Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. PlaySense
    Jul 16, 2019
    85
    Simple, but funny; clumsy, but captivating - especially in the story department. Sometimes it doesn't have to be more than this.
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jul 30, 2019
    80
    Irony Curtain succeeds as a love letter to classic point-and-click games. Its sharp satirical core is perfectly realised, and, most importantly, it’s laugh-out-loud funny! [Issue#165, p.84]
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  3. The Digital Fix
    Jul 2, 2019
    80
    While not doing much that point and click games have not done before, Irony Curtain does what it does very well. Its very funny, extremely pretty and tells a good story. You cannot ask for much more than that really.
  5. Cultured Vultures
    Jun 28, 2019
    80
    While Irony Curtain doesn’t add anything particularly new to the point-and-click genre, satirical humour, likeable characters and fun gameplay make this a puzzle game definitely worth your time.
  6. PlayStation Country
    Jul 3, 2019
    60
    Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a well produced point and click adventure that wears its influences in plain sight, but somehow comes up short of its lofty predecessors. Perhaps nostalgia simply ain't what it used to be.

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User Score
6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. leviathanarg
    Mar 11, 2021
    10
    If you like point and click games, say similar to Grim Fandango, with some humour in it, then this is a great game for you. If you on theIf you like point and click games, say similar to Grim Fandango, with some humour in it, then this is a great game for you. If you on the other hand do not like fetching items to progress the story then you may give it a pass.
    My expirience... I played the game with my 17 y.o. son; he laughed a lot about the references to how people that never lived communisms or socialism like those systems, because of course, they never suffered them. The added feature that an in game 'help line' makes it more fluid as you may resort to this help (just hints) if you are stuck in a certain part.
    I bought digital on sale on PSN. Good deal for 2.99.    … Full Review »
  2. curzon_dax
    Sep 19, 2019
    6
    It could be much more. The adventure has the technical foundation to be great but it falls short at achieving anything more than an "ok,It could be much more. The adventure has the technical foundation to be great but it falls short at achieving anything more than an "ok, playable". The main problem with the game is that nothing is spectacular, except maybe the design of the art and the outline of the story. The puzzles are either extremely easy or uninteresting (and a couple are kinda nonsensical if the in-game help system isn't used), the characters are usually boring and banal with their dialogues and monologue being often extremely predictable and the details of the story not that great, for the most part at least.
    In general, all in all, the game is "just ok", nothing is totally terrible, nothing is totally great (expect maybe the aesthetics of the art and the big picture of the story) but for the most part it's mediocre for what a great adventure really needs: great story details, great characters, great puzzles, a captivating story.
    Would I recommend it? MAYBE to die-hard adventure game fans but it's definitely not a great game to introduce someone else to point and click games.    … Full Review »
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