Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Steam Deck · unrated

Artifex Mundi · Adventure · May 16, 2019

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

At $19.99. It has been as low as $3.99.

87%
Very Positive
429 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 114 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 251 sampled reviews

Based on 429 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 251 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
86% of themes are praise14% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The story line is so unique and intriguing, really makes me want to find out more, very fun and cute art work, puzzles are clever and different but not too difficult, and all of them make sense with the story, I had fun solving them.
114 of 251 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
👍Bold and Colourful Hand Drawn Graphics
57 of 251 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a surprisingly good point and click adventure game, probably one of the better ones released in recent years, filled with everything you can expect from the genre, an interesting story, great voice acting, humor, and some medium to hard puzzle difficulty.
35 of 251 sampled reviews raised it
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
The story line is so unique and intriguing, really makes me want to find out more, very fun and cute art work, puzzles are clever and different but not too difficult, and all of them make sense with the story, I had fun solving them.
26 of 251 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay is exactly what you expect, a classic point and click adventure game where you solve puzzles by combining items in your inventory with world objects or between them and a few mini-puzzles.
16 of 251 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
Items in your inventory can be combined and pressing space on the keyboard reveals items of interest.
15 of 251 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 love6 themes
Story and characters114 reviews
Graphics57 reviews
Audio35 reviews
Difficulty26 reviews
Gameplay16 reviews
Interface15 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Bugs7 reviews
71%
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. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $19.99. The lowest we've tracked is $3.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $19.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
87%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
42
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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