Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders ...

Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders ...
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22 October 2012
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The original adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders ... system requirements

  • OS:Windows XP, Vista or 7
  • Processor:1 GHz processor
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:128 MB graphics card
  • DirectX®:9.0
  • Hard Drive:100 MB HD space
  • Additional: Monitor with
    1024x768 or higher resolution support

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Robyrq
Robyrq

First things first. This game is short, very very short. So if you expect a 10 hour long story line don't buy it.
Maybe it is like a 10 hour story line sqeezed into a 1 hour story line as the game switches scenes fast.

Nevertheless I enjoyed the game as it had some kind of nostalgia in it.
Childhood games like Freddy Fish, Putt Putt, Pajama Sam and Spy Fox are very similar to it.
If you're not familiar with these games (You must have had bad childhood as these games were awesome) I can refer you to a more recent game, Machinarium.
The adventures and thrilling story combined with a puzzle every scene made it quite enjoyable.
Sometimes frustrating as some puzzles were hard to complete.
But overal I would say you should buy this game if it's below 0.99 as it gives you an hour or two as enjoyment.

harpandflute
harpandflute

While some of the puzzles are fun, others are infuriating and the 'clues' are frequently much less than helpful and take far too long to appear. In addition there's a fair ammount of needing to click on things at exactly the right moment and if you don't, being sent back to the beginning of that particular 'puzzle'. Even after looking up the walk through, I hit a point where I simply could not click fast enough or accurately enough to progress at all.

Gorge
Gorge

It's alright for what it's worth. A lot of funny, cute puzzles that reminds me of those old adventure games they use to have on those old computers at school{and I wouldn't be too surprised if this game would be among them as well}. It's not much, but then again, you're not paying for much sooooo....

PhoenixT1
PhoenixT1

I usually like to play little indie games, for their artistic value, but this one... Clicking 50 times on a door to open it ? Where is the fun ? Just forget it and play real games.

Artfey
Artfey

Pointless and shit adventure. The puzzles are either simplified or illogical. You can take a hint only after 5 minutes and they are illogical too. The graphics are terrible and the story is just stupit.

"What a piece of work is a game! How noble in purpose! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in creation how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of technology! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of pixels? Hamlet delights not me; no, nor its snarky title neither." - Fitz

RobinChazen
RobinChazen

The graphics are fun and the humour is there, but the puzzles are either impossible without help or so simple they are just silly.

kelseyr713
kelseyr713

A short point and click with a lot of illogical puzzles, quite a few of which involve trial-and-error. The art is great, but that's the only real redeeming feature of Hamlet. Disappointing,

orbitalmindcontrol
orbitalmindcontrol

If you're looking for a great little puzzle-adventure game, then look elsewhere: this is just a frustrating waste of time, with too many trial-and-error puzzles and too little information to go on. The door puzzle, which you 'solve' by clicking 50 times, is a good case in point and there are other equally pointless & obfuscated puzzles throughout.

lumpyspacess
lumpyspacess

If you love unorthodox puzzles, this is the game for you. I found myself staring at the screen for nearly an hour on one puzzle. It is very short and beatable within a day. Would love to play the Romeo and Juliet one (if it does come out) and would hope that it's longer!

Sami
Sami

This game is $5. The same price as binding of isaac. I finished this entire game in about an hour maybe a little bit over. It can be replayed but there's no point because there's nothing new. There are no achivements in this game. There is nothing to do after you finish it. Also the penguins mock you. I finished this all without a guide except the part with the penguins and the old man. There is nothing hard about this game. It's a cute idea and all but seriously. I paid full price for this game and I cry every time because I could've use the money on a game I would've much more enjoyed. This game sits in my library and everytime I look at it I am reminded of the $5 I spent on this game and I cry. Binding of isaac on the other hand, is the same price but has 100x the replayability. There is actual dificulty.

Basically, don't spend your $5 on this game unless you want to pay $5 for a game that you will play for one hour, get bored, and never touch ever again.

Sean
Sean

It's cutesy and not bad overall. Some puzzles are fun and original, but many are uninspired or make me repeat the same thing way too many times (I get how the card game/eyes/door work... don't make me repeat it over and over!). Get it only if it's on sale and you want to throw a buck or two to an indie developer who appreciates Shakespeare.

Terracorex
Terracorex

This is a very short point & click game with some humorous elements. I liked the cutesy art and short Hamlet (sort of) story. Unlike many games in this genre (fixed screen with no camera movement, limited character movement, point & click with no inventory), it has three distinct features:

    • First, there is no indication on what you can click and what you cannot. Sometimes when you click on an area nothing happens since the click may have to correspond to an event somewhere else on the screen. An example of this is having to click notes in the air, once you realize to do that.

