Viktor, a Steampunk Adventure

I didn't like this game.
Viktor, a Steampunk Adventure 2/10
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pros

✅ cartoony, colorful and cute hand drawn background artwork and character models
✅ humorous story about a street sweeper fired from his job and decided to oust the emperor and become the new ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On his quest, he will engage in all sorts of adventures, like an airship fight and meeting the love of his life in an anarchist basement.
✅ there are some nice variety puzzles and mini games
✅ charming, likeable, goofy and quirky main and side characters
✅ soundtrack consist of classical music masterpieces
✅ there are steam achievements and cards
✅ there are in game collectibles
✅ decent length

cons

❌ just expect full of adventure game logic puzzle solutions and frustrating mini games
❌ steam achievements doesn't make too much sense
❌there are too many dialogues in this game, but characters are talking only gibberish, and there are no voiceovers
❌slow character animations
❌game feels really low budget and very indie

Overall, this is a decent indie point-and-click game that reminds me of old LucasArts point-and-click adventure games from the 1990s.

This Game is very sooth and fascinating
the voice over is so hilarious
funny characters, not so hard but good puzzles, nice graphics
to crack the steam achievements we need to play long more than 7 hours max
there is one disadvantage of this game is - screen size
overall game is 8/10 would recommend everyone to play.
i will upload whole game play on my official YouTube channel soon on ( Gamer Bloke )

Fun game, mostly dialogue based. Really enjoyed the writing.

This was one of the worst games I've ever played. Only good part was the soundtrack and maybe graphics.
I cannot possibly understand what they were thinking about all of the puzzles they made.
Definately do not recommend it. 2/10.

Delightful experience if you like history, classical music and surely an unusal period to develop a story. Interesting puzzles and funny dialogues, not so long as many of indie productions. Some puzzles need a mandatory call to Martin, and this choice leave me a bit confused (just like Martin).
Not a masterpiece, but well built. Enjoy it.

A generic point and click adventure. The dialogue isn't funny or clever, the "puzzles" don't make sense(much like the world itself), and the minigames are stupid and near impossible. Not to mention most of the achievements are ridiculous.

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Askun Viktor koulgar !

I had plenty of fun with it, but then again, it's made by a crew from my country, some of whom I know personally, so I definitely was target audience. Still, a fun point-and-clicker, definitelly worth playing through.

Point-and-click adventure games, despite being more dependent on their stories than action titles, must function with a greater inherent distance between player and the game world then an experience where your actual navigation through an adventure is an active task via gameplay. If the narrative is good, and Viktor is a delight, there are two commandments: can you die (If I wanted punishment or trial and error I'd play a rougelike) and am I going to be forced combine two objects in a manner that would make Salvadore Dali grunt audibly?

There are indeed a few inventory puzzles in Viktor that had me shamelessly reaching for a guide, but that was because the surrealist nature of the plot causes some forgivable confusion about object properties and interaction and because the story was so charming I was eager to forge ahead. A good deal of the humor here is clearly in-jokes about eastern European politics but the gags land for the most part, the characters are goofy and likable and the experience as a whole is snappy and neither too short nor too long.

You control Viktor, a lovable prole who knows (rightfully) that he can be a better emperor than the current warmonger due to a much less focused form of personal ambition. The cartoony steampunk setting and cute characters combine with surreal setpieces and varied puzzles and gameplay that had me wanting more after the title concluded. Fun minigames and a great classical/ragtime soundtrack really punch up the experience. The game is short so waiting for a sale is in order but I would be remiss if I didn't recommend this little gem wholeheartedly.

A really well made funny cartoonish 2D point-and-click steampunk adventure spiced with a few mini games and permeated with some political things. Atmosphere is great, characters are loveable, humour is splendid.

You lead a boar, who just lost his job, helping him to become a new Emperor of Austria-Hungary, no less.

Well, good luck, and have fun!

Great game, really funny adventure, puzzles makes sense in its crazy way. At first, game looked simple an cheap to me, but it turned out to be really solid game with lot of good ideas, executed very well

