Just like many other indie games The Lost Crown lives through its unique atmosphere and it is not straightforward to say that is it your cup of tea or not. This game feels very original and the reasons for it are both good and bad. While its bold approach to its ghost hunting theme is admirable and well done I never felt that this grabbed me as horror feature but more like a bit spooky tale with few good jump scares. I would have hoped that the game delivered pressuring mystic atmosphere, but it never reaches that really, which is a shame because I believe that the devs including Jonathan Boakes have done remarkable job with lore and every single aspect of ghost hunting is so well documented that immersion is very eerie and real at its best. However this nice feeling kinda of flattens many times especially it has so much to do with puzzles that keep player stalling.

The last crown is very long game and the reason is not the abundance of plot, but rather the confusion it pushes player to. There is too many times I have wondered around finding some last piece of the puzzle or finding the exact order of some combinations to get forward and there we get on the controversial part that should adventure point'n'click game be easy or merciless and this surely is very close to lastly mentioned. I do appreciate puzzles which challenge you to keep as keen mind as possible, but I do felt also that there were parts where developers had been in love with their product so much that they forgot the convenience. If I was not bored enough to be stuck in some detail the slow animations and overall setting gave experience which was revolting at its worse.

But nevertheless when there is no option to give neutral review I can do nothing else than to contribute. The Lost Crown in all its clumsiness is mystic adventure that I have had many good hours with and while being sullen looking generally there is so many things in the game that just bursts utter passion of telling a tale of foggy Saxton village and its horrors that it would be injustice to denigrate it. It's interesting graphical design of delivering the world with real photos, archived video footage and animated character models is just something that someone might call beyond ordinary. Damit, even the strange menu with hilarious 3D-animations proved that I was playing something really strange. The Last Crown really shows off how ambitious project it is and that is its trump card when being on the market where there is a lot of competition on these good days of adventure gaming.

Buy it on sales and you won't be too disappointed if it is not for you. I feel this is already small kind of cult classic for what I have heard and even have a friend of praising this game unforgettable masterpiece (for understandable reasons), but yet again the target audience may be narrow.

Just like many other indie games The Lost Crown lives through its unique atmosphere and it is not straightforward to say that is it your cup of tea or not. This game feels very original and the reasons for it are both good and bad. While its bold approach to its ghost hunting theme is admirable and well done I never felt that this grabbed me as horror feature but more like a bit spooky tale with few good jump scares. I would have hoped that the game delivered pressuring mystic atmosphere, but it never reaches that really, which is a shame because I believe that the devs including Jonathan Boakes have done remarkable job with lore and every single aspect of ghost hunting is so well documented that immersion is very eerie and real at its best. However this nice feeling kinda of flattens many times especially it has so much to do with puzzles that keep player stalling. The last crown is very long game and the reason is not the abundance of plot, but rather the confusion it pushes player to. There is too many times I have wondered around finding some last piece of the puzzle or finding the exact order of some combinations to get forward and there we get on the controversial part that should adventure point'n'click game be easy or merciless and this surely is very close to lastly mentioned. I do appreciate puzzles which challenge you to keep as keen mind as possible, but I do felt also that there were parts where developers had been in love with their product so much that they forgot the convenience. If I was not bored enough to be stuck in some detail the slow animations and overall setting gave experience which was revolting at its worse. But nevertheless when there is no option to give neutral review I can do nothing else than to contribute. The Lost Crown in all its clumsiness is mystic adventure that I have had many good hours with and while being sullen looking generally there is so many things in the game that just bursts utter passion of telling a tale of foggy Saxton village and its horrors that it would be injustice to denigrate it. It's interesting graphical design of delivering the world with real photos, archived video footage and animated character models is just something that someone might call beyond ordinary. Damit, even the strange menu with hilarious 3D-animations proved that I was playing something really strange. The Last Crown really shows off how ambitious project it is and that is its trump card when being on the market where there is a lot of competition on these good days of adventure gaming. Buy it on sales and you won't be too disappointed if it is not for you. I feel this is already small kind of cult classic for what I have heard and even have a friend of praising this game unforgettable masterpiece (for understandable reasons), but yet again the target audience may be narrow.