Beautiful Desolation Critic Reviews

Beautiful Desolation is an essential entry in the Adventure Game genre and should not be missed. Gorgeous visuals, and evocative sound design compliment an exceptional sci-fi story filled with mystery, pathos, and good old-fashioned adventuring with some modern flair.

Beautiful Desolation is a idiosyncratic, multi-themed journey, bringing some interesting gameplay ideas to the table. Its story and distinct setting are its strongest assets and it will definitely take you places. Be aware though, there is no hand holding at all. You'll need to pay attention to the conversations with the cast of delightfully bizarre characters you meet, if you don't want to backtrack and fumble for clues constantly.

Beautiful Desolation is a beautiful point and click adventure full of interesting situations and themes to be experienced.

If you manage to power through the dull first third of the game and let some of the design limitations slide, Beautiful Desolation will reward you with one of the best post-apocalyptic worlds ever created.

Beautiful Desolation is an old-school 2D isometric adventure, but like Stasis it's the story the true focus.

Beautiful Desolation is an isometric adventure that makes wanderlust, cutscenes and visual art its strongest and stunning points. Enigmas and dialogues are surrounded with weird, tribal-punk and futuristic vibes. The gameplay brings some of the issues of oldest point-and-click-games: vagueness and backtracking. Anyway, the overall experience is magnificent, non-linear and original.

The Brotherhood had a tall mountain to scale when delivering their follow-up effort to STASIS, but Beautiful Desolation succeeds admirably on most fronts. It may be a little too big for its own good, but an intriguing new world beckons, ready to amaze even as it provides lots of choice in shaping its stories.

It looks and sounds fantastic but the gameplay revolves mainly around fetching stuff for people who tell you where to look for other stuff.

Beautiful Desolation is a gorgeous game, with unique Afro-futuristic world waiting for you to explore it.

Α lonely and gorgeous afrofuturistic adventure that offers a unique spin to a classic post-apocalyptic world, but would benefit by a quest log and/ or some sort of guidance over the flow of the narrative.

Good point and click adventure game set in a retro futuristic apocalyptic world. It looks gorgeous on screen, and builds a complex and detailed world, but it has problems with the flow of information and what we must do next, along with pixel hunting issues. It is worth a try for the most experienced followers of the genre.

The idea behind Beautiful Desolation is, unfortunately, its greatest success, let down by the way the game itself works. Still, this quaint trip into a world of post-apocalyptic retro-futurism is worth a try.

Conceptually this is a beautiful adventure set in an interesting futuristic world, but suffers from narrative weaknesses as well mechanical problems.

Beautiful isometric adventure game with interesting story and characters. If you love Fallout and Die Antwoord is your blood type, Beautiful Desolation is a game for you.