A Tale of Caos: Overture

A Tale of Caos: Overture is a traditional point-and-click adventure that openly embraces its classic roots while trying to carve out a distinctive identity through quirky writing, eccentric characters, and a whimsical fantasy setting. Developed by ExperaGameStudio and published by Eli Daddio, the game serves as an introduction to the world of Caos, presenting a self-contained story that also functions as a narrative foundation for future entries. From the outset, it signals its affection for old-school adventure design, favoring dialogue-heavy storytelling, inventory-based puzzles, and richly described environments over modern conveniences or streamlined pacing. The story follows Terribilia “Terry” Van Quinn, a talented but impulsive apprentice working under the gruff and enigmatic technomancer Albion McMaster. Alongside her mechanical owl companion Heimlich, Terry is drawn into a series of increasingly strange events that gradually expand from a seemingly small-scale problem into a broader mystery. The narrative unfolds across three acts, each introducing new locations, characters, and complications. The writing places a strong emphasis on humor and personality, with conversation…

Fun game. Good puzzles, good hint system, decent story. All around a good experience.

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The writing and puzzles really hurt the experience. Love the look of it, but hot dang the dialog and puzzles just do not work for me.

Well... I bought it thinking it will be traditional 3rd person point & click. But actually it's more like 1st person, because you can't even move the protagonist yourself. Extremely poor design decision and ruins the mood of the game. Font is also badly rendered and quite difficult to read. Don't waste your money to this.

I really wanted to like this game after playing the first 15 minutes, it kicks off with a great story, interesting fantasy world and very unique characters (except for the very Cedric like owl sidekick character). Act 1 was good, about 10 screens with enough lore and puzzles to keep it interesting. Act 2 is when the game gets from good indie, to a complete disaster. There's just too many characters, screens and items. The dialogues are probably one of the worst parts of the game for various reasons. There's just no way of knowing which options were already said, you can loop infinitely by them, and they are very long. Not particularly funny either, most of the dialogue is a combination of lore, important information or just random filler. The dialogue interface will only show a couple of options to say, but some dialog trees may contain tons of options and scrolling through them every time gets boring very fast. The other issue are the minigames, there are basically two: a Simon says ripoff, and a rolling wheels where you have to lock a specific number. They are completely uninspired and you have to do them tons of times in order to progress with the game. You can skip them, but …