Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock Demo

You’re on a routine job when all of a sudden you’re pulled out of your hibernation pod in the middle of what looks to be like your ship crashing. After impact you asses the situation to find a crewmember dead and the pilot severely wounded, trapped in his seat.

Scouring the ship in search for solutions to your troubles you find that one problem just creates another and so on. Welcome to Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock, a point and click with a good plot and a great delivery.

There’s something truly relaxing about Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock and it’s felt right from the moment you start the game. For a crashed ship, things look really calm although the situation calls for anything but that.

Maybe it has something to do with the excellent narration. A lot of point and click games rely on the use of text to highlight what the main character is thinking of or saying but that’s not the case here. Apart from the monologues and conversations with your barely alive crew member, even the hint insertions are voiced. That, along with the greatest sound quality, audio effects and tone of the voices really keep you calm and interested in what you have or need to do.

Visually, Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock looks very good. Ship design and layout along with the textures, colors and lighting simply fall into place to create an appealing game.

On the puzzles side of things, the game might be a bit of a letdown for experienced fans of the genre but it’s not a piece of cake. Since sci-fi is not fantasy, solutions will require both logical and lateral thinking and you will use actual principles of reality.

And, if at some point you get stuck, there’s a radio button that mostly takes the form of a hint system, but don’t use it too often. If you get used to resorting to it quickly it will affect the entire experience and not in a good way.

To sum things up is a point and click you have to try. If not for the puzzles, then for the spot on narration, dark humor and great world design. It really is representative of what’s good in a point and click game.