Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack

Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition  Double Pack
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Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!

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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack system requirements

  • OS: Windows
  • Processor: Pretty much anything post-millennial, anything that runs DirectX 9.0c for particle effects.
  • Memory: Anything over 256MB should do, anything that runs DirectX 9.0c for particle effects.
  • Graphics:Any DirectDraw compatible. PixelShader 1.4/ DirectX 9.0c capable card required for particle effects.
  • DirectX®: 9.0c required for particle effects
  • Hard Drive: 150 MB
  • Sound: Any Windows-compatible soundcard

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I have been playing and recording this game for the past couple of months and I love it, from the insane amounts of humor to the racism slider in the settings this game has it all right. I hadn't played any point and click games until this and I love the difficulty of the puzzles. One of my friends randomly bought this for me and I am so glad he did. I definately reccomend this to anyone with an open mind for comedy and puzzles.

MelBee42
MelBee42

Short version of this review: If you like, or have ever liked, point and click adventures, buy this game. You will not be disappointed.

Both Ben there Dan that! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are charming, witty point and click games like they used to be back in the day when that sort of thing was popular. The humour (though more adult) will likely have you not only laughing out loud (genuinely) as it lovingly takes the p**s out of itself and the games it's inspired by. The puzzles are just off the wall enough to be interesting but not massively frustrating. Although the graphics aren't 'great' (well, not fancy, anyway) they fit the games perfectly. I really have not played a game as funny and enjoyable as this in quite a long time.

My only quibble about them would be that they're too short - but that's only because I wanted more. Even at full price, there's plenty of value for money here for the playtime.

In summary, buy this. BUY IT. Why are you still reading this? BUY THIS GAME. Unless you despise point and clicks, (why?!!) in which case, probably don't bother.

TTIO - Puppykit
TTIO - Puppykit

Incredibly stupid.
"This all started thanks to that coat hanger. Let's go back in time and stop coat hangers from being invented!"
Frikkin' luff it :D

X-Doom
X-Doom

Are you the kind of person that enjoys great games? Which are really fun and have an unpredictable story? Do you love point-and-click adventures?
They do that, not through graphichs, but humor. Quotes or references, smart or silly, breaking the 4th wall, you name it. It's a great game, has a soul, and it's one the bests point-and-clicks you'll find.

Just know 2 things:
- Graphics are horrible, but that stops annoying after 10 mins
- Play Ben There, Dan That! first

paulhoey
paulhoey

A collection of two modern classic point and click adventure game, both are hilarious with great puzzles and a fun story.

the1cory
the1cory

I've got to be honest, I only picked this up because of it's cheap sale price and the positive reviews. For what I paid, this turned out to be a good bargain. This package includes two point and click adventure titles. While I enjoyed the first title more, both are still solid games. These games were obviously crafted by people who have experienced the history of point and click adventures, as there are a lot of tongue-in-cheek jokes relating to this genre. While the games were humorous and I had fun, neither of these games are particularly revolutionary and the backtracking can get repetitive. In addition, they're obviously low budget affairs compared to other point and click adventure games on Steam. If you can pick these games up for cheap when they're on sale I say go for it, otherwise there are better options for the price. The first game I would give a 7.5 and the second game I would give a 6.5, so overall this package is a 7/10.

hojusimpson81
hojusimpson81

Ben There, Dan That is a lot of things.

It's ugly, truthfully. It's crude (in many senses of the word), definitely. It's locked into a tiny resolution, puzzlingly. It's paying homage to its roots, certainly. It's poking fun at pop culture and specific events, absolutely. It's short, unfortunately.

If you can get past the presentation and all its warts, and you have a bit of a warped sense of humour, you'll probably find more than a fair share of chuckles (or at least smiles) within this game.

I do stress that it is s a love letter to classic adventure games, right down to the occasionally frustrating puzzles. Know the genre, and know this game. If you don't like point and clickers, and all that they stand for, you'd best pass.

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Time Gentlemen, Please! is what would happen if LucasArts made an adventure game adaptation of a Bill and Ted movie written and directed by Edgar Wright. What more needs to be said?

More than BTDT, Time Gentlemen, Please! is a proper, fleshed-out game. It looks better, is polished, has a stronger narrative, is funnier, and... well, it's better. Not that BTDT is bad, but TGP is great.

I do think that the puzzles can be a bit... Sierra at times, but thankfully Ben and Dan humorously remark on that, haha.

The games are available for dirt cheap, but adventure game fans should find value even at full price. I certainly did.

Ree
Ree

Ridiculous fun plot, hilariously tongue-in-cheek, with crazy dialogue and jokes. Some of the item interactions definitely gave me a chuckle or two-- don't use Dan on Dan indeed! If you play both games in order, you'll be able to get the full effect of the dialogue and in-jokes.

