Secret Files: Tunguska

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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 59 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 20 out of 59
  3. Negative: 5 out of 59
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  1. SvenSomething
    Nov 9, 2008
    2
    the interface is good. the graphic is okay (for an adventure game). the story is weak. but worst of all is the puzzle design: you spend most of the time moving the mouse cursor inconsiderately across the whole screen, trying to find out the one and only working combination. there are not even comments if you try something different. nothing. obviously the game designers did not ask the interface is good. the graphic is okay (for an adventure game). the story is weak. but worst of all is the puzzle design: you spend most of the time moving the mouse cursor inconsiderately across the whole screen, trying to find out the one and only working combination. there are not even comments if you try something different. nothing. obviously the game designers did not ask themselves what approaches the players will try and how the game should react to it. no, the contrary is the case: the player has to guess what the game designers cooked up. and if he finally found the solution by monotonous trial&error then often it is so far-fetched that the player wonders why none of the other 99 far more plausible actions he tried before did work (or got at least a response). puzzle design is the most important thing in an adventure game. even more important than graphic or story. there are adventure games which are fun to play in spite of laughable stories or poor graphics, just because of good design. unfortunately puzzle design is where "secret files: tunguska" fails.… Expand
  2. AE
    Dec 21, 2009
    7
    Although the story starts off pretty good, it turns into a sack of "what's happening" quite soon halfway into the game. Some of the dialogues made me wonder if the developers even looked / listened to it themselves. Worst part about the game must be some of the puzzles, where there's absolutely no hint, just trial and error and the solution is something rather over-the-top. At Although the story starts off pretty good, it turns into a sack of "what's happening" quite soon halfway into the game. Some of the dialogues made me wonder if the developers even looked / listened to it themselves. Worst part about the game must be some of the puzzles, where there's absolutely no hint, just trial and error and the solution is something rather over-the-top. At some point you even have to go back to the very beginning to pick something up that has never been there before. The ending is a bit "meh" as if they ran out of ideas. Another thing that had me groan a few times is the walking speed which cannot be adjusted. The graphics look pretty decent for its time and there's plenty of original stuff in there as well. All in all, it's a very decent point and click game which has the continue-to-play value, but mostly a 1-time-experience.… Expand
  3. ghorahn
    Jan 2, 2012
    2
    When I started the game, I noticed a few things: (1) The voice acting wasn't great. (2) The dialog was....not good. Sometimes embarassing. And (3) the puzzles were the 'combine some items' type, which are a good adventure game staple....but there were about as contrived as 'puzzles' of this type get. Before long, I was sick to death of guessing what inane 'improptu tool' I was supposed toWhen I started the game, I noticed a few things: (1) The voice acting wasn't great. (2) The dialog was....not good. Sometimes embarassing. And (3) the puzzles were the 'combine some items' type, which are a good adventure game staple....but there were about as contrived as 'puzzles' of this type get. Before long, I was sick to death of guessing what inane 'improptu tool' I was supposed to make with the things in my inventory. And the voice acting was, all to often, bordering on abysmal. (To be fair, a few of the actors do a good job...and I feel like those were the same voices that seemed familiar from anime dubs.) But between the weird 'never use contractions' thing, the odd phrasing and word choice (that I imagine stems from the US version of the game being translated from a non-English language original), the fourth-wall stuff ("I managed to open the door! Don't you love playing adventure games where the main character addresses the audience?") and the main character's voice acting being all over the place in terms of quality, I was having a hard time bringing myself to slog through this game. So...I looked up a walkthrough. I don't like wasting money by buying a game then just plowing through it, but this game wasn't giving me a reason to play it. So by the time I finished the game, I'd seen the extent of its dull, inane, meandering story; I'd heard plenty more bad voice acting; I'd enjoyed plenty of robotic animation; I'd had to play 'hunt for the pixels that I can click on to find an item that the walkthrough tells me is there' more times than I'd liked; and I'd gone through puzzles that, had I played the game organically, probably would have meant resorting to systematically trying to combine everything in my inventory until I stumbled across the right pairing. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone unless they'd run out of other adventure games to play and needed one that would probably taken them a long time to get through. Upside: the game runs without crashing. That's worth a 2, I suppose.… Expand
  4. WouterC.
    Jun 6, 2007
    9
    It is not perfect, but it is one of the most enjoyable adventures in years... just slightly worse than The Longest Journey (which has a deeper story/plot).
  5. BenH.
    Dec 16, 2006
    10
    There is something wrong with the critics who gave this a low score. Look at the user votes.. One should rate this by its Genre. This is an incredibly fun point and click game. It is very addictive and probably the best point and click i have ever played. I feel sorry for the critics as i doubt they got through it without a walkthrough, if the even got through it.
  6. the_loop_digga
    Sep 8, 2012
    5
    i decided to delete my review, because 5000 characters are not enough for me and mainly because there is no possibility for paragraphes here. the rating represents my current rating of the game.
  7. PeterK.
    Jan 28, 2007
    10
    Agreed with Ben H. It's a well-worked-out game in every respect.
  8. Esperantisto
    Apr 17, 2020
    6
    A fairly good point and click adventure, but some of the puzzles are too difficult and their solution is too arbitrary. I haven't finished it because I'm stuck in a puzzle, and I don't know if I'll go back to try again.

