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I can't speak to specifics, but I remember Quern being on the more difficult side, even right out of the gate. I don't see a UHS Hint created for it unfortunately. Those are usually vague enough to put you on the right track, without completely spoiling it. It's another relic of a simpler time, because sometimes you don't need/want a full FAQ for your Game.I'd welcome any vague hints or clues, especially if there's something necessary I'm missing or overlooking (e.g. "You actually can interact with that one thing"). Or if there's like a clue to a single step that's holding me back, or something. I like working through puzzles, but I'm also not very patient with them (i.e. myself) sadly. Maybe more games like this will help sharpen this dull, rusty mind back up!
I had seen that in the controls/settings early on and completely forgotten about it. But that got me unstuck, because it highlighted that the telescope had two interaction points, one of which was a hook for the torch so you could shine focused light at certain targets (I swear I tried clicking all around, but whatever), which unlocked several of the next puzzles. After that I made my own way with only one hint (I had figured out a thing but hadn't assembled the other pieces of it to make it work).if you press the Alt key, it will make interactable objects glow.
Hey, I made a mental note to reply to this, and it only just fired off. Someone did a MOO remake -- it's to MOO what Xenonauts is to X-Com, if that makes sense.Agreed, this is super interesting. Next I hope they reboot master of Orion too.
This game is awesome. It's a 4x take that I've never seen articulated quite as well anywhere else. Very interesting streamlining.Hey, I made a mental note to reply to this, and it only just fired off. Someone did a MOO remake -- it's to MOO what Xenonauts is to X-Com, if that makes sense.
I'm not familiar with MOO, so if this game is awesome, please start a thread for it.
Did he ever make another game after Hadean Lands?I saw a recommendation for Platonic on the inimitable Zarf's blog, and decided to pick it up. It's a Myst-ish game, but more directly puzzle based. Sparse graphics but they get the job done. It evokes a low-poly The Witness, but plays more like a straight puzzler. I'm through 2.5 of the 5 levels, and the first two are pretty easy, but it appears to be ramping up a bit. I was going to knock it because the second level has a sliding block puzzle, but it used it in a different way than just needing to solve it.
Pick this up and support an indie dev. I can't find any info about the actual developer, and haven't beat it to see the credits, but this is probably a single person or very small team.
It's real good which is what makes me wish he made more.Speaking of Hadean Lands, I recently finished a blind co-op playthrough of that (informal; one person driving and streaming via Discord with a shared Google doc for ideas) with a few other tyrants and it was a really fun time! (Although the ending was kind of disappointing.) We never got so stuck that we had to look anything up, but we certainly got close a few times! I think we probably spent like 30 hours total on it?
Played a bit more of this, and it's opening up nicely. It does that iteration thing that things like The Witness do, where you learn one concept, and then tweak it a little bit and use it somewhere else. You don't have to solve thousands of line puzzles either, or listen to libertarian nonsense screeds, so that's a bonus.I saw a recommendation for Platonic on the inimitable Zarf's blog, and decided to pick it up. It's a Myst-ish game, but more directly puzzle based. Sparse graphics but they get the job done. It evokes a low-poly The Witness, but plays more like a straight puzzler. I'm through 2.5 of the 5 levels, and the first two are pretty easy, but it appears to be ramping up a bit. I was going to knock it because the second level has a sliding block puzzle, but it used it in a different way than just needing to solve it.
Pick this up and support an indie dev. I can't find any info about the actual developer, and haven't beat it to see the credits, but this is probably a single person or very small team.
I hope that the remake is called "Riven: The remake of the sequel to Myst".