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Samorost

Developer / Publisher: Amanita Design
2003
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It looks pretty but the gameplay just isn't there.
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It's a browser point-n-click with a unique ambience that can be completed in about 10 minutes - regardless of whatever else I say you might as well try it. You are a little smurf guy in pajamas, who is trying to find a way to stop this organic asteroid comet thing from crashing into his home planet. The game is a series of one-screen puzzles, where you're pretty much just trying to find the parts of the environment that do something when you click on it. Occasionally there's a right order of operations for these actions but usually it doesn't matter.

The visuals are this sort of mixed media hodge-podge of real-world photographs with small hand-drawn animation overlaying them. The selling point is Samorost's surrealist takes on nature and technology - the photo collage portrayals of each feel really uncanny and strange while possessing a sort of warm, homemade quality to them. To boot, there a nice (if short and compressed) soundtrack by Tomas Dvorak to complement the backgrounds. It's a little jazzy, a little field recording-ish, and a little ambient.

It's so short that I actually recommend it just to take in its unique audiovisual direction, since it can be completed through brute force so quickly. But yeah, not exactly the most engaging game in the world, more like a demo of flash provides interactivity with worlds you can create.
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A 20 minutes or so point and click adventure. The first project by Amanita already offered that visual charm that their other games had, but unfortunatly it also has that annoying point and click puzzles that are both counter intuitive as well as unsatisfying to beat. Because it is so short i managed to perservere through it, but i dont think that this one can offer anything to people who arent a fan of the genre. And to those that are, the way too simplistic story may not be enough to deal with the frustrating puzzles.
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  • ... 2021-01-30 22:25:57.503655+00
    Best way to play the game in early 2021: find a downloadable copy of the web version and open it in Newgrounds Player using RunAsDate to set the date to 2019.
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    • slib 2021-03-03 06:42:21.199834+00
      Thanks for the heads up
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  • Marsipolami 2021-05-23 14:43:26.632664+00
    Best way to play the game in mid 2021: download the remastered, free version on Steam.
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    • Hvlk 2023-09-22 21:03:01.090868+00
      lmao
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  • charredwind 2021-09-14 04:30:08.369984+00
    even better: on gog
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  • charredwind 2021-09-14 04:30:52.228418+00
    it was nice and engaging for the 20 minutes or so it took to complete. i liked the graphics a lot. puzzles were far too easy though
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