Adios

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  • Summary: You're a pig farmer in Kansas. It's October. Cold, crisp mornings are the norm, and you have decided that you're no longer okay with letting the mob use your pigs to dispose of bodies. When your old friend - a hitman - arrives with his assistant to deliver another body, you finally screw upYou're a pig farmer in Kansas. It's October. Cold, crisp mornings are the norm, and you have decided that you're no longer okay with letting the mob use your pigs to dispose of bodies. When your old friend - a hitman - arrives with his assistant to deliver another body, you finally screw up the courage to tell them that you're done.

    Your friend doesn't want you to stop. He knows that there's no such thing as quitting, so he'll try to convince you that you're making a mistake. You spend the day together, doing chores and exploring the nooks and crannies of an authentic environment in the American Midwest alongside the man who will be forced to kill you, if he can't convince you to stay.

    How you respond will determine the rest of your life.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. GamingTrend
    Mar 24, 2021
    95
    Adios is a narrative achievement. It uses the medium of video games to tell a deeply human story that will stick with you long after you put the game down. With some of the best voice acting in the business Adios is a must play and one of my favorite games this year.
  2. KeenGamer
    Mar 29, 2021
    90
    Adios is a quietly emotional little game that will draw you in with a narrative that’s compelling and heartbreaking in equal measure. If walking sims aren’t your usual cup of tea then you might not immediately click with it, but if you’re willing to give the excellent writing and award-worthy voice acting the scant couple of hours it demands of you, it might just surprise you. And even if not, you’ll learn some cool things about American chestnut trees, so there’s that!
  3. Screen Rant
    Mar 17, 2021
    80
    Adios feels personal and honest. It's a story that has seeds of remorse and capitalizes on a lot of the worst fears that some have for when they get older. The way those fears emerge bubbling on the surface of Adios's admittedly thin gameplay mechanics makes for compelling story-telling. Even in a short title bereft of many of the bells and whistles that characterize some of the best visual novel or VN-adjacent experiences, that masterful balance makes for something well worth a look for those who can look past its obvious flaws.
  4. Vandal
    Mar 17, 2021
    80
    Exciting, raw and deep. That’s the best way to describe this adventure that anyone who likes a good story must play.
  5. PC Invasion
    Mar 17, 2021
    75
    Adios is brief and mostly concerned with dialogue, but it's a thought-provoking piece of interactive fiction, even if the visual style clashes with the narrative.
  6. GameCritics
    Apr 6, 2021
    70
    In an industry full of people who fancy themselves master storytellers but can rarely back it up, it’s refreshing to play a title that feels well-studied in more traditional narrative forms. I hope Adios is successful, and that we’ll see more like it.
  7. Noisy Pixel
    Mar 30, 2021
    65
    Adios excels in its creative writing through its complicated moral narrative. The characters are shown as complex even with a short runtime, and it’s easy to get emotionally invested in this farmer’s life. However, the limited interactivity really weighs on the experience as it drags in places that make it feel longer than it is. I wasn’t sold on the direction and really felt like there could have been a lot more here.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. iadsuhf
    Dec 23, 2021
    10
    Great game with a great story. I can see a lot of effort was invested and it paid off.
  2. Kaijyuu
    Dec 23, 2021
    10
    This was a nice story telling game, It had some technical issues but nothing game breaking so I would still recommend this game. The voiceThis was a nice story telling game, It had some technical issues but nothing game breaking so I would still recommend this game. The voice acting was good, the only problem the game is a bit too short, but that's not too bad.… Expand
  4. ploogle
    Dec 22, 2021
    10
    Incredibly moving story with light interactive elements to hammer it home. Very good performances from all actors involved. Sticks with youIncredibly moving story with light interactive elements to hammer it home. Very good performances from all actors involved. Sticks with you after finishing.… Expand
  5. yarncat
    Dec 22, 2021
    8
    Better than Halo! Was captivated by the storytelling in each scene. The ramblings of the MC paint stark imagery about the life he used to live.
  6. viniciusiank
    May 23, 2023
    7
    Adios has a very interesting premise, it brings many reflections and it's satisfying, even though it's short, it's art style does notAdios has a very interesting premise, it brings many reflections and it's satisfying, even though it's short, it's art style does not disappoint, and it's only cons are the lack of deeper narrative development and environment interaction.… Expand
  7. Charlizard
    Dec 21, 2021
    6
    For starters, the voice acting and dialogue was great, and I thought the art style and environmental graphics were good-looking. Other thanFor starters, the voice acting and dialogue was great, and I thought the art style and environmental graphics were good-looking. Other than that, I mostly had problems with the game.

