Yes, worth buying.
At $19.99. It has been as low as $2.99.
- Story and characters: 111 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 85 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 47 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 6k player reviews · updated 2 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Because of the amazing artwork and the little bit of story, I will finish it, someday, but a few minutes here, a few minutes there.
Takeaway: A really nice puzzle game with plenty of puzzles at a reasonable difficulty level and beautiful visuals.
But the gameplay not, seen it before a thousand times, pretty boring puzzles, not too repetitive (at the moment), not too hard, so you progress pretty smoothly.
Sound-wise, Hidden Orchestra made a masterpiece soundtrack which goes on par with the game's settings.
But the gameplay not, seen it before a thousand times, pretty boring puzzles, not too repetitive (at the moment), not too hard, so you progress pretty smoothly.
While Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure with a reasonable amount of non-linearity, Creaks is a very linear puzzle platformer played using a keyboard or gamepad.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
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.
Currently $19.99. The lowest we've tracked is $2.99.
The data behind the verdict
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