You'd think the basic premise is as crazy as it gets: you play as a recently laid-off street-sweeper who sees no easier way of improving his situation than to oust the emperor. But no! As you'll quickly find out, that's just the beginning of the madness - and your journey between here and there will be anything but straightforward. You'll meet plenty of outlandish, bizarre characters - starting with your best friend Martin, a self-proclaimed psychic, who'll seem completely bonkers at first, but will actually guide you through the adventure with his cryptic but strangely insightful hints. The steampunk Austria-Hungary is populated by various strange figures that sometimes don't quite fit - but then also some historical figures figures whose presence makes perfect sense both in the setting and the gameplay itself, rather than being just posterboys for the epoch. The game really delivers on the steampunk factor, too. You'll actually get to operate a blimp and meet steam-powered automatons. There's actually so much love for other sci-fi genres - and technology in general - sometimes very straightforward, sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious, sometimes brilliantly meta.
Or just all-out crazy.
Gameplay-wise it's more or less a classic point&click: you go around talking to people, picking up objects & using them on other objects - with an occasional arcade game challange or a more abstract logical puzzle. That said, the game will keep you on your toes: you'll go some strange places and do some very weird things. There's really no telling where the story will throw you next. The puzzles fairly easy for the most part - and when in doubt, you'll have Martin to help. Though it does get quite tricky towards the end.
And all-out crazy in that one section.
The graphics and animations are stylish and fun. But what really makes the game stand out is the audio. The splendid soundtrack aside - featuring some classic masterpieces, including that blatant Imperial March ripoff that was composed 60 years before Star Wars - the voicework deserves a special mention. All dialogue lines are fully voiced - except in a way that adds another layer of crazy to this mad, mad game.
Viktor is a truly wild ride that's never boaring!

Funniest point and click adventure game that I ever played. On other hand some of jokes are culturaly conected with territory of Austria-Hungary. Game is making joke out of every political system not just monarchy. Story is realy good, you can talk a lot with a lot of characters. Characters are colorful and puzzles are logical and not hard except one.

+ Humor 10/10 (on other hand maybe not for every taste)
+ Music 10/10
+ Story 10/10
+ Puzlles 7/10 (if you played a lot of Point and click adventures than nothing realy extra new if not you will love it)
+ Sound 8/10
+ Gameply - various ways to finish some parts

- Screen 4:3

If you wish to laught you need this game! We all need Viktor the boar!

Overall: smart and funny (:

The story is not suprising or super innovative, but Viktor's interactions and comments are the focus of this game and they are great and entertaining. I love the style and the cute gimmicks

One great and hilarious game, with witty dialogs and unexpected puzzles. Not too easy, but also not too hard, it makes you go exploring the most bizzare combinations and playing options that latter become your every first option (but they might still not be the correct ones).
Great soundtracks and unusual and very likeable drawings are nicely mixed with a good storyline and charismatic characters. Viktor brings a good (European/Slavic) humor and places some of the very familiar historical names in an alternative but maybe possible historical situations.
Several flaws with the audio and music background leveling throghout the game, but otherwise, 5/5.
And I do hope for a sequel :)

Viktor is a very enjoyable point and click adventure. It is humorous, self-aware and satirical. The puzzles can be perplexing, but are not outside logical though and thus provide ample challenge. For anyone really stuck, I have a playthrough for you to watch https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2vSwFZ5cxwA4C1X9_OrekJ4F8_XW3N2

The characters are all remarkable, including historic literary figures such as Franz Kafka.

Graphically, the handrawn art style is full of charm and is very easy on the eye.

The game will take around 6 hours to complete, but there are multiple solutions to problems so it has some limited replayability.

All in all, for the price, a good point and click adventure.

one of the funniest and most enjoyable point and click adventure titles I have played since the Lucas Arts days. A few puzzles that have to just drill through conversation trees, but still very enjoyable and worth playing. quirky sense of humor, and fun simlish talking. Heres a video of the first "puzzle room" in case youre curious how it plays.
https://youtu.be/vvvpySS49fI

Viktor, a Steampunk Adventure is a classic point-and-click adventure game set in a dystopian animal-people world ruled by a cruel and incompetent Emperor, who seems to be more interested in engaging in yet another war, rather than taking care of his people. The protagonist, a wild boar, had enough with Emperors incompetent ways and sets on a quest to overthrow him.

The game doesn’t take itself too seriously: it’s wacky, it’s totally dumb, its humor is mostly based on how actually not funny it is (think fart jokes with Nicola Tesla) and despite getting nearly everything wrong it still manages to be somewhat enjoyable.

The main spotlight of the game is Viktor. He’s not your typical protagonist: he is rude, he has anger issues (indeed, next to the classical talk, take and describe buttons there is a kick button to relieve the anger) and seems to be the type of people who are completely incompetent at anything yet think they are the best fit for the job, especially if it’s a commanding job. Despite all of this, he is extremely liberal and criticizes the Emperor for not ensuring women have equal rights. I know game creators were going for not-two-dimensional character, but Viktor being a liberal just seems out of character and forced. I think it was a great idea to take such an antihero as a main character, but it’s not executed well: these traits don’t really add anything to the story itself or complicate the journey in any way.

