Broken Age: Act 1

Broken Age is not the prophet of the Second Age of adventure games, not even far. That doesn't meant it isn't good though. The game is like a rollecoaster that only goes up. It starts slow, and it gradually builds speed, it adds color and depth, and then...

Broken Age Act 1 is vividly pretty, memorably funny, and absolutely worth playing if you've ever enjoyed point-and-click adventures.

Here we have it—two years after it kicked off the crowdfunding trend with a massively unexpected level of success, the first part of Double Fine's adventure game Broken Age is releasing to the public. Expectations for the game may be impossibly high,...

Apart from the ending of course, which I'm thinking about a lot. Broken Age: Act 1 is a wonderful piece of work, well worth the time and money put into it, an excellent piece of videogame fiction, but it just needs some work being an actual videogame....

It might not be the second coming of Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island, but Broken Age has its own tale to tell - and it's one we can't wait to finish.

Come into Broken Age expecting a return to the glory days of point-and-click, and its simple, linear puzzles might disappoint you. Come into it expecting a brilliant story, wit and humour, some unexpected twists and some gorgeous art, and you'll get...

Broken Age tells a concise, clever story and, more importantly, knows exactly where to leave off. There’s a sense of accomplishment and closure in the final moments of Act 1, but it still leaves you itching to know what’s coming next.

Broken Age isn't finished. What's available right now is the first four hours of an adventure game that still has at least four hours to...