Recontact London: Cyber Puzzle

This is a clear mobile port, which I wouldn't mind if it had been done better. I wasted nearly all my "sense" (something you lose in the game with incorrect answers or losing the minigames) with levels that would automatically make me lose from the get go, regardless of what I did or what in game help I utilized. This game is not hard, but I lost a lot "sense" due to the fact that some levels just didn't work. The satellite game was by far the worst offender, with about half of the games I started not working correctly. The point of the game is to follow a moving point with a satellite's limited field of vision, and to trigger new satellites. The less satellites you used to follow the point, the more points you get at the end. Most of the time, at the very start of the game the point wouldn't show up, and it stays moving regardless of whether or not the game centers you on it at the start as it should, so I would aimlessly try to find it to no avail and lose the game. Apart from that, certain other minigames wouldn't load, or would load with the mobile controls on the screen and no picture. Overall, I had a bit of fun with the parts that worked, but ultimately the game is too unpol…

The Technology points are out of proportion, to win each puzzle. It costs to do Satellite, you need at least extend view (5 pts) and 360 degree view (15 pts).... to solve each sat tracker puzzle. The win technology points are most of the time 0 (zero) gain it rewards box, before pressing Start. It takes a long time to gain points in decipher at 1 point every 9 minutes. This makes it unplayable, til you get enought to buy -- Extended/360 views. Have played 31 hours so far, and I'm Not Impressed with game as it now stands ---- Sorry Devs, back to drawing board at this point.

UPDATE: nearly 5 years later I decided to give this another try and see if the issues were fixed. It's a bit of a good news/bad news situation. Good news: the issues I described in my initial review with the "sense" attribute seem to have been fixed. Hooray! Bad news: apparently you cannot progress past chapter 4. I tried myself, of course. Once I reached the point where I had no idea how I was supposed to keep advancing, I searched the world wide web high and low looking for advice. Not a single soul on Planet Earth appears to have gotten past chapter 4. I found a youtuber who'd been playing the game and seemed to be progressing well. He had every puzzle solved. I was trying to find where in his series he made it to chapter 5 and couldn't. All his videos just ended up being puzzle solutions. I went to the last video and he left a comment that he couldn't get past chapter 4. So well done, Recontact Games. Take a bow. I wish I had more hands to give this more thumbs down. INITIAL REVIEW: I really, really wanted to like this game. I love FMVs, I love investigation type stuff, this is right up my alley. The early parts of the game looked great. But then you get to a point where …

Very difficult to say but I can't recommend this. It's a badly ported mobile game that feels horribly unfinished. The overall story and FMV elements are so wonderful and I was deeply looking forward to it but unfortunately in its current state it was unplayable for me. It broke several times while I streamed and the last was a game breaking bug. It really needs to be fixed before people purchase it

My first ever review. Yes, clearly a mobile port. Yes, clearly not been adapted fully for a PC audience, Yes, still traditional wait mechanics as in other mobile games, so why the recommendation? The game does what it does well, uses FMV in a a creative and novel way. It works well for a quick burst rather than completing most of the game in one setting like many FMV experiences (which i love by the way) Is this for everyone? No but if you like minigames and an almost video version of wheres wally? at times you could do a lot worse.

Bad mobile port, therefore lot of technical and gameplay problems. You can't solve the satelite puzzles without help points because of the faulty touchscreen->pc/mouse port. Gameplay is extreme repetitiv, there are only 3 kind of puzzles which you can play. The FMV-sequences are good anyway.