    • Second, the clicking (at times) requires a certain degree of timing to the point that it can be very difficult to do what it is necessary. At times, it can be frustrating given the fine degree of movement required where the actual mouse movement may be very small. At other times, it can require a fair degree of patience when you have to move the mouse very quickly and have a tiny window of time to accomplish your goal. Some of these puzzles would be much better suited for a touch interface, since they can have a whack-a-mole flavor.

    • Third, the puzzle elements require a degree of non-linear thinking that exceeds what I consider to be average in this sort of game. Usually non-linearity comes from when you have an inventory and need to think of weird combinations of items. This game has none of that, but rather can be confounding when there is seemingly nothing to do, and you have to carefully considered what minute thing has or could change given the limited interactions presented.

That all being said, it took me a little under 2 hours to complete from beginning to end. The game gives you access to a hint if you spend more than a few minutes on a puzzle. I would say over the half the puzzles are extremely obvious and do not even take a minute to solve. There are a few that require more thought. Most of the time it is just figuring out the rules of what the puzzle entails. This game had a very 7th Guest type of feeling to me in that way.

I was only stumped once in the entire game with the old man and his fishing rod, where the visual clue it gave was not very helpful. I ended up having to refer to a walk through for this one puzzle. The thing I was missing was pretty obvious once I understood what I was doing wrong, but not to me at the time. I suspect most people would not even get stuck at this particular point in the game, since the thing to do is a fairly common requirement in other games involving fishing rods.

I may have eventually got this particular puzzle on my own, but I had reached my frustration point with that one puzzle. This rarely happens to me for point & click games, where even if I'm not making real progress I'm at least eliminating possibilities. Here there was none of that. There did not seem to be anything else I could do and no amount of random clicking was going to help. I can see for some that might be extremely frustrating where you are costing along, and wham! Suddenly you are stuck and nothing makes sense. That is definitely one of the features of this game. I would not say that makes this game bad, just challenging in a perverse way.

Regarding why I actually do recommend this game: Well for me I happen to like short games that I can play and finish within a few hours. I have a ton of games and not enough time to play them all, so having a game I can actually complete from beginning to end, getting that small sense of accomplishment is nice. There are very few point & click games that I would ever want to replay, but this might be one in say 10 years where I forgot all the solutions to the puzzles, since it was fun having to think in odd ways to solve the puzzles.

I know that there are some that dislike this game because they claim the puzzles are "totally illogical". I disagree. All the puzzles have a logical solution, provided you think in a non-linear out-of-the-box fashion. Several of the puzzles are making fun of other point & click games. The puzzle where you having to enter the password given the abbreviations of the elements is a prime example. This reminded me very much of the can puzzle in 7th Guest, but unlike that puzzle which was ridiculous in how long it could take to solve, this one was much easier once you stopped to think what the answer must be.

Overall I would say that a lot of clever thought went into making this game. For the few hours of game play you get out of this game, I would say that it is an enjoyable experience for those well versed in point & click type puzzle logic.

The Big Dawg
The Big Dawg

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't outstanding. And even for a dollar and change, it was too short. I think total playtime (not counting when I left it open due to going AFK for things) was half an hour at the most generous. It looks, feels, and plays like a Flash point-and-click adventure.

Korombos
Korombos

Not bad for a dollar... only took about an hour and a half to puzzle through, though. Some puzzles are based on hand-eye coordination, and I found that frustrating.

TheDContinuum
TheDContinuum

Totally not worth the $1.04 I paid for it. The concept is cute, lots of points and clicks. But the puzzles are frustrating and very few of them, and a lot of them require a lot of split-second timing of mouse clicks rather than logic.

CerebralCort-X
CerebralCort-X

I liked the artstyle. I thought the story was cute and its soundtrack complemented it well. I didn't like that some of the actions had to be done again and again and that the thought bubbles couldn't be cancelled. It makes it easy for one to get bored while playing the game since it required an ample amount of patience. The game was a bit short though, but it isn't that expensive and I bought it while it was on sale, so I guess it was worth what I paid for it. Although it was a short game, it was fun while it lasted.

Pannacone
Pannacone

I love short games, and I love cheap games. I love short, cheap games that tell touching stories with impossibly deep characters. Conversely, I don't love short, cheap games that are unfortunately lacking in quality—games like the obnoxiously titled Hamlet (or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement). Although it does have an attractive, cute art style, Hamlet is rife with non-intuitive, often frustrating puzzles and a plot that is ridiculous in a way that far surpasses the tasteful.

