Yesterday Origins
Discover the latest adventure from Pendulo Studios, creators of the Runaway series! "Yesterday Origins" will take the immortal heroes, John Yesterday and his other half Pauline, not only across the world, but across history itself. This interwoven narration gives the plot its depth and richness. It's 1481. In the dead of night, young John is publically humiliated and dragged through the street. He is imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition under suspicion of witchcraft. Later, he undergoes an alchemical transformation making him immortal. But something goes wrong, after each resurrection, John completely forgets who he is. In the current day, John is living with Pauline in Paris his immortal partner. They are searching for an artefact that is needed to make the potion again. During their investigation, they will have to face dangerous new protagonists who want to steal their secrets…
Game Discussion
Steam User 16
A cursed immortality, or a chronicle of obsession.
A story-driven point-and-click adventure with sparse interaction and a strong focus on dialogue.
Steam User 0
This game genuinely surprised me with the depth of storytelling and puzzles. It is pretty dark, but very interesting and has redemptive characters. I really enjoyed both the story/characters and how the puzzles worked out. Some criticize the technical side of the game, because you have to scan along the characters and objects and highlight different areas, but I thought it was a really creative way to expand on simple point and click functions. Expect a bit of a learning curve to get used to the controls, then a great, pretty good length game. Also note: it is a step up in sophistication from its predecessor.
Steam User 1
This game is just alright, maybe even good but very mildly so.
I think that partly(or even fully) thats the fault of me not liking the story, it has good dialogue writing and even decently written characters(like Father Gines) but the main protagonist and the story itself is just eh? Its just not satisfying. First half of the story theres a lot of mystery, and while some may like it, to me it felt like I was in a fog, just doing objectives to progress forward, the narrative was just not that interesting, protagonist himself wasnt that interesting. Idk for a point and click adventure it just doesnt feel like an adventure in many parts, compared to say Broken Sword or Monkey Island etc. Its not a bad story, but prepare for very unconventional story.
As for gameplay, a lot of the time it felt unconventional too, it felt like less of an expanding adventure throughout the world and more of an escape room puzzle where you had 1 overarching goal for the level and you slowly realise how to beat it, Its not bad in my book, it helps it stand out from other p&c adventures and it works for the story it wants to tell, but it does leave levels to feel small which makes overall game feel small and like it ends too fast(ignore my hours, I was 100% achievement hunting n some hours on a menu). Thats a critique of both story and gameplay, it just ends fast and we dont really get a good build up besides Gines villain.
Overall its alright, you can try it when its in deep discount but cant recommend it if you dont like unorthodox storytelling or adventure being too short or too easy
Steam User 1