes. worth playing.

Darkly surreal, atmospheric, with a pinch of absurd black humor thrown in. The voice acting and writing is solid on all accounts, with extra praise going to the writing specifically. The sort of drawn in aesthetics of everything gives the game a dream like, nightmarish, and uncanny feel that really sucks you in. While the body horror that is present throughout is also frighteningly beautiful in its own way. There are many themes and imagery ranging from Norse mythology, divination, psychological trauma and compartmentalization, death and rebirth, as well as other more darker subjects. Other than the body horror images presented throughout, the game tackles these subjects with a great amount of tact that is deserved, you could also consider this as a potential warning for those who are sensitive to such subjects. Most of the puzzles, while sometimes vague and obtuse, are more or less straight forward and do rely on normal logic to figure out, albeit logical within the surreal settin...

Strange

This game definitely falls into the "games as art" category. It's a very Poe-esque metaphor for depression. The game takes place in a twisted surreal carnival land that is an obvious metaphor for the protagonist's guilt at his wife's suicide (all of which you learn within the first 30 seconds). Unfortunately, that's about the beginning and end of the story. While there's plenty of dialog, it's entirely in the form of nonsensical metaphors that are meant to sound profound while actually being meaningless. You learn almost nothing additional about the protagonist or his wife over the entire course of the game. Instead, you're supposed to project your own feelings into the game I guess? While the game has decent visuals, I can't really recommend this game given its short length combined with the story (or lack thereof). The puzzles are also almost all extremely easy and not very interesting or inventive (cut a rope, make a grappling hook, feed poisoned meat to a ferocious dog, use a k...

It's ok to get on sale. Nice graphics, really great atmosphere and style. But the game was just ok. I am not the greated Point n Click adventure player I must say. So for veterans the experience is much better I guess. But despite the support system I got stuck 2-3 times for a bit and I really hate having to rely on a walkthrough (which I did here at times). So while it is easier than some other old school Point n Click games I tried, its support system could still improve a bit for beginners like me. The story is ok, the atmosphere is really what carried the game for me and the disturbing images (unfortunately only for the first half of the game). The topic of the game is so on the nose that it gets tiring. It seems like they wanted only to hint on it but they do it so much and often, that it gets really tiring. Either slightly hint on it while telling an interesting story, or directly say it. Definitely avoid this extensive hinting in the future dear development team. It's ...

Another exceptional Wormwood game, this time, with easier puzzles and a far more abstract story and visuals (not that these are bad things, only...different). I resonated a little more with Primordia because it's more concrete, but this may not be so for you! Call it maybe a two-hour fall through the depths of self-loathing if you're really quick with puzzle games, maybe a four-hour jaunt into grief that just keeps starting again and again and again if you're taking your time to smell the roses (which likely smell of rotting meat here) and dig the art (which you ought; aesthetic is probably the game's strongest suit). It's got a metaphor for every single plot beat, sure, but I think most of them get spelled out pretty articulately (even bluntly) by the time we end up in the third act. Much of the literary references and sights to be seen in game are best taken as very dry jokes, which, hey! You're in a carnival. It fits. Personally speaking, I rate this one above the carnival from S...

A game that has a lot to say, even if I don't always understand what exactly it means to say. Still, it says it well, so I feel obliged to recommend it. Especially to people that enjoy their point & click games a little more on the mysterious side and don't shy away from the unknown.