Misadventures of Laura Silver

Game was abandoned, you can't complete everything in game, due to it being broken(verified on the community pages), for me to fully complete a game I need to get all achievements(I am an over achiever and need this validation in my life). Just give me the toilet attachment!!!

Not fond of the art and story. The options menu is bugged when I access in game as I have to choose another tab in order to exit it. It also randomly zooms in the options menu. Chapter 2 is unfinished due to financial reasons from what I read. Best not to purchase this game.

I want to be fair in my assessment of this game. I like a lot of it- the visual style, the characters, some of the ideas presented... but unfortunately, I cannot *recommend* it for anyone. There's little things like small dialogue bugs, which are to be expected in an indie visual novel, I won't hold that against the game. However, the awful thing is- if you *do* like it, and want more of the characters, and expansions on the obvious dangling plot threads, you aren't getting that. There were apparently plans for a sequel that had to be scrapped. Again, I'm not holding that against the devs, but I'm leaving this review to warn anyone who wants to play the game. There are many unanswered questions left in the story- not "unanswered questions" in the sense of pedantic details or plot holes, either- they very clearly set up things that are supposed to be intriguing and that intrigue can never pay off. The true ending, especially, leaves things hanging. This absolutely reads as more of a prologue than a full game, unfortunately, with things getting brought up as something to pay attention to that will never actually get addressed. (The story is quite short- a lot of the playtime listed on my profile isn't actually "playing the game", it's skipping through text as fast as possible to either get a random achievement or get back to a decision point) Also, depending on what sort of person you are, this may or may not be a dealbreaker, but: you cannot 100% this game without going through some process to download an older version of the game. The achievement broke in an update. I have not attempted to get it as of now, but if it shows me as having any further playtime after this review was posted, that is what I attempted to do. I hope the devs went on to do things they enjoy. They obviously have talent, but as of right now with everything abandoned, I cannot in good conscience recommend it.

First of all I recommend to those who can to play it in Turkish, it's got all the little gags and puns n ♥♥♥♥ of the language, since it was made by Turkish developers Though English speaking players will also enjoy the game, being able to play it in Turkish made it special to me The music? SLAPS The artsyle? SLAPS Tis a visual novel, you're a detective/cop who investigates the supernatural You're playing a very sarcastic, no-nonsense lady who's followed around by a sunshine golden retriever-like man The story's a little too convenient, and sometimes the game just breaks. It does have a danganronpa-like "put these events in order" minigame I mean it's a fun game, the characters are nice, the story is nice, and you can tell that the creators were having fun with it But it's also painfully an indie game, only 3 people worked on it and the second chapter got cancelled so it just leaves you wanting for more If you think that's good enough, then I'd definitely recommend it, if you're saying "Boat I'm neurodivergent and I don't wanna obsess over a game that has little to no fan content, no longer getting bug fixes or a second chapter" Then yeah don't play it lmao Oh also like,,,,,,, hot people Tbh the game's worth the price just for the art in it A "skip previously read dialogue" button would've cut my playtime in half tho

Great paranormal mystery with a really fun cast, I especially loved the titular MC. A shame there won't be more, there is definitely much more teased in the world. However it works as a standalone as the core story is wrapped up nicely. Still, I hope one day the devs will return to it.

Misadventures of Laura Silver is a visual novel by Attic Salt Studios where you play as Laura Silver, a supernatural investigator who has to solve a mysterious murder at her hotel while on the hunt for a creature called a vodnik. This was originally intended to be the first game in a series, but episode 2 was canceled, so I'll be judging this as a standalone game. In this game, you guide Laura Silver through her investigation. Most of the game is fairly linear and involves choosing between dialogue options, although there are a couple of places where you interrogate different characters and one place where you have to reconstruct events. I did not enjoy the interrogations. It was really hard to tell what the right answers were without trial and error, and for at least one of the interrogations that affects what ending you’re able to get. I ended up having to look at a walkthrough for one part because I couldn’t figure out where the conversation was supposed to be going and I got tired of having to restart the section to try things out. I generally liked the story, although there were parts of it that didn’t make much sense. Most of the investigation is very linear, and you piece together what really happened in the murder and the connections the different characters have to the vodnik and other supernatural events. Solving the murder was pretty unsatisfying. The motive didn’t make a lot of sense and in the final confrontation Laura just ends up knowing a lot of things that didn’t come up in the investigation. However, I thought the rest of the subplots were interesting and came together in a more satisfying way, and I was interested in seeing where the story would have gone if it had continued further. Although the game never got its intended second chapter, this entry does mostly stand on its own. The main mystery of the game is self-contained. If you get the good ending, you’ll know who committed the murder and what was really going on with most of the main supernatural mysteries. The main characters aren’t fleshed out very deeply, and there were a lot of dangling minor plot threads that probably would have been explored in a sequel, but the game doesn’t end with a big cliffhanger. The sound design had some nice touches. There is no voice acting, but with each line of text you hear typewriter keys, and each character has a different sound and rhythm. There wasn’t a lot of music, but I enjoyed it when it was present. The game is translated a little weirdly. There are a lot of minor grammar mistakes and some odd word choices. It’s pretty noticeable, but doesn’t make the game more difficult to play. There are also a couple of bugs. I once had to reload a save because all of the dialogue options disappeared after I looked in the notebook. One of the achievements is also unachieveable. Although it had a number of weaknesses, I liked Misadventures of Laura Silver. I enjoyed parts of the story and most of the gameplay, although both had some frustrating issues. It had a lot of potential and I’m disappointed it won’t be getting a sequel. 5/10

