Markus Ritter - Ghosts Of The Past

If you think you get anything close to a Gabriel Knight adventure, you don't. The only resembelance is the main character being a shadow hunter (through a troubled family). First of all if you want to get more background story, play Markus Ritter - The Lost Family first, which is an ever shorter (but free) then this, but kind of annoying (most of the game consists of taking photographs). There are several quirks that could easily be fixed like typo's, the short fmv loops making the characters look weird when you are looking at the screen for a minute. But my biggest gripe is there just aren't (m)any puzzles, atleast none that will make you think, as the puzzles that are, are pretty straightforward and on top of that a flimsy (murder) storyline. 5/10.

It seems like a tribute to Herr Knight from the 90s. I hope that they will release another game.

This game was pretty good. It was a bit rough around the edges. But the FMV was great, and I really liked the world they were building. I was a bit confused what to do a lot, but making games is hard. This probably would have taken me hours longer if I hadn't consulted a walkthrough after being of tired of not making progress. It just felt like the "to-do" list wasn't helpful at all beyond just reminding you what you were actually doing if you reloaded the game after not playing for a while. A lot of the plot didn't make sense to me either, but if I don't think about it that hard it's not bad. I really hope these people keep making games cuz they got a pretty cool thing going for them, but if they make another title I hope they focus a bit more on player progression being more clearly communicated.

What an improvement over the demo! I enjoyed the demo thoroughly, but every part of Ghosts of the Past is improved, video quality, game mechanics, pacing, even the acting is better. It's not a long game, but it's a solid edition to the Shattenjager legacy from the Gabriel Knight games. If you like FMV games, this tour of dark occult Vienna is worth your time.

I like this game, good old FMV stuff. It was fun to play, even when it was not always clear what to do next, I had some unintentionally funny moments with Markus and Ro alonge the road.

I really appreciate the fan fiction nature of doing another one of these games, and how hard it must have been to make this game. I also really enjoyed the demo which they made, I assume to get funding. Sometimes, this is quite good, but it also has the worst tropes of games of this kind, clicking on exact spots in exact orders, things not being clickable until the right sequence in the game, obscure puzzles, bad UI etc. The language keeps defaulting back to German even though I have the settings correct, so I have to reload again and again sometimes. I wish I liked this game more, because I really like that this was made.