Rosewater Steam Charts & Stats

I am greatly enjoying the theme and wonder of the setting. Once I finish this I'm gojng to have to take a look at Lamplight City. The puzzles so far have been logical and fun, and the story is developing with a good progress. The artwork is good and it reminds me of the piont snd click adventures I've always loved.

Most point & click adventure games nowadays are pixel-arty reminders of a bygone era but Rosewater went for much higher resolution art with some modern affordances, and it's a gorgeous looking game. Another standout is the voice acting, even including actors of different ethnicities without overdone accents. Characters are not just cardboard cutouts, either, and there's a lot you can learn about them during your journey. And speaking of journey, that's where the pacing of the game is let down by the middle part, where you literally travel from Rosewater to your destination. It's a series of vignettes where you get to know the characters more (the good part) but then there's several stops along the way which have nothing do with anything (old sailor, cult village) and which drag the pacing down for no good reason. The story is serviceable at best which is probably in large part caused by aethericity, a topic that the game focuses on, being just a fantasy version of nuclear power without any interesting twist. Despite that I would recommend this to lovers of this genre.

Ambitious, gripping, and filled with a variety of choices and conclusions building on each other. A really fascinating narrative point and click that's experimenting with the format in all kinds of clever ways. Definitely worth the buy.

A lovely, long, dynamic experience. As expected, everything is top notch: voice acting, story line, character development, puzzles, etc. The wild west isn't my favourite setting but this wasn't cheesy at all and explored many facets of the genre. Excellent job from the developers!

Such a fantastic game. I have always loved a "choose your own adventure" style game that relies on relationships and decisions to carve your path forward. This was so well done and I look forward to playing it again to achieve alternate paths and achievements.

[url=https://grungegamer.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/rosewater/]You can read my full review here[/url]. [h3]Rosewater proves that point-and-click games still have new frontiers to explore[/h3] From the moment I opened up Rosewater, I was taken aback by how cinematic it is, from the movie credits-style introduction, to the immensely deep dialogue. Every single piece of the game is crafted with unbelievable care, like it’s the most effort Grundislav Games has ever put into anything (which is not to say his other games had no effort, they certainly did). It’s just that Rosewater appears to be on another level from any game he has made prior and even from many other point and click games. It feels like a step forward for the genre as a whole. I was also impressed with the art and animations. Francisco rotoscopes all of his animations, which adds a great deal of detail and fluidity to every movement. Every time someone rises from a chair, sits on the floor, or falls out of a window, you can imagine a real person doing those exact movements because they did. While many point and clicks use pixel art (and of which I am a massive fan) for both backgrounds and character sprites, this game uses fully illustrated backgrounds in a painterly style while the sprites are more detailed pixel art. They have cartoonish flourishes which allows characters to be more expressive. The puzzles were generally doable. Most of them weren’t very easy for those of you who complain when puzzles are too simple, and a good number of them require you to cycle through rooms wondering what you missed or could have tried. I did get stuck on two puzzles towards the end, but one was due to a bug Francisco was fixing (if you’re reading this, thank you for helping me solve the puzzle in the Discord lmao) and the other ended up not mattering because I found an alternate resolution (that may have also been the better solution?). It seems that the more narratively “good” solutions are harder to identify. Speaking of which, it’s astonishing how many choices and paths this game can take you on. This is a game that absolutely encourages multiple playthroughs if you want to squeeze it for everything it’s got, which is something I love to see. Francisco has said that his hope is for two people to play the game and have two entirely different experiences, what a novel idea in this day and age! And while many games claim that’s what they’re doing, it’s rare to see them actually execute it as well as Rosewater. As I played every day, I kept comparing the Steam achievements between myself and my friend and saw things he got that I didn’t and vice versa which only made me more excited to replay eventually. The voice acting was superb from beginning to end – as were the microphones, which led the quality of some recordings to be less than ideal in Grundislav Games’s predecessor Lamplight City (a game I love and recommend regardless). They got so many voice actors in this, and for the first time many of them were union actors. It was fun guessing who voiced whom (shout outs to Dave Fennoy, Roger Clark, Leilani Jones, and Ivy Dupler as the ones I was on the lookout for even before playing). Rosewater is a wonderful cinematic journey I am eager to replay (I’m also waiting on that director’s commentary), and I wholeheartedly recommend that you do too.

this game is awesome in that it brings back a lot of what made point and click games in the 90s so much fun -- but with a modern twist in story telling and --- let me emphasize the story telling is AWESOME. I love the aetheric energy concept and the tie ins to snake oil salesmen/weird cults of the wild west. I look forward to exploring more of vespuccia.

Very nice visuals with story rich narrative content, complete with a quality voiceover. Feels like a classic really.

There is currently a (renewed) revival of grandiose point & click adventures. Rosewater definitely fits in perfectly here. Beautiful graphics and animations, a great soundtrack and fantastic voice acting combine to create a great western atmosphere. The story is exciting, the characters interesting and there are various endings and a certain freedom of choice - which was not always immediately comprehensible (but is nevertheless well integrated into the game mechanics). The puzzles were also very pleasantly designed - as you often change locations, you never carry an unnecessarily full inventory around with you - very nice, streamlined game design. Can only recommend this game.

One of the most well-written point-and-clicks I've played in ages. So much wonderful world and character building throughout. I'm a sucker for a found-family-on-a-road-trip story and this knocked it out of the park.