So fun. Much lulz.

zzzzapped
zzzzapped

The only game worldwide that employs "Hitler´s bloody stool" in a coherent puzzle chain.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Tried to play Ben There, Dan That but found the mechanics so awkward and illogical that I decided to trash the game. Sure, there is some humor but that is offset by the awkwardness in maneuvering the characters. Bought this after Tiny Bang Story and was really disappointed - a total waste of money. Never did get to the point where I understood the collecting and use of inventory items. While sticking a firecracker up someone's butt has its humorous side it should not be so exceedingly difficult to perform that act.

jawdoe
jawdoe

Everyone should play this series...such a simple yet solid game..the story is so good, very funny...had a great time playing it.

DoomMunky
DoomMunky

Woop! Funny, zippy, funny, and funny. This is a pleasant way to hang out with Brits, who are much better than us Yanks. They just are, and this game is evidence. I'm in!

teemu524
teemu524

=D

I love these games!

This game and its sequel stand out as outrageously nonchalant champions in their class.

Katphood
Katphood

Great point and click adventure game with great puzzles and many hilarious moments. Very reminiscent of the 90's point and click adventure games.

Sarkoth
Sarkoth

I'm not sure what the people programming this where on, but the result wasn't worth it. Not by a far margin. It looks horrible, plays horrible and the dialogue font makes your eyes bleed after a while.

caruch2001
caruch2001

I have separate reviews for both games included in the double pack

Ben there, Dan That.

This is a legitimately funny and great point and click game. Ben There, Dan That has the point and click elements you expect: inventory, combining items, interacting with NPC’s, puzzles. But it does this with really great humor. Throughout the game I was chuckling to myself at the dialogue between Ben, Dan and the characters. It was breaking the fourth wall a lot and poked fun at itself and the genre. I truly enjoyed playing this and wish it was longer.

The art style is great and fits the story. The rough and wobbly animations of Ben and Dan walking around are hilarious.

The puzzles are fairly easy to figure out and you won’t get stuck with anything.

Change settings for best experience
+Configure the game and use one of the the Hq2x or Hq3x graphics filters. It will let you choose a higher resolution.

Pros
+Funny dialogue throughout
+Art style
+Puzzles are not difficult (this could be a con for some people depending on preferences)

Cons
+Not widescreen?

For lovers of point and click games I would highly recommend this for a quick play through. It’s only about 4-5 hours long but filled with great references and humor.

I believe I paid $1 for this in a double pack with Time Gentlemen, Please! So this is an incredible value.

Final Score: 8/10

Time Gentlemen, Please!

The story picks up from what happened after Ben there, Dan that. You are trying to fix what happened to the world and stop Hitler from ruling the world. You are introduced to "Time Warps" which are just different levels of the game, which are in different time periods. You can fast travel between any of them at any time which is fantastic. There is also a Time Machine that can age and de-age certain items. This is a nice touch to get you thinking about what might work in there.

The game mechanics, etc. are all the same.

The puzzles, again, are fairly easy but I thought at some points it was a little harder than Ben there, Dan That. I unfortunately had to check a guide online very briefly to make sure I was at least on the right track in a few parts.

I didn’t play these games back to back, but this one seems to have a lot more profanity in the text. Which is great! It would always catch me off guard when they would swear. This is just as funny as Ben there, Dan that.

Pros
+Same pros as Ben There, Dan That.
+Longer than the other game.
+Hitler story is unexpected and awesome

Cons
+No widescreen support that i saw. Not a big deal
+Found myself stuck doing the "using everything with everything" more often than the last game.

Taking my time through this game and getting slowed down several times, I logged 13 hours. Which is much longer than Ben There, Dan That. I can’t complain!

7/10 Good

Brandon4108
Brandon4108

If you enjoy adventure games you could do a lot worse than chosing this one. It may not be the most polished or fancy adventure game but it's humorus and entertaining enough that I emjoyed my time playing through both.

The game is very British so if you are turned off by the dry UK style of humor, you may want to avoid it.

For everyone else who enjoyed the old Lucasarts games like Sam and Max and Monkey Island will enjoy these and there are plenty of in-jokes and references.

BrutolMotent
BrutolMotent

It pains me somewhat to give both of these games a negative review since I'm a huge fan of Point & Click adventure games and the game stars two friends named Ben & Dan. From the start, the user interface and controls are a mess and a nightmare. You simply cannot left or right click something or somewhere, you have to scroll through several different actions just to do anything. This becomes incredibly tedious and inefficient - why can't the controls be like every other point & click adventure game? The game features no voice acting at all, so at times the player is stuck listening to no music or the same music looped over and over. Sometimes the diagloue goes on way too long and is very uninteresting. The game tries to be funny with its own unique humor, but it really is overdone and becomes bland fast. There is a lot of backtracking so moving back and forth to the same areas becomes a chore just to progress and the puzzles are also pretty irratating. Some puzzles just do not make any sense and the art/animation is simply not my style: it is pretty terrible. There are a ton of other point and click adventure games out there, which are way more fun - so steer clear of this one unless you want to be in for a lackluster painful ride.

