The Land of Crows Reviews

Simply amazing, huge effort, great story.

The plot is certainly one of the greatest attributes of this game. Perfect choice for a lazy afternoon, even better if you want to learn some history

The Land of Crows is a very slow-paced, melancholic, dark and mystical point-and-click adventure with focus on storytelling. Its deeply occult story combines literature from medieval to classicism, northern and slavic folklore with lovecraftian elements - wonderfully written, which makes the 7000 + (!!!) lines of text easy and interesting to read. If you like the art style of the trailer, are a passionate reader with a weakness for dark and occult stories go for it! Experiencing the biographies of the peculiar inhabitants of Krukowo and learning about their entanglements for me was a wonderful way to spend a long and dark december night!

Frankly, I approached this game without expecting too much. I mean, the promise by a tiny indie developer looked way too ambitious: a mixture of seemingly incompatible elements (Gothic setting plus Lovecraftian traditional horror plus Slavic mythology plus Polish history and culture) looked overly pretentious on paper. I'll just go ahead and say that weirdly enough all this eclectic collection of approaches clicks together just fine without leaving a feeling of awkwardness. The game takes part in the XIX century Kuyavia, a historical region of Poland. Jan Bonawentura Jablonowski, an overly romantic and naive young Polish nobleman, arrives to a tiny village of Krukowo at his friend's request only to find out that the said friend has been gruesomely murdered. Was it brigands that've managed to avoid attention of Russian and Prussian occupants? Maybe it's somehow connected to numerous creatures that inhabit forests and marshes according to the local beliefes? Or maybe that weird old lady that always ends a conversation with mentioning a certain Yog-Sothoth is onto something when she talks about creatures from other planes? It's up to us to find out. A bit of warning: the game respects its player and assumes that they don't mind reading. Not only there's quite a lot of optional reading in The Land of Crows (these bookcases are here not just for decoration), but basically the larger (and probably the better) part of the game consists of lengthy and superbly written dialogues. They are not voiced, but personally I don't see it as an issue. I'd actually go as far as recommend to support the developer and get the game right now. It's cheap, its length is decent, and it reminds me of such representatives of the adventure genre as The Last Door, Gabriel Knight 2 and The Lost Crown (it's obviously weaker than these examples, but it has a lot of similarities when it comes to mood and visual approach). [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33843777//] Our Curator Page[/url]