Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar Reviews

Very enjoyable start to a classic style point and click.. except it's not.. you don't even need to use the mouse at all. Instead using the arrow keys to move your snail around, you type your commands into the pop-up text box and it works really well with auto-correct and suggested words as you type. It was also quite generous early on with hints and tips, which is (I'm assuming) only for the first chapter, because the chapter itself is quite short. The logic works for the most part, except I got my first accidental death because it was oddly specific about what to do with one particular item and it was clear what I wanted to do, but none of the text I typed put the frigan watering can in the place I knew it needed to go. Played through in about half an hour - which was just enough to really get into it and look into the second chapter. It has the beginnings of some cute humour, though I feel deeply bad for the ship's captain and what I did to her :/ I finished it with one point off the maximum attainable which I was quite happy about, but annoyed because I'm pretty sure that final point was something that I did before an accidental space-walk death and then didn't bother to do again because movement was quite slow and I just wanted to progress. Ah well.. I'll play through it again at some point for the anal achievement need. Check it out if you like old style adventure games (Hugo's House of Horror's just popped into my head for some reason.. probably because of the similar controls/typing interface).

A wonderful simple game that takes me back to when 'building a PC' involved actually setting DMA/IRQ/IO switches via jumpers on the board you were installing and then telling the OS what DMA/IRQ/IO you were using (No PNP back then kids).. Younens with their lego sets that think placing a heat sink on a CPU with some paste and clicking colour coded modules into place and calling it 'building a pc' stay away. This is not your game. The rest in the series are wonderful and refreshing as well.

Snail Trek is a really fun little 20 minute Sierra-like point and click adventure. The scenes, characters and dialog have been lovingly crafted to feel very much like one of those much-loved games. The best part of Snail Trek is the text interface which works amazingly well, and it very flexible. To finish the whole game will just take about 20 minutes, as the description says. However to get all the achievements requires you think outside the box and do some searching.. That brought the play time up to about 45 minutes for me. The puzzles aren't by any means hard. You can easily figure out how to complete the game and you don't have to think in convoluted crazy ways, like in some of the Lucasarts games "try everything on everything"... It's all pretty logical

The Snail Trek quadrilogy is one of very few adventure games made the last 10-15 years actually worth a damn. Good puzzles (this is almost unheard of these days) and good jokes (equally rare). A real breath of fresh air. Love it.

The Snail Trek series is well worth your time. On the surface it may just seem like a nostalgic throwback to old Sierra On-Line parser games of the late 80s/early 90s. Not so. The text parser is perhaps the best that's ever been made. Taking inspiration from modern smartphones, the text parser here will autocorrect common spelling mistakes, auto-suggest words in the sentence, and auto-complete long words. The story itself is endearing, charming, funny, and definitely more interesting than you would think a game about talking snails would be. If you have any love for the freedom of parser games -- or even just want to experience that freedom for the first time -- then Snail Trek is where you want to go.

[h1]Old-school adventure game with a traditionally silly theme. At least the Chapter 1 is neat, though short.[/h1] A blast from the past, Snail Trek uses an archaic typing controls from the adventure games of late 80s and early 90s. While you can move with arrows, any actions are taken with typing the command (e.g. "use mop" or "talk"). It's so old and clumsy it feels almost refreshing. Yet it's not that clumsy after all, since the predictive text input hints at useful words, and... well, the game is not very long nor requires phrases that complex. But it's only Chapter 1. [h1]Snails on a plane[/h1] Story is simple and silly: a race of snails are seeking a new home world on a suspected lettuce planet. You're one of the scout snails. But something has gone horribly wrong! Since the story is only 1-hour long, let that suffice for the story. The setting is amusing and the narrative does offer some rough gems, though nothing comparable to the masters of the genre. For instance, the typing interface allows for myriads of outcomes for various commands. But in my playthrough, I didn't find many gems when trying to attempt the silliest stuff. Maybe I'm just not that imaginative, but I expected more. [h1]Some other notes[/h1] Music is fittingly over the top epic. Graphics are as given in screenshots - pixelated, faithful to its role models. There were no glitches or other bugs in my playthrough. You can die during the playthrough (indeed, there's an achievement associated with the deaths) but the game helpfully "auto-saves" (lets you continue from the point before dying). You can also manually save, speed or slow the game down, and adjust sound and music volume. The weirdest thing is that the game is restricted to windowed mode less than my native resolution (1920x1080). This might be awkward for high-res monitors. [h1]Fun 1-hour experience[/h1] Chapter 1 hints at a potentially hilarious adventure to come, made by one person no less. Hopefully the other chapters offer a bit more complexity though (I'll update this review a bit after playing them in the near future). I'm ashamed to admit that I had to consult the (excellent Steam) walkthrough to find the last missing point of score (yes, the game even uses the ancient game design rule: everything has to be scored). I beat this one in 1 hour, though if you know everything (or use the walkthrough), it'll only last for 15 minutes or so. However, if you play it properly (without walkthrough), I find it well worth the €1 asking price, which is even less bundled. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]

This game is a great homage to the classic Sierra titles! It's a bonus if you love snails! As it's free this can more be seen as a prologue/beginning for the full saga of Snail Trek, of which there are three more chapters. I definitely recommend this little game and can't wait to finish the other chapters :)

Fun to play! Another brilliant realease from icefall games. I completed it in about 30 minutes. The textures are a bit misleading but otherwise, a fun puzzle game to solve. Can't wait for the next episode!!

A terrific bite sized throw-back adventure game with a surprisingly robust and advanced parser interface. I was initially put off by being thrown back into that style of gameplay, but quickly fell in love with just how well executed it was in this series. The gameplay is backed up with some solid writing, quality puzzle logic, and terrific EGA-esque spritework. This isn't like the games you used to play, it's what you remember in your rose-tinted memories of those games.

Chapter 1/4 - just read the game's title, did it make you chuckle, even a little? After seeing all 4 chapters' names, I had a good feeling about the adventure to come and I was not disappointed. This "tap and type" (although, you can point and click in some cases too) game is very enjoyable and the text parser works quite well. Explore the scenes, but also explore the text parser - the tab-complete, auto-correction and up-arrow-for-prior-input are all a real nice touch. Funny and well worth the about 1 hour of entertainment it provides. [h1]System Info & Performance Report[/h1] [table] [tr] [td]Operating System[/td] [td]Ubuntu Linux 16.04 x64[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]CPU[/td] [td]Ryzen 5 1500x[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]GPU[/td] [td]GTX 1050, nvidia-396[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Game Saves[/td] [td]automatically at each scene, along with more manual slots than you'll need[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Notes[/td] [td]Buy all 4 chapters in the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5818/Snail_Trek_Collection/][b]collection[/b][/url][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Technical Notes[/td] [td]No problems![/td] [/tr] [/table]