The Lion's Song

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User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 30
  3. Negative: 3 out of 30

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  1. bustee
    Jun 19, 2022
    2
    I only played the episode with the mathematician.

    The graphics of the game are gorgeous and the reason for the 2 points I give this game. The game itself, though, is an oversimplified point & click adventure that tries very hard to push a feminist agenda. In the case of the (female) mathematician, it is, of course, the evil male mathematicians who don't take our protagonist serious    I only played the episode with the mathematician.

    The graphics of the game are gorgeous and the reason for the 2 points I give this game.

    The game itself, though, is an oversimplified point & click adventure that tries very hard to push a feminist agenda. In the case of the (female) mathematician, it is, of course, the evil male mathematicians who don't take our protagonist serious at all and her struggle for approval. The mathematicians are depicted as idiots who don't really know what they are talking about and the female mathematician is -- what a surprise -- intellectually vastly superior to each of them. The gameplay itself is just boring and it is just pushing the developer's agenda fully into your face -- constantly.

    The mathematics depicted are also totally off what was at interest at that time, but of course you cannot expect that in a game.    … Expand

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Oct 9, 2018
    60
    Well-versed in early 1900s Viennese culture, The Lion’s Song practically plays itself, so the main draw of this four-part interactive anthology is its beautiful sense of time and place.
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  2. GameCritics
    Sep 25, 2017
    80
    While the fourth chapter disappoints with superfluous wrapup and temporal confusion, the three other chapters of The Lion’s Song offer engaging tales of creative struggle and triumph. In their best moments, they convey the sense of being in a city enjoying the full bloom of artistic and intellectual development, where new sciences and new approaches to art might connect and transform each other, and that’s a kind of excitement games rarely capture.
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  3. CGMagazine
    Aug 22, 2017
    95
    A moving and earnest independent adventure game. My favorite thing I’ve played all year.
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