The Silent Age

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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 48 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 25 out of 48
  3. Negative: 2 out of 48

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  1. foobar2000
    Sep 9, 2015
    10
    The Silent Age is very good experience, in the vain of point and click puzzle adventure games. While, for the most part, the puzzles are easy, utilizing a pretty cool time travel mechanic, it's the story and writing that really carry this game through. Every time you click on an item,Joe will have something funny to say. If you are looking for a good story to keep you entertained while youThe Silent Age is very good experience, in the vain of point and click puzzle adventure games. While, for the most part, the puzzles are easy, utilizing a pretty cool time travel mechanic, it's the story and writing that really carry this game through. Every time you click on an item,Joe will have something funny to say. If you are looking for a good story to keep you entertained while you sit in a waiting room, or on a train, this game is certainly worth a buy.… Expand
  2. Hoxton
    Sep 13, 2015
    10
    The Silent Age is one of Steam's best new puzzle adventures, combining solid gameplay with a perfect eerie atmosphere to create a truly unique experience. It presents a very interesting interpretation of time travel and even manages to mix the KGB, corporate greed and disco era inside.
  3. ozzsoffy
    Mar 31, 2023
    8
    This is a great game, simple point and click avenger game with interesting narrative. the graphics are very basic and adding to the atmosphere of the story. there is an actors voice performance, but not that much, only on main parts. I would prefer a full dub. the chapters are sorts, and relatively easy.
    Very recommended!
  4. Give_em_hell
    Feb 10, 2019
    9
    Great, deep adventure game. Graphics and gameplay are somewhat simplistic but the story is very original with nice occasional humor. Also it's a bit short and needs more voice-acting for better immersion. But overall a great point&click adventure.
  5. horst81230
    Aug 4, 2023
    8
    Good point and click adventure. It is VERY easy, you usually carry only 1-3 items with you. It is also completely linear, so really no way to get stuck. Except maybe the first puzzle, because band-aids don't work that way. Story will keep you hooked and is really well done. I would recommend it for any point and click adventure game fan who needs a quick and short dose.
  6. pcapinheiro
    Aug 11, 2022
    8
    Jogo bem legal.
    Point and click com história bem interessante.
    Não tem muita ação, mas a ambientação e os enigmas são muito bem feitos.
  7. Hayter
    Nov 10, 2019
    8
    Игра очень интересная, проходится за один вечер, простые головоломки и сюжет на 10/10.
    Прекрасный бы вышел фильм на основе сюжета данной игры, остаётся только надеяться на это.
  8. Agathra
    Oct 5, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I picked this up mostly at random during the most recent Steam sale and I quite enjoyed it. I'm not terribly good at puzzle games so there were a couple times where I finally had to give up and go look up what I needed to do - but honestly for me, that's actually pretty good! So I enjoyed a game where if I looked around and thought about it enough, I could figure out what to do with what without needing help. I also really appreciated that it was very spartan with the inventory: you'd find an object, and pretty much all the time, as soon as you used it for something, it was gone. No trying six different items with 10 different objects in each of 5 different rooms - therefore much less immersion breaking when I'd get stuck from time to time! I also quite liked Joe as a main character. He was a little slow but always did his best to do what he thought and hoped was right.

    Graphics were nice and helped demonstrate how having an interesting story can absolutely make up for a lack of 'fancy' in the graphics department - not that the graphics weren't good, in fact they were bright and pretty and I liked the contrast between past and future - but they were definitely of a simplified style, including for example faceless characters - but even so I grew attached to the protagonist, and got very good ideas of the personalities of all the others, just based on the story (oh, and the excellent voice acting! I really liked everyone's voices.)

    Sound was also good, very atmospheric and I never noticed it repeating, which is great as it means it never grated on my nerves but was actively helping enhance the story while I puzzled through it.

    I was very happy with the movement - it's very simple point and click, and unlike (it seems like) a lot of games I've tried lately, it doesn't force a slowed speed on you to stretch out the gameplay (which more often than not succeeds in making the game feel tedious and annoying, NOT "longer and worth more money" as I'm assuming is the hoped for goal of the people doing that??) Double clicking made you run faster. I did have a slight annoyance - clicking through the text, I would accidentally skip over dialogue sometimes if the dialogue was one word and I clicked too fast. I couldn't find any way to replay the dialogue which meant I had to hope I hadn't missed anything - but as I was enjoying the story, even if it wasn't *vital*, I was still frustrated and annoyed when it happened because it was a bit of world building I'd missed.

    The one other complaint I have is that the ending felt both anticlimactic and rushed - I feel like it would have been much better just to have ended it at the point where Joe woke up in the hospital, and just had someone explain what he was, and maybe just have one shot of him on the subway - presumably leaving the hospital and heading into the world. Sometimes it's best to leave the rest up to the imagination of the player, and I think this would have left the end wrapped up enough to feel 'finished' to people who just want an end to their stories, but still open-ended enough for those who enjoy doing so to speculate to their hearts' content as to what happened next.

    All in all, since it was only about 2 minutes or so of gametime combined I didn't fully enjoy, I'd say it's a solid 9/10.    … Expand
  9. BugOnDesk
    Jan 16, 2023
    10
    Until today, the time travel mechanic of The Silent Age is still a mind-blowing method of storytelling in puzzle game design. The developer had good control of the difficulties throughout the entire gameplay. This is a game for everyone.

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  1. CD-Action
    Sep 18, 2015
    55
    Despite simple, even primitive puzzles The Silent Age’s gameplay is frustratingly slow and main character’s speed of a bug crawling through tar does not help. [09/2015, p.65]
  2. Ragequit.gr
    Jun 17, 2015
    84
    Very well written and beautifully presented, House on Fire's debut will absolutely thrill fans of darker, more mature science fiction.
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  3. Multiplayer.it
    Jun 3, 2015
    80
    Rich in style and atmosphere, with a compelling plot and nice minimalist graphics, The Silent Age is a solid attempt at the point-and-click adventure genre.
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