Signal & Echo: Iris is Missing (demo)
Kini Games · 2022 · Adventure, Point & Click, Detective, Investigation, Puzzle
PC
Very Positive95% · 57
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About Signal & Echo: Iris is Missing (demo)
Just gimme the gist!
Informed by the developer’s past career in journalism, you play as Ollie, a wannabe reporter on his first day of work experience at the Signal & Echo newspaper, in the fictional town of Runeton, England.
Ollie thought he’d be chained to his desk all day, rewriting press releases. Instead, he’s been given a real assignment: find out what happened to missing schoolgirl Iris Wood.
Using a unique text parser system, alongside traditional point-and-click mechanics, help Ollie impress his colleagues and break the story wide open!
What’s this about a ‘unique’ text parser?
Alongside the verb interactions and inventory puzzles found in many traditional adventure games, Signal and Echo: Iris is Missing uses an innovative text parser system—for conversations, searching the newspaper’s computer archive, and finding new locations on your map.
The system recognises any proper noun (i.e. capitalised noun, like John Smith, London, or The Beatles), so long as you’ve found it in-game. It also accepts the name of any hotspot, from any location, including inventory items.
This means you can ask anyone about any of these things. You'll need to take notes out in the real world and really think for yourself! (All the puzzles use real-world logic, as opposed to cartoon or moon logic.)
Informed by the developer’s past career in journalism, you play as Ollie, a wannabe reporter on his first day of work experience at the Signal & Echo newspaper, in the fictional town of Runeton, England.
Ollie thought he’d be chained to his desk all day, rewriting press releases. Instead, he’s been given a real assignment: find out what happened to missing schoolgirl Iris Wood.
Using a unique text parser system, alongside traditional point-and-click mechanics, help Ollie impress his colleagues and break the story wide open!
What’s this about a ‘unique’ text parser?
Alongside the verb interactions and inventory puzzles found in many traditional adventure games, Signal and Echo: Iris is Missing uses an innovative text parser system—for conversations, searching the newspaper’s computer archive, and finding new locations on your map.
The system recognises any proper noun (i.e. capitalised noun, like John Smith, London, or The Beatles), so long as you’ve found it in-game. It also accepts the name of any hotspot, from any location, including inventory items.
This means you can ask anyone about any of these things. You'll need to take notes out in the real world and really think for yourself! (All the puzzles use real-world logic, as opposed to cartoon or moon logic.)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Loved this. Looking forward to the full release!2 found this helpful
Great demo, not too short like others i have played. Makes me want to purchase the game to find out what is going on. Love the old school graphics. thanks XD1 found this helpful
Im stuck and so frustrated. IM LOVING IT.
I WANT MORE
Just wasted hours won't get back, not worth the effort as info is missing you need to search for, shame as this demo showed such promise...
"Signal & Echo: Iris is Missing (demo)" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Signal & Echo" (at least that's what I assume that's the name for the full product, which was never made and is presumed abandoned). Signal & Echo is basically a lazy kitbashed retro point and click game slapped together badly with a video game construction kit... and these construction kits are intended just to make small demos and toys to be passed around with friends, not as a substitute for real, actual, professional game development. So it's improper for these construction kit toy products to be published as if they're genuinely made games on Steam. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the construction kit used to make this (Adventure Game Studio) isn't even a good construction kit, so the products it makes are always bad. It's almost as bad as RPG Maker. Anyway at least the EGA graphics aesthetic seems authentic looking, which is a huge problem because it's the year 2025 and EGA became obsolete the instant VGA cards were introduced in the 1980s. Imagine making something look bad, on purpose... setting up for a guaranteed failure before anything even gets dragged a…
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