Darkestville Castle

Critic reviews

• 3rd-strike.com

  Jayderlee · Sep 05, 2020

  3.5

  Darkestville Castle is a game that has clearly had a lot of thought and effort put into it. The characters, dialogue, artwork and soundtrack clearly represent this. However this review has been largely negative, and mostly down to the needless dragging on of dialogue, excessive use of humor pulled straight from Reddit, and frustrating back and forth traversal. This game will appeal to some, possibly for the exact criticisms mentioned, but the ironic, satirical humor that permeates this game will likely cause many to lose interest and never reach the end.

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• COGconnected

  Jennifer Seaton · Aug 30, 2020

  6.8

  A selling feature of Darkestville Castle is that it is available on consoles. I played the game on Nintendo Switch. I honestly was really dreading this. I was hoping for a PC copy, because, after all, it is a point-and-click game. But surprisingly, once I adjusted to the controls, it wasn’t very cumbersome to play on a console. Initially, I tried to play with the left joystick and move the cursor around the screen like you would a mouse.

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• Nintendo World Report

  John Rairdin · Aug 27, 2020

  7.5

  Darkestville Castle is a love letter to classic point and clicks in the purest sense possible. While it brings with it some of their flaws, it is absolutely dripping with charm. Some of the corners are a little rough when it comes to character design and world building, but the story had me brushing past these inconsistencies without a second thought, not to mention that the Switch port itself is excellently done.

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• Darkstation

  Lauren Clarke · Aug 25, 2020

  5.0

  Darkestville Castle is imaginative and well-written, but the obscurity of the puzzle solutions, unfriendly design choices, and presence of a potentially game breaking bug make it difficult to recommend. If you love retro adventure games and have a high tolerance for difficult puzzles, you might want to check it out. Just back up your save as you go.
• GameSpace.com

  Scott Jeslis · Aug 24, 2020

  8.5

  Darkestville Castle does the adventure point-and-click genre justice. It keeps true to the object hunt playstyle and the "use this object on that object" puzzle-solving design. The game is nicely voice acted and contains plenty of humour in an all-ages environment. The colourful graphics and humour are pleasing and give off a Tim Burton-esque vibe that is fun and rewarding to play.

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• Pure Nintendo

  Kirk Hiner · Aug 24, 2020

  7.0

  Although it wears its inspirations on its sleeve, you needn’t have knowledge of point-and-click adventure classics to enjoy Darkestville Castle. The jokes are fine, the characters are fun, and the puzzles are comfortably illogical. Enjoy your visit.

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