The Endless Journey

It's not bad, but I really can't recommend it. Pros: - character art, animation and cutscenes are good and cute - music is top-notch, all of it - it's original and risky, it's evident there was soul put in it - ways of communicating of characters is interesting, without spoilers - really liked Bremen musician's story, very interesting AU for them Cons: - I don't know a nice way to put it, but as a point&click game it sucks. Puzzles are unclear, the interactable objects are neither highlighted nor clear, it is basically impossible to play without a guide nor understand what the game wants from you next. The sequence of actions also usually doesn't make sense logically. I've played at a lot of point&click games, and I know the difference between absurd-but-clear and not-working and this is the latter. If quest element isn't important for you, it's not a deal-breaker, but it was one of them for me - the locations aren't skippable and it's pretty evident that background art was deprioritized compared to other art. The character moves really slow and it just wasn't a good experience given the lack of detail in backgrounds - Les Miserables... I'm a big fan and it's usually easy to buy me with AUs, I've seen lots of them, thought of lots of them, and the idea of magic steampunk one really hyped me up. But it has literally nothing to do with the source material and every single one of the characters were butchered. Not in the dark-AU or reverse-AU way, but they literally have nothing to do with how they were in Les Miserables, and it feels like their names were just used for vibes or attracting attention. I wouldn't have problems with the characters if they existed in a vacuum, but seeing how they had names of my favorite characters I tried to see connection, but there was just none - I guess mostly because of the previous point, it made me feel like the game relies more on vibes than depth and it's fine, but not for me, so just be aware what you sign up for, if you are a fellow Les Mis fan.