Much of the machinery includes rock grinding against rock when activated. This game mixes ancient technology with some kind of unknown energy that does things. Quern provides you with a journal where you can keep sketches of things you see. Often times a clue to a puzzle solution is far away from the puzzle itself, and you must remember details from earlier.
Many of the puzzles use an intricate “Rosetta Stone” type of matrix where you compare letters and words to each other to solve the puzzle. There are puzzles involving gears and simple mechanical contraptions, puzzles involving sounds, puzzles involving botany, puzzles involving math, and puzzles involving different crystals, each of which has its own unique properties. Just be prepared to present sound reasoning rooted in the Bible for errors you perceive. I believe it’s okay for children when presented as a fake story and the family all play together, solving puzzles as a team. There is an alchemist lab where you make and eat potions that do mind altering effects that help solve some puzzles. There is a mythology presented, where people obtain god-like powers, but they still have bad tendencies inside themselves. It’s fun when someone says, “Wait, Try This…!” Sometimes one would get an idea, sometimes another. I worked the keyboard and we both reasoned out what to do. Younger children will like the idea of exploring, while older kids and teens will enjoy solving the puzzles together. With that being the case, I do not suggest playing it alone.Įven though Quern is a single player game, this is a game that can be played with a friend sitting alongside, or as a family. These are important feelings to explore from an author’s imagery, but can be overwhelming to someone who is young or sad or tends to have a melancholy disposition. The game is somber, lonely, moody, brooding, and vaguely menacing at times. But they are antagonistic toward each other. From time to time they ask for your help. The scenery is beautiful, the puzzles are challenging, you must do a lot of reading and listening as well as observing. If you enjoyed playing Myst, you will like this game. The puzzles are intricate and interconnected, so you have to think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges. The game is set on a deserted island full of ancient technologies to discover. Quern is a free-roaming first-person puzzle adventure game in which you, the unnamed protagonist, is transported through a portal and isolated in a strange, unfamiliar place.
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