Alexia Crow and the Cave of Heroes

Petite production mais sympa et assez rafraichissante. Les puzzles sont bien pensés et le background ainsi que les graphismes sont originaux. Le chapitre trois doit arriver, c'est assez court tout de même.

Not very good graphics, story and voice acting but the puzzles are WONDERFUL. Game definietly worth playing just for the puzzles, but some are taking time to figure out.

A nice little saga of a puzzle exploration game that is still being written. There are currently two chapters released. However, they really need someone who can write proper English for the achievements and in-game captions. The voice acting is proper English, funnily enough. EDIT (02/09/2016): While searching for the third chapter online, I found all three parts in flash games, which I guess were the original versions. They were the same game, without the voiceovers. I don't really see the third part being released on Steam any time soon. Gameplay: 7/10 Art: 7.5/10 Music: 8.5/10 Voices: 7.5/10 Captions/Achievement descriptions: 3/10 Completeness: 4/10 Length: 5/10

Tags: Adventure - WC - Hidden Object Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Only 2 chapters out of 3. Puzzle presentation and mechanics lack refinement of the somewhat decent art. No instructions, often cryptic, no walkthrough like the flash version. This is a ported flash game in which some girl fall in a pit and explores greek mythology inspired caves, clicking on scenery to connect the dots, do jigsaws, solve number riddles and other dollard store game book type games. It can be often difficult to guess what you are expected to do, what the goal images are, the engine does not give hints, and will often not lock correct jigsaw puzzles in place or other ease of use features of the kind. The plot is very loose and lacks any real hook. Best suited as the flash game it came from, dev promised to upload all three parts but stopped short of doing the final one, meaning you would be stuck going to a website if you wanted to do the whole thing and downloading flash. At that point it begs the question why bother keeping this version in your Steam Library anyway. To be honest even if all three parts were here I do not think this really reaches a sufficient quality in execution to be worthy of a place in your permanent library. I could not even soldier on very long for the a test session for this review. The tedium and finnickyness of progression was just too much. It is a bit of a shame because the art has a surreal quality to it that is eyecatching and would had made for a good motivation to keep player's interest. Removing local content permanently and moving to hidden library for declutter.

bad

Ok, I was on the fence and starting to come around to the game. Starting to get into the swing of it, prepared to overlook janky controls and the annoying over-narration, starting to get to grips with no two puzzles being similar, or seeming to make much sense, I was even prepared to overlook the random 'find eight ghosts of the item you're looking for that have been 'sneezed' over this scene like a hidden object scene from a toilet bowl... Right up until "To be continued..." So, the game isn't finished, the click-boxes for things don't always line up that well and storyline seems to be 'I fell down a hole... then things stopped making sense!'. Sure, the puzzles are clever and I'm a little over-puzzled in my time, so the fact I didn't instantly go 'oooh, it's one of these' to each of them shows that this is the best aspect of the game. The art is appealing, yes. It seems a little... hard to tell what you can interact with though. A lot like the artifex mundi games of low-rez days. The voice acting, great! Really nothing to complain about there. It sounds good and solid and the music also deserves a good nod for credit. The 'solid' storyline however is made of either mud or soap: It may be "a solid", but if you drop it, then it's gone. If you handle it too much, it falls apart. if you leave it in the rain, it's gone. The 'twists' make it sound like there's more than one, unless you do a LOT of extra work as a player and decide you want to start guessing at everything... Honestly, it's a great start. but a great start that needs to be fleshed out and maybe take a step back and re-examine the gameplay. It plays like a 'hidden object' game. First-person view and a lot of 'here's a slot for only this specific item'... but it's missing the hidden object puzzles that usually give those games the extra play-time! I beat the whole thing in just over an hour and a half and I even had time to get up, go make a cuppa, answer the door and forget it was running! Short and with a storyline I could write on a post-it with pretty big hand-writing. The puzzles just seem arbitrary at this point and the closer I got to the end, the less sense it made that they were there at all!

This game has a remarkably clunky UI, and some pretty poor voice acting. Some of the puzzles in the first chapter are entertaining (or would be, if you didn't spend 50% of the time frustrated about the horrendous UI), but it devolves pretty quickly into complete and utter nonsense.