Calm Waters: A Point and Click Adventure Reviews

This game began quite nicely with its opening narration, leading me to believe the story would be quite detailed, and intriguing. Once into the game, visiting locations, I found that there were few actions a player could do in order to progress the story, which in turn made the story rather undetailed. My meaning by this, is that there ended up being no story really at all. It was some guy goes on holiday to a strange, unpopular island, encounters odd behaviors of a few people, and finds a journal, later meets a monster, defeats monster easily, and closes out chatting with his future wife. The puzzles were quite simple, that in fact maybe only some under the age of 5 might not beable to perform. I felt sad, and let down after the game ended, but the price was almost nothing, so I'll tack it down to experience gained, little though that was as well.

The graphics were awesome and the story line was good, but the game was too short. Getting from point A to B was usually straightforward, and there were only two "complex" puzzles that were difficult to figure out.

It was a good Point and click Game. It wasn't super long but I'd say worth 5 dollars. Had decent Play ability and the Game has no problems at all and the Puzzles were not the hardest but they were not the easiest either. I won't recommend a Game unless it's worth it and while this Game is right on the borderline of being too much But again for 5 Buck's it's worth it.

This game is very amateurish; Crappy character graphics, idiotic puzzle design, rather short, no hint system (and it would've been really necessary here!), Pixel hunting, lot of walking back and forth to find the next trigger, and animations are at bare minimum. Avoid.

I have failed in this game. Not getting past day 2 & after the altercation with the detective I've been unable to progress. I've tried every item in my inventory in every location but cannot progress so after starting 3 games & trying every way I can to move Pete on. I give up now finding the game frustrating & boring. So a waste of money with no nice puzzles to enjoy either. Worst point & click game I've played in ages. No hint tips either for frustrated players.

I'm a bit on the fence here. It's not very bad, but the storyline ends abruptly and makes little sense towards the end. But I suppose I'll give this a thumbs-up cause it's a nice little project, even if a bit rough around the edges.

It's cool but has the stature of a demo. The graphics and gameplay mechanics are great. The storyline had so much potential but falls short aswell as the puzzles being slightly odd. Especially the final island puzzle it made no sense and I had to use a guide for the solution. A good little fun game but have played better for less money.

This was a fun, albeit frustrating, 2 hours of gameplay. Music, graphics, interface- all pretty good. Cool premise, does a great job of building suspense, and overall worth the cost and time to play. I would recommend it, so kindly forgive that the following list of criticism exceeds my compliments. It lacks DEPTH. The few characters involved are very undeveloped, the dialogue options also seem irrelevant. The story's resolution is disappointing and shallow, and more than once, reaching dead-ends requires pixel-hunting or, more annoyingly, the repitition of a repeated, previously unsucessful action several times, without indication of a changed response, before you can progress with the game. Overall, the technical aspects of the game deliver all that is expected, but without a very specific walkthrough you may get annoyed at the tedium of the very specific actions required to progress, often with an arbitrary time limit. 6/10 Would play more from this developer again.

pros + intriguing story about disappearances on mysterious island + likeable protagonists and two playable character + beautifully made pre rendered graphics + good ambient sound design and some atmospheric background musics + decent voice acting + easy and fun to solve puzzles cons - game is very short - lack of a button which shows to hotspots - lack of a quick travel map causes to go back and forth in some areas - there are no steam achievements and cards this is an decent old school and typical point and click game but it's very short. just buy on sale.

Play time: approx' 4 hours and that includes waiting forever for the character to move from one side of the screen to the other because running / double click to the next screen were not programmed in. If this game were a graduation project for whatever course, than I would gladly grade it with an A. For a commercial product which is being sold for ~11$, I feel that it's too underdeveloped in the sense that it feels more like the cliff notes version or the Demo version of a game rather than the game itself. The story is nice, but definitely has the potential to be deepened, widened and extended. The game world is as simple as they come, in my opinion oversimplified. Almost no redundant items to interact with, feedback on using items in a false manner is limited to few non item specific comebacks. It's all pretty linear and straight forward: go from A to B, from B to C and pick up D from E if you want to get to F. All in all, it's worth the play, but I just can't recommend it for the price in which it's currently being sold.