Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony

Crowalt was a simple little walking sim, and the lost colony theme was good. I don’t really have anything bad to say about it, but there wasn’t much that made it stand out either. It’s one of those games that’s just alright. Not bad, not great, but I had some fun with it.

Game with cool premise but is held back by pace and a lot of questionable design choices. First thing is the controls - you need to click or double click for character to move to a chosen place, there's not other way to move, this often makes the player go to undesirable places, just because player was clicking fast to move faster and clicked wrong spot. The transitions zones sometimes don't show up so it's really easy to misclick. Why not add moving by pressing A and D? You still use keyboard to highlight interactable items, it wouldn't ruin the game it would make it much better by removing the need to constantly spam mouse and misclicking stuff. At many times game feels like a walking simulator - go to town for a minute of dialogue then go to village for a minute of dialogue, go back to town for just a single item, go back to village to a single interaction, go to.... And it happens really often, sometimes I was questioning whether it is really what game wants from me or am I just making wrong assumptions. Another thing that artificially prolong the game is the fact that you can't pick up all items at any point in time. For example our character will take buttons from a shirt …

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They tried. But the game was really boring for me. And the movement was SOOOO slow

It's not a ten bucks game, to be honest. It's likable, but overall not all that good. Main problem is that there's too much walking around. Not only are the areas depicted as way too long sidescrolling tunnels that you have to walk to and fro to get anywhere, the game also sends you to places several times to just to do one thing there or talk to one person, then go back and it's tiresome, which discourages from trying out things. At least a fast travel option to the most important places could've helped with that, but there is none. Nostalgia has its value, but even in 2022 there were better solutions. Other than that, the puzzles and story aren't bad, but not particularly good either. It doesn't get a recommendation from me, but if you really like point & click, there's worse out there.

This game was interesting. The graphics are good, but gameplay is very slow. I was 6 minutes in and couldn't figure out how to progress. Overall its just a point and click game, not worth $10. I got this game for free and would not have purchased for any amount of money.