Nat
Nat

Fun and funny. Quite British. A bit rude. BTDT is shorter and simpler, TG,P! is longer and more involved, but both are thoroughly enjoyable little humorous point-and-click adventures.

Dragon Force
Dragon Force

It has an interesting storyline with a hilarious dialogue and some jokes of dark humor. I appreciate the developers of this game and their intention but the controls and gameplay are so bad. Add to this very slow character movement.

Pros: storyline, humour.
Cons: controls, gameplay.

Basically, clever dialogue, bad game.

E_net4
E_net4

This is a must-have for point 'n' click adventure game enthusiasts. You are bound to find several references to other classic games, as well as loads of jolly British humour.

Khorner
Khorner

Ben & Dan is funny but clever, which is a rarety these days. The graphics are simplistic and absurd in a good way.
Excellent oldschool game for point and click fans. Did I mention funny?

PeterC
PeterC

Genuinely one of my favourite point-and-click adventure games. Unlike almost all adventure games which try to be funny this game actually pulls it off, the dialog, descriptions etc. are witty and wry.

Ignore the hours on record stats. I've done at least a few hours just trying to get my speedrun just right (I speedrun adventure games because reasons).

You also get to stick a fist into Hitler's bloody shit, so there's that!

VisuaaliFX
VisuaaliFX

This game has potential for "Click Story" fans.
But to be honest, im really disappointed to this game and only paid it for 0,03€ to make 0,23€ with cards.

This game was cheapest steam game for 9months and 3-4months it was on sale for 0,03€

milkdoes
milkdoes

Lots of funny dialogue. Quite wierd, but interesting story. I got it too cheap for the enjoyment I got out of it.

G. I. Crow
G. I. Crow

Phenomenal and inspiring - goes to show what a fun little project one (or two) lads can have with freeware tools. The game is showered in (very English) charm and is worth the cheap price of admission :)

Exostenza
Exostenza

Two of the only point and click adventure games I ever cared to beat in my adult life. Something about these two games just kept me going until each conclusion although admittedly they are both on the short end. Highly recommended!

zterrans [PRIA]
zterrans [PRIA]

Classic graphic adventure, cheap price. Really all you need. I know the game design is cheap, but its really worth it. The first one can be a little unpolished, but it still has its charms, and should still be played.

Audish
Audish

All I ask of any game is that it does what it sets out to do and does it well enough to be fun. That's why I can thumb up hidden object games and super bare-bones indie titles, because I don't expect every game to be Invisible, Inc. or The Talos Principle. This is one of those rare times when that's not enough, however. Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! certainly do what they set out to do and do it competently, but the bargain-basement mechanics and severely dated humor sets them too far back to recommend in this day and age.

Ben There, Dan That! (the first game in the series, despite the pack name) follows the adventures of Ben and Dan as they quest to get their broken television working. This gets them sucked up into an alien spaceship full of portals to alternate dimensions, where they must assemble the items they need to return home. Once they do, an even more ridiculous set of events ties the conclusion into the opening of Time Gentlemen, Please! where Ben and Dan rule the world. A characteristically bone-headed decision on their part annihilates humanity, and they have to fuck up the timestream even worse to set it all right again.

It's a hell of an adventure that could have been pretty engaging, had it been handled better. Right away, the games make some painfully amateur mistakes to hook the player by starting right in the middle of an adventure, explaining virtually nothing, and then segueing directly into their dumb TV woes. At no point are you going to get a compelling reason to care about their misadventures, partly because this setup is so weak and partly because it only serves to propel all their jokes. It's a parody game through and through, but one you've doubtless seen before at this point. There are the jokes about looting homes for items, about grabbing useless items because they'll be needed, and every other bit of point-and-click metahumor that Sam and Max did better.

The puzzling at least does its job, but only barely. Each area or dimension you end up in has an unspoken objective, usually to get the random item that unlocks the next area. With a limited number of scenes and items to interact with, you're likely to stumble upon the puzzle solutions before you even realize there are puzzles present. That's exactly what happened to me in the dimension where America took over England, I just clicked a few funny lines with the pub-goers and clicked the items present, and that was all it took. Despite having old-school commands for look and use and talk and items and use your partner Dan, all you need to do is grab the right items and talk to the right people and you're golden the whole way through.

