Recent reviews by Revantu

I always enjoyed Nancy Drew games, and this one was no exception. I encountered a bug but there was an official and easy-to-install patch online to fix it. Give it a go. Definitely worth it for the price; $10 for about 13-14 hours of a well-presented, story-driven game is pretty good in my book.

I like the shooting mechanics in CS:GO, but the skill cap is very high, making it an almost never-ending battle to get better. It can also be very frustrating if you don't see any improvement.
When you do improve, though, you'll likely see a difference in other FPS shooters as well.

I bought this game on Steam after recalling it from many years ago, so it was, to some extent, bought to appease my nostalgia. I remembered correctly that the game could be difficult at times.

However, if you have a walkthrough at hand to give you a hand (should you find yourself having overlooked some miniscule detail), the game should be fairly easy to traverse and take about seven hours to complete. However, I think that while $10USD could usually be considered a reasonable price for 7 hours of entertainment, in the case of a game that is 14 years old, I think $5USD seems a more justifiable figure, so it's best you buy this on sale.

Besides those points, the game itself is excellent. The story is very compelling (based on a novel, in fact), and if you are someone who likes to consider the details and likes some intellectual stimulus, this game has a lot of it. The characters all have.. character, with some quality voice acting (except for that one kid who is voiced by an adult..). The game has some beautiful music - though not enough of it, and you'll hear the same pieces many times. The set pieces are quite good for their time and still adequate today, however you'll find some glitching of character placement onscreen if playing on a widescreen monitor, as the game wasn't made with playing on one in mind. Also bear in mind that while this story technically has a happy ending in that everything is resolved and the evil ones are given justice, there is some gruesome backstory and there are many innocent and not-so-innocent people who get killed. It's an intellectually stimulating story; but despite that, murder remains murder, and this won't be something to help you sleep at night. There are several extremely ugly sides of human nature shown in this game.

Overall, I recommend this game, but bear in mind that it can be difficult (have a walkthrough handy), visually slightly glitchy on widescreen, and actually very sad.

EDIT: Having read some other reviews, I would like to clarify some points.
Firstly, since I had some prior experience of the game (though never having completed it), my playtime may be less than expected. Maybe 10-15 hours is a more realistic figure. The quoted 25 hours on the story page is difficult to believe, unless you really take your time.
Secondly, the puzzles in this game are logical and sufficient clues are (almost) always about somewhere. I would still recommend a walkthrough, as some details are easily overlooked (a footprint here or there, in particular, though the quizzes tended to have a question or two that I might get wrong, too), and sometimes spending too much time trying to figure out a puzzle is just a waste of time. Does having to sometimes rely on a walkthrough this mean the game was badly designed to begin with? Perhaps. Does it mean it isn't worth playing? Not really. You should still be able to complete 95% of the game by yourself.
Thirdly, I found the UI perfectly usable, though I agree that movement is awfully clunky.

Don't play this game.

Simply put, the only reason you'd ever want to buy this game is to have a notification pop up for your friends saying you're playing a game called 'Temper Tantrum'.

This is a terrible game. The gameplay is bad. The audio is bad. The graphics are bad. The controls are bad.

It really doesn't deserve to be on Steam, even for free.

One day, Mr Ultimate Dragonslayer AKA Dragonborn strolled along a peaceful roadside near the beautiful town of Whiterun. Immersed in this wonderful world, he is suprised to see the head of a Whiterun guard poking out from the road he's walking along. This hypster guard head must've thought it'd be great to travel the great lands of Skyrim without the rest of it's body. The Dragonborn looked at the guard with an expression of utmost confusement.

Suddenly, the head turned and looked at the fierce Dragonborn, and said:
"Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?"

Good game, would recommend, makes me feel just as bright and cheerful as Flappy Bird.

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Amazing game, recommend it highly if you have the specs to run it ;)

Whilst the game isn't amazing, it's certainly a good game. Not worth more than $60, and it has bad issues with cards and systems with less than 1.5GB of VRAM and 6GB of system RAM. Optimization wise the game sucks but otherwise it's worth the purchase if you've been a fan of the franchise.