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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
2K View2023-01-16Thrilling Victorian point and click adventure
Is this game a masterpiece? It is a damn good example of an accessible point and click adventure. As long as you are not looking for a difficult game, this is a masterpiece.
The story is thrilling and well-presented, you really want to know what is inside the mysterious barrow. It is also (relatively) easy and (rather) short, I finished it without any cheating in 2 days (about 8 hours playing time). All puzzles are logical and make sense (maybe apart from the final part in the barrow, where I used a bit of trial and error). It has a goat (or two), but the puzzles to get around are not that hard. The story has a happy ending... there were two men laughing and going to church in the end, so what?
Technically there is nothing to complain, it has all the modern QoL features we have come to expect from a modern pnc adventure. Great voice acting, easy inventory management, no dead ends, no mazes, cloud saves. Double click on an exit to speed up leaving the location, it even comes with a "to do" list and a map for fast travelling. I finished it with 33 of 40 cheavos on Steam.
Conclusion
Best point and click adventure I played this year. It is only mid-January, though.
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Journey to a quaint village with a dark secret - Should you play The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow?
What is this game?
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow. It’s a folk horror-themed adventure title from developer Cloak and Dagger Games and publisher Wadjet Eye Games, both of whom have made quite a name for themselves in breathing new life into the point-and-click adventure game genre.
What’s it about?
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow follows a young woman named Thomasina Bateman, who has journey to the small village of Bewlay in the British countryside. Her goal is to excavate the titular Hob’s Barrow, which is located somewhere nearby the village, but she soon discovers many strange characters and some sinister forces that seem to be pushing her away.
Kef21K2022-10-11
This is a pretty fun game reminiscent of Baldur's Gate and Diablo II. it has a classic element to it and it was only made by just one guy which is pretty cool! the ads are very few and reasonable, and you can but he game to remove it and get some premium things in the game like unlocking some premium chests you may find and gambling and some other things. at first I found navigation of pretty much everything pretty confusing and the UI super cluttered, but I got used to it and it's okay. Most of this game you'll spend in dungeon crawler kind of situations. Even at maximum level plenty of creatures towards the end can still easily kill you if you're not careful so the game is challenging allt he way through. the environments are detailed in unexpected ways, like foliage moving and skulls under your feet rolling out of the way. i wasn't expecting that out of a lower resolution graphics game! I would have appreciated being able to turn on and off the music, as one of the dungeon/cave tracks that plays in many of the maps is super repetitive. Another drawback is the story. It is extremely boring. not because the idea is stale but there is very little development or meaningful engagement with the story and the ending is abrupt and very anticlimactic. I was disappointed with that but the game overall is still lots of fun and totally worth it to play as a vintage feeling top down fantasy hack and slash!
barf8172022-04-22
The Coffin Of Andy And Leyley
🗺️ Map Design: the map design is very realistic and very pleasing to the eyes📖 Storyline: the story was nice and very terrifying🎨 Graphics: the graphics were very realistic 💖 Overall Experience: it was an amazing game but it also is very sus🤨? Its an amazing adventurous and horrific game you should try it.
Theo Jin Park5872024-06-02
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Ahhhh I'm so excited to see other people talking about this game! It's so so good and didn't get nearly enough love when it came out last year.
2023-01-17