Hamlet starts out with the plot of Shakespeare's famous play, but within a couple panels of the first cutscene, it's transformed into a grotesque attempt at a modernly witty version of a classic. The main character, Hamlet, is quickly replaced by a time-traveling scientist from the future who, after crashing into Hamlet and incapacitating him, is required to rescue Ophelia from Cladius in Hamlet's place. This scientist is forced to follow a line of plot that is loosely based on Hamlet to return Ophelia to her proper place at Hamlet's side. While an intriguing idea for a storyline, the delivery of the oddly sci-fi events is done in such a way that the game goes from quirky to downright deplorably ludicrous.

The gameplay of Hamlet is not a standard point and click adventure. The player is missing the typical inventory system and dialogue of such a game. Hamlet is instead played in silence, with the main character only communicating in brief, uninteresting thought bubbles. The short puzzles that the player is presented with are often incredibly nonlinear, to the point where I often found myself simply clicking all around the screen to see if I could simply stumble upon the answer to some of the more farfetched puzzles. The illogical solutions to the puzzles are made more frustrating by an interface that in no way highlights which objects on the screen allow for interaction.

Hamlet's frustration-inspiring, nonsensical puzzles do very little favors for its equally nonsensical plot, and not even its somewhat attractive atmosphere can pull this game back from its failings. At only an hour or two of teeth-gritting, boredom-inspiring gameplay, this tiny indie game isn't worth a misplaced dose of hopeful curiosity or the irritation that comes with its small price tag—even if it's picked up in the middle of a Steam sale. I suppose, in this case, the old adage holds true: you get what you pay for.

Tailen
Tailen

Fun little puzzle game in the style of 'escape the room'; reminiscent of Windosill. Apart from a couple of screwed up puzzles (like the horse), it mostly makes sense and won't take more than a few hours to finish.

Alkirin
Alkirin

I like it.

There isn't much to expect and the title pretty much spells it out. It's a simple game loosely based around Hamlet and, woefully enough, the title is damn apt.

It's true. It's fucking true.

I got this game years ago thinking it was some cute thing, I didn't expect to look back at it 5 years later and think "Holy shit, it's true".

It's fucking true.

Bearboots
Bearboots

I picked this up on sale for 50 cents so keep in mind that this review is based on it costing very little. Normally this game costs $5. This game is not worth $5! I say this because it is incredibly short. The entire game takes 1 - 2 hours and it has no replay value. The puzzles are quite unique so even if you haven't played the game in a few months you would remember how to solve the puzzles.

That being said, the art style is lovely, music is nice and the puzzles are different. The one puzzle in this game was beyond frustrating. After 10 minutes I admitted defeat and asked for a clue. After staring at the clue for another 10 minutes I went onto google images. I like these point and click puzzle games and to be honest with you I would rather play a short game like this where the puzzles are clever instead of something a bit more long winded like Puzzle Agent where the puzzles are designed by flipper handed freak children that you play over and over again because the guys in the clever department took off early for lunch and never came back somehow...

So... worth it if you pay under $1 or otherwise it's just too short to validate spending that amount of money. Doesn't come with cards or achievements but heck, kept me entertained for an hour and a half.

6/10

Lyzzie
Lyzzie

First of all: this is a SHORT point and click game. Really short. Although it's very fun and the graphics are quite beautiful!

The storyline is very simple, and has very little to do with the Hamlet of Shakespeare.

Even so, I do not regret one second of the hour that I spent playing this little game!

cga squid
cga squid

Not as clever as it thinks it is, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Hamlet. Imagine Myst, but with every puzzle having to be completed in strict sequence, an even more simplified interface, a complete lack of coherent story, and *ugly* cartoon graphics. There are a couple of interesting ideas here but they're not very developed, and the game isn't nearly good enough to warrant a title that arrogant and self-satisfied.

Overall, it's a way to kill an hour or two, but it ain't Shakespeare.

Son of a submariner
Son of a submariner

Despite the somehow passive aggressive sounding second title which is pretty dull, „Hamlet“ is a nice short (very short!) puzzler with very logic and fun puzzles, some rather discrete Humour and a funny tory based (kind of) Shakespeare.
But 4, 99€ is a pretty harsh pricing for one and a half hours of gameplay. Get it only (!) in a bundle or while it is on sale.

... btw, why does the Community hub not have a discussion site?

Susi
Susi

So, I just bought this game for 74 cents. I played it, check my playtime and I beat it. To be honest I didn't expect much more from the game for being so cheap. That's why I give it the judgement of being good only if bought on sale.

