Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die! Reviews

Pros -Nice art style -Wacky Characters -Humorous story and dialog, plenty of puns. -Solid point and click puzzle design, interesting and engaging, just the right level of difficulty IMHO. -Good controls, entirely playable with the mouse. -Good value. Cons -Locked to 40 fps -No hot spot reveal tool as far as I'm aware -No auto-save -No voice acting Overall if you like point and click adventure games then its a no brainer.

Quite decent point & click adventure with tons of dumb gags, puns and zany dialogue. The humor works well most of the time. The story itself isn't all that fancy and the puzzles can be quite cryptic at times, but for a one person(mostly) project it's a solid adventure game. Not an all time great or anything close to that, but I enjoyed my journey. Good times for people who enjoy slightly juvenile comedy.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die! Is a wild point and click adventure about a rockstar that never was. The game’s story is funny in an almost car crash sort of way. While the puzzles straddle equally between simple and absurd. The game is significantly longer than expected too. Almost to the point where I think diving the game into episodes like some of the Sam and Max games would have served the game well. Overall, I had a fun time with this game and think it deserves move love.

a true to the roots point & click adventure game, which also is true to its rock'n roll roots (with an emphasis on 80's hard rock & heavy metal). it turned out to be great in every sense, the cartoonish graphics, the music tracks, the puzzles (just the right difficulty level), the game play (something like double left click to make teddy move faster would still be nice), the multitude of quirky characters, but i must especially point out to its humor. it was easily one of the funniest adventure games i have ever played, in the face of vast competition. it also is one of the very few adventure games which brought tears to my eyes (apesh*t's mother's speech..oh man..). it packs quite a punch in terms of game length btw, i must have spent at least 12 hours on this beauty.

I really enjoyed this one. A simple point-and-click adventure with a great sense of humor. Some of the jokes are a little edgy but it's never more than PG-13 and they're not mean-spirited. It's mostly just bad metal puns and mocking the main characters. I laughed at this a lot more than I expected. Most of the puzzles are completely solvable though I did have to do some trial and error in a few spots. That's a minor quibble though. I laughed, I enjoyed playing through this, and I'm hoping we get another similar game at some point!

I'd never heard anything about this game before seeing an announcement on Adventure Gamers that the game was out. I must have missed it on October 2021 Steam Next Fest, and I don't think I've seen it featured in any of the Steam adventure game events or on any sites like Kotaku or Rock Paper Shotgun which run pieces on promising indie titles. And that's a shame, because [i]Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die![/i] is really good. It's a decent length traditional adventure with inventory-based puzzles and NPC interactions and high-resolution (1920x1080) 2D graphics, which is very nice to see, as that kind of an adventure game has been a very rare beast for the last 3-4 years. There is no voice acting though. It's also an adventure game of the modern type, giving the player access only to a few locations and a few usable items at the same time and still making the puzzles entertaining. I would describe the puzzles as rather easy and reasonably silly. There are very neat chained multi-stage puzzles. There are a few minigames, but the inventory-based and dialog-based puzzles make up the lion's share of the gameplay. The dialogs never overstay their welcome, combining the right amounts of backstory, character development, horsing around, dialog puzzles, plot devices and hints. There's a surprising number of various responses for using items, almost always correctly guessing the intent of an attempted interaction. The writing is pretty good, and even the pop culture references are bearable. There are well-done running jokes, and returning to the previously visited locations is always fun. The game is quite creative with its anthropomorphic character designs, it doesn't chicken out of taking them further than just persons with cat or dog heads. The UI is fine, no issues with the inventory bar, no issues with the hotspots, no need to wait for the player character to snail over to an object just to look at it. And now the game has a click-to-advance mode for dialogs.

The love really shows for what it wants to tell, and the humor is really good. The anthropomorphic world so far works. Update: after 0.5 hr playtime the game no longer fun due to the following issues: - no voice over - games half or third the price does have full voice over for point and click games - the text format is hard to read due the font used - the text does not move the to the next line after you click like in other games, but it moves without your input on its own accord and it rushes you which is the exact opposite of what you want with these type of games. This means that you will need to pay extra close attention to the text since there is no voice over and the font used is subpar. - you cannot look up a walkthrough or other things during playtime when you are in full screen mode, because the game would crash otherwise. - so you need to play it in windowed mode which lowers the pixels and you see even less of your environment, which furthers worsens the overall experience - there is no hotkey to look for hints or objects, so you need to point your cursor everywhere, at this age this is a must for p&c adventure games for quite some years now. Adding all these issues and annoyances up turns this into a definite negative review.

