The Curse We Made

The Curse We Made is a perfect example of "bitter-sweet", being a gentle game with soft music and cartoon-style background ghosts, skulls, etc, but with a story underpinned by quiet sadness and regret. Each location (inn, bakery, church etc) in a cursed town contains a number of puzzles, and the thoughts of the owner about the tragedy that befell them all and their part in it. The game is really about bringing the colours of understanding and acceptance about what happened to each of the monochrome locations, rather than breaking the curse or changing the past. There are a range of puzzles - reassembling torn notes or objects, sorting things into a particular order, finding hidden objects, filling letters into a crossword grid etc, copying musical sequences - but none are particularly difficult, and there is always at least one clue nearby (or the puzzle's mechanics prevent errors e.g. not allowing the wrong label or letter to be placed). The comically cynical cat which meets you at each location tells you how many puzzles there are. Completing a set of puzzles leads to an achievement and also to a piece of the final puzzle. I really enjoyed the style and story of this game. It was short but I was happy with the value for money - and the pleasure - that it gave. My congratulations and thanks to the developer. My only suggestion concerns the letters written by the shop owners etc at each location - these were quite small on screen to read (at least for my aged eyes!), and I would have appreciated them being zoomed if clicked on.

Low brain chill puzzles. Weak story. Get it on sale.

Great. worth the time and money. Not hard but that is nice sometimes.

This is such a wonderful game. The whole game is laid back and very low key and with not a lot of pressure on time completion. The story is thoughtful with a point behind it emphasizing society expectations and interactions. The puzzles are simple and straight forward but don't come off as too easy. I loved having the cat to help point out the number of puzzles in each area so nothing was missed. Overall, a very enjoyable game and I look forward to more from this developer.

Perhaps the rides are meant to be short, but they definitely shouldn`t be short AND boring. Love the art style, the old-fashioned puzzles are fine, but the story`s shallow and full of cliches. Do I recommend this game? Nah I`ll pass. Maybe for grade schoolers?

The game is fine, but it was too easy and too short, didn't met my expectations (thought it would be something like a Rusty Lake-kinda game). Had feeling like playing an old-schoold Flash-powered game, and it's a negative for me.

Decent game with a rather short and very melancholic story. Puzzles were okay, but pretty easy. They also felt a bit detached from the story, like solving crossword puzzles while simultaneously reading a short story. Rating: ★★★☆☆