Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

If you are reading a review, you most likely intend to by the game. So be aware that while this is great game (more on that in a second) with an interesting story, it clearly was intended that there would be a second game which never was published and from the information available never will be. Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today therefore ends in a cliffhanger with many questions open, that most likely never will be answered (in game form). So, if something like that frustrates you, you should most likely not play it.

Regarding the game itself: Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is classic point-and-click adventure in the best sense. You collect items, sometimes combine them, give them to people or use them in expected and unexpected ways. Ther is a lot of dialogue to choose from and things people tell you advance you directly and indirectly. The English version which I played had fully spoken dialogue, and your character also speaks out the comments he makes to you when you interact with the world. The game has quite a unique art stile and a few well placed “cut scenes” that are also “artsy” in their execution. The developers also made nice use of the possibility to combine several locations in one screen.

What is it about? Without saying to much – not to spoil anything – one can say, that it is a dark themed game. You play as Michael who wakes up after some kind of coma to find himself in a makeshift refugee camp. You soon learn that there was a major catastrophe that completely destroyed society, washing away the “Old World” making way for the “New World”. This “New World” is actually a very old one in my view, following the law of the jungle and hard, cold self-interest. If this was not bad enough, you also learn that there is a strange, horrible disease whose victims are called “the dissolved”. The illness frightens people and is victims are threated harshly by those in power. And last but not least as a simple inhabitant you might not leaf the “refugee camp” … so basically it is a prison camp. You set out to help the family who helped you, find out what happened to the world and recover your own identity in the process.

As mentioned above, a very good classical point-and-click adventure. As is the case with many of them some puzzles are a little bit far out there and a few “revelations”/twists were predictable. However, this did not hinder my enjoyment of the game. Also, my personal feeling was, that the first two parts (the game has four) were more flashed out and the last tow parts became shorter. Especially the last part felt a little rushed to me. It might be that this was for budget reasons or because they thought they would tell the rest of the story in a second game soon…

If you like dark but not pseudo-philosophical point-and-click adventures you definitely should have a look, if you can stand a cliffhanger ending.

Leider fehlen da die Fortsetzungen aber der erste Teil ist trotzdem echt gut, aber nichts für Warmduscher. Es ist eine schwer verdauliche Story.

Unterhaltsame Story, die Lust auf mehr macht. Die Rätsel sind schaffbar und machen Spaß.

Fängt schon mal sehr gut an für einen Groschen, sieht vielversprechend aus. (^.^)

Sehr gutes atmosphärisches Spiel mit leider etwas abruptem Ende.

overall good for in between.
can recommend it.