5 reviews
Encodya
It’s 2062. Tina – a 9 years old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian – on a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.
Details
- Released
- January 25, 2021
- Developer
- Chaosmonger Studio
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Puzzle · Adventure
- Publisher
- Assemble Entertainment
Similar Games
Encodya Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Encodya is a point and click adventure game, in the same vain as Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle. Just by my saying that, I'm sure that you may have
There are a great selection of point-and-click adventures with fantastic stories on the market, and now, Chaosmonger Studio’s ENCODYA is reaching out to widen audiences with its release on console. Originally released back in January 2021 on PC, players will be whisked away on a cyberpunk-themed journey on the PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series X as well as on the Nintendo Switch.
Encodya is a point and click adventure game set in the grim cyberpunk world of Neo-Berlin in the year 2062. The game is developed by Chasmonger Studio, and follows nine-year-old orphan Tina as she, alongside her robot companion SAM_53, try to learn more about her past and the state of the world she lives in. Like most point and click games, the backgrounds are pre-rendered, but unlike more traditional entries in the genre, the character models are 3D cel-shaded, instead of 2D.
Encodya brings an atmospheric, cyberpunk feel to a well-worn genre, but with a mundane plot and puzzles, it fails to capitalise on its setting.
Maybe this game could have been a better experience on a different console or on PC - if the hardware was more powerful it might have been able to brute force through these performance issues. But, ultimately, Encodya is a game with a relatively simple presentation on a platform that can still run much more intensive games. And maybe I just got unlucky and was struck with countless long loads and wonky item interactions purely by chance. However, at the end of the day, my experience with Encodya was rather dystopian in itself. Like a society that is just about functioning but was breaking down...