Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town

Fun little point & click mystery puzzler game.
I love the art style- stylized, and very clean- timeless style that ages well.
Lots of back and forth, but not too long into the game you will get a map that can be used for fast travel.
Some easy and obvious achievements, some missable and very easy to miss. The game isn't long, so playing through a second time to get them isn't bad, or *if* you created saves in the right places you may be able to load older save to go back and pick them up.
Some funny easter eggs that give nods to other fairly well known games in a similar genre. Good humor in the game, if you like somewhat dry, sometimes almost cringy teenaged boy humor. (Middle-aged woman here- and I cackled a few times, when the protagonist reminded me of my own son, who was overly serious and a bit nerrdy when he was a teenager. Hell, he's an adult now, and still overly serious and nerdy. Love you Michael! :D )
***Accessibility***
No colorblindness settings, no UI or text scaling- some fonts used on notes and such are not going to play nice with a screen reader, and for colorblindness you will have to rely on machine system settings.
No audio needed- no audio clues, though some sounds do give certain scenes a "punch" , but the subtitles for dialogue and labels on items you can interact with that are needed for the puzzles are pretty good- should be playable for Deaf and HoH gamers.
Some of the puzzles are a bit vague and can be frustrating because you have to go from place to place and do things in a certain order to solve them or progress to the next step. Could be frustrating for people with certain types of neurodivergencies.
No timed puzzles or interactions, so you can take your time and you don't need to worry about button mashing.
Can be played with mouse-only.
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A hidden gem for point & click lovers and puzzle game enjoyers here on Steam. Full price may be a bit much for people who get stuck on the $$$/hour metric, but a steal at 90% off like it is right now (time of review). Likely to go n sale again i you missed it this time. Personally, I would be fine with full price- I enjoyed it a great deal (and I am not financially strapped). If you have a tighter budget, wish list it and pick it up on sale.
Absolutely recommended- like I said, a hidden gem here on Steam.

A early game for someone interested in relaxing puzzles
‘Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town’ is an interesting game. On the one hand, it has accessible puzzles, a unique look playing with perspective and deformity in a kid-friendly sense, and a slow pacing ideal for point-and-click adventure game. On the other hand, what keeps it from being great is the writing. It is heavy on the exposition, especially early on. I never felt the emotions of the main characters, but I am happy I played it once the puzzles started, as it was nice and intuitive.
The weak points
The characters. As in the whole cast. Couldn’t connect with anyone, despite it being a fully voiced game.
Don’t get me wrong, no one was annoying or tedious, it was all just… meh. The entire plot, story, and characters just all felt lifeless to me. Either being bland or stereotypical to the extreme.
As mentioned, very heavy on the telling rather than weaving storypoints into the plot.
And some… questionable dialogue around the end. What I mean by that is, they got weirdly sexist about the mother at the end. I got the impression she was an adventurer, like the rest of the family, and that was why she was off. But then they talk about her fainting, and the father wanting his fifteen-year-old son (at the time he planned it 5 year old son in 10 years) to carry on solving the mystery, because he didn’t wanna burden his wife with the responsibility.
It was just so bizarre lines… I mean sure, mom would have an extreme reaction, but why chose one that seemed so against the character type? It is so weird, because it was both so casual and so utterly unimportant to the rest.
The strong points
As mentioned, the puzzles are the high point of the game. Which is great for a point and click adventure game. None of the solutions are obtuse, and the pacing of the story lets it make sense that you are slowly figuring stuff out.
The gameplay is very intuitive, and if you have any experience with games in the genre, I recommend just skipping the tutorial. You look with right mouse button, interact with left button, and open your inventory with ‘i’, that is basically all you need to know to play the game, because you see the name of important stuff you can interact with when you scroll over it.
I hesitate to recommend this as someone’s ‘first’ point-and-click adventure game, because of the problems with exposition and the less than great cast. Someone on the fence about the genre might be scared off by that. BUT if you are someone, who loves the concept of the genre, whether you are experienced or new, then this game is a good addition, because it gives you the relaxing experience with room for trial and error. A title that is both beginner-friendly and friendly for all ages.

This game is a lot of fun! There is a lot of backtracking, but you can use a map to quickly travel from one place to another once you have visited a location once. The story is very good, as is the voice acting. Willy walks slowly, but it's sort of his vibe. Family friendly.

Pros
- Looks great. Has realistic backgrounds (pre-rendered I'm guessing) with 3D cartoon-ish characters. Perhaps a nod to games like Grim Fandango. Maybe not to everyone's taste but I liked it.
- Good voice acting .
- Solid point and click puzzle design, very satisfying. Right level of difficultly IMHO. The game flows along nicely.
- Great UI, very minimalist.
- Great controls, entirely playable with the mouse.
- Modern built in convenience features such as fast travel, hot spot reveal tool and removing items from your inventory when they are no longer useful.
- Decent story, quite engaging.
- Pleasant soundtrack.
- Multiple save slots.
Cons
- Its quite short. I left the game running so my time is overstated.
- Although I liked the story over all I thought some parts of the ending were a bit silly. The dad has been just living in a cave eating mushrooms for 10 years!
- While the voice acting was good, arguably the English translation could have been better; some of the script was weirdly stilted.
- As far as I know there is no auto-save, could be wrong on that.
Overall it was very polished and enjoyable. Recommended!

relaxing and engaging play. relatively straight forward mystery game that reminds me of some other kid's games i loved to play in the early 2000s. i needed a game to take a break from the other fast paced or open world games i play and this really delivered. i want more games like this with that classic game play where you simply collect objects to solve puzzles with an older design elements that are nice to even look at like old houses, objects, architecture and even speaking patterns etc to help portray the feeling of the town. there are not really any threats that can actually hurt you and you get to take your time with the puzzles even if they seem urgent. it took me ages to realise this but the name of the game is actually quite odd

It's a very nice game. It features one of the best visuals I have ever witnessed in a modern adventure game. The plot is very pleasant to discover, puzzles are simple but fun to solve, characters are great, sound acting - solid. The game reeks of quality. Strong recommendation.

One of the best (modern) point-and-click adventures I've played. Endearingly pretty, great voice-acting, music, sound; can't in fact come up with much of anything to critique. Compared to the classic point-and-clicks (which it references a few times; The Curse of Monkey Island most specifically) it's "modern easy" but I don't consider that a downside, really. The story could have been a bit more convincing I guess.
Can be played through entirely without walkthrough in let us say 6 to 8 hours. Much recommended: wonderful little point-and click game.