TARAKAN - Mystery Point & Click Adventure

Sorry to say I was disappointed with this game. If you're seriously into math you may love it. I prefer the type of escape room where you find clues and solve problems. This game turned into all numbers with no clues at all. You either know the math required or, like me, you're out.

6.5/10 Pros: -decent arcadey puzzle solving -mostly pretty intuitive and straightforward for the first couple rounds -short, but concise puzzle gameplay Cons: -requires decent math solving problems (not suitable for everyone), starts to get frustrating in the "GAMMA color" puzzle -needs more puzzle variety such as stages where you need to race the clock to give players more agency -could fit the puzzle into the "aborting the rocketship from launching" story to immerse the players for better gameplay experience (Find it silly to see so many documents of passwords lying around, makes it a little unrealistic) Pretty great game for a game developer. Keep it up and can't wait to play more escape-room type games like this from you in the near future. ;)

this game is not worth 6.99. save your money

I was just getting into what I assumed was level one, when the game ended. Bareley 90 minutes of play time. What a shame,

We're not recommending this M9 game. It's too short to charge money for, albeit there are at least a couple of puzzles where the relationships between the clues and the solutions are so obscure as to require recourse to a walkthrough (so, we suppose, you could swear not to look at a walkthrough, and get a lot more time out of these, but it's unlikely that you're going to make the connections necessary without a lot of just plain guessing). There was also a lot of pixel-hunting in scenes where we felt it was fair to assume we had clicked on a thing. Boxes, for example, don't move the point of view into their interior unless you click a fairly small subset of the pixels in the image of a particular box. Like other M9 games, there are also some re-used images that make it a bit confusing as to just where you really are. Mr. Luetchford, if you are reading these reviews, please consider consolidating your individual puzzles into longer final products, and also devoting more time to play-testing (and incorporating suggestions that your play-testers give you). These are of-a-kind with the great ancestor of all point-and-click adventures, Myst. They could be as much fun. You just need to…

That game is way to basic.