The Tragedy at Deer Creek

It's a short and bittersweet game.

A very nice and short mystery game, got me emotional.

even the game boring and a bit stressfull finding the clue but love it hahahah

Fantastic game! I had a really great time playing through the game and solving the mystery. The puzzles felt well thought-out and were challenging enough to really make you think, while still being fair and allowing you to eventually figure everything out on your own. Nothing felt impossible or overly frustrating. What I really enjoyed was how the game kept me curious and wanting to find out what would happen next. Solving each puzzle and slowly putting the pieces of the mystery together gave me a great sense of progression. It never felt like I was just completing puzzles for the sake of it — they actually felt like an important part of uncovering the story. The music and sound effects also did a great job of matching what was happening in the game and really added to the immersion. You can tell that the developers put a lot of effort into the atmosphere and audio design, and it definitely paid off. I would definitely recommend giving this game a try, especially if you enjoy mystery games, puzzles, and uncovering a story piece by piece. I’m really excited to see what the developers do next and hope they continue releasing more games like this!

The ending is frankly horrible and ruined the entire game. It felt like I was being pranked for daring to enjoy the earlier parts.

Pros: - Very visually pleasing art style. It has sort of a mix of 2D pixel art and what looks like 3D-to-pixel art rendering that makes everything look super detailed and unique. - It holds up well as a point and click game with its combining items mechanic and some collectibles to find. - There is a supernatural element, and the story is inherently dark. So I really enjoyed the creepy vibe that it gave out. - The soundtrack is nice, it meshes the environments you explore and the cutscenes quite well. Cons: - I really did like the story, but I felt like it had the potential for more. While playing, it felt like the developers were setting up something bigger given the amount of character exposition/interaction is told through notes you find. However, a good chunk of the interesting things about each character lead to nothing within the story. - The way the mystery is laid out for the player felt a bit strange in terms of the lead up towards the big reveal dump at the end. My long winded opinion on it: One thing I've seen other mystery games do is lead the player towards some conclusion, but through a mix of scripted big clues that act as puzzle pieces, and optional clues that let those pieces fall into place. That way, when things are revealed at the end, it feels rewarding to have been able to piece things together yourself. This game had the foundation for that, but focuses too much on the little optional clues rather than the big ones. Which creates the need to fill in all the gaps at the end. I understand that it creates a shock factor for the reveal, and this type of preference might put me within the minority of people. But I just think its really important to know what to leave in and leave out for the big reveal. Overall, I had fun playing this short but sweet game. Its arti and music approach is what stood out to me the most after playing. Also, despite my criticism of the way its told, I believe it has a story that people will enjoy.

No suelo jugar point en click porque siempre quedo pegado xd, pero este es cortito, el juego es de misterio... ambientado en un pueblo aislado, con una historia sobre una tragedia que ocurrió por el 1900. No esperes radios, ni luces modernas, ni ondas... Tiene investigación, personajes sospechosos, buena atmosfera y un misterio central que te mantiene avanzando, buen ritmo de progreso...

I loved the atmosphere and the gameplay was a blast. My only complaint is it is rather short. (some of the recorded playtime was when I left the game on during dinner)

Odradzane 2,4 godz. na koncie ZAMIESZCZONO 12 CZERWCA Sometimes you play a game and feel like it was a huge waste of potential. Not as a dig at the developers, but as a… great sadness? I guess? That the project clearly had a vision behind it, but the end result just wasted all of it. The Tragedy at Deer Creek is such a game. Despite being a relatively cheap independent title, the beginning of the game shows huge promise – wonderful visual style, moody atmosphere, good music. And after a short while, that doesn’t actually explain why the main character is doing what she’s doing, you even get hints of a cool mystery. But all of that is wasted, because as an adventure game it doesn’t work well, as a story-driven game it doesn’t work well and even as just a story it doesn’t know how to end properly. So yeah, this is a point and click adventure game from first person perspective. It doesn’t have the full Myst-like movement across locations with different perspectives on the same room, like the long awaited ASYLUM from last year was, rather it’s usually limited to one “room” which often have several closeup sections to it. The game is quite short, can be easily completed in under 2 hours, so there are not that many such locations to explore and most of the time you will be moving between the same rooms. And most of that movement will probably be because you have no idea what to do. As an adventure game, this title breaks so many good design recommendations… Giving players tons of items, without establishing any clear goals. Then presenting a problem that, somehow, none of those items can solve. Having countless fake interactive objects, that have interaction prompt on them just for show and all of them just have the main character be dismissive about them. Except for some, where the item is instantly dismissed, but maybe a part of that item is important and you need to notice that. Several of the puzzles can be solved via the hints presented for them at the start of the game, even though you actually get to those puzzles, finally, at the end. Backtracking to the same items through the same boring long paths, because after some story flags they become interactable “for reasons”. Which could all be excused, if the cool premise was interactively explored and told through the game and the exploration. But it’s not. You can get small portions of information through investigation, but those do not shape a story, like in a good example of a game where you have to gradually reveal some mystery. No, in this game you get a few hints and then the game ends with the main character watching a 5 minute cutscene where the entire plot of the game is shown. Why even have a game before this, if all of the storytelling is going to happen as a final cutscene? Plus, lots of scenes just end and or abruptly cut with no logic or continuity. And the finale leaves the story of the main character of the game, who is in focus when the game starts, completely unresolved. Leaving the actual story of the game, not just the mystery part, straight up unfinished. It’s just… “It’s a such a sadness”, to quote David Lynch. I don’t know what caused this, if the developers didn’t have enough experience, or the project turned out to be too big and expensive. But The Tragedy at Deer Creek is just a sad and frustrating experience in the end, where it could be a wonderful mystery solving adventure game.