

The game could've easily fallen into a bit of a trap where it might've seemed too big for a point-and-click, or that the puzzle-solving or exploration might've held back what could've been an action game, but for the most part Röki instead finds a good balance between the different things it's trying to do.

The point-and-click adventure style of gameplay lends well to players of all ages who want to help Tove save her family, and the writers waste no time making Tove and her family fun and sympathetic making players want to help them, despite their sometimes too-robotic expressions or animations. Scandinavian legend and folklore make for a rich, unique setting a lot of gamers from other regions are probably entirely new to. The real playability lies in its storytelling, which stands strong from the gate. Creature designs help the overall aesthetic of the game shine some of them have the same detail and care put into them as the gorgeous environments, while even the monsters that are just silhouettes are visually striking and memorable. To make matters worse, due to a glitch his model kept disappearing entirely, making some puzzles difficult to solve as an item had to be used on him, or leaving parts of the environment seemingly moving on their own whenever he interacted with them. The characters themselves are less appealing, dipping their toes into uncanny valley territory, with younger brother Lars looking particularly robot-like and unsettling. The game's environments are lovely, looking like something out of a pop-up book, or maybe a highly detailed children's drawing. It's an interesting design choice that at first seems a tiny bit off-putting, but it's not without reason - Röki involves a bit more exploration and adventure than wandering or clicking, so it makes sense for the controls to do the same. While the basics remain the same (you interact with certain objects, add them to the inventory, use objects on other things in the environment to solve puzzles, etc.) the controls tend to favour action over puzzle-solving clicking on the screen will not move Tove around, only the arrow or WASD keys will do that. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This immediately distances itself from other point-and-clicks by shaking up the control scheme. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
