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Allogloom
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
- Galactic Ghosty
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| Platform | Metascore | Userscore |
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| PC | 85 | Not stored |
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- A macabre take on other worlds and how one perceives reality, Allogloom is a creepy-cute point-and-click treat for fans of haunting tales.
- In its logic strings, Aloogloom is so satisfying. There’s victory in discovering exactly which item works with another, and that’s what all good point-and-click adventures should aspire to achieve. Pair this system with Allogloom‘s lush, moody artwork and its layered, macabre themes, and it’s an entirely unique experience that is rich and beautiful in approach. It’s a very strong debut from developer Galactic Ghosty, and one that deserves your attention.
- What surprised me most about Allogloom is how much it reminded me of the point-and-click games I played when I was younger, without ever feeling childish. A straight line runs from the curiosity that made me click everything in Putt-Putt, Pajama Sam, or Freddi Fish to the curiosity that kept pulling me deeper into Gruesome Grove and the world around it. The difference is what waits on the other side of the click. Those childhood games rewarded curiosity with jokes, animations, and friendly characters; Allogloom sometimes rewards it with something you probably wish you didn’t know, and I mean that as a compliment. Perhaps that’s why the comparison to those childhood adventures feels so correct. Allogloom feels like the genre grew up alongside the people who played them. The curiosity is still there, as are the strange characters and the inventory full of seemingly useless nonsense, but the questions are different now, and the answers can be considerably more uncomfortable. It reminded me why I used to clic