
A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.
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"I loved every minute of the demo"
Lucas Pope, Return of the Obra Dinn
"Delivers layers of clever puzzles and satisfying reveals all the way through to the end"
Jeremy Johnston, The Roottrees are Dead
“Roottrees fans will really enjoy sleuthing in The Ratline”
EvilTrout, The Roottrees are Dead.
“If you love the Golden Idol games, you'll love the Ratline”
Will Ackerman, Lead Designer, Rise of the Golden Idol.
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1971. A dead priest. A list of Nazi fugitives. The hunt begins.
When a Catholic priest is found murdered in Budapest, a secret list is discovered —names of Nazi war criminals who escaped justice through a covert network known as The Ratline. Now, the case is yours.
In this gritty detective thriller set in 1971, you play an investigator chasing shadows across continents. Use your wits, intuition, and network of contacts to follow leads, dig through documents, and piece together the truth.
Examine documents, photographs, and recovered artifacts
Make independent deductions with no hand-holding
Act like a proper sleuth, working contacts and shaking down sources from Rome to Buenos Aires
Hunt down your marks - put together their identities, check your work and bring them to justice.
Made by Owlskip, the studio behind acclaimed narrative detective games Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach, Life & Crimes, and Riley and Rochelle.
The war may be over—but the reckoning has just begun.
The Ratline
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Languages: English*, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
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中评+1。推理的内容还是过关的(有少量瑕疵但问题不大),但是作为游戏来说设计上有一些问题。最明显的一点是玩法上缝合了一大堆不同的经典作品,又不是全缝了就会更好玩。倒数几章突然给我一个type help同款系统让我哭笑不得。界面功能也有很多改进空间。 Made by people very enthusiastic about the mystery genre. That said, there are problems with game design and development. I agree with other comments that the Type Help like element does not fit in well with the rest of the game.
不是哥们,你这游戏虽然有中文,但搜索名字的时候要英文拼写才行是不是有点搞?
Solid investigate 'em up in the vein of The Roottrees Are Dead and the Golden Idol games. The UI is a bit clunky and the 'Sonitron' mechanic introduced halfway through the game is a bit contrived, but the story and puzzles are good and you get to hunt Nazis, which is always nice.
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I will recommend this with two big caveats. First, the good. The vibes were immaculate: the art, music, atmosphere, all of it was extremely well done. I think the beginning and the end were very solid. The final case was my favorite, sort of a victory lap for [spoiler]those of use who noticed the man in the multiple early photos.[/spoiler] I generally liked the structure of the game, finding the intel and trying to piece it together. This leads me into my caveats. I think while the information gathering part is neat, I ended up relying pretty heavily on the hint system near the end. It is somehow both too difficult AND too easy. I would often stumble into all of the Archive articles for that chapter by complete accident while trying to find something else, which felt like I didn't really earn any of them. At the other end, the [spoiler]Sonitron[/spoiler] (and the phone to an extent) was a major headache. The [spoiler]seventh[/spoiler] chapter which relied heavily on it was by far my least favorite, and seriously killed any momentum or motivation I had by that point. I also didn't like that I couldn't view the previous suspects I had identified. The second caveat is that the end-of-case wrapup questions stopped working for me at some point, which I think impacted my understanding of what I had just done. Overall a very promising, if flawed, game. I think it could use more robust tools like an in-game notepad or some way to create profiles for non-suspect characters. I ended up doing this somewhat, but it would be nice to have integration within the game's photo reference system.
再也不想玩欧美战争背景的推理游戏了,总是好像玩家什么都知道一样,地理位置和人名看得眼花缭乱,有几个案子还算有意思,玩到后面简直就是折磨,最后一个案子就是为了收尾给个交代吧一点诚意都没有。明明有那么多一堆文字的资料但是没有任何笔记功能也没有涂鸦高光笔的功能,看得头痛,就算要玩家游戏外自己整理信息也要给个能选择复制文字之类的功能吧?又搞跨案子联系的设计,操作烦死人了
游戏的中文本地化搜索简直是灾难,虽然在TAB菜单里译方注明了搜索方式为中文拼音首字母,然而实际游戏根本没有适配这项功能,比如 保罗,需要用首字母P搜出来。以及教程关卡的地名我死活搜不到,新泽西州,就连用答案里的NJ也没搜到。还不如直接人名地名别翻译,这样至少还可能勉强能玩。 游戏具体内容不做评价,毕竟我至今还没有见过第二章。
I am a big fan of Owlskip games after discovering them last year, and Ratline is a nice little addition to the catalogue. I do have to admit I missed the voice acting of the previous audio puzzles quite a bit, and was thus excited and quickly disappointed when the surveillance recording system was introduced. Ratline is slightly shorter and less complex than some previous Owlskip games, but a very nice compact story that is engaging the whole way through. I also very much enjoyed the small easter egg references to other deduction games. If you enjoyed this and would like a more audio-focused experience I heartily recommend trying Rivals.
J'aurais aimé mettre une review neutre si Steam le permettait, parce que ce n'est pas un mauvais jeu en soi. J'ai bien aimé l'ambiance presque film noir, le jazz en fond, la pluie battante sur la fenêtre du bureau miteux du détective, etc. L'histoire est sympa, j'ai apprécié l'originalité du thème de la chasse aux nazis. Les enquêtes sont suffisamment complexes pour se creuser la tête un moment, cependant, certaines nécessitent de revenir sur les documents trouvés dans les précédentes affaires, ce qui peut poser problème si on joue au jeu sur plusieurs jours/semaines et qu'on oublie les détails de ces dernières. Le gros point négatif : l'interface. Elle n'est pas du tout adaptée dès qu'on se retrouve avec plus de 10 documents pertinents à l'enquête. Il est impossible d'avoir plus de 2 ou 3 documents ouverts en même temps qui restent lisibles, ce qui rend la réflexion vraiment fastidieuse. Il aurait été vraiment utile de pouvoir organiser son "plan de travail" comme on le souhaite et pouvoir déplacer les éléments librement. Aussi, le Sonitron n'est vraiment pas intuitif à utiliser : on est censé deviner qui parle avec qui et dans quelle pièce sans aucune indication, et au final, j'ai dû spammer toutes les combinaisons de numéros jusqu'à trouver les bonnes. En résumé, si vous avez aimé The Roottrees are Dead, vous pourriez aussi aimer The Ratline, même si the Roottrees est bien mieux conçu.
类奥伯拉丁/金偶像/鲁特里,安乐椅侦探式推理。游戏里也明确表达了对多部前辈作品的致敬。 很难给好评的一个作品。主要缺点一是bug非常多,各式各样的bug都有。最影响游玩体验的就是检索能出来与本章节无关的线索,算是被剧透了。毕竟本作也不是鲁特里那种非线性的。 二是操作很难受。不能划线取词,全部检索和填空都需要手打。没有笔记。UI 也过于粗糙。 中文本地化方面,和鲁特里是一个汉化者。可能因为时间有限,没有那么好的完成度。专有名词不统一、错字等情况还是相对多的。加上原文就挺谜语人,玩起来就更难受了。 谜题部分中等,量不大。这类型解谜免不了要猜,这一作逻辑链时断时续的,大部分我还算满意的。声创机纯扯淡,比红珍珠的通灵还难用。不过内置了提示,不会卡关,不影响成就。 剧情结合历史这方面我个人还是挺喜欢的,可惜你生错了版本,现在这时代犹太人风评不太好。
It's pretty good
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