Lost Civilization

A not particularly good and a bit buggy hidden object game. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (5.0-5).

Low resolution, wide option just stretches whole game, almost no voice over, game doesn't constrain mouse cursor so if you have two monitors you can easy go on second one and minimize game some parts are tedious or silly or both :)

some says this is rip-off of "NiBiRu: Age of Secrets" and some says this is just remake some how ?? i need to play NiBiRu: Age of Secrets to find out but its not on steam xD not bad game anyway ...

pros + a intriguing and exciting story about the search for evidence of a 12th planet with alien life and technology that the Germans were trying to acquire during the war. you are an amateur female archaeologist who try to rescue her kidnapped fiancé from some bad guys. + differently designed and nice variety HO scenes which prevent to repetition + easy and fun to solve puzzle and mini games + nice musics + limited but decent voice acting + hint system and diary helpful + it's sequel to my favourite point and click game NIBIRU: Age of Secrets + three difficulty option cons - slow trips on the map getting tedious after a while - there are no steam achievements and cards - could have been more challenging - no map - too much unnecessary talking for an hidden object game. i skipped some of npc conversations Overall, this is an decent hidden object game.

Игры в стиле "поиск предметов" не так и легко разрабатывать. Очень высока конкуренция и если постоянно не забивать эфир, игрок быстро разочаруется и переключится на что-то другое. Но и слишком казуальной быть нельзя, лёгкие головоломки, также вызывают скуку. Важная золотая середина, чтобы игрок чуть помучился и дальше пошёл спасать от очередного зла. И очень важно, чтобы была куча мотивирующих достижений. Так вот, Lost Civilization провалилась абсолютно по всем позициям - это нелогичная, максимально топорная игра, в сюжет которой абсолютно не веришь. Сюзанна, как сраный веник мотается по всей Европе и Мексике, чтобы спасти жениха. При этом её координирует дядя, с которым нужно встречаться в Уэльсе, несмотря на наличие телефона. Задачи, тоже странные, мы уже привыкли что все предметы в поисках одноразовые, но привередливая голодная бомжиха, требующая кетчуп к хот догу удивила даже меня. А ещё чехи из Icarus Games не справились с рисовкой, для 2014 года игра вышла невзрачной и серой. Слабовато, натяну до 5.0, но для подобного жанра это провал.

Despite some technical issues, the game was overall fun to play. OK, the story is foreseeable and somewhat cliche'd, the characters stereotypical, but which HOG is different in that regard? Not many, cause I played A LOT of them over the years. So as an avid HOG player, it's just what it is. The technical issue I had, was, that the Fullscreen option did not scale properly. I only saw like a quarter of the game on screen. I guess it's due to having screen scaling set rather high (175% for my 4K monitor), the game didn't cope with it properly. In the end I had to play windowed, which was rather exhausting. What I liked about the game design and I don't recall having seen anywhere else, is, that you not only have to find items in the HOG scene, but - like half the time - properly place items from your list into the scene. For things like "put a cherry to another cherry" that's easy, but sometimes you had to think outside the box. Like a feather didn't go to another feather or a bird, but to an ink well instead. So that was refreshing. As said, the rest of the game is pretty much as you would expect it, in total that pushes it over into the positive zone.

This is basically Hidden Object version of NiBiRu: Age of Secrets. I'm curious as to why that game hasn't made its way to Steam yet.