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'''''The Frostrune''''' is an adventure puzzle game developed by [[Grimnir]] and published by [[Snow Cannon Games]] for [[Android]] and [[iOS]] on 2017-02-01 and for [[Macintosh]] and [[Windows]] the next day. In the game, a Norse ship is sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway in 965 CE. Only a 13-year-old girl survives by swimming to a nearby shore. There is a settlement, but everyone there is either missing or dead from a strange magical ice that has frozen everything. You must unravel the mystery by using the magic of the old ones and your own cunning. | '''''The Frostrune''''' is an adventure puzzle game developed by [[Grimnir]] and published by [[Snow Cannon Games]] for [[Android]] and [[iOS]] on 2017-02-01 and for [[Macintosh]] and [[Windows]] the next day. In the game, a Norse ship is sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway in 965 CE. Only a 13-year-old girl survives by swimming to a nearby shore. There is a settlement, but everyone there is either missing or dead from a strange magical ice that has frozen everything. You must unravel the mystery by using the magic of the old ones and your own cunning. | ||
− | I found this game in the Google store while looking for a new game to play on my phone. The fact that it was free and had very attractive screenshots caused me to download it. | + | I found this game in the Google store while looking for a new game to play on my phone. The fact that it was free and had very attractive screenshots caused me to download it. I beat it on 2020-02-02. |
==Status== | ==Status== | ||
− | The game is free on Android, but costs money on other platforms. I | + | The game is free on Android, but costs money on other platforms. I beat it without any hints. |
==Review== | ==Review== |
Revision as of 22:33, 2 February 2020
The Frostrune is an adventure puzzle game developed by Grimnir and published by Snow Cannon Games for Android and iOS on 2017-02-01 and for Macintosh and Windows the next day. In the game, a Norse ship is sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway in 965 CE. Only a 13-year-old girl survives by swimming to a nearby shore. There is a settlement, but everyone there is either missing or dead from a strange magical ice that has frozen everything. You must unravel the mystery by using the magic of the old ones and your own cunning.
I found this game in the Google store while looking for a new game to play on my phone. The fact that it was free and had very attractive screenshots caused me to download it. I beat it on 2020-02-02.
Status
The game is free on Android, but costs money on other platforms. I beat it without any hints.
Review
6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
Best Version: Android
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Good
- The background art is superb! Even though it's mostly static, the particle effects, lighting transformations, and transparent layering make it look animated.
- The game has little traditional music, but it does have fantastic ambient sound effects and mood sound. The speech in a foreign language is also wonderful.
- There is a decent variety of puzzles. Most of them are inventory puzzles, but there are also observational puzzles, auditory puzzles,
Bad
- Items disappear from your inventory after use, even when there is no need for this to occur. For example, early in the game, you obtain a knife which you use to cut a rope, causing the knife to disappear. While I understand why the designers chose this route (to prevent your inventory from filling up with unusable junk), they probably could have come up with a more realistic way to handle this.
- There were a couple places in the game where the descriptive text should have changed after an event but didn't. For example, early on, after you obtain keys off a corpse, you will still get the message that you can't reach the keys.
Ugly
- Nothing.
Media
Videos
- youtube.com/watch?v=uijFsZoBaIA - Official trailer.
- youtube.com/watch?v=CqgY9_785ak - Longplay.
Links
- play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grimnir.frostrunethe - Google Play Store.
- Video Game Rating - 6
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 9
- Video Game Sound Rating - 8
- Games
- Video Games
- 2017 Video Games
- Video Game Prime Order - Adventure, Strategy, Action
- Video Game Genre - Graphic Adventure
- Video Game Genre - Puzzle
- Media Theme - Fantasy
- Android Games
- IOS Games
- Macintosh Games
- Windows Games
- Games I've Beaten