Reasoning:
Pros:
- The artstyle is nice
- The music fits great
- The point & click boss are fights amazing
- Great humour

Cons:
- Beat it in a little over an hour
- Puzzles aren't too challenging (1 puzzle drove me mad for 20 minutes and that's the worst I had to deal with)
- Underwhelming final boss fight compared to others

Vertigo 1
Vertigo 1

If you're of the typical point-and-click type, know that Hamlet isn't that. Straightforward as a game can be, you only can click what you actually need to click. The puzzles range from obvious to clicking whatever until you advance, though most seemed fun to me, what with following the twisted game's logic to find out the right sequence. You can see a clue after some time in every stage, I personally tried to use it as little as possible (Three stages, if I recall correctly), but the clues themselves are symbolic and not too obvious to follow. I found it endearing in the storytelling and art departments, and overall, if you like frustrating puzzles like me, Hamlet can be a good investment if you have some leftover wallet money to even out or something, as it tends to be at less than a dollar.

Shotgun_Kitten
Shotgun_Kitten

Quite interesting point and click adventure puzzle games.....have a decent stories and great gameplay.

slimbuttons
slimbuttons

This game has a self-aware wit and a good-natured feel.

I didn't enjoy it very much, even at this length, mostly because--for me--the puzzles weren't very enjoyable. They didn't link to the narrative action in any sensible way, and their internal logic sometimes also felt random, to me.

To be fair, the game seems self-aware about all of this stuff, and doesn't present itself as more than a slightly meta, silly, point-and-click. I guess it just didn't, for me, do the pleasurable things that some point-and-clicks, even short and silly ones, can.

Nene
Nene

It is a fun little game, smart and absurd at times, mixing comedy with a cute knight must save the princess story.
I quite liked the hint section that sometimes can be as puzzling as the puzzles themselves.

Mad Pigeon
Mad Pigeon

Plain and predictable point-and-click quest.
Bought because of buzz, played because of trading cards.

Lord Victor
Lord Victor

I guess you could say my qualms with this game are more an issue with my over-consumption of puzzle/adven games than it is the actual state of this game. I remember when I was driven by this urge to solve all puzzles in any game I played without using any clues. Sadly, that zeal is gone. And this game only confirmed why. When people talk about a game having clever puzzles, I get why they are saying that. The door puzzle in this game that requires you to “look” closely is a good example of such a clever contraption. Yet I simply don’t care. I don’t care about beating the monkey at the convoluted game of RPS just so I can continue the story. Its seems to be a combination of investing a considerable amount of mental energy to a puzzle only to find out the solution does not match up with this energy and the use of puzzles as artificial walls I must scale to continue the story. Narrative-heavy P&C adven games often fall victim to the former while games like this one are prone to the latter. Indeed it could be impossible to expect a game that has puzzles that would satisfy the itch I personally want to scratch precisely because I may be the only person who has this particular itch. I just want to play a puzzle/adven game where I don’t feel like the puzzles are being dangled in front of me like a carrot. I would love to try a game that makes me want to solve the puzzle in the same way I want to experience the story. Seems like a hard balance to strike. Maybe I have to do it myself.

jon gnarbuckle
jon gnarbuckle

Despite advertising itself as a point and click with logical puzzles, this game has some God-awful examples of "chicken pulley" logic I've seen in the genera. When the game isn't deliberately obfuscating the pieces of the puzzle the solutions are obvious. The art style is great, but further complicates the gameplay. The game is literally an hour long - I had to leave the game on in the background for two more hours just to get all of the cards.

Lady_Lillit
Lady_Lillit

Cute little game. Took me only 107 Minutes.
The the remaining time is for collecting the 4 Trading Cards. (While playing nothing dropped.)

It doesn't worth the full price of 4,99 Euro. I got it in a bundle.

Squabattack
Squabattack

A fairly clever game with zany puzzles (that I wasn't prepared/able to do without a walkthrough... sigh). It's a good way to spend an hour or so in an attractively cartoony world and it's pretty fun to think back to Shakespeare as you play the game (which is only very loosely based upon Hamlet).

Thea Topaz
Thea Topaz

Lucky I bought the game cheap. The graphics are nice as well as some of the puzzles. But gosh I hate the ending. It is diffuclt because it goes to fast.

It is short. But I can't say it's fun. Just that I enjoyed the colors.

I hate the last level. I can't complete it. I try so hard to be positive but this is a thumbs down.

Sienical
Sienical

The music gets repetitive very quickly, the story is nonsensical and the hint system takes way too long to load. But it's short and the art style is really nice and I kinda liked the puzzles (even though they don't make sense).

aaronwells
aaronwells

This was a fun game, but very short, with a story very, very loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

It's a humorous puzzle game, where you solve problems in each scene by clicking on items in the scenery. Some of the puzzles were very funny, and require some serious out-of-the-box thinking. A built-in hint system unlocks if you take too long to solve a puzzle, so this kept it from getting too frustrating (I needed to use it twice).

