The Knobbly Crook

The Knobbly Crook

Steam Deck · unrated

Gnarled Scar Manipulations · Free to Play · Jun 9, 2015

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

It's free to play.

91%
Very Positive
224 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 39 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 13 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 170 sampled reviews

Based on 224 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 170 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
83% of themes are praise17% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
This is an amazing game with a very unique art style and entertaining characters and dialog.
48 of 170 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
One area I thought the game might fall down on when I heard it was an Adventure Game Studio (AGS) game, was graphics, as indie projects can't usually match the quality of their ideas with their writing and production quality.
39 of 170 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
With the sound, we have the fully-voiced, or I should say, fully-growled, dialogue that's a demonic-sounding version of English matching the deranged and murderous characters perfectly, with an amusingly contrasting jolly folk guitar soundtrack by Pitx.
13 of 170 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay itself is also amazing, especially first chapter, there was genuinely barely if any slowdowns due to confusing solutions, although be warned you may get stuck because you didnt use action button on something, almost every time I had an urge to check out spoilers was because I forgot to press action on something, so another good thing about the game is that it didnt inherit Sierra's puzzle logic, most solutions makes sense and even if u look it up you'll probably curse yourself for not realising it.
9 of 170 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
The right mouse button and the drop-down menu on the score bar work just as well, but some Number Key quick-buttons would be kind of cool.
8 of 170 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters48 reviews
Graphics39 reviews
Audio13 reviews
Gameplay9 reviews
Interface8 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty6 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
91%
Very Positive
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Achievements
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