Other characters in the game are extremely primitive. Even the ones based on famous real life (or fiction) people like Franz Kafka, Frankenstein, Nicola Tesla, Dr. Jekyll don’t have much character. The game introduces them, gives them few lines and you’re done with them forever. They do not contribute to the story in any way and are there just for the sake of it.

The game also has a love story. Viktor falls in love with a totally flat zebra character. Needless to say, there is zero chemistry between them, they only shared like couple lines of dialogue together and are suddenly in love because they were on some love roller coaster with decapitated toy panda head. The only thing this love story gives to the game or the story is how out of place it is. With everything being out of place and at random, it’s like a cherry on top of the absurd dumbness.

The story seems to be written by a five year old, but I suppose that was actually the goal here. There is nothing much to say about it, Viktor goes on adventure to overthrow the Emperor, gets his ass kicked, but then meets some anarcho-communists who want Emperor dead as well. Together they develop a plan and on their way they need to complete few tasks, like find money to fund the revolution or how to overcome the powerful electrical force field protecting the Emperor. All the situations are absurd driven and rely heavily on black humor to make it work. The humor is something I could appreciate. While it is as lame as it gets, that is what actually gets it going. It definitely falls into a category “so bad it’s good”. I wouldn’t call it great, but I had few good laughs on my way to the final boss.

While good gameplay and puzzles could make everything else work and even make it a perfect self-ironical-game, it is sadly the weakest point of the steampunk adventure. At it’s core it is your typical point-and-click where you can interact with characters and items around you with few rather small innovations. One of them is the mentioned kick button next to the usual talk, take and describe. The other is your ability to call your your psychic sidekick owl for hints. While this sounds like a good idea to help you when you’re stuck it is actually essential to call him, otherwise nothing would make sense. Not that it does when the owl vaguely explains what to pay attention to, but without his advice you would be totally clueless and would rely on just trying out everything until something works. I found it cheap. Rather than making an environment and puzzles interact with each other to make sense, we need an owl to give some context of what is going on.

Another, rather frustrating, thing is that the game requires you to take certain actions before you can do other things. I’ve particularly noticed this at the end of the game, where two items I knew I needed were inactive until I’ve basically tried everything else, even the things I knew would get me nowhere!

There were few decent puzzles at the game, the best of them being at Frankenstein’s lair, where you need to solve a complex task to eventually get the item you need. However mostly the puzzles are picking correct threads of dialogue bubbles, which in my opinion are not puzzles or even much of a game for that matter. Most stages consist of no more than two rooms you can go to, so there is not much to explore or to get stuck at, so the game is pretty easy.
There are also mini games and I’m usually not a fan of those at all. This time it was no different, I was hoping I could get them in the first try just to get them out of the way. They are easy enough not to bother you, but there is no point in them either.

What really stands out is animation. The game is set in the authoritarian world, much like Soviet Union, and the style is something of the 80’s soviet cartoons. Growing up in post Soviet country, I found the style to capture the mood and atmosphere perfectly. Everything is drawn beautifully with fine details and fits well with absurd dystopian world.

The music is not originally composed for the game and instead uses classical compositions that you can change at any moment as Viktor happens to carry a record player with him. I wouldn’t call lack of original soundtrack a flaw since the music fits quite well with the game, it is not annoying and knowing that the game probably had very small budged, I think creators found a perfect solution. The dialogue bubbles are accompanied with simple mumbling which is different for every character, and that gets annoying quickly. First of all, there is a lot of dialog in the game so you hear the mumbling all the time. That wouldn’t be so bad, actually that alone would be better than just silence, but the mumbling doesn’t fit the text! The tone and the length usually do not match, which is very distracting. For example Viktor, being a rude boar, is usually yelling in the text bubble, but his mumbling is calm and slow.

Surprisingly the game is not as terrible as it might seem. I actually enjoyed playing it and even wanted to finish it. It’s about five hours of gameplay, of what should have been two to three hours maximum. That way it could have been a neat little adventure with unique style and over the top story telling. As it is now, it requires too much time in exchange of how little it delivers. I would only recommend it if you particularly enjoy over the top movies and intentionally lame comedy is your cup of tea and you have nothing better to do for five hours. I just barely give it thumbs up.

Had some fun playing through Viktor's adventure. I was intrigued by this game from the first time I saw it, for several reasons - the uncommon setting of Austria-Hungary, the stylish cartoony graphics, and just the gambit of trying to become nothing less than the emperor of said empire.

