Samorost 3

A point-and-click adventure world, where the game screen appears not as a static background but as a vibrant, dynamic work of art.

Wild cosmic joyride where you dive headfirst into a world of quirky space critters and mind-bending puzzles. It's like the game designers decided to mash up a fairytale with a splash of alien madness—totally off the charts! The visuals are so trippy!

8/10 I really enjoyed the music puzzles. Some of the puzzles were not well made, especially the totem pole puzzle. Worth playing through if you get it at a steep discount.

I played Samorost way back in the Kongregate days and thought it looked neat but there wasn't much game there. I think my sister bought me Samorost 2 here on Steam, though I may be wrong about that, but regardless, I didn't really care for that. it was very short for a premium game and the art was about the same as Samorost 1. In neither case were the puzzles worth mentioning since there were all click on everything that is clickable then find out if you progress. But THIS GAME is GREAT. It has so much more to show than Samorost 2 and the puzzles finally feel more like puzzles. Part of why this is possible now, is because the game does more to tell you what the goal of the area is rather than just let you find out when it happens. The environments have a lot more diversity and detail too. I like the universe which at times reminds me of The Little Prince or Fantastic Planet (La Planete Sauvage) and even a bit of the works of my favorite animator, Jan Svankmajer, I say it reminds me of these things, but it is still very much it's own thing.
After a kind of neat first game, and a disappointing second game, finally there's one that's highly recommended. And I probably wouldn't have found this out if the developers hadn't been supporters of Ukraine. I bought the game because it was on a sale where they gave all the profits to a humanitarian aid charity for Ukraine.

Beautiful - Puzzles are just right - Never stuck wondering what to do next - Cute, endearing characters - Absolutely gorgeous soundtrack. Overwhelming recommend if you're at all into adventure games or puzzle games.

Note that my irl playtime is about an hour less than recorded. I unfortunately had to spend quite a bit of time troubleshooting a bug where achievements weren't popping, despite them being acknowledged in-game. Turns out that the fix was as simple as whitelisting the game in your antivirus, if you have a similar issue to mine, but it's unfortunate that after all that I ended up putting this game on the backburner for as long as I did.
The Samorost series is consistently a delight: beautiful artwork and sound design, just generally very wholesome with a direction that gives off a whimsical fantasy feel. The first game is free and 15mins of your time. The next game a little longer where I clocked in at about an hour, and this one, with all my fumbling and completionist-brained secret-finding, took 6x that time. There were even some events that were post-game, which is a great touch to add in this genre. You'll most likely need a guide or two, but that's the only complaint that I can imagine.

A delightful puzzle game with a huge emphasis on the art and sound direction. The puzzles are fun without being super complex, but the real draw is the environment and audio design. I spent probably half of my playtime just sitting back, enjoying the visuals and the stunning soundtrack. Highly recommend!