Lower-end hard drives can make load-times take a matter of minutes, and in-game text becomes unreadable with certain default settings. While the developers have taken care to address them as best they can, a number of outstanding issue can impact the game’s performance on low-powered systems. More troublesome are a number of hardware and software hiccups. Overall, these are momentary hiccups in what is otherwise an enthralling experience. Playing in free-roaming mode, for example, the difference between a climbable incline, and an impassable ledge isn’t as clear as it could be, and the mine-cart sections could stand to be a little faster. Now, with over twenty years of games spanning the distance, some parts of the point and click adventure irritate more than they used to. From this point on the story becomes your story.”Īdventure games used to be a genre with stunning appeal: Myst was the best selling computer game for almost an entire decade after its release.

Why is there an old, abandoned farmhouse – complete with white picket fence – in the middle of an alien landscape? You’ll find out. “Exploring everything around you allows you to read between the lines and to begin to answer your questions.

Hunrath isn’t the only world to explore in Obduction, but like Myst’s first island, it’s thoughtfully crafted and dense, a full realized and lived-in world. In a subtly funny moment, the player finds the engine car of a train connected to the intact pump of a 1940’s era Gas Station: the town’s improvised source of power. An old diary gives an account of how its owner found a giant crater where a nearby mining town had vanished overnight. A series of professionally carved gravestones have painted plywood tacked over the names of the original occupants.

Mayor Josef offers audio-guided tours of its unique features, but the majority of the information about the place isn’t delivered in a conversation, it’s discovered. Hunrath itself is beautiful and quirky, a hodgepodge of eras, technology and style.

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