The Artifact

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The artifact is a clean but slight, short puzzler that isn't a walking sim... but more like a click and walk a la Google street view. It was about an hour and the puzzles were not very difficult and presented in a very linear fashion. It's an enjoyable enough experience, but is only a simple one time journey, therefore for the price of $8 I think that's steep. I'm going to not recommend it because of that, but if you catch a sale and want a quick hit small adventure, you could def do worse.

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overall, i had fun with this game and would recommend it if you're into point-and-click games with simple puzzles. some small issues i had with the game - there were a few times when the game crashed/froze and i needed to reload my checkpoint or restart the game in order to continue playing - i wish there was more of an emotional journey. you're never told anything about the character you're playing. how do they feel waking up finding that the crew has disappeared? how do they feel once they discover what the crew was researching? nothing is shared, so as a player i also didn't feel much as i discovered the events of the story. - some added menu options would be nice -- particularly including a quit button

While I like the sci-fi room escape aesthetic, this game is severely lacking many basic features: No way to quit the game as far as I've seen. No options menu to modulate volume. If you're putting your game on Steam and charging money for it, this two should be the minimum to be added. Other than that there's a spot on Chapter 2 where I inspect an object and for some reason, I'm unable to move away from it and thus, softlocking the game. Not really interested in seeing the rest tbh.

Simple game, deep meaning. For 1€ got great value from it. This is the way 👁