Calm Waters: A Point and Click Adventure

"Calm Waters: A Point and Click Adventure" is just what it says on the box, a point and click adventure game, ripping off the gameplay from ancient 1980's and 1990's point and clicks like Day of the Tentacle and The Secret of Monkey Island. This game is nowhere near as good as those. It does work, it's not an asset flip, it is genuinely made, so those are some plusses here. There's even 4K support. The voice acting is pretty good, but I feel bad for the actors, because the story and dialogue is not. The first thing that put me off here was the generally poor graphics. It's hard to tell if they were going for a retro pixel aesthetic, a pre-rendered low poly aesthetic, or trying to make the game look realistic without any ability to do so. None of those is an acceptable excuse for the poor visuals. Gameplay itself is pretty plodding and clunky. It doesn't take what feels like half an hour to get from one side of the screen to another in Monkey Island. It does in this. Despite not being in Steam Early Access (where this arguably belongs), the game is missing features and is apparently incomplete, with mention of additional chapters that never saw the light of day. Due t…

really poor game! nothing was good....sorry.

https://youtu.be/luA6KKjyeNs Establishing goals and desires for either the player or protagonist is an important step in a narrative which is not achieved here.

I'd give this game a neutral review if I could. Is it a great game? No. The volume mixing is completely off, the voice actors are definitely amateurs, and you can't quick-travel across scenes, so you have to wait for the character to walk all the way across each time. The puzzles are very unintuitive and require pixel-hunting. In one case, the puzzle requires you to click on the same thing four times, where the first three times don't work and give you no indication that the fourth will. The story doesn't really make sense at the end, either. But is it a kind of interesting, campy passion project you can enjoy for a few hours? Sure. It's not bad, just very very amateurish.

truly awful LOL. there is nothing to this game whatsoever.

I have failed in this game. Not getting past day 2 & after the altercation with the detective I've been unable to progress. I've tried every item in my inventory in every location but cannot progress so after starting 3 games & trying every way I can to move Pete on. I give up now finding the game frustrating & boring. So a waste of money with no nice puzzles to enjoy either. Worst point & click game I've played in ages. No hint tips either for frustrated players.