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Phoenix Springs
• Developer: Calligram Studio
• Genre: Point and Click, Adventure Game, Mystery
• Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
• Steam tags: noir, mystery, stylised, story-rich, sci-fi
• Features: fully voiced, challenging puzzles, atmospheric world.
• Release date: October 7th 2024
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Game Design
Phoenix Springs is a modern take on the classic point-and-click adventure game, where your inventory is a mind map of leads and clues (think detective pinboard). You progress by talking to people, solving problems, and making connections.
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One of the key technical challenges was to achieve the game's unique look: a blend of toon-shaded 3D, digital illustrations, and hand-drawn animations.
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Praise for Phoenix Springs
The New York Times – A Philosophical Journey With Clicks of a Mouse
...a slippery exploration of memory, time and space grounded in Iris’s quest to uncover the mystery of what happened to her brother... This elliptical game dares not to bend over backward to explain itself...
The Verge – Phoenix Springs reimagines the point-and-click adventure as weird noir
Ideas-as-inventory is an elegant revision of point-and-click mechanics, transforming what can often feel like an opaque and sometimes clunky genre into something more supple, streamlined, and modern.
Polygon – Phoenix Springs is a lesson in using negative space, both visually and narratively
Phoenix Springs is playable art, and I could see it fitting beautifully into a museum exhibit, especially because you could really start the game at any given point and still find it fulfilling.
The Gamer – A Vibrant Reinvention Of The Point-And-Click
Phoenix Springs deals with the abstract, from its twist on genre mechanics to its narrative, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I’ve tried to find examples to compare it to and come up short. The point-and-click genre may never be the same, and neither will I.
Rock Paper Shotgun – A surreal detective mystery that's both old-school and new wave
Playing Phoenix Springs feels like David Lynch spliced together the ripped pages of a pulpy sci-fi comic with the storyboards of a broody noir.
Game8 – This is Why Video Games are Art
The debate over whether video games should be considered art has been ongoing for years, but Phoenix Springs feels like a definitive answer to that question. I’ve never been so mesmerized by a game like this, where every detail feels intentional and completely unique.
Engadget – A dazzling and disquieting sci-fi mystery
What’s exciting about Phoenix Springs is that it excels as both a piece of art and a detective game. It occupies a similar territory as Kentucky Route Zero, another title that offers depressing social commentary in a visually fascinating package
A unique and well-crafted adventure with a remarkably intuitive UI, excellent voice-acting, an intriguing story and a stunning visual style. It feels like the pages of a graphic novel have come to life.
I love the art, I love the sounds, I love the voice acting, and I love the way you interact. This looks like everyone I want. A mystery adventure with an aesthetic I want to use to decorate my home.
Phoenix Springs is one of the most stylish, concise point and click adventures I’ve seen of late. There’s no grog in-jokes, pixel art visuals, or over-inflated inventory to manage; it’s a sequence of intuition that flows with finesse.
Just when you've seen it all, a game like Phoenix Springs rolls around and totally blows you away with its storytelling and aesthetic.