Hauma - A Detective Noir Story

I'd rather preferred to give this a thumbs up, but after finishing the game, I'm thoroughly in the 'do not recommend' portion now. The game is centred around a protagonist that finds herself in a mystery to solve that her late grandfather couldn't. Said protagonist slowly gets obsessed over it and the player has a point-and-click style sort of way to get through this game. I like the deduction system, the elements, the environments and the travelling. Looks and sounds good so far. First, the good: The voice cast did their best with the material they had to work with. The music is pretty good and the art style is visually pleasing. Now the... Not so good: The dialogue and story is mediocre at best, cringe at worst. The protagonist became from rather endearing little rascal to... Really unlikable quite fast. She holds very little moral high ground (because she's quite literally bullying, threatening, and insulting people, as well as destroying property along the way). She becomes ins...

This game looks amazing. And it has pretty good voice acting. Here stops the list of qualities, as far as I can tell. The puzzles are nonsensical, the UI is sadistic... It seems the devs didn't want you to figure things out by yourself, but rather just wanted you to be frustrated and confusingly click around until you stumbled upon whatever nonsense they had in mind. Add to that a bunch of random characters who are about as sympathetic as mosquitos on a hot summer night and about as interesting as an almost-retired university professor who forgot anyone is actually listening... This is a not a puzzle game. This is torture. To be fair (or try to be): I didn't go very far in the game. I couldn't stand it and frankly didn't want to run afoul of Steam's refund policy. It is possible the game gets much better later on... but I fail to see why it would have postponed any content of any redeeming value to later. So hard as hell do NOT recommend.

Beautifully crafted game for all adventure and visual storytelling fans. Having played just a while, I'm really excited to see how the story continues to unfold.

The story feels like a bad parody on the Davinci Code. Puzzles were too obscure and required a lot of guesswork. Voice acting is too exaggerated and half the time doesn't match character's displayed emotions. Listening to dialogue options sounds like listening to a set of unrelated recordings, because sometimes they go from one extreme emotion to another within the same scene - first dialogue option makes the character panic, second one he's talking as if it's a casual chat in a cafe. Main character keeps mispronouncing words, how did that pass quality control? No freedom of choice, the game always has a specific approach it wants you to take and wouldn't allow progress otherwise, making you cycle through dialogue options until you find the correct combination of words. Everything that happens is just unrealistically convenient, like when you [spoiler]fight Charly in the bell tower - he accidentally grabs a live wire hanging outside the window and then smashes his head against the...

There is a long-standing unpatched game-breaking bug, see Discussions.

Bought this game because... well, honestly, you could've named this 'Computer Virus - A Detective Noir Story' and I would still go "Ooh, a Detective Noir story!" and buy it. It's an engaging story with simple but effective - and occasionally just a tiny bit confusing - gameplay, fantastic artwork throughout, and despite some surface level faults (occasional unclear gameplay, really could have used a closing voiceover narration explaining the aftermath of the ending, which instead happens immediately and then cut straight to credits) then it's a fun experience throughout and I would highly recommend. Also at one point you have to distract a Nazi and your friend says "Have you tried debating him in the marketplace of ideas?" and you look at her, and she looks at you, and then she says "Ha! Just kidding. Knock that @$$hole out." And you do. So 10/10 for that.

Got hit the the bug in jaegers office and i can't continue the game

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a down-on-her-luck, druggy German ginger filled with righteous angst? Ever fantasized of repeatedly kicking an unconscious, suspected Nazi-sympathizer with your BIPOC friend? Then look no further! This game will waltz you through a by-the-numbers epic confirming all your biases in an impossibly convenient and consistent fashion. Free yourself from the burden of questioning your priors and establishing true conviction in your beliefs. Embrace the convenience of outsourcing confidence in your world view simply because supporters appear numerous. Act now and purchase this game! Embark on an approved journey today!

This game got me hooked from the first illustrations I saw. It plays in Munich and as a local you feel very much connected with the scenery. It's a graphic novel with some Lucas Art game attitudes. You combine things in your inventory to solve puzzles but you are not just combining objects but also abstract things like what you saw or discovered. Pros: - Great art style - Tough main character - Good voice actors Cons: - Like in LucasArt oder Sierra adventures some of the puzzles are not as intuitive to solve as you want them to be. From time to time I was just combining everything with everything because I got stuck - Puzzles could be harder [spoiler]especially the decoding puzzle would have been so cool to do yourself instead of the character doing it for you[/spoiler]

Great experience so far! Really like the dense atmosphere, the professional voice acting (which is crucial for this type of game) and the underlying tension.