Point-And-Click Adventure 'Anna's Quest' Released On GOG And Steam For Linux

Daedalic Entertainment's latest game, Anna's Quest, got a same-day release for Linux earlier this week, both on Steam and DRM free on GOG. I've played a bit of the game, and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. The game has been developed by Krams Design with some help from Daedalic, and is presented in a clean and polished cartoon style that makes it fit nicely in with the German developer/publisher's other offerings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_dZPttQH0

The game follows Anna, whose grandfather has mysteriously and suddenly become very ill. She sets out to find a cure for his illness, but is soon captured by an evil witch. This witch seems to know quite a bit about Anna, and proceeds to conduct sciency and painful experiments on Anna to be able to put the child to some unknown use. To Anna's surprise, these experiments bring out the dormant power of telekinesis in her. Through some quick thinking and with the help of a few new allies, Anna manages to escape the clutches of the witch, and is able to continue on her quest to help her grandfather.

I expect fans of puzzle centric adventure games will find much to like in this game. This is a very traditional point-and-click game gameplay wise, though with the added ability of using telekinesis to manipulate many objects. The powers can be used both on items in the scenery and your inventory, and inventory items can also be combined with each other. This provides the framework for good puzzle complexity, and after playing the game for a couple of hours, I can already say that this potential hasn't been wasted. The game starts off relatively easy, with an optional tutorial that guides you through the basics in a way that feels well integrated with the story. It doesn't take long until you're faced with more difficult puzzles though, and I was already stumped a bit on a couple of puzzles before I had managed to move on to the next location in the game.

My only gripe with the game so far, which is admittedly a minor one, is that the menu looks kind of like a placeholder. This isn't helped by the in-game font, which looks much too similar to the dreaded Comic Sans font for my taste. The game itself runs without issues in my testing though, and the Steam version has all of the included Steam features working properly.

It's good to see another Daedalic published game made available for Linux. And with a font issue that required a workaround on Linux fixed in the latest version of their go-to engine, Visionaire Studio, I'm hoping that we'll see more of their portfolio made available to us in the near future.

About the game (Official)

In a land far, far away lives a brave young girl called Anna. She lives a peaceful life in the forest with her grandfather, until a mysterious illness befalls him. And so Anna ventures forth to find a cure for him, but this world is a much more dangerous and bizarre place than she'd thought: putting her journey to a sudden end, the witch Winfriede kidnaps Anna to use her for an experiment.

Winfriede's experiment is a success – Anna develops telekinetic powers, but this is also where the witch’s schemes are foiled: with the help of Ted, a boy who has been turned into a teddy bear, and new powers she can barely control, Anna manages to escape from her cell.

Together with Ted and her new impressive ability Anna is off for an adventure in the haunting world of Grimm's fairy-tales and European folklore. Witches, ghosts, trolls and cursed princesses: no matter if you have to save them or outsmart them – they all play their part in Anna's quest to find a cure for her grandfather.

And since there's no rest for the wicked, Winfriede breathes down Anna's neck, eager to reclaim her successful experiment at any cost.

Classic point & click adventure gameplay, a good deal of black humor and a fantastic story set in a beautifully dark fairy-tale world; the game's designer Dane Krams managed to cook all this into a whimsical adventure-experience of the finest kind.
Almost each mythical creature has their own story in Anna's world and can help her on her quest – or actually needs Anna's help. And if everything else fails, her telekinetic powers are always good to provide a way out of dicey situations in the most lateral way possible.


Anna's Quest is available both on GOG, Steam and the Humble Store (including a Steam key), and is 10% off until next Thursday. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.