    I played the French version and thought the voice acting was fine. The only problem was that the dialogue and the subtitles sometimes differed very slightly. The    A fairly good point and click adventure, but some of the puzzles are too difficult and their solution is too arbitrary. I haven't finished it because I'm stuck in a puzzle, and I don't know if I'll go back to try again.

    I played the French version and thought the voice acting was fine. The only problem was that the dialogue and the subtitles sometimes differed very slightly.

    The Tunguska incident really happened, but there's no mystery about it: a meteoroid exploded in the atmosphere.    … Expand
  9. Voyou
    Feb 13, 2016
    3
    All the components of a bad Pn'C adventure are there:
    - Gormless inventory combinations. And since at times your character tells you that she won't do something until she has a good reason, it's particularly baffling: you'll endure throngs of actions that make no sense to you, the player.
    - Abysmal voice acting with intonations all other the place and ridiculous accents that make even a    All the components of a bad Pn'C adventure are there:
    - Gormless inventory combinations. And since at times your character tells you that she won't do something until she has a good reason, it's particularly baffling: you'll endure throngs of actions that make no sense to you, the player.
    - Abysmal voice acting with intonations all other the place and ridiculous accents that make even a non English native speaker cringe.
    - Dialogues ranging from asinine to infantile.
    - Pixel hunting, despite the existence of a hot spots key.
    - Responses to a small set of possible actions only.
    - A terribly annoying main character, moreover afflicted with nasal logorrhea.
    - No humour. Or more likely failed humour.
    - Dull scenery. For a couple of nice landscapes, you'll spend most of your time in bland rooms, not to forget a truly disgusting toilet scene.
    - Generic plot, complete with conspiracy, nonsensical motivations, unrealistic science, plot-holic events, all good for a parodic game but rather distracting here.
    - All puzzles so easy that they are completed in 10 seconds tops with minimal thinking.
    - And much, much more !

    The visuals are fine. The atmospheric background sound is often quite good, although not fully translated (like the German voices heard through walls in a Cuban asylum.) The interface is average. All in all, there are worse games out there, on a technical standpoint, but this one is definitely not pleasant to play.    … Expand
  10. Broyax
    May 17, 2020
    0
    Le jeu d'aventure à la con dans toute sa splendeur... euh je veux dire son horreur, Votre Honneur, car c'est horrible à jouer ou à tenter d'y jouer... Déjà, oubliez-le sous un OS 64 bits, car il tente d'installer une ignominie de programme anti-copie illégal et non certifié et non signé numériquement ! heureusement que le windaube a repéré l'ignoble tentative parce que sinon, ça peutLe jeu d'aventure à la con dans toute sa splendeur... euh je veux dire son horreur, Votre Honneur, car c'est horrible à jouer ou à tenter d'y jouer... Déjà, oubliez-le sous un OS 64 bits, car il tente d'installer une ignominie de programme anti-copie illégal et non certifié et non signé numériquement ! heureusement que le windaube a repéré l'ignoble tentative parce que sinon, ça peut mettre une sacrée merde au prochain redémarrage...

    Ce qu'il ne fait pas ou ne voit pas toujours, le windaube, cela étant et malheureusement... mais je commence à comprendre : tout ce qui est antérieur à 2009 ou 2010, ce sera directum dans le Win XP, le système 32 bites qui aime se carrer profond toutes les protections de mes deux dans les fichiers système ! car Win 7-64 (et ultérieurs) ne mangent pas de ce pain-là !

