The Moment of Silence

This is a very underrated game. If you enjoy a good story, this game has a brilliant plot and some very nice "a-ha!" moments as the mystery unfolds. The puzzles are very interesting and fun to solve, but you do have to get over the awful movement system. Sometimes you forget to pick an item here or to talk to someone there and cue to 2 or 3 minutes of walking around to get there, constantly cursing at the awful interface to do so. But the stress is worth it for the story. Worth the money if it's on a sale, can be beat in 10-15 hours.

This is reasonably constructed point and click adventure with some good points but it has some serious flaws that make the price of £14 way too expensive. If you find it on a half price sale it is worth considering. The premise of this game is that you are a man in New York who, soon after moving into a new apartment, observes a police squad forcefully arresting and abducting his neighbour while his terrified wife amd son look on. In your attempt to support the man's family you discover all sorts of strange facts that suggest dark and conspiratorial motives for his arrest. The gameplay is that of a traditional point and click adventure. Most of the plot advancement is through conversation and exploring. There are some inventory based puzzles too, but not enough in my opinion. The good: Despite the occasional weak translations (to English) the characters are believable and the voice acting is pretty good. The plot is engaging and sensible and doesn't leave any unanswered questions. ...

The Moment of Silence is a game that has some solid ideas but is held back by sloppy game design. The plot is a decent but run-on-the-mill conspiracy story loosely inspired by Orwille. Whatever plot twists it has are textbook. There is nothing special or groundbreaking about it except the world-building, used as commentary on the fear of surveillance of private communication. This aspect is actually kind of culturally relevant and even somewhat thought-provoking due to the information age we currently live in. The pacing is good, first letting you to know the area Peter Wright, the protagonist, lives in, and getting more tense and action-packed later on. Puzzles are mostly solid, but some of them rely on typical cartoony adventure game logic (you put a live bird inside your pockets on two occasions) which clashes with the tone of the game. Furthermore, I felt that some of the puzzles were insufficiently hinted/signposted, leaving me confused about what my goals were. As the gameplay ...

Close to one of the best 3rd person adventure games I've played . Amazing graphics and cut scenes. Big differance with "The Moment Of Silence" is it's more like a movie/game than most pure 3rd person point and click adventures.. Very iIntersting futuristic setting (sort of) and easier gameplay in that you can't make a disasterous mistake. Still took me over 21 hours to play.. That was off and on however! What I really loved about this stroyline is that no matter how long you left it when you came back it never got to the point where i forgot the goal/mission or what the story was about. That happenes far to often in some adventure games! My only negative to be honest is this game probably has the most I chit chat in it i've ever seen! Still, I'm looking forward to finding more like this!

I played this game years ago and the story had always stuck with me. When it went on sale, I made sure to buy a copy. The story is positively riveting and predicted the NSA scandal and surveillance drones 10 years before their occurrence. This alone makes the other predictions of the game to be even more interesting/ominous. I know a game's story is powerfully interesting when my husband takes off his headphones from playing Overwatch to listen to what I'm playing ;) I really appreciate the sheer number of locations and scenes in The Moment of Silence offers. All too often point and click adventure games these days keep to just 3 locations with just a few different points of view. The Moment of Silence keeps you on your toes with a huge variety of locals. I have to say the character movement can be a bit clunky at times. Also, sometimes I had to click on obscure points in order to fully explore an area. While I felt like the majority of the puzzles were orangic and intuitive...

Oh dear. An interesting, dystopian story made incredibly frustrating by its gameplay. If your story involves *a lot* of going backwards and forwards between locations, talking to people multiple times and interacting with objects in a specific order, please don't make it a walking simulator as well. Then don't add a camera view that reorients the character constantly while only being able to move to locations or interact with objects if you get into just the right spot so that the camera will allow you to see the thing/next location you need. I ended up finishing the game with a walkthrough just because I became too tired of trying to determine if I was on the right or wrong track before persevering with walking (running) from location to location, waiting for my character to very slowly make his way across the screen then hunt the pixel to move to the next screen or get the right camera angle to do the action that would let me progress. I know it's an old game but sweet J#$%$! Bless t...

A well written sci-fi adventure. It is by no means perfect, with occasional bugs and awkward movement controls that will occasionally have you wanting to throw your mouse through a window, but worth checking out. Through the game you get a rich sense of the world, told to you through hints and mentions in conversation rather than the heavy-handed exposition we see in most similar games.

This game had an excellent story, and generally good puzzles, but a few bad mechanics made it very tedious to play. Camera angles were poorly planned, often flipping around in the middle of a scene. This turns forward into backwrd, and left into right. This made the game very disorienting and confusing to play, *especially* during maze sections. Often, only part of a room would be shown, and you would have to find the correct place to move your character so you could access a new camera view. Poor pathing and having to guess what position would trigger the change made this excruciating. Finally, there were often large, open spaces that our character needed to cover, in one case dozens of times for the same puzzle, and there was no zip or quick exit feature. You have to watch your character run slowly through the whole space *every* *single* *time*. Can I recommend this game? It has a good story. However, it is unacceptable that the dev team let these mechanical issues...

pros ✅ a very strong, complex, engaging, well developed dystopian story set in an interesting futuristic digital world. the game's conspiracy story has many Orwellian influences. ✅ there are plenty of different and interesting locations ✅ pressing and holding H button reveals hotspots and exits ✅ enjoyable puzzles. they are not too easy or overly complicated. there are also inventory puzzles you can combine some items ✅ likeable, empathic and relatable lead character ✅ main and all of the side characters in it have rich, full backgrounds. they are interesting and believeable ✅ dated but still good looking pre rendered graphics and character models ✅ decent voice acting ✅ well made cinematic cutscenes ✅ background musics bolster to general atmosphere ✅ game quite long ✅ there are two ending (good and bad) cons ❌ awkward pathfinding and camera angles ❌ frustrating controls ❌ slow paced ❌ pixel hunting ❌ some exhausting and lengthy dialogues ❌ ther...

This game is un-f-word-ing-beleivably bad. I had played two other games by House of Tales, Overclocked and 15 Days, and they were really good, so I thought I'd try this one, and what a mistake that was... The game was mostly mechanically bad. It's very difficult to figure out where to make the character walk to transition screens, some of them have click locations, but others you have to walk to a certain part of the screen to get the transition to happen, and to make it all the worse the character just moves where he wants to anyway. Most of the puzzles aren't overly complicated, though there are a few that are unforgiveable... The real issue is that many of the puzzles involve "go here, then there, then to that other place, then back to there", and the character movement is so bad and slow and you have to go through so many screen transitions to get anywhere that in the end it's just an annoyance. The game is padded with a bunch of walking around. If you end up walking to a locatio...