Welcome to our review of Goetia, a point and click adventure game that found its way to Nintendo Switch.
Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.
The ruins of any village are the silent testament to its final moments. The ruins of Oakmarsh are no different. Their telling silence, the dust blanketing what was once a quiet village near Coventry. The name of a manor and the family that lived within.
Goetia is a classical point and click adventure type game that brings an incredible atmosphere to the table as you enter a very dark world in which the mansion resides where you used to live. Oakmarsh is a place now haunted and you set off on a mission to find out where things went wrong and where your family is now.
While it does nothing special for the genre, this game is just your everyday point and click game, it sets itself apart however with the story of horror and uncertainty and the graphics. The entire story long, you will be immersed into a surreal story where encountering a human-sized raven is not even the craziest thing…
When I was playing this game, I had some very good times, finding out I could phase through certain walls and not through others. I was able to move some objects though others are fixed. It did not always make sense, at least not until I figured out the next puzzle for which you are often given little guidance.
That is about the bad part of this game, on top of the heavy reading involved, there is no clear guidance to what to do and you just wander around aimlessly, trying to figure out what that horse statue is about or how to use that writing feather and the mysterious white powder.
A well-needed hint feature would do the trick here. Despite usually making things easier on the player, I think it would be beneficial to us. The entire game would gain at least 10% worth of rating from that alone.
It is not that I disliked it or anything, it’s just something that was needed. I did like the eerie settings and everything, the first few seconds of meeting the raven… That was awesome. But yeah, it was just a medium experience to me.
In conclusion, if you like point and click adventure games and enjoy the horror genre, you are the target audience for this game as it majestically combines both genres into 1 package.
For me, I am not a big fan of a game with massive reading and the lack of guidance did not help very much.
My rating is 60%
