holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: "Ben There, Dan That"

I am going to struggle with this game. It is an adventure game. The sort of adventure game that in its opening sequence parodies the fact that you combine four hundred thousand illogical objects in order to make a very simple thing to open or smash the other thing, instead of using the obvious tool like a hammer or a key.

Actual screenshot from the game.

I'll be honest, if it wasn't the drawn, unimpressive and crude artwork that didn't interest me, I highly doubt such game mechanics would.

I don't even know how this game entered my Steam games library, and after trying to play this "game" for about 25 minutes, I actually lost the will to live. This isn't a scathing review for the sake of a scathing review, it is an expression of the pain I suffered through.

Comical walking animations, a really technical configuration just so you could set a full screen resolution (and even then, and even when the game was released) - it would not have been technically demanding, coupled with a failure to run in full screen mode when implicitly told to, build upon the woes of this title.

There's daily shovel-ware releases on Steam that I would probably rather play over this title. I feel sorry for anyone trying to read this text about the game.

Ben There, Dan That is a terrible, terrible adventure game, and does nothing right. Do yourself the best favour and play Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars instead - it is a beautiful game, with an engaging story. I felt no urge to continue playing this title after the first fifteen minutes where you need to uninutively rip down a poster covering a window, and then use a coathanger as a tv aerial so you can watch "Magnum PI".

When you finally watch Magnum PI, he tells you not to play this game.