Eselmir and the Five Magical Gifts is splendid. Its story telling and world building are really beyond the quality and quanity you might expect. The art style is ripped straight out of a story book and is very fun to look at. On top of all that, the puzzles are fun and a decent challange. Very rarely did I have to consult a walk through. While there are some technical issues, the devs seem to be answering questions and help with troubleshooting here on steam. So I am very willing to forgive some of the bugs. They helped me within 24 hours with an issue, and I was super thankful! Overall, this is a great game for people who love lore and story telling. The only warning I might give, beyond technical issues, is this game involves a lot of reading. Both dialogue text and in game lore books. So if your not very much into reading you might not like this game much. If you like reading, or don't mind it, I think you'll find a lot to love here. I wrote up a longer review if you want more...

While I respect the other reviewers here who love this game, I cannot agree with them. This game is more a walking simulator than anything else, and the graphics look pretty tacky on my screen, even using the same resolution the dev webpage lists (1024x768) . Movement is unbelievably slow and clunky, to the point where I found myself spending 90% of my time double clicking to walk/run the protagonist about the unnecessarily large and empty locales, looking for the scattered interactive objects. An adventure game should not be this arduous to play! I really wanted to be able to like this game, because I like supporting independent devs and the lore is supposedly fantastic. I just can't do it. I'll be returning this now.

This game needs more reviews! I thought this game was excellent and incredibly well worth the game price and my time. I wasn't familiar with the books this was based on, so it was completely new to me. I fell in love with this intricately fleshed out world and its wide variety of characters and landscapes in which your character travels. It is just beautiful. This game is for story lovers and people who like reading. The stories and characters intersect and matter as you progress. The story was well told and uplifting. I was left after about 25 hours of gameplay feeling thoughtful and happy and wishing for another chapter in this lovely world. The game has a nice feature in that only items useful to a task will show up to be used when you r-click on an action item or person. This eliminates the "I'm lost and so I willl throw every item in my inventory, no matter how ridiculous, at the problem." Manual saves! There are a few timed click maneuvers for the battle scenes. C...

Resolution is too small. Graphics are mildly interesting but could use some major improvement. Too much walking. Too much "I think wordiness in prose makes a fantasy world good". In-game text is hard to read. I didn't even make it that far into the game before I had to quit.

This one was great. Loved the world the story was set in, loved the story, loved the characters, loved the background lore. A 90/100 effort. [u]The good[/u] Excellent story, and storytelling Appealing characters Puzzles that can be challenging, and make sense Good use of the minigame/QTE mechanism Lots of background lore that fleshes out the world and the people who dwell in it Great background art, costumes, etc Good, and appropriate music Game possesses a sharp sense of humour [u]The bad[/u] Animations are stiff and awkward The fight scenes are comical in a cringeworthy way Some backtracking involved For those who don't like reading, you'll hate this A few text formatting issues here and there

Tried to like it but didn't manage it... Respect for the guy behind it but it demands too much reading (in-game but also from the novel) and it's too slow paced (too many things to examine without a specific direction given or maybe I just didn't find it because I have no idea about the in-world history). Also the graphics didn't manage to capture me like others said. They're nicely drawn for a single picture maybe, but not as a moving background. There's also no angle, no camera position... Don't know, I tried hard but didn't manage to like it. I have finished around 40 point-and-click games so far (and I didn't like all of them) and this is just the 3rd that I quit without finishing it (the others being Dracula Origin and The Moment of Silence in case it matters)

Eselmir and the five magical gifts has a rich story, many ineresting characters, and some beautiful scenes. I loved playing the game it was reminiscent of playing some of my favorite classic Point & Click Aventure games (like Kings Quest or Legend of Kyrandia). My biggest issues with the game are more in it's dynamics and interface. There's very few actual things you can click on. When you right click to cycle through available actions it will only show things you can actually do. You basically can't try to do anything or look at anything they don't want you to look at. In most other Point and Click Adventure games I've played you can cycle through all your actions and try all of them even if they don't give any useful results. I feel like that's a better system as this game feels more like you are just clicking through their story as opposed to making actual discoveries and decisions. It's also difficult to explore the terrains as some places give you arrows to let you know o...

A fabulous game. There is quite a bit of reading to do, but the story is so interesting and engaging that that is not a problem. The puzzles are all doable, but the best (for me) was that you could slow the fights down to a reasonable level. Towards the end of the game, I found I was going more and more slowly, as I did not want to finsh it! Definitely recommended for all adventure game lovers.

This is a beautiful game with a really deep story that pulls you in. While I could not find the books in English, I believe it is based on a series of books/stories, so it is quite obvious when playing that the story is written by someone who knows how to do it well. The graphics are handdrawn and quite vibrant, the characters (Eselmir particularly) are complex with their own backgrounds, and their relationships with each other. Like the good old golden adventure games, it has a good playtime - it took me 15 hours, and that's considering I read fast and sometimes skip a text quick. Like other commentors mentioned, it is a heavy reading based game - however, you need to read not just for lore and depth of story but actually to remember how to solve certain puzzles or answer some questions. The puzzles are not crazy difficult, like some classic adventures, but still good enough to tickle your brains. One thing I was disappointed with was that Eselmir didn't have full voice - maybe j...

It took me a while to like the game. In the beginning i found it slow starting (long walks and long conversations). But gradually i was caught by the story and I liked it more and more.It is a great game and fantastic story. .. Definitively worth while of playing. Only remark i have is tht end chapter 4 and chapter 5 people should save their game regularly as I had a few game crashes when clicking by accident outside the game window or sometimes a click whilst something else was busy. Also the stealth game at end of chapter 4 is tricky ... never could finish this section after numerous tries. I guess it depends on power/quickness of the hardware/CPU/GPU. I bypassed this using the debug as explained in the community. Besides that .. it is fantastic game and one of the better ones i played.