Recent reviews by TheJoll

With how rare point and click adventure games are nowadays, it's always nice to find one.
Crowns and Pawns is certainly one of those.
The story is fine and the puzzles are not too convoluted.

If you're into these type of games, I definitely recommend this. Just don't put your expectations too high.

Fun puzzle game that you can complete in about 8 hours. The language translation system is similar to the way "return of the Obra Dinn" works

Not as great as the previous two, but still pretty fun

Over all this was a fine game, nothing special noting bad (in particular). AI: The Somnium Files was a great game with potential that had a decent idea of different choices. Sadly NirvanA Initiative only experimented on it with one thin that I don't mention for spoiler reasons. The story itself is less interesting than the first game and the whole Ryuki part is setup for the Mizuki part, which is not so much a let down of the story, as it is just a conclusion of all questions asked in the first half of the game.
The characters are fine and the gameplay is a basic visual novel with basic puzzel elements and some quick time events during cut-scenes.
Although I had a fine time with it, I don't recommend it if you didn't like the first one. If you really enjoyed it and want to play another story with the main characters you could play it, but don't expect something amazing.

Great game and intriguing story.
Gameplay is mostly talking to individuals, finding evidence and deduction puzzles. Like other games that have these puzzles, the conclusions are somewhat convoluted, but not bad.

Although it is slightly annoying to set up on the first run, the game is perfectly playable on the steamdeck.

One of the best

Best murder mystery game I've played yet. The system of identifying the person, their fate and the potential killer with no guidance besides explaining the mechanics makes you feel smart when you get another prompt that you identified 3 people correctly. This not only confirms that your deductions were correct, but also that you now can use their identity as a fact to identify more people.
Don't rush this game and go back to it every so often, so you don't get frustrated. With a fresh mind (and maybe some hints from the community) you quickly get closer to identifying everyone correctly.

Fun little roguelike

Great racing game that uses the engine from the project cars games. Is actively being updated, so already better than project cars 2, even with not yet as much content.

Fun card game