Created: February 8, 2018

Mystery of Neuschwanstein

This very short casual point-and-click adventure has much better storytelling and characterization than is usual for this genre. There are some nice hidden-object scenes and challenging (but fair) puzzle mini-games.

Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, this game fails because the game engine is unbearably clunky. Usually you have to point and click, but there are a few key moments where you have to drag items instead, and there's no clear logic as to why you would need to do so. The engine also requires a very annoyingly precise level of pixel hunting, both to find usual items and to find items in hidden-object scenes.

The dev team has a lot of potential! But they really need to 1) clean up the game engine, 2) add much more content for a released game.