Veritas

[b]veritas[/b] is the mostly competent pc version of a 1st-person point & click / escape room adventure also available on mobiles. you wake up in a cell, a lady on the intercom prompts you to find her, so you get to it. flashbacks, notes from different people, plus the usual variety of inventory-based and regular puzzles. [b]you also have a camera[/b], can take pictures of anything, put notes on them and bring them up while looking at puzzles. for the most part I found it easier to use a pen and paper than go through the photos, it was too finicky with mobile-like controls. it's a human experiment gone wrong situation, who knows what happened in the facility and to the others. well, you'll find out eventually by playing, won't go into more details, though [b]the ending is pretty disappointing[/b]. some puzzles are a bit out there but [b]no real-time or timed stuff, enemies to avoid or any of that nonsense[/b], and the one qr code only requires an in-game reader, not your phone and a w...

This is yet another excellent puzzler from Glitch Games. Veritas has been a long time coming and it did not disappoint! Clever puzzles (some of which were quite difficult for me) make this much more than a typical 'escape' game. The atmosphere is dark and mysterious with a solid sound track. I enjoyed this immensely and, if you have not been a Glitch gamer before, I'd recommend you play this and circle back through ALL of their previous adventures. All are outstanding examples of why the point-and-click genre can still be as fun as ever! Note - I finished this game in about 7 hours. My Steam time is less than this because I played the game (to completion) on my Android tablet

I have to agree with several reviewers. Way way to buggy to waste your money. Lost all progress several times. Also the response time to back out from a scene just gets longer and longer as you progress through the game. I just gave up after spending 8 hours over the past week. I like the mechanics and the puzzles but it just wasn't worth the aggravation and I don't see how I could have ever progressed to the end anyway. Sorry Glitch Games. Come out with some serious bug fix work and I'd consider trying it again. Right now I'm out $12.99. UPDATE: The developer has corrected the issues I mentioned and the game now plays well. I would however recommend that going forward they implement some kind of regression testing before releasing "platform" updates or other similar kinds of peripheral changes to the application eco-system.

As much as I like the puzzles and atmosphere as single concept, the execution is more than lacking. The controls bounce from sluggish to rebellious at times, often rejecting the correct use of objects and literally moving me out of the room I'm in just because I dared to click something too fast. On top of that, the game seems dead set on traveling between each scene as slow as possible, which is particularly frustrating in a game where you have to back track constantly to solve every puzzle. It's been a long time since Myst pioneered this kind of game, and yet with all this time, my modern gaming PC can't seem to run this poorly optimized point-and-click romp in any way I'd call satisying.

I played a lot of Glitch games on my iPad back in the day - they had some of the most consistent point-and-click adventure game content in a market frankly oversaturated with awful point-and-clicks. They've tackled a lot of very different styles, from the corny pun-filled Ferris Mueller's Day Off to the ambient horror Forever Lost series. Their staple game mechanic - the camera which lets you screenshot various game elements - is a brilliant way of providing the player with the tools necessary to take notes without having to grab a pen and paper (or commit long codes to memory). While a lot of the individual puzzles in Veritas are still very fun, with answers hidden in the environment in interesting ways, the game itself is bogged down by a bizarre genre-hopping story with a lame ending and frankly awful performance for the PC. The story presents itself as a horror story - filled with diaries to find, blood trails and bodies - but it also includes humorous pop culture references whic...

I really want to like this game. To play this game. But the game engine is just too slow. What should be quick or near-instant movements between screens are unbearably slow. It's like playing on a 20 year old computer, yet my machine is brand new

wiped save after two hours of play, dev website says its a fixed bug(clearly not fixed). the workaround of importing also doesn't work

Positive: - Tons of puzzles! Almost all of them are pattern matching/logic puzzles, and that is awesome. - Puzzles are fun to solve and well designed in general. - Around 10% of the puzzles are in 'out of the box thinking' category, solving these were very satisfying. - Story and setting is more interesting than similar games in this genre. - Looks and feels like a `escape the room` type of game in the beginning, but quickly gives you a much larger area to explore. - Built-in hint system is very helpful and tries to nudge you in the right direction without fully spoiling the solution. Negative: - I had one game-breaking bug early in my gameplay and lost all my progress. Never happened again afterwards. However, I see that people are complaining about bugs, so make sure to backup your game frequently. - Puzzles are generally good, but there is a good amount of what I would call 'filler puzzles', where the solution is plainly obvious at the first look. I wish they decreased the number...

Glitch games are teh best!

I like the game - the puzzles are interesting and not too difficult - but the issue I have is with items that are essential to completing the game disappearing from your inventory. Glitch Games seems an apt name for the company.