    I have played a couple of other "walking simulator" type games that I really like, like Gone Home, Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch. When playing these games I tend to stretch out the game by exploring a lot, which is why Gone Home lasted me about 4 hours, and I got over 5 hours out of Firewatch. But even when looking around for every little thing you can do in Adios, I was a little disappointed when the game ended and it only lasted one and a half hours.

    The other games I mentioned also felt more like games, because they had more movement and interactivity, while Adios has so many moments of you standing still talking to someone that it felt more like a low budget movie with poor cinematography, or a visual audiobook.

    The focus on the game is on the character development, but with that short of a runtime, I feel there wasn't enough time to properly build up and flesh out the farmer (main character) to the point where I cared about what happened to him. But this could also just be an issue with the presentation of the game's writing and story, since other games have made me care more about its characters in a very short amount of time, like the 15 minute opening to The Last of Us for example. Hell, even Firewatch, which I mentioned earlier, told a better and more emotional story about Alzheimer's Disease with its 15 minute opening scene than this game did in its entire 90 minute runtime. And that was just through written text and the accompanying music, not even any voice acting!

    The story overall was pretty decent, but even though there were one or two game mechanics that would only make sense in the medium of video games, I felt the story could have been served better as a movie, tv-show episode or a short story. I have spent a lot of time in previous years watching other people play games through let's plays, and after I got to the credits of Adios I had the feeling that I might have enjoyed the game more watching it being played by one of my favorite streamers.

    The controls worked decently for the most part, except for the dinner cooking scene, where I was mostly confused which button on my controller did what. I tend to always play PC games with a PS4 controller, as long as it's not a point-and-click game or some first person shooters, and while Adios seemed to have native support for controllers, there was no information in the menu for button bindings on the gamepad, only keyboard and mouse. But there aren't a lot of controller inputs in the game anyway, so this wasn't a huge problem figuring out.

    There were some weird design choices that kinda took me out of the game. If a game like this wants to tell a very grounded and real story, I expect the world and characters to also behave in a more real way compared to most other video games. But then you have things like the scene with the new mob guy, Sol, where he just stares straight ahead into a tree the whole time while talking, even though the farmer's friend always seems to look into your eyes when he's speaking to you or vice versa. I also noticed the fence gate to the house that automatically opens, as if it's a grocery store entrance, whenever you walk through them. I don't know why the developers didn't make an animation for walking through them, or at least treat them like the doors, where you have to make them open yourself by interacting with them. Stuff like this easily breaks the immersion in a serious and heavy narrative-based experience like this, and reminded me that I'm playing a video game.

    The animations of characters were also awkward and stiff, and in places where I expected an object to have collision, like a chair or the swing on the porch, I just clipped right through it. There were a few other minor bugs I noticed that were less important, like the occasional audio clip abruptly getting cut off too early, or how when you're standing under the chestnut tree and stare down on the ground the entire screen fades to pitch black for some reason, until you aim the camera up again and it fades back.

    Overall I would say I mildly enjoyed Adios, but it's an unpolished game, and not something that I would recommend for others to play, when they could have a better experience watching someone else do it on YouTube.

    6.5 out of 10 - Decent, almost good.
    Charlizard - Swedish, 29M.    … Expand
  8. kharij
    Dec 22, 2021
    0
    Do people seriously consider an audiobook somehow elevating how stories are told in a video game? If so, I implore people to PLEASE checkDo people seriously consider an audiobook somehow elevating how stories are told in a video game? If so, I implore people to PLEASE check other games in their respective platform storefront because you'll get more substance for you money.

    Yeah, this game is all about style and less about having any significant weight and will just be another forgettable shovelware.    … Expand

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