While The Silent Age may not stretch your mental prowess, it's never less than engaging thanks to some great writing. You're always aware of what you need to be doing, so with limited locations and a handful of usable items to hand it's never particularly difficult to progress. If you find a tire iron, you'll be using it to fix a tire. There are no bizarre object combinations or unlikely uses here. The things you need are never hard to spot, however, and solutions are sensible and realistic. Sometimes the way past an obstacle is as simple as jaunting forwards or backwards to a time when the obstacle wasn't even there, but often you're required to do more exploring and item-hunting. The game wisely contains its challenges in short, self-contained chapters, but the ability to hop between two time zones essentially doubles the number of locations open to you. Charged by solar power - your first task is to find a way to get it into the sunlight so it will work at all - one press immediately transports you between 1972 and a desolate and eerily uninhabited 2012. The handheld time travel device is at the heart of every puzzle. You may detect a strong Twelve Monkeys influence at work in the game's storyline. We're never allowed to run ahead of Joe as the story unfolds at its own tightly controlled pace, with only occasional bursts of exposition and several subtle clues dropped in your path as you concentrate on more immediate problems: escaping from buildings, opening locked doors, finding where our mystery man lives and repairing a broken down ambulance to reach him. It's a neat premise, leaving the player with a clear long-term goal but little idea of what it actually means. With that, he hands you a tiny handheld device and dies. Apparently the fate of mankind itself is at stake.
With his last breath, the man insists he's from the future and implores you to find his younger self and prevent him from travelling through time in the first place.
There's blood all over the floor and a dying man hiding in a locked room. After performing a few mundane tasks, you're sent to clean up the basement laboratory where things take a darker turn. You start the game as Joe, a hapless janitor working in a shady government installation in 1972. An elegantly constructed time-hopping adventure, its only weakness is a fondness for puzzles that are just a little too easy.
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Stylish and simple, there's much to recommend in this free episodic point-and-click game from Danish indie studio House on Fire.
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