The story is 100% linear, so the fun of the game comes from the wacky puzzles and unconventional solutions. It took me about 90 minutes to play it through, and it doesn't really have any replay value, but if you can get it for cheap it's worth a spin.

stranger1982
stranger1982

In Hamlet you play the part of a time traveler who inadvertently squelches the real Hamlet with his time machine and thus decides to take his place as the hero of the story: you'll be solving puzzles in five different chapters made up of five levels each.
While sporting some nice art and a quirky humour Hamlet can sadly quickly turn into an exercise in frustration due to its obtuse puzzles and somewhat useless hint system.

PROS:

-nice art style

-quirky sense of humour permeates the whole game

-some puzzles are interesting and offer a fair challenge

CONS:

-apart from the title and characters the Hamlet theme is basically never touched upon

CONS:

-most puzzles have an obtuse design and are very vague in how they function. Sometimes you have to click more than once, sometimes the clicking is timed, other times you have to memorize a quite lengthy sequence or just try and make sense of very vague ambiental clues...I honestly managed to solve a couple puzzles simply by randomly clicking all elements once I was frustrated enough

-no way to know what you can actually interact with in each screen, leading to random clicking all over in every scene

-the hint system is fairly bad, not only you have to wait five full minutes before you can get said single hint but its quality ranges from feeding you the solution to a drawing as vague as the puzzle itself

-not much in the way of a story and the characters offer very little apart from their name

-quite short, unless you get stuck on a puzzle you'd be done in 1,5/2 hours

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=563279116

I really appreciated Hamlet's tongue in cheek take on the genre, its quirky humour, nicely drawn art and first few puzzles: but things soon got frustrating when logic got thrown out of the window and I started facing puzzles that required me to decipher a few extremely vague hints and hopefully understand what I was supposed to do. A few puzzles also require you to very quickly click certain items before they disappear and the split second timing involved can get aggravating aswell. There's a fine line between a challenging puzzle and an obtuse, frustrating one and I often felt as if Hamlet crossed said line way too many times to stay enjoyable.

All this is made worse by the hint system, waiting five minutes for the hint if you're already stuck on a puzzle is not fun and, once opened, the hint was sometimes as bad as the puzzle it was supposed to help with thus leaving me bashing my head on the problem or just trying to find an external guide.

It honestly says alot about the puzzle design when, after finishing the game, I still have no idea of the logic behind three puzzles as I simply solved them randomly clicking their elements while waiting for the hint to appear. For its sale price of a dollar Hamlet wasn't a total waste of my time or money but its problematic puzzles and barebones story make it an hard game to recommend.

CoffeeQueen
CoffeeQueen

So Hamlet or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement:
It took me like an hour to play the entire game... That is a bit short for the whole game play. But if a game is really great and fun I wouldnt mind the length too much. However I really love Shakespeares Hamelt and personally I didnt like what they made off it - with an alien hero and an evil Polonius... That just wasnt for me.

PRO
- clear and well structured screens
- help if needed
- very different and unique challenges

CON
- extremly short
- weird story line (sorry but an alien replacing Hamel?!)
- easy tasks (password, etc.)
- far far away from anything remotely related to Hamlet. Really its just using the names.

Conclusion: Genreally, the idea of making Shakespearen classics into fun cute-art point and click games is great. Unfortunatly I did not much like this games try at it.

xenofoxx
xenofoxx

Hamlet... first off has an odd and lengthy name. I assume it's making fun of the development of much larger studios, but ignoring that so many indie developers make games without MMORPG features, Shaders, and Product Placement.

That aside, it's a short point-and-click adventure game that reminds me of Amanita titles like Samorost 2 and Machinarium.

You play as a time traveler who accidentally incapacitates Hamlet. The fact that Hamlet is fiction, I'll assume the time traveler is within the universe of William Shakespeare and not our timeline. As a result, you must take his place and rescue Ophelia from the clutches of Claudius.

The puzzles range from super easy to very challenging, and even a bit obscure. There is a hint system but it's not always the most helpful. (That's where Steam Guides come in handy)

tvhell
tvhell

Oh well. The game is short, uncomplicated, visually appealing. Some of the puzzles is very... uh... weird (at least the logic of their construction strange and pretentious), but they can be solved. Even the in-game hints are in the form of riddles (ouch!). The game generally good, I spent one hour there and it was a pleasant hour.

Officer of Lies
Officer of Lies

Eh, its not bad. Very short. I only have such a long run time because I enjoyed Claudius' Guitar Solo.

Crafozura
Crafozura

Hey everyone and this is my review about the game!

The game is a Point and click Puzzle game.

Interface/Menu/Settings

There is no options in-game (Only at the game-load up but this is close to nothing)

About the game.

