Dimhaven - The Lost Source

I loved it! This is a Myst style game with difficult but very well designed puzzles. I hope they make another in this series.

I'm mostly glad this worked out after the Kickstarter did not. I fell in love with the look and humor of the demo (not with the visa puzzle) and wanted to visit all the locked-off places. In the end, the humor all but evaporates after the first location, the locked-off vistas stay mostly inaccessible, and the story converges into a rather tropy ending. But I enjoyed the puzzles and that's what counts. It's only a bit shorter than Quern, and the visuals and music are well done. I hope there will be a next one, but if there is, please, hire a good writer to come up with a better story.

FR : Une excellente aventure de réflexion avec une atmosphère mystérieuse du début à la fin. Le monde est magnifique à explorer, les énigmes sont intelligentes sans être injustes, et l'histoire m'a captivé tout au long de l'aventure. Si vous aimez des jeux comme Myst ou Quern, celui-ci vaut clairement le détour ! EN : A fantastic puzzle adventure with a mysterious atmosphere from start to finish. The world is beautiful to explore, the puzzles are clever without feeling unfair, and the story kept me engaged the whole way through. If you enjoy games like Myst or Quern, this is definitely worth playing!

Really loved this game. It had a great mysterious atmosphere, nice music, and the old-school style was really charming. The puzzles were challenging enough (for my brain at least) very satisfying when I solved them. I really liked being able to choose how many hints to use instead of being given the solution right away. I just wish it was longer because it definitely made me want to play more mystery puzzle games. Totally recommend!

Soft recommend, would recommend buying it on sale perhaps. The opening sequences are great and have some great puzzles, but the later puzzles become frustrating in a bad way. You know the answer but you're either listening to vague sound cues or adjusting pixel-perfect visual cues. The visual style is not really my thing and the story initially invokes a lot of interesting lore it never capitalizes on in the story nor its puzzles

Fun game and would like more of this. Interesting puzzles. Some had some quirks that were there just to keep you on your toes. There's a progressive hint system which I used in some of these but I'd say the solution was fair to find. If you have issues with the character teleporting a meter here and then, set the framerate to a set number instead of the "fixed" option.

There isn't much to say for a review like this. Dimhaven - The Lost Source is a stellar game, plain and simple. It's a polished puzzle adventure game with carefully crafted environments and well-constructed puzzles that will challenge you just so, and a perfectly adequate story to go along with it. The world might not feel as striking and sprawling as something like Myst, Neyyah or RHEM, but the trade-off is that the puzzles feel tighter and more intimate. In addition, Dimhaven is very good about sometimes blocking off areas and narrow the possibility space for some puzzles, preventing you from wandering around for ages looking for hints you may already have. The game also provides you with a camera to photograph hints, clues or points of interest. You can even annotate the photos, and this meant I only occasionally had to go to external note-taking. Honestly, this should be a staple in every puzzle adventure. (I'm looking at you, Blue Prince!) Very good. My only complaint, and it's the nicest complaint I could give, is the length of the game. It feels so very short at around 6-8 hours, but of course, 6-8h of quality game and puzzles is to be preferred over 20h with a lot of padding. Maybe and perhaps I would've wished for a few more breather moments, walking/travelling and just taking in the sights. After all, the environments are beautiful. Zadbox, thank you for providing this genre with yet another gem.