The Big Hollow: 1982

Can be a bit linear at times, frustrating so. You figure out clues, but cant apply them yet, because the game wants very specific answers. Yet the overall structure of the game/case is incredibly well done, and you keep finding new evidence in stuff you've been loooking at for hours. Well done.

Cannot recommend, sadly, as the idea was good. The case itself is interesting, and the art is nice. BUT the game is extremely linear, which is very limiting for a deduction game. You are expected to think exactly what the developer wants you to think, at exactly the moment they want you to think it. You are not allowed to deduce things in advance, and especially not allowed to not understand what the game wants you to input at the point you are at (literally. you are stuck until you guess the correct thing at nearly every step). The hint system is, I suppose, better than nothing, but it helped me maybe once ? Like, thanks, but if I am really stuck and have already tried several options, it's not a vague reformulation of the question I am trying to answer that is going to help me. There should be an option to just be given the solution after a few tries instead of forcing the player to brute-force every option (after all, the Lenore character does know the answer ! she could help, instead of repeating the same judgmental sentence every time I fail to read her mind). I also found that the characters were talking too much, but that's minor, and I am not a big fan of the last big dedu…

This is a really good game. Great price for its length and production value. I'd happily pay more if there were further cases to explore.

It was interesting at the start but it got really annoying and the options did not make sense unless you listened to EVERYTHING carefully, it was an okay-ish game but would not really recommended it.

Game is okay. I wish it allowed me to free roam the case facts instead of having the game control the case.

Gripping, intriguing, very well written and very well thought out. It guides, but doesn't hold your hand. Highly recommended.