The game reminds me from games that are from 1998.
Music isn't interesting and gets annoying quickly.
Game is really boring.
Game has puzzles.
Game has a hint system.
Game is trying to add "funny" sound inside - which totally isn't at all. (Or trying to be funny with animations)
It only has 5 chapters - and each chapter had 3 levels.

Other things.

Title name, Way too long.

jcknite
jcknite

Hamlet or [insert words here] certainly lives up to its satire laden title. The game lampoons not only its Shakespearean source material, but also the expected conventions of adventure gaming. Reading scraps of paper will only provide false leads. Multiple interactable objects... sometimes whole areas of the screen... are useless in these lateral thinking-esque exercises. There are some "normal" puzzles, sure, appearing just frequently enough to lull you into believing that the zaniness has stopped, right before you run smack into the next inane situation. But, unfortunately, none of that is actually enjoyable.

For most, the appeal of puzzle games is in solving puzzles. Here, however, there is no sense of accomplishment when the screen temporarily goes black, signifying the move to the next level. Oh, you might recognize the cleverness of the developer in constructing such an abstract solution, but you didn't actually solve anything. You just clicked on the part of the screen that was clickable... for one "level", you clicked on the exact same spot a few dozen times, just waiting for something wacky to happen.

Hamlet or [etc] would make for an entertaining animated short. The character designs are cute, the movement is fluid, the sound effects surprisingly catchy. Most importantly, the surreal sense of humor would work perfectly in that medium, fitting into the mold of Chuck Jones cartoons. Take the existing assets, drop the forced clicking, and you've got something here. As a game, however, it's not worth playing at any price.

Shawnecy
Shawnecy

This suffers often from the typical problems of adventure games: outlandish logic that requires a whole lot of trial and error to figure out the exact order of hoops the developer wants you to jump through. Some puzzles are a bit clever, and perhaps if you're a real big adventure game fan you'll enjoy this. I didn't enjoy this and I suspect most people wouldn't either. Do not recommend.

Cap'n Edward
Cap'n Edward

I love shakespeare and it was in sale so why don't give it a try.

Buy the game, download the 87MB, play it for 30 minutes, unistal the game

Pros:
-Shakespeare
-Laertes' Helmet
-Music

Contros:
-Fucks Up Shakespeare's most famous play.
-Has impossible and ambiguous puzzles
-Too Short
-Boring as peeling potato
-Don't worth the money

benzado
benzado

It's a cute game, but I can't imagine how you would solve some of the puzzles without resorting to a guide. (Fortunately, a kind soul has posted one on Steam.)

Aeriana Filauria
Aeriana Filauria

Really obtuse- although it had some clever puzzles at the beginning, most of the solutions later on were designed to just be as awkward as possible.

Snort Cannon
Snort Cannon

Hamlet or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement aka the worst game name I have ever heard in my entire life is a point and click game, where you play as little time traveler who disrupts the tale of Hamlet.

As stated you play as a time traveler who accidentally disrupts the tale of Hamlet and now has to save Ophelia Hamlets bride to save time.

In the game you don't actually don't control the small man, but you actually control the environment around you. Solving puzzles and stuff like that.

The game has a somewhat decent art style and that's about all the good I actually have to say about the game. This game otherwise is rather boring and not even worth purchasing and let me explain you why.

Now I absolutely love adventure games. It's my absolute favorite genre of games and the staple of this genre is cryptic puzzles, but in most adventure games there are only a few puzzles that are cryptic, but Hamlet and the rest of the name I won't even retype the entire game is cryptic.

You won't be able to solve all of the puzzles without resorting to a guide. Now let me explain a bit why some of the puzzles are just way too hard. In one puzzle the little alien guy is knocked out and to wake him up you have to make him think 2x2=4 which is not explained anywhere and you only think of it logically and imagine now that the entire game is full of puzzles like that and you have yourself this game.

The game is also incredibly short. With a guide (which you will definitely use by the end of act 1) will take you around an hour finish the entire game and after that there is next to no replay value what so ever.

This game also sets up a sequel and since this game came out in 2012 and there's no sign of the sequel I highly doubt it will see the light of day. The developer of this game is also working on Franz Kafka The Game which is supposed to release in 2017 so hopefully his mistakes on Hamlet are fixed in that game.

In the end this game is bad. It's only saving grace is the rather cute art style. Apart from that there's literally no reason to play this game as it's too cryptic. I suggest skipping this and picking something else.

Final Rating:
4/10

Pros:
+ The Art Style

Cons:
- Puzzles are way too cryptic
- Short

SerenadeNeko13
SerenadeNeko13

Hamlet is a cute little point and click adventure game. Though the puzzles can sometimes be complex, it's pretty easy to zip through this game in one sitting. I liked the gameplay, and the puzzles, personally. The music notes puzzle was the most infuriating of the bunch, tbh. The storyline was fairly short and to the point, but I could easily see the influence it had from the original play. I enjoyed the elements of storyline. There was hints as to another "Hero" story, and I'd like to play it, if it's ever made.