    Quoi qu'il en soit, malgré son ambiance à complots complotistes, cette connerie de jeu d'aventure à la con verse et se renverse rapidement dans les énigmes complètement débiles, à savoir tout sauf réalistes et cohérentes...! Du "classique" dans ce sous-genre du jeu vidéo, cela dit, le genre "aventure" de mes couilles à la con des mes deux (couilles) ! Bon, bref, c'est pas bon et même que c'est de la merde, de la grosse merde !    … Expand
  11. Kai82
    Apr 8, 2021
    7
    A solid point and click adventure. Its strengths are the presentation, humor and the story. On the negative side some puzzles / combinations are illogical for me and the conclusion leaves out some answers. It should also remark that the story can get a bit too cheesy for others and it is produced in Germany. With the later I mean some jokes, jabs and word plays are lost in translation orA solid point and click adventure. Its strengths are the presentation, humor and the story. On the negative side some puzzles / combinations are illogical for me and the conclusion leaves out some answers. It should also remark that the story can get a bit too cheesy for others and it is produced in Germany. With the later I mean some jokes, jabs and word plays are lost in translation or weaker. For itself it was a quite successful point and click adventure in its time which is remarkable as the genre is not that relevant for publishers. Also it is a collaboration of 2 developers that works smoothly (Fusionsphere Systems and Animation Arts). It is the story of Nina Kalenkow who wants to visit her father who is a scientist in his lab in Berlin. When she arrives her father is missing and his laboratory is devastated. It looks as someone searched for documents and kidnapped him. This is a start of an adventure that will take her to many places to uncover the truth. The story kept me engaged but it is a bit cheesy sometimes. There is a connection to the Tunguska event / catastrophe (Not a spoiler as it is the title). In 1908 in a remote area of Russia an explosion flatten a huge area including whole forests. It is still unknown what happened back then. A meteorite impact was the supposed cult-print but there was no impact crater found. From then on there were many theories like a less dense meteorite that exploded in the sky (not hitting the ground), huge gas eruption, a rare kind of volcanic eruption up to strange theories like a miniature black hole or even an alien vessel. But back to the game. It is a normal / standard point and click adventure. Collect items and combine or use them at the right place. It has also some puzzles were you have to figure out patterns. If you are lost there is an option to highlight all objects you can interact with. Mostly the puzzles and riddles are good and I was sometimes proud to find the conclusions. However some combinations are not that intuitive or logical atop of very few that feel forced into the story. If I should rate it from good to bad it would be approx 75% to 25%. The presentation was great and the graphic still looks not that outdated. The soundtrack and voice actors fully deliver (German version). I will praise the cast and say that there is not one weak character. The humor works great but it takes some time to start and the end credits are hilariously funny. They use some good word plays, jabs to celebrities, stereotypes and sometimes dark humor or fourth wall breaks. Again I don't know how much is transferred into other languages so take this with a grain of salt. Overall this was an enjoyable game. It is not a timeless classic or best of its kind but still worth playing and remebering. If you like the genre than this is a solid game and worth a try.… Expand
  12. Demon2017
    Jul 4, 2022
    8
    Не сказать, что я поклонник классических квестов девяностых и начала нулевых годов, но эта игра мне очень зашла. Да, это далеко не шедевр, свои косяки присутствуют, но на один раз крайне недурно. Советую пройти всю трилогию, а первая часть лучшей в ней, кстати.Не сказать, что я поклонник классических квестов девяностых и начала нулевых годов, но эта игра мне очень зашла. Да, это далеко не шедевр, свои косяки присутствуют, но на один раз крайне недурно. Советую пройти всю трилогию, а первая часть лучшей в ней, кстати.
  13. LMRTX
    Mar 10, 2022
    9
    Pros :
    - Very good ambiance
    - Great UI
    - Good looking and well designed backgrounds.
    - Enjoyable puzzle-solving
    - Well designed and elaborate story

    Cons :
    - Meh dialogue
    - Bad voice acting

    All around a solid point&click adventure game.
  14. Keron_Heruman
    Aug 25, 2023
    8
    Well made point&click adventure, with a deep history and a charismatic character... Well planned puzzles

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66

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Play.tm
    90
    Secret Files: Tunguska signifies a new era for point and click adventures, both in terms of playability and stylistically - don't miss it!
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  2. Eurogamer
    60
    It makes some small progress in freeing point-and-click from the needless bonds of tradition but is it really a compelling, imaginative experience that proves mouse-based adventuring isn't dead? Nope. Not even close.
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  3. Adventure Gamers
    70
    A highly-polished game, but suffers from an uninspired design. While it remains mostly pleasant to play, it is not as satisfying an experience as it ought to have been.
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