Alright. Strangeland is done and dusted with all endings seen (thank you cheevo list for making the necessary save point fairly obvious). It took me roughly four hours to complete. Despite being a point and click, the logic of the puzzles in this one clicked with me, and they seemed to mostly be pretty intuitive.

I’m not going to write much about the story since almost everything could be a spoiler, but it’s a psychological horror with an interesting look into the mind of someone who has suffered great personal loss. Presented in a twisted extradimensional horror carnival setting.

This was probably the greatest PnC I’ve ever played, which includes many Wadjet titles and Wormwood Studios’ previous game (Primordia). It’s very impressive how they managed to truly modernize the genre and other PnC devs really have been put on notice with this one. It’s fluid, intelligently designed, has excellent pacing, a pretty gripping story, outstanding voice acting, amazing artwork, requires no work on the player’s end to get it running, and has intuitive controls that work perfectly with both k/m and gamepads. It is also perfectly Steam Deck compatible.

If you enjoy Point & Click adventures, cost vs value is there and this should be considered a must play. Highly recommended.

I will add a disclaimer though. If you are sensitive to graphic and disturbing imagery, this might not be a game to play.