Mr. Pumpkin Adventure Reviews

Not a fan of Point n' Click games that dispense with an avatar, sucking a big chunk of life out of them. Even less a fan of abstract, surrealist, postmodern, deconstructivist, or any other form of lazy storytelling. It makes the tale utterly random and uninteresting. The effect spreads to the gameplay. Expect using random objects on random objects; maybe juxtaposing umbrellas and sewing machines to activate dissection tables. Expect no hot spots key. Instead of thinking, you'll click absolutely everywhere: few things are responsive but anything could be. And many self-contained puzzles are rather boring, unless math equations are your idea of fun. Play it if you like unchallenging absurdities.

I liked the art style and story but the puzzles were quite random and a few were hard math for me at least.

I very much enjoyed this game. It is quirky and charming with just the right amount of difficulty with the problems. I can understand what people mean when they say that some of the problems are a bit mathematical in nature but they rely on relatively basic maths and a bit of logic. It took less than 4 hours to complete (but I wasn't racing through it) and for less than £3 I highly recommend it! P.S. There is more than one ending!

A fun short adventure game with some werid artwork and really good short puzzles. A couple of times stumped as you had to click on random objects to progress but otherwise good. Worth the money.

Great art and visuals. Soundtrack is ok, and the puzzles are good and enjoyable to solve. The story is very simple, and well conveyed by the game's art, albeit short. Commands are at times a little slow or unresponsive. Given the low price, the game does offer good value for money. Rating: 8/10

Horrible game. No puzzles that makes sense, no story nothing at all. Don't install even if it's free.

Pros: The art and the story art well done & unique. I hope there is more content based on the world and characters. I like that there are multiple endings you can easily choose via chapter select. Cons: Some of the puzzles are kind of obscure.

Thank you it is one of the most beautiful, and poetic games I have ever played, so inspired, original, creative, artistic, truly wonderful! An unforgettable trip that is very rare in games! I love the point 'n click 2D handmade, and the story was unique and touching! Make more types of these games please all the creators of the world, it's so rare, there are enough fashionable games for decades or there is only desperation, sordid , disaster, violence, horror games, sex, unhealthy, it's terrible that people only turn to that, their mind is perverted towards self destruction and hatred of themselves , we want dreams, contemplation, beauty, wonder, wit, awakening, we want to rise up and imagine a new world a thousand times more beautiful than this real world so sinister and in this society and civilization which loses its soul and its humanity always more! Thank you so much for this dream!

I have mixed opinions about this game. The graphics are nice and the music is good and atmospheric, but when I first launched the game I was wondering if it was developed by the same people as Tiny Bang Story. To my surprise, apparently not, although Mr. Pumpkin Adventure is extremely similar to it. Others have pointed out that it's also similar to Amanita Studio's works. What I'm trying to get at is that this game is not very original. The puzzles feel too random at times, half the time there are no clues from the actual level, but you just have to sit there and spend ages trying to decipher each individual puzzle. This bothers me a lot since it makes the game incohesive, as if they just started out with nice graphics and then slapped on some puzzles for good measure. On the other hand, that also means there is a great variety of puzzles if you only came for that aspect. If you care about a good story then steer away from this game. The fact that the game is developed by a Chinese studio is no excuse, since there are other brilliant Chinese puzzle games that have better translation, such as Flood of Light, and other games by non-native English speakers that are way better than Mr Pumpkin Adventure. The comic strips open a window of opportunity for the development of a good story, but the writing makes no sense.

Mr. Pumpkin Adventure is a very math and programming heavy bizarre Chinese-made point and click adventure with way too many references to everything the creators clearly loved. On one hand, it has a really great strange style, that can remind you a bit of Machinarium, but is, at the same time, distinctly Chinese. It looks and sounds interestingly and it's weird surreal story with little comic book cutscenes between chapters are extremely charming. But then, there are puzzles. Which start as something interesting and fun, but later devolves really heavily into advanced math knowledge, references to movies and things that you might not know and will have to search and committing other "game design sins" of puzzle making. Which, in the end, really killed the game for me. I went about halfway without even considering to use a walkthrough, but using internet for help, because getting a set number out of a formula of 4 other set numbers is not a task I can solve on my own. But then had to almost exclusively play with the walkthrough in the later parts of the game, apart from some more obvious and not too obscure puzzles. It's charming, it's bizarre, it has all the potential to be amazing, but unless you are into the same things the creator of this game was, I don't think you'll enjoy this journey.