I probably overrate this game because I drink too much alcohol, am approaching middle age and love heavy metal just like the main character. It’s probably a 5/10 for all the normies out there with its slow walking speed and lack of voiced dialogue, but to me this was the 8/10 heavy metal adventure diamond in the rough. Full of heavy metal references, macabre humor, and cool animations, Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die is the narrative metal game I’ve craved for all my life. I spent $1.49 on this and was floored by the amount of content. Most of the writing is bawdy and legitimately funny, although your mileage will vary. I cracked up at a lot of the alcoholism and closeted homosexuality jokes, but the second a priest is introduced I was rolling my eyes at the amount of molestation humor peppered throughout the next hour of play. If you find the Deponia games distasteful, this is that humor turned up to 11. Regardless, the solo developer understands how to make fun adventure sequences. Objectives are always outlined, and while the story often bounces around randomly it always maintains a balance between brain teasing puzzles and obvious inventory combinations. 2022 was such a stacked year for cool point and click adventures, it’s unfortunate this one will be lost in the mix. It’ll definitely be in my top ten, not as great as Return to Monkey Island (which didn’t crack my top five adventure games of 2022) but definitely cooler (and longer) than Excavation of Hobb’s Barrow.

Alright. [i]Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die![/i] is done and dusted. This is a classic comedy point and click centered on some middle aged plus, anthropomorphic animal ex-glam rock band musicians, who are going through mid life crises and decide to get the band back together. Which, as a middle aged rock and metal guitarist myself, was particularly funny and on point, lol. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3143788394 Our protagonists are of course completely self centered idiots with debatable musical talent, and so the game really showcases the comedy of errors which is their attempt to relive their glory days and become rock stars. Straight away, I’ll tell you that if you’re very sensitive to things that poke fun at political correctness, this isn’t the game for you. It’s unabashed hedonistic raunch with a complete disregard for decency, lol. If you for some reason still believe in your god du jour, this isn’t the game for you. You will almost definitely find this game to be highly offensive. For the rest of us, this game is hilarious. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3144087400 As to it being a classic point and click, there’s a bit of push and pull as you figure out how this dev decided to apply PnC logic to the puzzles. How do you clear a clogged sewage line? Have you tried using your medication to do so? Once you figure out how the nonsense logic is applied, this game becomes pretty easy to progress through, although trial and error is still king. I’d say it’s about 50/50 here between sensible puzzle solutions and PnC puzzle solutions. Reading through the achievements list will also make a few things obvious. The graphics and the OST were designed with fun in mind. The OST itself has a few bangers that you’ll enjoy listening to. The graphics are in line with its contemporaries and very true to the story itself. There are plenty of evocative scenes throughout. The story is obviously a heavily parodied and yet somehow realistic example of what any rock or metal musician will be familiar with in the music scene if they’ve been playing in bands for any amount of time. It’s not really such a far cry from reality, lol. We (musicians) all know some people in the scene that act more or less like the protagonists in this game. Which really just ups the comedy value here. I laughed often. If you'd like to see another example of this, watch River of Nihil's 'Hellbirds' music video on YT. It's also very pop culture aware. I'd say pretty much all of the jokes in the game are pop culture, socio-political, or music industry meta. Which I was appreciative of. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3144087128 This game took me about six hours and twenty minutes to complete. I can see that increasing for people depending on how familiar they are, or how quickly they adjust to PnC logic. I did play this on the Steam Deck, and it was fully compatible with no adjustments necessary. Interactions default to the A or R2 buttons, and moving the cursor was keyed to Right Analog. Battery life was close to five hours. So, I bought this at some point in-between the last (as of the time of this writing) Steam Autumn and Winter sales for $1.49. I’ve seen it on sale since then for a bit more, which makes for some price inconsistency. I’ll just say that IMO, for $5 or less, cost vs value is there. You’ll need to play this twice if you’re a cheevo completionist (or be creative with your save files), but there’s not really any replay value. This game is definitely worth playing if you’re a PnC fan and/or a musician. If not, you may want to read through a few reviews before deciding to play it. [code]If you found this review helpful and would be interested in supporting my Curator group, Robilar's Reviews, it would be appreciated. Cheers. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32549618/[/code] [code]Also follow IndieGems for more reviews like this one. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/[/code]

A mighty fine game for anyone who likes their rock music, adventure games, and dad jokes. And who doesn't?