Cleo - a pirate's tale

to mix up a lame early morning fishing trip. only to find yourself doing a fetch quest for a siren soon after... but then some serious adventuring is going down and parts of the story are actually quite touching.

Outside of great character art and protagonist voice acting, I didn't personally find it to stand out or fail in any notable way - though some may be bothered by the mandatory card game and occasional controller support issues.

Visually its art style is timeless, with a beautiful atmosphere, animations, and references.

There truly isn't that many negatives aside from a few soft locks, no real replayability (aside from achievement hunting), the first puzzle will test you so you know what you've signed up for, and its fairly short which many may not like at this price.

Puzzles are fun, none too hard, and integrated into the plot.

wasd/arrow movement plus shift to run, but it's point & click stuff otherwise, though controller is also supported and there are hotkeys. controls are rebindable but still need a bit of getting used to. by default left click is interaction, right click uses the currently selected item and mouse wheel click brings up the inventory. only the currently held item is shown, which is not great, and mouse wheel should cycle through inventory items in the corner but it doesn't.