Pietvergiet
Pietvergiet

Was actually just looking for a game with a ridiculously long name, but as it turned out the game was pretty fun.

Foxysen
Foxysen

Hamlet or the most pretentious title to ever be witnessed by a man that will horrify you in a Steam library once you succumb to a Steam sale is a game about...
Seriously, wtf did author have against shaders? They are nothing but an improvement, no matter how much of a retro hipster you are.

But yea, it's a puzzleish game based off Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet is a pretty cool drama with an incredibly witty tongue. Albeit not nearly as amazing as society of high intellectual class claims. Personally, I think that you should widen your perception of drama by reading Leo Tolstoy's "about Shakespeare and drama" article, where the Russian 75 year old dedushka that is the writer of "War and Peace" roasts Shakespeare's works completely and without mercy. It's real hot!
Not that it matters because the game doesn't use the source of inspiration past very twisted basic premise, so loleth.
Like, barely. It could just be based on some fairy tale instead.

Made in 2010 by some Russian dude. Mostly notable because for once "Russian Quest" genre that we have there doesn't suck. It's 25 rooms game. No backtracking, no inventory, no movements by itself, you just click on stuf fon a screen. Mostly it's puzzles. Sometimes I found some puzzles require me to use puzzleish hint but I found those ones rather clever. No shame in using hints in those two-three rooms. And some screens are like minigames. It actually requires you to quickly click on a few hotspots a few times so if you play adventure games due to completely lacking in reflexes then you should skip this one.

Otherwise, eh, it's cute. Short and nice. Even if this title horrifies me in no end. I say, for such crime we must catch the dev and strap him to the chair and not let him go until he remembers the proper plot of Tragedy of Hamlet the Prince of Denmark.

[TJD] Trikeman
[TJD] Trikeman

Short and very easy, I still enjoyed this game a decent amount. Maybe wait until you can catch it on sale, but if you're intrigued, it's probably decent to check out.

archcorenth
archcorenth

What is the point of name dropping Hamlet if it has nothing to say about the play? I guess I expected some sort of parody. But they've just borrowed three names. Claudius murdered both of Hamlet's parents?

bigus dickus
bigus dickus

Amusing game, although very short. I recently rediscovered it and still enjoy it as much, even if it took me significantly less to finish. The graphics are nice, the puzzles entertaining and rather original, and the simplistic story works for the game's tone. If you'll buy, rather buy during the sales.

Chthonic Rook
Chthonic Rook

It's interesting, but not a great game. Short, some clever puzzles, some moon logic puzzles, some puzzles you've seen before.

kingshpsvu
kingshpsvu

This game is cute, however when playing on my PC keyboard, some chapters are very hard to pass because the computer response time is slower than my reflexes. For examplel, the music scene and the very last scene are very frustrating to complete

Hirsine
Hirsine

Go watch Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet on DVD or BluRay for the 5-10 bucks. This is just WAY TOO EASY point and click game that uses characters from Hamlet.

Qooirk
Qooirk

This was a fun little puzzle game. I had to look up a couple helpful hints to get through the seemingly-simply but deceptively clever puzzles. There's no highlighting of clickable objects so you really need to focus on the whole page. Between the puzzles is a fairly quick story with simple goals. I got it on sale, and I have no regrets purchasing it. However, it is short enough that, having worked through the puzzles once, I probably won't play it again for a while.

russianbluewitch
russianbluewitch

Short and sweet little romp. A lot of the puzzles tickled me; while they seem a little heavy on pixel hunting and trial and error at first, most of them give a nice aha moment when you catch the trick.
It is a one-hour experience with no replayability but it's a delightful hour that you'll remember fondly.

staver808
staver808

A goofy and charming point and click adventure. If you like the genre, worth checking out. Only complaint is this was a bit on the shorter side. Still, all in all a fun game.

Astaritus
Astaritus

Many of us dreamed of going back in time and witnessing some important event. But what if, while moving, you accidentally question the very existence of the universe?
There is only one way out - to correct your oversight - by repeating the events that you prevented!

Pros:

    • + Excellent hand-drawn graphics
    • + Mind-blowing puzzles
    • + Humor
    • + Plot
    • + Boss battles!

    Minuses:
    • - The missing story of Romeo and Juliet!

Total:
Great hand drawn puzzle. Interesting and unusual puzzles make the player think differently. Classic quest, with several final bosses. Games for reaction, attentiveness and dexterity. And all this for a few cents!
The game is recommended for purchase, suitable for both adults and children.

