Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is a point-and-click & narrative decryption adventure game produced by Lithuanian indie game studio Tag of Joy.
The transition design at the beginning of the game is quite novel, fixed perspective, simulating the visual style of life, you are even asked to dress up the protagonist of the game, Mirda, by matching various costumes and hairstyles, but if you think that this is just the ordinary pure everyday life in the narrative RPG, it is a big mistake, and the real adventure elements of the game will gradually be revealed as the story progresses.
The puzzle design of this work is also particularly "weighty", and on the surface, it will not directly give the player a decryption prompt, but requires the player to infer the answer by himself in combination with the text information on the mobile phone, so as to further guide the development of the plot. It should also be emphasized that some of these puzzles have more than one solution, the dialogue will branch with different options to various endings, and even the occupation you play at the beginning will affect your subsequent adventure path, for example, if you choose a photographer at the beginning, then you will take the camera, you will need to use some way to obtain the librarian's password, if you start as a programmer or psychologist, you will take different actions to complete the decryption interaction.
In addition, the picture technology performance of this work is also very powerful, 3D and light and shadow rendering is real and delicate, in some close-up shots of dialogue performances, character actions, lip synchronization, facial expressions, etc. are also very natural, there is no sense of violation at all, and whether it is full character dubbing or voiceover are perfectly integrated with the entire scene plot.
As for the specific plot, interested players can move to the intro on their own, the author will not have too many spoilers, and the only thing that can be revealed is that if you are a conspiracy theory enthusiast or interested in an adventure story like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", then this game is definitely for you.
PC game, Steam platform, game name: Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit, 63rmb, does not support Chinese
Text: Suite