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The Crimson Diamond - A glorious nod to classic 80's Adventure games via Itch and Steam!

We turn our attention away from 8bit gaming for this latest update, as if you're looking for a high quality Adventure game to keep you company via Itch io and Steam, then you may be interested in playing Julia Minamata's glorious nod to classic 80's Adventure games of 'The Crimson Diamond'; A game in which you play as amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of

The Crimson Diamond review: an enthralling retro-inspired EGA game with modern mystery style

The Crimson Diamond is a proper old-school style puzzle adventure. It's 2D pixel art, with a limited colour palette as in EGA games, and you control it with a text parser, like King's Quest or one of them other Sierra adventures old men like Graham remember. It's important to mention this up front because it's very possible that, despite The Crimson Diamond's tale of betrayal, murder, and mineral rights in 1914 Canada, the text parser element will be a Rubicon you instantly can't be arsed to cross. A not unreasonable stance - though I think the text parser in The Crimson Diamond is fantastic. Such beef that I have with this adventure game is down to the specificity required to solve some of the puzzles.

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  • The Crimson Diamond review: an enthralling retro-inspired EGA game with modern mystery styleAlice Bell
    The Crimson Diamond is a proper old-school style puzzle adventure. It's 2D pixel art, with a limited colour palette as in EGA games, and you control it with a text parser, like King's Quest or one of them other Sierra adventures old men like Graham remember. It's important to mention this up front because it's very possible that, despite The Crimson Diamond's tale of betrayal, murder, and mineral rights in 1914 Canada, the text parser element will be a Rubicon you instantly can't be arsed to c
     

The Crimson Diamond review: an enthralling retro-inspired EGA game with modern mystery style

14. Srpen 2024 v 15:00

The Crimson Diamond is a proper old-school style puzzle adventure. It's 2D pixel art, with a limited colour palette as in EGA games, and you control it with a text parser, like King's Quest or one of them other Sierra adventures old men like Graham remember. It's important to mention this up front because it's very possible that, despite The Crimson Diamond's tale of betrayal, murder, and mineral rights in 1914 Canada, the text parser element will be a Rubicon you instantly can't be arsed to cross. A not unreasonable stance - though I think the text parser in The Crimson Diamond is fantastic. Such beef that I have with this adventure game is down to the specificity required to solve some of the puzzles.

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