Ever wanted to go back to the mid-90's and play an adventure game? Well- with this game, you're there!
A sci-fi romp following a split story between a prisoner who lost his memory, and a detective- you point and click your way through this beast.

Seemingly taking ideas from point'n'click adventures before it (Beneath a Steel Sky, Blade Runner, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream), this one manages to meld the lot and create its own beast.

Story is solid, with some twists in the tale, "trust noone". Puzzles are plentiful, but sometimes a pain as items appear when a puzzle is solved on a completely different screen- or a dialogue box that you happened to have missed. There are no "real" muliple endings, what you get is a linear story, but if you do something at the end you can get an extra line of dialogue.

Graphics are very welcome. Instead of looking "old", the lo-resolution pixel art gives the game character, screamingly familiar to a mid-90's adventure. Effects, such as rain manage to give the world a sense of life, even though the setting is so dark.
The zoomed in pictures in dialogue were OK at best. Compared to the games smaller pixel art, it felt to me that these had far less character- most of the time not fitting to the ingame graphic and voice. Without these, I felt the game would have created more of a link to the player with their character if it were just the pixel guys opening mouths and bobbing their heads. I hope they include an option to turn off the dialogue graphics in their next game.

Gameplay was mostly point and click, with a gun fight mini-game. Point and click was standard, right click and you can (eye), (hand), (foot) etc. The game is fairly short at roughly 9 hours, and a few more if you want to find the achievements.

There is a problem that you can't pull up your inventory to look at items (there is no inventory button). In order to look at an item you need to right click on an ingame object, then right click on your item (makes little sense).

Bugs: There were some graphic bugs, but nothing game breaking. I found that sometimes the right have of the screen was garbled after a load. Also, if you have an instance of Chrome in the background, dialogues could not be shown / heard. It was all skipped. One screen also had a graphics "layering" problem, where the background was infront of the forground (groundfloor of the apt building).

Overall; Gemini Rue is a great point'n'click adventure that should've been released in the 90's... But it's out now! There are a couple of bugs, but they don't break the game. The amount of character and soul put into this project is worthy of a lookup, this is a game I'm proud to say I've completed.