Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

7.5/10 + works on windows 7 + puzzles + art syle + music + price 10$

A decent game considering the asking price. The graphics are nice and I love the idea of a top-down camera for Emma, while the teddy bear plays side-scroller style. The puzzles are interesting, mainly because of the 2 camera setups, but you rarely find yourself having to really think hard to find the solution. The worst thing about this game is that I encountered a lot of glitches where Emma gets stuck all of a sudden and you have to restart the level. There's also some levels where Emma gets to enter a room with the help of Fenton and if Fenton dies, he's then respawned in shadow and Emma is stuck in that room. The cutscenes are totally unnecessary, and very poorly written, as is the story, If you can call it a story. Example of cutscene: Emma goes like "oh, no, I have to go back in that room and find the key, I wonder how am I going to achieve that" *Key appears on screen and proceeds towards Emma. Emma goes "Yay! I did it!" Ehm, okay. The ending is... well, sad. But you do indeed solve the mystery.

Ended up really liking this one, I started playing it as a filler game not knowing what else I wanted to play at the moment and I was impressed with how much I liked this puzzle game! I never found myself bored or frustrated, loved how at times it randomly reminded me of Alice Madness Returns and the ending??? wasn't expecting such a dark ending!! Oof!

Great puzzles Cute voices All around creative

Fantastic game, awesome puzzles, hard but, not too hard. creepy and cute! but.....horrible ending, like super disappointed in the ending, It left me fuming!!

Good puzzle platformer with the main mechanic of shifting shadows to change platform layout. It follows the genre in having no combat and only light action/timing/platforming challenges. Victorian England setting tends towards disney/children's book rather than steampunk, and the narrative does too unfortunately (fails to be a more literary fairy tale like alice in wonderland). Tandem's superficial narrative and its linearity/lack of exploration are its biggest flaws.