Looking for Aliens

A pretty big and funny wimmelbilder-type game.

The concept is goofy and hilarious. And there's actually a background story, with characters, and something resembling a plot. The levels are crammed with charming little details. The whole presentation is excellent.

Unfortunately, the puzzles themselves are not very satisfying. The clues follow the usual tradition of this kind of game, but they're often quite mechnical and just not very clever. There are also a lot of bonus items to find that don't come with any clues and are just about pixel hunting. It's a nice-to-have, but there are just too many of them, such that it seems most of the time spent in the game is not actually on solving riddles.

Take the good and the bad together and you get something that's ... just OK. Great effort here, but there are more satisfying games in this genre.