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
游戏讨论
Steam User 6
小清新的指向点击冒险解谜，讲述一位挤奶工由搜寻失窃牛群到解放外星飞船上受压迫群众的奇幻故事。特色是通篇语言都以两段式出现，且做到了丧心病狂的押韵，读起来怎一个诗意盎然。这也导致汉化工作基本不可能完成，这就像把五言绝句译成英文一样困难。说它丧心病狂，是因为语言既包括调查物品时的描述性文字，又包括同各色人物的日常对话。这在前半段和空灵辽阔的挪威山峦风光是相契合的，而到后半段的每一句口语，就显得强行尬聊了。个人感观上也更喜欢前期对这种田园牧歌式生活的描绘，反抗强权压迫的流程反而有那么点套路化，收尾处理上若做成双结局交由玩家自行选择可能会更好？
柔弱胜刚强，这是老子对于世间万物自然发展规律的描述。从氛围到节奏，本作的一切都是柔软的、悠闲的、舒缓的、无厘头的、天马行空的、道法自然的。连解谜都是如此，否则一柄木勺怎能操纵坚硬的钢铁巨兽？主题亦然，必须是淳朴善良的少女才能对抗黑暗残暴的女皇。最后回顾这段旅程，文字彰显出穿透性的感染力，简明轻快像素美工配上"The cows grazed lazily on the mountain grass.For a cow,this was definitely first class."的旁白，“风吹草低见牛羊”的意境一下子就出来了。