I think what really pushed this one over the line from passable to intolerable was the art style. We're talking MSPaint here, all the way down to the animations which are pretty much two frames each. Ben and Dan gyrate around like a pair of demented cactuars and everyone else is barely alive, usually just with blinking eyes or wiggling fingers. The plain landscapes certainly make it easy to find the few items there are but foul up the dialogue something fierce. They went with the LucasArts-style floating colored text but without the chunky pixels or intelligent color choices, the outlines of backgrounds and letters blend together into a nasty, eye-straining mess.

I'm sure these two titles would have found more favor eight years ago, when adventure games were still sort-of-but-not-really dead and metahumor hadn't been beaten even deader by Borderlands. But even then I can't say I would have enjoyed them because they make so many little mistakes that add up to big headaches. More than that, though, there's nothing of substance to help you power through other than some awfully belabored jokes. I can tolerate a rough or even bad game for awhile but I have little patience for parodies that are not on point, and these two lost the point long, long ago.

Did you enjoy this review? I certainly hope so, and I certainly hope you'll check out more of them at https://goldplatedgames.com/ or on my curation page!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Thin story and characters, making it hard to care for either. Dialog overloaded with silly jokes. Tried Blackwell Legacy the same day and felt far more drawn into it.

wyulf
wyulf

a quirky little adventure, where you're constantly challenged to think outside the box for solutions. but it's a fun, and at the same time, a weird and funny ride, although admittedly, the humor might not be suited for everyone.

while 'ben there, dan that!' was a bit more of a classic adventure (loosely used term, it's still fairly absurd, but in a good way), the developers romped it up a bit more for 'time gentlemen, please!' with the time and inter-dimensional travel, which adds a lot more fun to the game.

all in all a pretty great homage to the point and click games of yesteryears, referencing some classics from the lucasarts days, and other pop cultures to boot. and for that low price, you get not one, but TWO games! definitely worth the money for fans of the genre.

anthroteuthis
anthroteuthis

Oh my god, these games are so fun. If you like point-and-click adventures, you must have these. I grew up on Lucasarts and Sierra games, and these are way better. One of the few times comedic games didn't just make me cringe. Just wonderful all around, and worth twice what they're asking.

Skilledℕewbie
Skilledℕewbie

One of the funniest point and click adventure games I've played in years. This game is definitely worth checking out if you like that genre of game.

Liege
Liege

Excellent point and click adventure. Nice sense of humour and nothing over the top hard. Highly Recommended

Sad Pug
Sad Pug

2 games for the price of... wait, 0.5€ will get you barely anything or some really low tier indie game that even Zonitron would be ashamed of.
This game is best value to get while on sale, because then it is crazy cheap.

But anyway, you get 2 games, Ben There, Dan That! and its sequel, Time Gentlemen, please!
Ben there, Dane that is more like an introductory game rather than full release. It is pretty short (3-4 hours), there are pleny of Lucasarts references, but overall humor didn't work for me most of the time, but most hilarious (and at the same time scary) joke there is about political corectness - even though it's a game from nearly 10 years ago, it predicted how far that would go. It's sad and funny.
But overall, not enough puzzles, some rooms feel more like padding (museum) with nothing interesting to see or hear.
Nice graphics with simple soundtrack, but it serves as a prologue to Time Gentlemen, Please!

That's where the game starts. It's around 6-7 hours (so twice as much), humor is much better thought out (with a huge hard-on for Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis), plot is absurd and funny, and dynamic between Ben and Dan is better. Same fine, although incredibly symplistic art style, ok OST, with much harder puzzles, which is both good and bad. Good, because you have to think, but bad, because some of them require you walking between 2 places more than few times.
The only thing that sucked in my opinion was the ending. I hoped for something funnier or making fun of "it was all a dream". I won't spoil it, but be prepared for somewhat a cop-out.I don't mean going back in time, but what happens after it

Only thing bad if I would have to pick one, are controls. Instead of cursor turnning into simple walking/looking function by deafult, you have to switch it every time to walk, use, use item, talk or use your trusty light switching dude. It's not that bad, but it is somewhat tedious that it doesn't change automatically to walking, like most adventure games did and do.

Overall, pack of 2 good point and click games inspired by classics from late 80s/early 90s LucasArt, so you can't go wrong with it, really. Grab it when on sale and enjoy it. Unless you're not into Sam and Max or old LA/Sierra games, then you're better off giving it pass.

< NEW PLAYER >
< NEW PLAYER >

Well, I played all the way through but it was a struggle...British humor for me was very annoying, although game play was fun and interesting, also art is nice, and managed to twist my brain some. Actually finished it!

Not a bad game, cheap too. 6.25/10

UPDATE: Looks like Steam lost some of my hours again, I've also noticed this happening with other games I've left on the shelf for "YEARS".
Actual hours are more like 10.

judges119
judges119

A very fun point-and-click adventure game with British humour and with many barbs on the gaming community (devs/fans/journos). The controls are often shite but the simplistic, fun artstyle and dialogue make up for it a thousand times over.

