ENCODYA
Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations. Tina is an urban jungle kid, who has learned to live alone, scavenging from city dumpsters and eking out a living from scraps. Her funny robot is always with her, programmed to protect her no matter what.One day, the little girl discovers that her father left her an important mission: to finish his plan to save the world from grayness! Tina and SAM embark on an incredible adventure across different realities full of bizarre robotic creatures and grotesque human beings. Through puzzles and exciting dialogues, they’ll find out the true meaning of being alive.- Explore the dark cyberpunk world of ENCODYA in 2.5D with 2 playable characters.- Over 34+ non-player characters bring the world of ENCODYA to life and provide a varied and exciting story.- Your journey will take you to more than 100 locations where there is a lot to explore and discover.- Special, randomly generated puzzles provide a unique gaming experience and present you with great challenges.- The cinematic cutscenes and the futuristic art and sound design brings the story of ENCODYA alive.- The original soundtrack, especially created for ENCODYA, makes the exciting, crackling atmosphere even more tangible.
Steam User 3
pros
✅ well developed and engaging, dystopian and sci fi story set in an interesting and immersive cyperpunk digital world. The story is about an orphan street child and her robot friend trying to find her inventor father, who created a artificial utopian world called Encodya. at the same time, they have to defeat an evil mayor who reminds you of former President Donald Trump
✅ there are so many beautiful and interesting places to explore
✅ great looking and impressive 3D background graphics and cartoony character models
✅ some nice variety and many complex, challenging puzzles. There are also a lot of inventory-based puzzles to solve, so you can also make multiple combinations in your inventory and create new items
✅ a good soundtrack perfectly fits the game's cyperpunk style and atmosphere.
✅ two playable and likeable characters
✅ diverse and interesting cast of side characters
✅ decent voice acting
✅ well made cinematic cutscenes
✅ game quite long
✅ there is auto save
✅ when you press to space, it shows hotspots
✅ there is a map with shortcuts to various locations
✅ you can get hints from your robot friend when you're stuck.
✅ there are steam achievements
✅ there are two difficulty options (easy and hard)
cons
❌ there are too many fetch quests and errands to run.
❌ frequent loading screens halt the game's pace.
❌ slow paced gameplay and story progress
❌ randomization of some puzzle solutions
❌ there are too many moon logic and obscure puzzles
❌ the space bar highlights collectible items, but not all interactive hotspots, and this causes pixel hunting.
❌ no cards
❌ there is some backtracking
Overall, this is a good-quality and enjoyable point-and-click puzzle adventure game
Steam User 2
Disclaimer: I have received this game for free through a LurkIt campaign for streamers. Leaving a review was not part of the campaign and I do it out of my free choice to share my thoughts.
THE BEST Point and Click game I've seen after loving Runaway series when it came out! (Afterparty also good)
I had a lot of laughs, the puns were really good, the story is interesting.
I wish I'd use save system more. I missed one of the optional stuff and will have to play from beggining to 100% it.
100% recommended, no matter if You're experianced with Point & click games or new to them it's definitely a good one to play! And it's on 90% sale :O
Steam User 1
Exceptional! Definitely one of my favorite games of all time. The story made me stand up and applaud at the end. The visuals are simply stunning and I felt immersed in the world all the time. Sounds and music were perfect. Puzzles were just the right amount of difficult. 10/10 is too low a grade!
Steam User 1
I was looking for games similar to monkey island and this came up on the recommended, for £2 I thought nothing of getting it and i'm glad i did. Although some parts seemed frustrating and impossible I got there eventually, Some bits can be annoying as the sheer size of Sam means he hides things so you sometimes have to move him forwards and around then use Tina for things, so would be better if you could just get him to stay in one spot for a while while you done stuff but this doesn't ruin the game. I loved the scenery some of the game is beautifully done and I like the jokes that are Easter eggs for other things that some people might not necessarily understand. Overall a good game that took me under 11 hours to finish but I didn't find all the secrets and wasn't speed running it either.
Steam User 1
Would recommend only if you buy it on discount. The story didn't really blow me away, mostly because the main antagonist was more cringy than dangerous, and though some of the dialogue with other NPCs was entertaining, the interactions were too brief for any real depth. The puzzles were often frustrating, with lots of pixel hunting and trial and error when combining random pieces from your inventory, and I ended up just using a walkthrough for a good portion of the game. Visuals and soundtrack were top-notch however, and I wish they sold the soundtrack as a separate item since I'd buy that immediately (though it can be found on Spotify as well, but I'd prefer to support the artist). By the end of it I found myself wishing this was just a chill exploration game in the vein of Stardew Valley, since the city of Neo Berlin seemed to have a lot of thought put into its development and I would've liked to learn more about it than I was able to here.
Steam User 2
7.5/10
Amazing point and click game, can highly recommend.
The visuals, story and journey is great and there is some fun remarks.
Its a political game tho, about Trump, making fun of him. Too bad the devs confused Trump with Obama but hey, its still fun and great and I loved it despite not agreeing with any of the political stuff.
There are 2 modes where u can play it with or without in game hints, and I regret chosing to play it without the hints, as a few places had be head scratching for ages ( like the chef/thief/ and dance club part, omg lol BUT it still makes snse and has logic to it, that we have just forgotten how works today. I recommend u play with hints on, which u can still choose to not activate once playing. Without u need guides if u get stuck.
I loved the 'arcade' toy graphical option, i miss those times!
Really great cyberpunk despite the cartoon style and a must play for point and click fans, no matter if ur for or against Trump.
I would recomend the devs take another look on facts tho as they have clearly gotten the 2 presidents mixed up.
One is a wolf in sheeps clothes, the other is easily ridiculed and bullied and blamed.
Did u know that in all of the presidency lines, the most amount of wars started and devestation has been duing obama's office? Just saying ;)
Its a good thing we can still make fun of and enjoy games about anyone tho and i loved that about the game and everyone is entittled to their own opinion no matter how outdated or uninformed and wrong it is!
Worth almost full price imo.
-Arch Linux Manjaro KDE Plasma 5
Steam User 2
No regrets on this game, but with caveats. I liked the visual style. Hybrid 2d/3d is my preference for point click adventure. The Huge robot got in the way but you can click through him for hotspots. Some of the solutions were more "hidden object" than I usually like but I played on a steam deck so maybe thats on me. It felt like there was more attention on the first half of the game than the second which is too bad. I was really enjoying it and it ended up being a lot of "find these three things"
With all that said hoping you support this developer even if its just when its on sale. I'm interested to see what the next title in the genre looks like