Artwork is nice. Case is fine. I like the mystery. There is even a "deduction mini-game" where you have to fill in what happened... There are four endings... Three bad and one "true"... Although it ends with "more cases to come" kinda thing. I liked everything... Despite some of the parts felt weird, but okay... What I hated the most were the kids. They were freaking annoying af! They were pompous, narcissistic and entitled little... I nearly stopped reading when either of those THREE appeared on the screen. The best part was when the girl choked the other kid. That's the only good part about those beeps. Otherwise fine. Kept my interest. These two Detectives were better off getting a supernatural dog. Loyal and intelligent. Thank you!!! :) =)

As someone just picking up this game without any knowledge of the developers (with how apparently this game was originally planned to have multiple chapters and was ultimately left as only one chapter) because Steam recommended it to me, I don't recommend playing this game. Maybe if you really liked the artstyle and wanted to support the developers, you'd enjoy this, but I honestly could not stick it out for very long. This is a visual novel focused around basically being a detective looking into European folk-cultures and cryptids. I might try playing this again in the future to see if I change my mind, but a decent number of the characters are often just obnoxious - there's no other way to put it (like from the beginning of the game Laura is really quick to shoot things with her gun and jumps to strange conclusions about how to save people; the hotel director likes causing unnecessary relationship conflicts to pretend to care about his child (causing problems to then solve them is not endearing)). I don't really have a reason to want to keep playing when I'm thrust into a setting with no explanation of any character's motives/wants and I dislike how the MC is acting.

（游戏公告提及，因为没钱第二部寄了，官中也不知道什么时候会有呢） 无中文。英文字母全大写形式且有一些生僻词（[strike]不上网3秒即答sunken啥意思[/strike]），故啃生肉略有难度，不过对故事理解没有太大影响。背景是1935年女主Laura Silver和助手Cooper奉命前往捷克斯洛伐克调查一起凶案的水怪 Vodnik，刚在酒店入住一晚又被卷入一起凶杀案，随即俩人开始调查。 游戏的配乐和美术都是不错的，文本出现还伴有打字机的哒哒声。人物的形象塑造的也很饱满——聪明带点毒舌的女主（可能是我选的都是比较mean的选项）、好好先生一般的助手、情绪不稳定一直大呼小叫怀疑女主的厨子（[spoiler]有个坏结局就是你小子害的！[○･｀Д´･ ○][/spoiler]）、眼里只有自己女儿的老板…… 至于说故事内容则比较平淡。开头女主和助手唠嗑的篇幅比较长且无聊，半天引不到正题上很容易让人感到无趣。故事发展也比较平平无奇，虽然有很多分支选项，但大部分对于结局没啥影响可以随意选。一共四个结局，一个TE仨BE（E3的结局也太潦草了），真相略微狗血。最后有个简单的推理小游戏，基本上没有太烧脑的地方，安心看故事即可。内容偏向于半超自然——[spoiler]所谓的超自然凶案就是人在背后装神弄鬼，虽然游戏里有超自然现象但基本属于锦上添花，更像是烟雾弹[/spoiler] 游戏的bug——虽然游戏给了快进键但不建议频繁使用，文本跳动过快很容易出现黑屏或者文字消失的问题从而无法推进。好在游戏有自动存档，不过还是注意勤存档，一方面便于刷成就另一方面防卡死。 惯常的扯淡环节：游戏开始车上俩人谈论凶案的时候，除了Vodnik还提及了其他几个民间传说中的妖怪，故简单写一写：[spoiler] black annis：黑安妮丝。带英民间传说比较经典的妖怪。为住在莱斯特郡洞穴里的老巫婆，蓝色皮肤、独眼、长有利爪，在夜晚掠夺小孩并吃掉。原型据说是个老修女Agnes Scott，因为孤僻且长期居住于洞穴里，口口相传中形象逐渐扭曲成了老妖怪。有些版本里其还会模仿母亲的声音诱骗小孩，成为父母吓唬调皮小孩的经典形象。其在游戏、影视作品里也有客串，比如《巫师3》里面的森林老妇人。 carmilla：卡蜜拉。经典女吸血鬼了。这个贵族女同的形象不知影响了多少后来者，比Dracula还要早，吸血鬼小说基本滥觞于此。[/spoiler] 吐槽——[spoiler]Uri名字里有冯（Von）（老贵族了），他说自己生前是汉诺威（Hannover）王国的王，在位于1797-1798，然而历史上那时候汉诺威选帝侯还是英王乔三，平行时空无疑了[/spoiler] 可惜第二部胎死腹中了，游戏结尾里Silver接下来的冒险也无了，要是有的话她俩也应该会带上Uri的吧。