Songs of the HMong

It is a nice little game for 2-3 hours.
As a little girl named Xiaomiao you walk around clicking on things to find music sheets, solve puzzles, and "sing" songs in rhythm game segments.
There are a total of 10 tracks in the rhythm game part, most of them are rather slow but you can choose a higher difficulty to make the mini-game more challenging, after you finish the game, you will be able to return to these tracks through the "Music Mod" in the main menu and try different difficulties.
The puzzles are simple but the hint for the one with tree and lights was a bit confusing (it took me some time to understand that it shows not the lights you need to turn on but the lights you need to click on), and the hint for the puzzle with divine bird was incomplete in terms of translation as you need to understand that the Chinese characters there are the Earthly Branches (basically - symbols) for the signs of Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
Other than that translation is good, while I am not a native English speaker, I had no problems in understanding.
There are some issues you need to be aware of:
1. It is possible that the rhythm game won't start (the notes will not show up) - to fix this you'll need to go to Control Panel -> Region and change the format to Simplified Chinese - you won't need to reboot your device, just apply the change and change it back after the game. Unfortunately, it is a rather common problem for Chinese games (some of them just crash or show black screen without this simple solution).
2. There is a moment in the game when you need to choose one of two dialogue options - those options do not fit in their windows so you can't see the sentences in full (2 or 3 letters are cut off), probably because of too many characters in English version compared to original Chinese text. Still, you'll understand the options and it is probably the only time throughout the game when you are asked to choose one.
3. There is a possibility of encountering a gamebreaking bug after the divine bird puzzle - if, for whatever reason, you will choose to go right and enter the pond, you will get locked in a previous sequence with fishes and the story of butterfly goddess - so, don't repeat my mistake.
4. Sometimes there are small loading hiccups for a few seconds, nothing serious. Maybe it is just that my laptop is not powerful enough.
5. Not an issue, more like a notice - it seems like you need to click through the segments of the chalk-drawn butterfly goddess story, they won't play automatically one after another, with each short segment repeating in a loop.

Steam User 6

Reviewed last year

It is a nice little game for 2-3 hours.
As a little girl named Xiaomiao you walk around clicking on things to find music sheets, solve puzzles, and "sing" songs in rhythm game segments.
There are a total of 10 tracks in the rhythm game part, most of them are rather slow but you can choose a higher difficulty to make the mini-game more challenging, after you finish the game, you will be able to return to these tracks through the "Music Mod" in the main menu and try different difficulties.
The puzzles are simple but the hint for the one with tree and lights was a bit confusing (it took me some time to understand that it shows not the lights you need to turn on but the lights you need to click on), and the hint for the puzzle with divine bird was incomplete in terms of translation as you need to understand that the Chinese characters there are the Earthly Branches (basically - symbols) for the signs of Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
Other than that translation is good, while I am not a native English speaker, I had no problems in understanding.
There are some issues you need to be aware of:
1. It is possible that the rhythm game won't start (the notes will not show up) - to fix this you'll need to go to Control Panel -> Region and change the format to Simplified Chinese - you won't need to reboot your device, just apply the change and change it back after the game. Unfortunately, it is a rather common problem for Chinese games (some of them just crash or show black screen without this simple solution).
2. There is a moment in the game when you need to choose one of two dialogue options - those options do not fit in their windows so you can't see the sentences in full (2 or 3 letters are cut off), probably because of too many characters in English version compared to original Chinese text. Still, you'll understand the options and it is probably the only time throughout the game when you are asked to choose one.
3. There is a possibility of encountering a gamebreaking bug after the divine bird puzzle - if, for whatever reason, you will choose to go right and enter the pond, you will get locked in a previous sequence with fishes and the story of butterfly goddess - so, don't repeat my mistake.
4. Sometimes there are small loading hiccups for a few seconds, nothing serious. Maybe it is just that my laptop is not powerful enough.
5. Not an issue, more like a notice - it seems like you need to click through the segments of the chalk-drawn butterfly goddess story, they won't play automatically one after another, with each short segment repeating in a loop.

Songs of the HMong

Songs of the Hmong is a children’s book illustration style puzzle game.

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