Caesar
Caesar

If it's on sale, not a bad, fun little distraction

KDD!^putler kaputt 26/93
KDD!^putler ka…

Aт amusing short casual adventure game with post-modernistic tendencies. 

Some puzzles have moon logic. Some animations are stiff. The text isn't warped to follow book's curvature. The thinking is too long. Multiposition switches have no reverse on RMB.

It's alright.

CJ HUNTER
CJ HUNTER

Do people actually play this kind of stuff ? Why ?

Joystick Hero
Joystick Hero

Gameplay: 7
Graphics: 10
Sound: 6
Value: 9
Tilt: 8
Overall: 7.8
A FANTASTIC game at $0.49. There were some frustrations with the nature of some of the puzzles, but the art direction was fantastic, and easy access to a guide via Steam smoothed many of the more frustrating elements over.

Vervexx
Vervexx

In this game, you play as Space Hamlet, a little guy from the future with a lightbulb on his head and a funny spacesuit who, after crushing the real Hamlet with a spaceship, has to save the princess and defeat the badguy in order to avoid a paradox that would end the world.

I have to start this review by saying the whole stylistic side of things has a ton of personality and I loved it. The character designs are original & creative, the levels art is well-made and often colourful.

The story (which is obviously based on Shakespeare's Hamlet) is charming while simplistic.

There is also a lot puns, science references and silly joke which I liked.

Now, let's talk about the technical side of things.

I'm a big fan of point-and-click games and have played a lot of these in the last few years. Recent and older ones. I have to say this game has some of the most frustrating puzzles I've ever seen since they're rythm based and I literally don't have the reflex for that kind of stuff. I can click fast without much issue but

For example, one boss battle entirely consists on clicking a tiny target while leaving you virtually no time to do so THEN click on another smaller hidden target. This alone took me about 15 minutes , wondering If I was even doing the right thing before getting lucky enough to miraculously hit both of them in this super short delay. That part was honestly painful.

Some others rely on a weird logic and almost require you to click randomly everywhere (sometimes multiple times) in the hopes of something happening which was somewhat confusing and almost made me quit at one point.

Not really what you would expect (or wish) in this type of game and I think it made the whole thing a lot less enjoyable than it would have been if they had included more logic, deduction and observation challenges instead.

There is also an issue with one puzzle in particular which is color-based, random (so no workaround with symbols here) and can prove to be problematic for persons with some types of colour blindness because of the shades it uses.

That being said, I can't say I was displeased with my purchase because :

- the whole experience was pretty short - around 1h15 total which was appreciated, it didn't overstay it's welcome at all

- It didn't cost a lot (I got it on sale for around 0,60 cad , which I recommend you also do, I wouldn't pay full price for it)

- the graphics are sweet, the story is funny and I had a pleasant experience for the most part (even If I feel this target puzzle will give me nightmares)

- It sure has some flaws but I'd recommend it to any gamer able to see past that. I'd give it a 6.5 / 10 since it's a decent title but nothing fantastic .

evilweirdo
evilweirdo

Charming, but obtuse, and occasionally relies on dubious real-time precision clicking to solve puzzles. You'll need a walkthrough the whole time anyway. I'd simply suggest watching a playthrough.

Elfen
Elfen

worst point and click puzzle game ever. love it

Nostalginaut
Nostalginaut

It's whimsical and goofy, but somehow not actually funny at all. A couple good jokes at its best.

Wonju
Wonju

It concerns me that the author is still making games and nobody is doing anything to stop him.

DerPassagier
DerPassagier

It's just very bad. Bought it for next to nothing, still feel robbed.

Dresius
Dresius

This game has more in common with exercises in patience than a fun point-and-click adventure.

Old Man Fanta
Old Man Fanta

A whopping 42 minutes of gameplay. Cute, if you've read Shakespeare, but there are better things you could do with your time.

V L A D O S A U R
V L A D O S A U R

It was 43 cents on sale and I needed 43 minutes (roughly) to finish. Once you figure out that the game is "quirky" when it comes to logic half of the time, you can beat it. So A BIT annoying but cute and short.

meerkatzg
meerkatzg

A game for puzzle lovers...

There is not much to say about the game because, briefly, it is a puzzle game where the main story is Shakespeare's well-known Hamlet but in a funny way (like a parody and let's be honest this isn't Hamlet). The game will take you 1-2 hours to complete (the puzzles make sense, so you won't have to think too hard).

I'm rambling on🤔 recommending or not the game cause I don't think it's something you need to play, but maybe you can pass the time if you have nothing to do or maybe when you want to exercise your brain. The story is bad executed.

Note: This is for badger collectors, the game has trading cards. Sorry to achievement hunters, there are no achievements here.