Let's Try: Rauniot - A sepia-tinted post-apocalypse
0Disclosure: I was given a free copy of this game by Pathway PR through PressEngine, so thanks to them for the opportunity!
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The official description:
In the year 1975 a massive natural disaster pushed the civilization over the edge.
Riots, massive conflicts and wars occurred.
Homo homini lupus.
Main continents were drowned by seas. Heavy amounts of pollution spread around from collapsed nuclear power plants and -warheads. Not many survived from those deadly times.
Children born mutated or dead taking their mothers with them. Fathers walking alone in bitterness and sorrow driven to cannibalism as food resources slowly ran out. In this sad new world nature and man are trying to survive and find balance.
Still some individuals manage to trust one another just enough to establish groups providing protection, food, clean water, medicine, electricity and knowledge for better life.
Aino is one of those lucky ones to be part of a group. But it can be one hard job in this world. Giving everything you’ve got in dangerous journeys and tasks prevents one to be isolated.
My take:
Honestly: this game is... interesting. I am very into the vibe of the game. The setting, the visual treatment, the character design, the audio treatment, the extremely Finnishness of it. I really enjoy all of that, but I struggled with this one. Some puzzles are obtuse, you have to pixel-hunt (Which in 2024 is a crime) and I have some accessibility concerns.
My biggest (personal) hang-up with the game though is that it's disrespectful of your time: puzzles that require a lot of back-tracking; The Train Sequence; having to unscrew each individual screw; having 2 distinctly sized wrenches. There's a lot that could be tightened up with the user experience, which is frustrating to say because I want to like this game a lot! Part of me does! But the other half of me felt very disrespected
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