Awakening: The Goblin Kingdom [Collector's Edition]

This is Awakening #3, a continuation of the story. In many ways it continues to be a wonderfully charming adventure, with many excellent puzzles. I especially enjoyed the tangrams!

However, though I enjoyed and am recommending this game, it has some frustrating aspects. For one, it doesn't seem to work well on modern PCs. I had to set my desktop resolution to 720p to play in fullscreen, and the game would never exit normally: it always crashed when quitting.

Also, it has too many tasks that involve mouse precision, i.e. drawing exact lines using the mouse. A few times I was sure I got it right but the puzzle completion didn't trigger. I just tried again and again until it seemed to arbitrarily work.

Finally, though this is the first game in the series that includes achievements (not linked to Steam), there are far too many and they are a confusing, incoherent mess. Many of them want you to complete sections in a short time, which is so silly for these kinds of games in which you want to calmly savor your time with them, enjoying the graphics and little details. Getting these achievement means that you will have to rush. Just ignore them!

So, though you probably want to play this game if you've been following the series so far, be warned about these issues.