Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure
A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania. Darkham, with its crooked gambrel roofs, dark alleys, and a past shrouded in secrecy, never really was a welcoming place, but nowadays? Kooky cults are popping up everywhere, and that most evil book, the Necronomicon, is spoken of in trembling whispers once more. Detective Don R. Ketype is on the case to retrieve the mysterious evil tome, but unsuspecting librarian Buzz Kerwan stumbles upon it and accidentally transforms his cat, Kitteh, into a walking, talking abomination. Being humanized? Quite a downgrade. Gibbous is a comedy cosmic horror game – a modern adventure that is classically inspired, features gorgeous HD art, detailed traditional animation, and a lengthy story that will see the three protagonists travel around the world and deal with abominations both cosmic and human-made, voodoo, and Things That Should Not Be. From Lovecraft Country to Transylvania, set off on a quest to get a very cynical cat to stop talking.
Steam User 9
Pros
✅ gorgeous looking, cartoony and colorful hand drawn background 2D artwork and character models
✅ well made cartoony cutscenes
✅ spacebar to highlight all hotspots so there are no pixel huntings
✅ nice variety and clever, satisfying puzzles with interesting mechanics to solve
✅ there are three playable main characters
✅ the Lovecraftian horror and noir style meets LucasArts style lighthearted point-and-click adventure setting presents an interesting mix of gameplay.
✅ a good soundtrack perfectly fits the game's style and atmosphere.
✅ charming, likeable, quirky main and side characters
✅ decent voice acting
✅ there is a juvenile sense of humor and jokes in the dialogues, which you may find funny.
✅ there is auto save
✅ there are steam achievements and cards
✅ decent length
cons
❌ the Lovecraft-inspired story is convoluted and hard to follow. unfortunately, these negatives make the story boring and unengaging
❌ cat character's voice acting could be irritating for some people.
❌ a hint system for some obscure puzzles and general progress would be really helpful.
❌ there are way too many exhausting, unnecessary and lengthy dialogues with irrelevant side characters
❌ characters slow animations
❌ some backgrounds are too dark, and that's making it hard to see some details
❌ the cliffhanger ending feels a little bit rushed and unsatisfying. Will there be a sequel to this game anyway?
Overall, this is the kind of game for which I wish Steam had a neutral button on reviews because the convoluted, unfocused, and incoherent story made the game boring for me, but at the same time, this is a well-made, polished, and decent point-and-click graphic adventure game, so I don't want to give a negative note to this game. Therefore, I give a tentative thumbs up to this game.
Steam User 5
It is a nice, very well made point and click game but there is too much talking in it in my opinion and the story got really confusing in the end. Still enjoyed my time with it however.
Steam User 5
A semi-parodical adventure that jumped the rails of my expectations to embark on a twisting, eldritch journey which left me wanting even more. The puzzles are a couple clicks above easy, and the inventiveness of them is nothing extraordinary (though never are they really lame), but those pro character designs and the way they're animated are truly something else -- encroaching, I would say, on Don Bluth territory, or the original Broken Sword. ("It don't mean butt without that George Stobbart strut!") Add a surprisingly original story that is greater than the sum of its individually interesting parts, and you have a winner.
As seems to be common with European adventures, there are segments that are just way too talky for their own good, and some of the lines fall pretty flat in English. After the polished and hilarious intro depicting a meeting of the Starry Wisdom Cult (a reference to the "The Haunter of the Dark" by H.P. Lovecraft), many of Buzz's early utterances seemed rough by comparison, or just came off as odd. Luckily, the quality of his speech evens out midgame, and the segments in which you control detective Don R. Ketype sound pretty sharp throughout.
Talkiness and localization hiccups aside, Gibbous is beautiful, intriguing, cute, creepy, diverse in setting, and far-ranging in parody. The devs never put all their eggs into one basket, but just kept putting more and better eggs into it as they went -- with the result that the game increases in fun and interest as you proceed. Every adventurer should check it out!
(In truth, veteran adventurers are likely to be so used to not-quite-right localizations at this point that the very minor offenses of a great game like this will prove unnoticeable.)
Steam User 4
*Playing this on my Steam Deck*
I wasn't expecting much when I bought this, but wow! I love it so much! Definitely a game that stands out as very different and it's so much fun. I love how the game is laid out and the colors and graphics are awesome! I wish the cat was a boy thought not a girl.
Steam User 2
Absolutely beautiful, funny, and all around enjoyable game. My only complaint is that there isn't more of it, as I would love to spend 100+ hours looking around the world this game introduces us to, giving us more puzzles, artwork, and story to enjoy.
Steam User 3
Really fun point and click game. Love the graphics, so colorful. Not super challenging, but I enjoy that, Don't ever have to turn to the walkthrough for help. Cool story too. I don't love some of the voice actors they chose but I've gotten over that as the rest of the game is really entertaining.
Steam User 2
This was my first point and click game and I liked it. I’m dumb so I had to use a guide in parts but still enjoyed it.