Children of Silentown

A "meh" rating on this one for me, perhaps 6/10... What I liked: 1. It was fun running from place to place, gathering useful items and implementing them. This was quite intuitive in the 1st half of the game. 2. The story of apparent evil lurking in the woods was interesting, along with the hysteria among the town adult residents. 3. The "thread the needle" and reflective puzzles were amusing and logical. What I don't like: 1. The logic grew thin on what to do with collected implements as the game progressed. Some of it degraded into moon logic. 2. The gear and maze puzzles drove me crazy and instructions for them are poorly described. Walkthrough videos saved me here. 3. The graphics are rustic..stick figures with no hands nor feet, basic watercolor type scenery. I prefer more sophisticated graphics in the game. Overall, it was worth the effort but I won't be playing it again nor anything similar from this developer.

I really enjoyed this game. I got stuck once because there aren't very many hints on what you need to do. In one case you have to walk in a very specific place and I don't know if I would have ever figured that out on my own. I do like that there are multiple endings and the achievements have a good range of things to do. Overall I spend around 40 hours on this game. Definitely worth playing.

i really enjoyed it. lovely art style, great concept, lovely story. gameplay has a nice progression. most puzzles pushed the envelope and scaled to progression without feeling annoying or a huge leap in difficulty. needs a highlight button. some things are very hard to find, which is where most things stalled for me and felt a little frustrating. some of the puzzles are just slapped straight down in the middle of narrative, which ruins the flow a bit. and the final section of puzzles was the one that made no logical sense. probably should be been blocked off from certain areas, because not only did it confuse me as to where i was supposed to be, but also narratively speaking it made no sense. still. 8/10, gg, recommend and don't regret playing. (also just in case you read this without finishing it, the three buttons you're given at the end are actually choices, so just have a look at what they are before you select anything.)

Recommended. A dark fairytale point-and-click about a girl in a forest hamlet where people vanish when they break the rules, whose melody system turns collected sounds into songs that unlock memories and dialogue. The calming soundtrack is woven into puzzles and finale alike, the hand-drawn art weaponises storybook sweetness into dread, classic inventory crafting and Harvest Festival errands ground the town in daily life, and the ending reframes the whole town with four song-choice branches that give the short span real replay weight. The spice-label jigsaw outstays its welcome with massive pieces, one early sewing minigame is obtuse, and missing a single sticker or note locks out an ending. Three to four hours of slow-burn dread that sings beautifully and closes on its best idea.

everything about this game is perfect.

Didn't notice the skull and then got stuck in chapter 4 with no way to go back or to go forward. Game should prevent you from leaving an area you cant go back to if there is something you need there to continue your gameplay. Besides that issue, it was a nice game.