Ποφικλεϛ
Ποφικλεϛ

Great Point´n Click Adventure with great ("potty/genital level") hunour!

PROS:
- Funny
- Weird story
- Some Nazis
- Some dinosaurs
- not too easy puzzles
- Graphics sponsored by Windows Paint

CONS:
- Primitive humour ;)
- Sometimes a walkthrough is needed
- No real sound effects
- Awesome graphics ;)

Unbeatable for that price, especially on sale!

Shakespeare
Shakespeare

More point and click adventure game references than you can shake a rubber chicken with a pully in the middle at. Well worth a play if you are so inclined.

Polygonica
Polygonica

This game wasn't for me, so I feel bad reviewing it. But it's mostly jokes about point and click adventure games that a kid who grew up in the 00's like me just doesn't get, and so it gets a solid meh from me.

contrivable
contrivable

Ben There, Dan That is a small point'n'click adventure - small in multiple ways. The game is overall very short. I have 3.5h playtime which included time taken for a short family dinner. The play time might serve as an excuse for there being almost no over-arching story. Instead you are presented with a number of, let's be enthusiastic, micro-episode narratives. Music is very repetitive which I could ignore if I could mute it without muting all sound. The visuals alternate between nice enough and borderline too simple.
The most egregious and immersion-breaking problem was that I could play on only a very small portion of my screen, approximately a ninth of it.

+ Self-referencial and witty
0 Short
0 No challenge
0 Simplistic art
- Uninteresting story
- No real fullscreen
- Repetitive music

The game comes with configuration options, including 20 resolution settings, i. e. 5 pixel approximation options (including "off") times 2 resulting screen sizes times fullscreen on/off. Basically the game comes with two base resolutions, 320x240 and 640x480, and each approximation can stretch that to higher resolutions. The "none" approximation keeps the base resolution.
Now, for me none of the actual approximations worked. While some didn't even manage to initialise graphics others resulted in higher resolutions but then cropped the picture to about 65% size (roughly 80% in either dimension) and then didn't accept mouse input. So I was stuck with 640x480 and no way to stretch so I was playing with gigantic black bars - atrocious.
Hearing this it may not seem like a big problem but it disconnected me again and again from the game, disrupting all engagement, extinguishing any fun that could have been had.

Mostly because of the disengaging graphics problems and to a very much minor degree because of the repetitive music I simply couldn't enjoy the game. For those reasons I do not recommend Ben There, Dan That.

Azalus
Azalus

This has unique visuals and a unique sense of humor (mostly poking fun at adventure games in general).

Avoid playing this as your first adventure game if you want to enjoy the humor, though.

SunlessMeridian
SunlessMeridian
Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentleman, Please! Are adventures in the classic point and click mould. That being said they are thick with humour, sometimes lewd, and anyone unprepared for a bit of British “banter” is in for a rude awakening. The puzzles are generally good, although comparable to some of the more confusing 90’s offerings at times, and if you can tolerate the graphics and repetitive sound, and would like something a little different, these two games are unlikely to disappoint.

Humour is something that can be difficult to get right…we all have a sense of it, though more often than not it merely tingles rather than erupts. And that’s obviously because different people find different things funny, and so going pedal to the metal towards a comedy point and click adventure is rolling the dice. And to be completely honest with you, I almost abandoned these two games because of all the funnies…and this coming from a Brit with an understanding of the injokes and fourth wall breaking references.

Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentleman, Please! are peas in a pod, the former effectively serving as a more basic demo of the latter, setting the stage for Ben and Dan’s real adventure. They echo the old school style of point and click from the 90’s (Lucasarts not Sierra) rather than the more modern take we see today from the likes of Wadjet Eye. In practice this means at times the puzzles stray away from the more logical solutions that are more common in later games. In fairness this isn’t really a problem in BTDT, and only becomes particularly frustrating and skewed near the last section of TGP where, for me at least, I was pulling my hair out trying to work out what I should be doing. However, it’s the clever puzzle design that kept me playing. Hat’s off to Size Five Games here, because by the time I’d become sick of the comic interplay between the characters it was the strength of the puzzling that kept me going.

Both games use an unusual interface where the left mouse is the tried and test action or walk button, whilst the right rotates a mini menu between options that activate with left click (walk, talk, examine, item use or Dan use). It took me a while to get used to, but it works well enough with the more standard inventory system in which your items get stashed. And a stash is indeed what you will accrue in TGP, as the game has a habit of not tying up puzzles or items, leaving a multitude of options and potential confusion. This isn’t helped by the common problem of being left in the dark about what to do or where to go next. Both games have an overarching plot but at times don’t really break this down so well into objectives, leaving a player a little reliant on eureka moments.

