Monolith (2024)

This was a great game for a great price. Lots of game play and challenging tasks and puzzles. Great graphics. Thanks for the text walkthrough. Too much unnecessary dialogue but could click through. The final part of the game after Tessa enters the Monolith should have been cut by 80%. It just dragged on and on with the same message over and over. The rest of the game was so good that I only removed 1/2 star for the interminable ending.

Initially, the game was frozen at the title screen of my iPad Pro, and I deleted and reinstalled three times without success. The developers fixed the bug a couple days later, and I am so glad that I didn’t rage quit! This game is so much more sophisticated and challenging than I thought it would be. The graphics are gorgeous, the story is engaging, and frankly, this is a really low price for a game of this caliber. Strongly recommend for all point and click adventure fans.

The graphics are really nice, including characters. P&C games usually slack on character models, even when the pre-rendered world is well done, but not this one. The puzzles were intuitive and often easy, but that is better than some games where solutions make so little sense that you only find them by brute force operation(using every item on every object). overall they were challenging enough. The story is key to a good point and click, and this one has a solid story line, although a bit sad. The ending (no spoilers) has little to do in the way of solving puzzles, and was more of a walkthrough cinematic, but that was fine because the rest of the game up to that point was non-stop problem solving. My only complaint about this game is that it would occasionally crash during a cutscene, and I’d have to restart it. Fortunately, I never lost any progress, I just had to watch some cutscenes twice.