Review of Elroy and the Aliens. A beautiful adventure with logical puzzles
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Elroy is a young scientist working on rocket development. He lost his archaeologist father many years ago. Father Diego was lost in a strange incident — a teleport was discovered during excavations and activated. Diego ended up in an alien world with ordinary green 'bugs'.

More secondary aliens could not have been invented. It was thought that the puzzles would be more complicated — it turned out, they were not. It was thought that there would be a love line — there was none. It was thought that alternative endings would be more interesting — they were not. Plus points for the game for having English voiceovers.

The game is quite beautiful. It resembles Deponia, perhaps lacking some polish compared to Elroy and Aliens. The characters are less memorable. Still, Elroy and Aliens is sterile. The adventure genre almost always does not allow deviation from the canons, the golden principles. I remember that even the introduction of QTE in Deponia was perceived by me as casual. But Elroy and Aliens is scenaristically sterile — template characters without a unique touch move through yet another budget plot about traveling through worlds and time.

There is no scale. There are few characters. The alien level is the peak of the game’s template nature. The aliens are identical, and there’s even a joke in the game about this.

The game could have been boring if it weren’t for the desire to entertain oneself with puzzles. What's wrong with the puzzle genre ([The Room](/games?search=The Room), [The Witness](/games?search=The Witness)) — there’s no atmosphere to sigh about the death of the genre. There was [Gemini Rue](/games?search=Gemini Rue) — a game that made one think about the death of personality and reincarnation (suddenly!)

Elroy and Aliens will appeal to children. Colorful, well-made (no bugs) and kind, simple (suitable for newcomers to the genre, perhaps). In other respects, it is an ordinary quest, not reaching the level of Deponia, completed quickly and becomes tiresome even at the alien level.