It’s that tortuous puzzle structure that at times can feel like a little too much of a throwback, and admittedly made me reach for a guide once or twice. They’re generally fun little brain teasers that make sense, but certainly those coming from more modern games are likely to feel frustrated at times, and whilst Dan does offer advice on occasion, a more formalised hint system would have been nice. Again, these problems tend to be limited to the later parts of the second game, and at that point the humour will likely have worn you down, so it’s not an egregious problem and it left me more disappointed with myself but not recalling my old moon logic skills.

The graphics are definitely going to be a barrier to some people, in that they're most definitely a retro project. However, they’re both nice looking, stylised games with a unified aesthetic and generally once past that initial bump won’t be a problem at all, with TGP crisper and better looking than its predecessor. The music does get a tad annoying though, with prevalent repetition and simple themes. Personally however, the biggest issue for me was the walk animation for Dan and Ben…their spidery legs flip flopping around as they moved was like nails on a blackboard for my subconscious. There were however two problems that the graphics and UI caused. Firstly, there are going to be one or two pixel hunts, especially if you’re playing in the standard small window, which is expected but no less irritating.

However, what was incredibly annoying was the occasional inability to select something with the cursor, either not highlighting at all or selecting the wrong thing. More than once was this a problem and held up several puzzles due to missing small or hidden objects that might be assumed to be background art.

So the big one that we’ve so far skirted around….the humour. These games are thick with British pub humour, old references and swearing. To start with it’s endearing, but over time it can become a tad cloying, with almost every exchange quip laden, every sentence some kind of joke or comic aside. On the whole the humour is good, and there aren’t any obvious dips, but the quantity of jocularity can become fatiguing, and at times it’s just too much of a good thing. This could certainly be thought of as the unique selling point of the games, and what with the generally good puzzle design and dialogue makes them stand out. But be very aware that you’re in for machine gun jokes and bad language…something that whilst might be normal in a pub environment really isn’t in an average game!

BTDT and TGP could be considered lost gems from the heyday of the genre, and certainly fans who want something a little different are unlikely to be disappointed. However, the overall narrative is somewhat shallow at times and can lead a player to head scratching moments of confusion…Hitler and his Nazi Dinosaurs must be stopped, and coat hangers erased from history (yep you read that right) but what am I supposed to be doing next? This is made more problematic by the multitude of locations available and inventory items to use, something which tends to be more streamlined in modern games.

Go in to these games for a good time, don’t be too scared about reaching for a guide (though please do try first as most of these problems are cleverly constructed) and there’ll be very little to disappoint. Offering 6 to 8 hours of gameplay it’s a bargain, more so during any sales. And for the record this is exactly what British people are like….exactly….to think we used to have an empire!

Grog_Guzzler
Grog_Guzzler

REALLY WISH I HADN'T BOUGHT THIS GAME. its a tiny inch screen, no way you can change it to full screen spoils gameplay in my opinion.

Night of the Lepus
Night of the Lepus

It was pretty boring cause I didn't like the humor a bit, way too try-hard imo. The game looks aweful, but thats probably on purpose, maybe some people like that. The music is even worse and you can't turn it of, even not with windows soundmixer. (So you gotta endure it or turn all sound on the computer off).
And it was buggy, clicking on somethings sometimes doesn't work, menu's refuse to open, my first save got lost and sometimes Dan and Ben refuse to walk the entire distance you want them to walk so they just stand still untill you click again after which they only walk a centimeter at the time.
Last minus is that the game can't go fullscreen.

There are pro's probably, but after playing this shit for over an hour I'm way too depressed to think about those.

Khross30
Khross30

This game has all the charm of a 90's point and click with a ridiculous and entertaining story. Definitely recommend this for some good light-hearted fun.

Sienical
Sienical

Time Gentlemen, Please!:

I had a good time with it. The humour is a bit too coarse for my tastes, what with the condoms (why did they have to be used??) and the shooting-people-in-the-dick. I did like the Britishness of the dialogue and I think the art looks really nice.
I don't think I'll replay this game anytime soon, but if you like adventure games I would still recommend you try it out for yourself.

xScaredyCat
xScaredyCat

Funny point & click adventures with many geeky references.
Sometimes they tried too hard with humor for my liking but if you like old school point & click games i can definitely recommend.
Time for some nazi dinosaurs~

SL128
SL128

This is genuinely one of the best adventure games I've played. A few bits of writing hasn't aged well, but it is still very good.

NeoDement
NeoDement

as a fan of point and click adventure games I absolutely loved it, humor's a bit hit or miss but mostly hit once you get into it and the puzzle design is all fantastic

buckysrevenge
buckysrevenge

Great pair of funny point and click adventure games that are simultaneously reminiscent and irreverent of the games that inspired them.

