Randal's Monday

Randal's Monday had the potential to be a really great adventure. The plot is interesting enough and tickles the curiosity of the player to see how the story ends, but the game suffers from many exaggerated puzzles and some tiresome dialogues.

Randal’s Monday features a ton of content and a decent amount of play time. Not to mention it’s unique and fun.

Full of pop culture references and with tons of humour, Randal's Monday takes the concept of Groundhog Day and turns it into a quite enjoyable point and click adventure game.

There is a certain lack of comfort playing it and moving around its interface, as well as having a character that does not sit well at first, but Randal’s Monday hides good ideas and it’s a great tribute to a childhood full of nerdy books, movies, comics and videogames.

Whenever Randal’s Monday stops pretending to be a classic adventure and forgoes tedious puzzles like "find the hidden switch," it turns into a vicious manifesto that mercilessly tears apart geek-culture. [Feb 2015]

Randal's Monday is an "extreme" adventure, which stresses to capacity every typical characteristic of the genre, resulting in an original product, nonetheless difficult to digest.

The Nexus Game Studios’ debut title is a point&click adventure literally split in two. Funny, irreverent and full of hilarious homages to the nerd-geek culture, but also full of puzzles and riddles that lack in logic and meaning.

Quite entertaining comedy adventure that builds on a “Groundhog Day”-theme, but keeps getting lost in illogical and strangely connected puzzles.

The concept and writing will draw you in, while at the same time the ridiculous puzzle design pushes you away.

An entertaining comedy adventure, but too many of the puzzles in Randal's Monday are too far from even its own internal comic logic to really make sense. It's a fun ride, but it's also liable to frustrate if you refuse to use any outside help to solve this time-travelling puzzler.

Randal’s Monday doesn’t do everything right, but the things it does do right are daring, and in a genre that’s been lost to the ether for years, that’s definitely something.

Randal’s Monday gets so much right it’s depressing that it gets the crucial gameplay part wrong.

Fans of old adventure titles, crude humor and excessive pop culture references might find some value here, but most would be better served with better adventure games.

At best, Randal's Monday has puzzles that professors at the Institute of Moon Logic would point to and ask "What the hell?" They're nonsensical, poorly explained, reliant on the most painful 'try everything on everything' guesswork, and feel longer than being strapped to a board until Stephen Hawking's voice synthesiser has read out the entire works of Dostoyevsky.

If it's meant to be played for laughs, the joke falls flat with repetition. [Issue#157, p.125]

Like most Mondays, Randal’s Monday is too long and tedious; it has its moments but falls way short of being a cheeky entertainer with engaging gameplay.