Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a short 90s style point-and-click adventure game with puzzles, exploration and an exciting story, written completely in rhyme!
Deep in a fjord, a girl and her bovine,
Western Norway, nineteen-twenty-nine.
This is a story from Calf Ledge,
a small farm perched on a mountain edge.
It’s 1920’s Norway, and you play as Ruth, a young woman who lives alone on a remote farm at the end of a faraway fjord. You take care of your cows and make delicious dairy products that your friend sells in the closest town. But the dairy business is not going so well, and life on the farm is lonesome and hard. And at nights mysterious things keep happening to Ruth and her cows, making Ruth wonder: Is this the life she wants?
Then one day a giant, golden ship descends from the sky, forcing Ruth out on a journey that will change her life.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a story about moving into the unknown, breaking free from the past, it’s a story about age, life, death and time – but most of all it’s a story about finding your own place in the universe.
Features
- A lovingly crafted universe with hand-painted backgrounds combined with old school pixel art
- An exciting, intriguing story filled with wonder
- 2-3 hour playtime
- All dialogue and game text written in rhyme!
- Good pacing, not tooooo difficult
- 6 Steam achievements
- English, French and Norwegian languages
- Autosave and custom save games
- Four earth-based cows
- Absolutely no microtransitions, loot boxes or pay to win 🙂
- Lovely, original soundtracks – mp3 files included for free!
- Made with passion by one guy from Norway
Game Discussion
Steam User 3
A short, but sweet point and click adventure that absolutely does not break new ground, but achieves its story-telling goals competently and uses puzzles that (for the vast majority of the time) do NOT require bat-crap insane, galaxy-brain solutions. And it is done in a gameplay/storytelling manner that gets you over the finish line in a little less than two hours, rather than dragging on and on and on.
Recommended!
Steam User 1
Really fun little classic point'n'click adventure. I live for adorable little indie games like this, it's so charming. Lovely artwork and music, fun characters. A great bit of nostalgia with no nonsensical puzzles. Definitely worth the few hours of your time it will take to complete.
Steam User 3
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a fun and short point n click adventure, giving you exactly what it promises.
You play as Ruth, a milkmaid whose cows gets abducted by aliens. Determined to save your cows, you end up on an alien spacecraft. As you continue to explore, the story unfolds. It's well-written and keeps you interested in wanting to see the conclusion. The gameplay is simple point n click, you pick up items and you interact with the environment. But more isn't needed for this game, it does perfectly what it's supposed to. It's a good modern title in the genre, not being too edgy or too illogical with its puzzles.
I recommend this game for both hardcore fans and newcomers to the point n click genre. I'm also definitely interested in trying other the developer's latest title.
Steam User 3
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a point & click game.
The game aesthetics are pixel art and this is only the start... actually I won't write the whole review in rhyme, if I want to be done in time. So yes the writing is nice and poetic, everything is written in rhyme. The music is great, the ambience is there, honestly this is quite the hidden gem! Some puzzles are a little nonsensical as is usually the case with those type of games (using a frog next to a cog so it screams to get an oil can, for instance,) but most of the puzzles were easy enough and enjoyable.
The game has a lot of running around with unskippable transitions, but I guess that the game is already quite short, so it's not that bad. The story is really intriguing and I can say there was a lot of creativity involved in the whole thing. The characters are adorable (well MOSTLY) and the experience is worth the time spent.
Overall, a fine point and click game that is between 1 to 2 hours long with a good story.
Steam User 0
I'm a sucker for 2-3 hour adventure titles, and this one was an excellent little adventure with a lot of heart. I was not expecting the rhyming couplet narrative and dialog but it made for a fun time.
Steam User 0
This creative adventure game will give you an enjoyable time,
With charming puzzles and a story about cows and aliens - all in rhyme!
Steam User 0
Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Positives:
+ Good idea
+ Original story
+ Norwegian
+ Good music
+ A few parts looks acceptable
+ Aliens and spaceships
+ Achievements
+ Resonably priced
Negatives:
- Quirky controls
- A lot of back and forth
- Not knowing what do to next to progress (some of it dosent make sense)
- Must often click on things several times to get a response
- A tad frustrating and boring
- The graphics look quite bad (I know its supposed to look like this, but why?)
- Bugs
- Making all the conversations rhyme is not my cup of tea
Maybe this was not for me, but it was quite a mediocre game.
Its got some good ideas, and I can see what he was trying to do.
But the results are not that impressive.
So only play if youre very much into pixelart and point'n'click games.
Everyone else can instead play his newer game: Embracelet. Its much better.
Total Score: 5/10