Melquiades
Melquiades

Fun adventure game in the old-fashioned LucasArts vein with a slightly filthier sense of humour. There's a couple puzzles that could do with an extra hint but I had a fun, nostalgic time. Well worth it for a few dollars.

skywing
skywing

If I remember correctly, these were very funny games. Good, solid old school point and clickingness.

wizardovoz
wizardovoz

One of the best adventure games, as a tribute to the olden games and by itself
Perfect writing, tons of fun

Stan Gargoyle
Stan Gargoyle

The only point-and-click adventure I've ever played that had a boss fight at the end. It also has puzzles involving Nazi dinosaurs and Hitler's poo. If that isn't enough to recommend it, I don't know what is.

It isn't? Oh, go on then. If you're partial to 90s LucasArts adventures and British sitcoms, you won't go far wrong with this - it's brilliantly written and extremely funny (and quite long for an adventure - but first play the much-shorter previous game Ben There, Dan That!, which works well as a prologue chapter to this, or you'll miss out on some of the running jokes).

The only slight issue I had with it was with its open-ish-world approach to puzzling - a magic map lets you instantly revisit any location, allowing puzzles to span multiple rooms, timezones and even realities. This means that at times you can be working on several puzzles at once which, coupled with an enormous inventory, can sometimes make it less than clear how to proceed - I had to resort to using a walkthrough a couple of times towards the end. But your mileage may vary.

I wouldn't let that put you off, though. It's the most Lucasartsy game Lucasarts never made and deserves a seat at the table along with the classics of the genre.

Lemongrab
Lemongrab

I had a blast. The first game was a quick freebie and felt like it (even though the story and humor were both very good) but this is a proper adventure game in the spirit of LucasArts. If you have any interest in point-and-clicks, you should check it out. Be warned, though, that the humor is rather crude (let's just say that Hitler's bloody stool plays a role) so if you're easily offended, maybe skip this one.

Absolute_NomadLad
Absolute_NomadLad

First things first.. the developers make it damn clear from start to end that this a low-budget indie development. And I liked that about them. There are rarely games that try to be something they are not but aspire to be. Ben there, Dan that! is NOT one of those games. It's very confident, secure and comfortable in it's skin. And I don't think I've had that kind of authentic experience in a VERY long time.
Now that we have that sorted out, one thing that made this game difficult to review was that this game is inherently difficult to rate on a numerical scale. Sure the graphics are more like a 90s game. Sure there's no spoken dialogue. Sure there's no journal system or other modern things that a late 2000s point-and-click adventure game should have. But once you play the game, you realize none of it makes a difference. The devs have put in money, effort and time exactly where it was needed and cut it out where it could be cut out without affecting quality much. And trust me, the end quality super awesome.
This is because it's not just a game. And it isn't supposed to be played as such. If you're 'playing' this by immediately jumping to solving the puzzles.. then you're playing it dead wrong. You are supposed to goof around. Do stuff that makes no sense and try obviously impractical things and pursue stupid dialogue options to REALLY REALLY enjoy the game. This is what makes this game different from those late early 2000s flash games and reveal you it's true identity - a 21st century honest-to-God-true-to-the-dot social commentary. I simply can't say more without spoiling. You HAVE to experience this mates.
Also yeah.. not a single bug.
TLDR: 9/10 overall for the extremely cheap price.

Godspiel
Godspiel

Kinda dull. Very linear. I couldn't be bothered to finish the second one. The occasional Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts reference just makes me wish I was replaying one of those games instead.

EDIT: I just noticed that steam shows me as having played for less than an hour. That's about how long I spent with "Time Gentlemen Please!" I definitely finished "Ben There, Dan That!"

Klokwurk
Klokwurk

Hilarious graphic adventure, especially if you're a fan of such things as Bottom and The Young Ones.

Prissy Old Lady
Prissy Old Lady

Short, small screens, and buggy all around with a few references to Lucas games from back-in-the-day to give it validation and on par with those games. Deary me, no...,

I like the simple art style. Just wish the scenes were larger so I could find my way around easier..

Point & click adventures are my second favorite type of game. Too bad the above complaints left me feeling "meh" most of the time and frustrated to the point of hair-pulling the rest.

Steam...please, please, paaa-lease give us a "Mixed" recommend option so we can clarify our likes/dislikes more directly. Seems much fairer to the devs overall, as well.

Darishnoo
Darishnoo

A pair of short point and click adventure games that pay homage to the genre and games from the old days.

Each game is exceptionally short and linier, with simple puzzles interjected with entertaining banter between the protagonists.

Pros:
The games are bitesize, being simple enough to be fast paced really supports this.
The stories are somewhat entertaining, with enough premise to drive the game forward.
The games are well executed, mining the nostalgia successfully.

