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Everyone else in your family thought your brother was rather eccentric but harmless with his talk of doors to other worlds until he goes missing in what was presumably an epic fit of "I'll show them. I'll show them all!" Heading to Tibet where he was last known to be and armed with a letter from him, you quickly discover your brother maybe wasn't completely crazy after all, and you set out to follow his tracks. To play, just click the edges of the screen to navigate to other areas when available, and your cursor will change whenever it passes over something you can interact with. Items in you inventory can be used by clicking them to pick them up, or combined by clicking first one then the other whenever possible. When in doubt, retrace your steps! You may find that something you've done has revealed something else in a place you've already been before. Keep an eye out for secrets as well, as there are four hiding throughout the game. There's a great, subtle otherworldly quality with an eye for detail and understated but lovely aesthetics that are full of clean lines and great use of lighting. For the most part, it's fairly straightforward, avoiding obnoxious point-and-click pixel hunts... except when it doesn't and expects you to know you need to click on a single small part of a mechanism in order to proceed, which can lead to getting stuck fairly easily. It's the first chapter of a continuing series, won a monthly contest on Kongregate, and over a million people played the free version. Abandoned: The Cube Chambers (May/2015) is a free spin-off, the part outside the main story line, like a bridge between the first and the second parts. If you played Abandoned 1, you should remember the location with colour cube chambers inside the pyramid. That location stimulated a big discussion between players. Here you woke up inside the huge complex that consists of a lot of cube chambers. You remember nothing: who you are, what do you do there. You only realize one thing: you must escape from that place. In July/2015, Through Abandoned was a commercial version released for Steam done in HD instead of small definition for portals in web version. |
