VirtuaVerse

https://youtu.be/UiCqpTcAWhs Nailing the cyberpunk style but is held back by the puzzle design being a bit to arbitrary and unrewarding.

Amazing Gmae! It you likes the point and click adventures from the early 90's like monkey Island, Loom, etc then this is for you. All music is done by Master Boot Record! Amazing dude to meet and see live!

Good game, beautiful pixelart and areas. Some challenging puzzles most of which make sense, some don't at all. Tonnes of backtracking but what are you expecting when it comes to a game like this. A nice sensible story nothing groundbreaking but a worthwhile experience all around.

First part was really fun, however, the game crashes at the same point, making the game unplayable currently.

VirtuaVerse is a top-notch cyberpunk graphic adventure. If you liked Beneath a Steel Sky, Gemini Rue, Technobabylon - all that stuff - you'll love this. The graphics and sonics alone are worth the price of entry. The pixel art perfectly captures the cyberpunk aesthetic and the chip music is primo. Everything about this game is not only beautiful but feels deeply grounded in respect for hacker culture, the demoscene, retrocomputing, all that jazz. They even come up with a plausible in-universe explanation for why the real punx don't get chipped - it shows so much love for the genre and attention to detail, it's a treat for home computer nerds. With the gushing out of the way, there are a couple of flaws. The biggest is that the protagonist is a typical adventure game asshat who lays waste to everyone and everything around him in pursuit of his goals. In Deponia or Monkey Island we can kinda roll with it because the game is a comedy, but this game takes itself relatively seriously, so it comes off poorly when our "hero" sets an innocent up to get murdered, or screws with peoples' lives including that of his own damn partner. It's also disappointingly heteronormative. It's not bigoted or gratuitous, but there are a lot of moments where it feels like you're playing a game made by and for straight dudes. It's fine, but still would've been nice to have a bit more representation in this kind of body mod neon chrome technicolor future. Some of the puzzles are also a bit too hard. The solutions themselves make sense in the context of the universe, but there aren't always enough hints to really lead you there. It's especially annoying in certain locations where you can see a whole chain of puzzles ahead that you know how to solve, but finding the one thing that topples the first domino is pure guesswork. Fortunately we have walkthroughs these days, so this isn't a showstopper. And at least all the puzzles are classic adventure game puzzles, there's no fetch quest busywork. The story is great. You start searching for your missing partner and then the stakes keep getting raised till you are neck-deep in a biopunk cyberhacking underwater space travel pirate ship extravaganza. It's not deep, but it's fun as hell. Yes, the characterization is a bit cringe and you have to overlook the senseless violence and wanton vandalism, but as a whole package this is a delight, like finding a lost AAA adventure from the LucasArts era. If you loved the movie Hackers, if you remember playing around with IRQ jumpers, if you know what raster bars are... this is the game for you. But even if you are just a casual point-and-click fan who wants a solidly entertaining sci-fi romp, this will hit the spot.

Very interesting story, lot's of references. Characters drawn a bit clumsy, but this game totally worth every penny! Thank you so much! PS: OST TOTALLY ROCKS!

J'adore les point n click, et je suis fan de l'univers et l'esthétique cyberpunk. Mais malheureusement, je ne retiendrai pas Virtua Verse. Visuellement rien à redire, non plus coté musique. C'est bien même si ça reste trés classique dans le genre. Le gros point faible c'est la logique des énigmes : inutilement compliquées, on finit vite par tout essayer autour de nous, à faire des aller retour entre toute les zones dispo... C'est super frustrant et pas agréable du tout. Dommage que ça ne privilégie pas un peu plus la fluidité de l'histoire en réduisant la difficulté, parce que là, chaque action est une galère.