Cons:
Everything about these games is dated, and I don’t know how well they would translate to a younger audience. Having played through the old point and click adventures, in the old days, will improve the game somewhat thanks to the power of nostalgia.
Linked to this, the humour is on point for the time. But I’m not sure how funny some of the jokes would be to non-brits, non-older nerds, people who ‘weren’t there’, and non-point and click vets.
My final con is that the game, being a point and click adventure in the style of the old point and click adventure games, suffers from all of the problems of the genre; pixel hunting, rubbing everything on everything else, item combinations that should work on puzzles in theory don’t because there is only one solution. (Though the short adventures make this less of an issue.)

Suggested improvements:
Other than remastering to ease the eye, the only thing I feel would improve these games with minimal effort would be if they were voice acted.
More music and sound effects wouldn’t be amiss either.

Overall recommendation:
If you’re a Brit that played the early point and click adventures, Lucas arts, sierra, or revolutions, and have a soft spot for them, then these games will probably make you smile.

Gmr Leon
Gmr Leon

LOOK, I KNOW, IT'S BEEN YEARS, WHY DIDN'T I REVIEW THIS EARLIER?! Time Gentlemen, Please! It was...A lot to process, y'know, going this way and that through time...It does a lot to a person. You have to synchronize your watches and then you lose the watches, and suddenly you're back to sundials, and goodness, do you KNOW how long it takes a planet to rotate?

Oh, 24 hours? What are you, a smartypants? So what if you mistake a sundial for a calendar and think it's meant to represent the Earth's number of rotations around the Sun in its orbit and SUDDENLY as you conclude this endeavor several times over it hits you, I FORGOT TO REVIEW THIS GAME! Then you come back here, and you write this, and you say NOTHING about the game except for the following, that it's a lovely hilarious game, far funnier than this review can muster, and might I remind you that the developers have another adventure featuring Ben & Dan in The Lair of the Clockwork God?

What's that, did they pay me? LOOK, they paid me in LAUGHS, and what better pay can you get than that, HM? In this the year of our 2021 WITHOUT HOVERCARS OR REAL HOVERBOARDS, not much better, I'd say. Alright, that's it, thanks Size Five Games for the very genero-[NDA REDACTED] and I hope you'll enjoy the game!

jseybert19
jseybert19

As funny and insane as the first one, although I must admit certain puzzles were frustrating. Definitely a fun time for point and click fans. There is a soft kill in the game that will force you to restart so be sure to get the magnet from the fridge.

Bear with me
Bear with me

If you loved the old LucasArts adventure games and desperately earn for more, then you probably definitely should play these 2 games as well. The developers seem to understand the adventure genre very well, cleverly referencing and playing with the genre tropes in both games. The humor is outrageously good (at least to my taste) and the attention to detail is astounding. I was honestly impressed with how many of the "use item on thing" interactions have unique (and funny) responses written for them and not just the usual "That doesn't work!" The puzzles are well-explained and enjoyable, sometimes playing with the media itself, making you think outside the box, breaking the 4th wall and all that. If you get stuck, you can usually exmine or try to combine some stuff you haven't tried before and that would provide additional clues, which is really good design imo.

All in all, great games, great fun, go play them.

moreaboutcrows
moreaboutcrows

As much an essay on adventure gaming as an adventure game in its own right. Seamlessly switches between narrative layers in a manner that not only breaks the fourth wall, but never actually instates it, it's like it's never there, like playing the game and listening to dev's commentaries in the same coherent narration, without ever switching between them. I can think of no other game that does that so naturally.

Furthermore, never since Discworld have I played a game so quintessential to the genre! It will take you roughly 10 hours to play it (maybe 15 if you're actively seeking out every line of dialogue, even the ones written for the more obscure item interactions), but, by the time you finish it, you'll feel you've become familiar with an entire breed of games it belongs to. Again, I can think of no other game that does that so convincingly.

IsaacAsimov
IsaacAsimov

Two short point and click homages to the point and click games of old. Good if you like that sort of thing.

Zeebrax the Astral Lifejacket
Zeebrax the As…

Together, these two games make up an unmissable, absurdist epic targeted at diehard point 'n' clickers. Leave your common sense and political correctness at the door, boys -- it's time to grab your adventure bro (literal or figurative) and gear your brains into Little Nemo in Slumberland mode. There are coarse British jokes about man-sap, bloody feces, and footballers. There are puzzles involving randy mice and used condoms. There are snappy responses for virtually any item combination. Hitler plays a major role in the second game, but the surreal setting and back-alley humor somehow make it much less eye-rolling. That one puzzle involving cat abuse is purely unacceptable -- it did wilt my enthusiasm a bit -- but the grandly stupid finale almost made me forget about it.

The Ben & Dan adventure duology is one of the real classics!