It's a fun romp through some wacky locations, as you guide a quirky boar with a chip on his shoulder through classic adventure puzzles and really out-there conversations with lots and lots of animals. It sometimes make clever use of this - for example, you call an unseen clerk a cow, but that's probably what she actually is, right?

The fact that the backgrounds are rendered in the same flat style as the characters makes everything in the game blend together nicely, and the lack of more detailed animation is made up for by lots of small, custom interactions that'll make you chuckle, like Viktor kicking random things and spewing "Stupid (thing)!" for no apparent reason. The man (well, boar) has quite the attitude.

As for the downsides - more of a warning for people more easily offended or sensitive: there's a lot of pretty broad humor in this game; not only that, but a huge portion of it relies on stereotyping different countries and cultures. I suspect it does so in order to make fun of stereotyping itself, but, either way, fair warning that this is not a politically-correct game by a longshot.

Good game, though, having fun with it.

Amazingly silly, the worldmap you get in the game is worth the price by itself.

I don't really know what to write about the game other than that it may crave some knowledge about the world and its history to get all the jokes and I'd guess being more than a couple of years old is also a good thing if you want to enjoy it, me personally have an aching stomach due to all the laughs, love it so far and I haven't even left the apartment. (seing the map just had me ROFL and I felt I needed a break before continuing)

Great stuff dev's, great stuff.

Viktor, a Steampunk Adventure is an old-fashion point & click adventure game which tells the story of Viktor, a grumpy but ambitious wild boar's quest of becoming the new emperor of Austria-Hungary in a semi-realistic steampunk world.

The hand-drawn cartoonish artstyle and the tastefullly chosen classical background music create a delightful world for immersion, which I really appreciate. There're lots of interesting characters for you to meet and interact with, making your journey more dramatic and also more memorable. Generally it's a well-made game but I'm not going to elaborate the good aspects of it too much in this review, instead, I would like to point out something that really bothered me during the experience.

First of all, I wouldn't say I had "the biggest fun" playing the game as the devs stated in their release announcement. Don't get me wrong, it IS a fun game for most of the part, but I also found it frustrating as hell sometimes. In my opinion, the flow of the game is seriously impeded by its quirky nature, in other words, the game requires you to trial and error or take wild guesses instead of making logical reasonings and speculations to find the only correct solution to certain situations from time to time. As a result, I often ended up trying all the possible interactions in a scene despite I firmly believed that I already known what should be done to make progress. However, having the right direction in your mind is not enough, sometimes you'll need to follow a specific order of actions to trigger the desire outcome. The solution only make sense after you know it, and the thought process is not properly guided due to the lack of fundamental cues. A game can be challenging, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it should be frustrating. Although there is kind of a "hint system" in the game, it's not accessible all the time and not quite informative, I mean, how helpful do you expect a hookah-obsessed owl to be? I don't think it's me being dumb at the game as I have played a fair amount of point & click adventure games to make this comment. Well, enough for this crap, let's move on.

What annoyed me as much as the issue above is the "voice acting" of the game. You should know that this is one of those games in which the characters talk gibberish instead of any distinguishable human language (you may catch a few words that can be understood, for example, I recognized some Japanese words from a "Nippleon" bunny). Although I'm extremely particular about voice both in games and real life, normally I'm okay with this kind of voice acting and I know it's there to add to the vibe of black comedy, but I just can't take it for hours! I think it's more suitable for a game featuring an image-based narration style and has minimal dialogues (similar to silent films). In this case, however, the game is filled with dialogues so you're forced to listen to those "noises" constantly throughout the game. I found it to be kinda obnoxious after a certain point and I had to turn down the volume a couple notches so I won't get a headache. Another downside of this is that you have to look at the subtitles whenever there's a dialogue going on, so you'll have less energy left to pay attention to the actual environment of the game. Maybe it's just me, but I think the game will be much more enjoyable if there were some actual voice acting involved (just like the narration in the intro cutscene).

The last thing I have on my mind is not a complaint but just some thoughts about the "humor" in the game. As a black comedy as it is, the game is filled with geographical, political, and historical jokes, mostly in a straightforward, stereotypical manner, which are probably intentional and not meant to be offensive. I'm not very sensitive when it comes to these types of jokes but I don't care for them that much as well, so most of the time I just read them with a deadpan. As the story completely takes place in Europe (steampunk Europe, if you will), most of these jokes/puns are more effective on certain demographic groups than an outsider like me.

I know basically I've been shitting on the game most of this review, but overall, it's a neat game which I did have fun playing, and I'm not hesitant about recommending it to those who have a thing for point & click adventure games.