TARAKAN - Mystery Point & Click Adventure
M9 Games · 2021 · Adventure, Casual, Point & Click, Puzzle, Cinematic
PC
Mixed50% · 12
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About TARAKAN - Mystery Point & Click Adventure
Tarakan - Mystery Puzzle Adventure
During a recent local walk you discover a secret base in the forest, your adventurous side decides to investigate further. Your inquisitive nature pays off with the discovery of a submarine docked by the river.
Could the submarine transport you to more mysterious places, maybe even help unravel the puzzle of what is happening? What is a private business doing with a submarine in the first place? This seems very puzzling.
Along with the mysterious discovery of the unmarked buildings you decide there is only one way to continue the adventure, with the coast seemingly clear, you set about solving the first puzzle and finding a way into the submarine…
ABOUT
TARAKAN is a first person point and click graphic puzzle adventure, similar to games you may have played in the ’90’s or similar to a virtual escape rooms you may have played. A simple gameplay interface consisting of the world that you explore and an inventory panel where you can collect, combine and use items you find along the way to solve puzzles.
Explore areas, collect hidden objects and take in your surroundings. You will need all of your puzzle solving skills to put together a plan to make your way through the woods, solving riddles and down the many paths towards the secrets of TARAKAN.
How you tackle the puzzles is down to you. Each puzzle has a logical solution, so take your time, there is no rush and enjoy the process of understanding what you have to do.
FEATURES
• Easy to play, touch the screen to move around. Use the arrow to move back.
• Use the inventory to collect, combine and use objects.
• Beautiful all original adventure 3D graphics, environments and atmosphere to explore.
• Immersive backing soundtrack and effects to pull you into the adventure.
• Automatic saving - Use the ‘Continue’ button on the main menu to pick up exactly where you left off.
HINTS & TIPS
If you need a hint or clue while playing TARAKAN then please reach out over email or social media (contact links can be found on my website) and I will be more than happy to help you.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
This puzzle escape room is quite short (around 4 hours or less) with basic 2D graphics and straightforward point-and-click navigation, offering a brief diversion for casual puzzle fans. However, players commonly complain that it relies heavily on mathematical problem-solving without adequate in-game clues, making it inaccessible for those who aren't math-inclined, while others find it lacks depth, variety, and immersion, with some puzzles requiring obscure leaps of logic or excessive pixel-hunting to progress.
Sorry to say I was disappointed with this game. If you're seriously into math you may love it. I prefer the type of escape room where you find clues and solve problems. This game turned into all numbers with no clues at all. You either know the math required or, like me, you're out.5 found this helpful
6.5/10 Pros: -decent arcadey puzzle solving -mostly pretty intuitive and straightforward for the first couple rounds -short, but concise puzzle gameplay Cons: -requires decent math solving problems (not suitable for everyone), starts to get frustrating in the "GAMMA color" puzzle -needs more puzzle variety such as stages where you need to race the clock to give players more agency -could fit the puzzle into the "aborting the rocketship from launching" story to immerse the players for better gameplay experience (Find it silly to see so many documents of passwords lying around, makes it a little unrealistic) Pretty great game for a game developer. Keep it up and can't wait to play more escape-room type games like this from you in the near future. ;)1 found this helpful
this game is not worth 6.99. save your money
I was just getting into what I assumed was level one, when the game ended. Bareley 90 minutes of play time. What a shame,
We're not recommending this M9 game. It's too short to charge money for, albeit there are at least a couple of puzzles where the relationships between the clues and the solutions are so obscure as to require recourse to a walkthrough (so, we suppose, you could swear not to look at a walkthrough, and get a lot more time out of these, but it's unlikely that you're going to make the connections necessary without a lot of just plain guessing). There was also a lot of pixel-hunting in scenes where we felt it was fair to assume we had clicked on a thing. Boxes, for example, don't move the point of view into their interior unless you click a fairly small subset of the pixels in the image of a particular box. Like other M9 games, there are also some re-used images that make it a bit confusing as to just where you really are. Mr. Luetchford, if you are reading these reviews, please consider consolidating your individual puzzles into longer final products, and also devoting more time to play-testing (and incorporating suggestions that your play-testers give you). These are of-a-kind with the great ancestor of all point-and-click adventures, Myst. They could be as much fun. You just need to…
That game is way to basic.
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