Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure

At a time when we eagerly anticipate the next big title to dump hundreds of hours of our lives into, it is always refreshing to come across those little gems full of life and a modest play time. Those games that want to tell you a story without the complexity of your average console game. Enter Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure. The latest title from France based indie developer COWCAT, Demetrios is a point n’ click adventure/mystery title following Bjorn Thonen. Your protagonist is a slob that runs his own antique shop in Paris, and he is instantly likeable from the first few scenes of the...

Most of our adventure games star someone who is larger than life, whether it’s in stature or in the heart. But what if the hero—and I say that rather loosely—is a drunken, lazy, disgusting slob who is far from being the brightest bulb in the box? Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure features such a protagonist by the name of Bjorn Thonen. Bjorn is gross. He doesn’t shower. He has no problems eating thrown away food. God only knows the last time he cleaned his toilet. He owns an antique store, but he’s never there. Therefore, he doesn’t have much money. He also doesn’t have any friends, which i...

A LOT of gross-out toilet humor in a first-person adventure game with visual novel elements - this is what Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure is. The player follows the tale of Bjorn Thonen, a good-for-nothing slacker who gets caught up in a bizarre adventure with his neighbour and her foul-mouthed, spoiled brat of a daughter.

Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fairly underwhelming and disappointing experience. The game’s story is senseless, lacking any feeling of coherence or logic. Similarly, Demetrios’ gameplay is derivative of better point-and-click adventures and does little in the way of trying to differentiate itself from the masses. Moreover, whereas its animated artistic design is certainly the highlight of the game, it is largely wasted on annoying and irritable characters that do little to encourage attachment and are for the most part underdeveloped. The main character, Bjorn, is the epitome of e...

The big adventure of Demetrios isn’t all that cynical, but it certainly is forgettable. I can’t say the game is bad, because it’s not, but also I certainly wouldn’t tell you it’s good. Instead, it’s nothing more than a name added to a list of titles I’ve beaten, and it will never be anything more than that.

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure, from the one-man operation at COWCAT, presents a forgettable tale of Bjorn Thonen and something regarding saving the world. The bad quips and immensely unlikable cast make for a sub-par adventure game that looks great but sounds and feels uninspired.

Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure isn’t really filled to the brim with cynicism, but it does have a decent humorous tone throughout. While the characters aren’t exactly the most likeable people, the puzzles do present a decent challenges to solve, with a well implemented hints system for when you get stuck. If you like classic point & click adventure games, then Demetrios is worth a play.