The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy patient first-person puzzle adventures, handwritten notes, and Myst-like machinery, Quern offers a richly atmospheric run of challenging puzzles. It is a weaker fit if you need consistently elegant clues, strong narrative payoff, or minimal backtracking.
What it does best
A dense Myst-style puzzle trail with satisfying mechanical breakthroughs
A quiet, immersive island atmosphere built for patient puzzling
What might put you off
Obtuse puzzles and exhausting backtracking
A thin story wrapped around the puzzles
The setup
What you are walking into
Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood for the game. One of the specialities of Quern is that the tasks to be solved are not managed as separate, individual and sequential units, but as a complex entity, amongst which the players may wander and experiment freely. Often a bad or seemingly irrational result may bring the player closer to the final solution, if those are reconsidered and thought over again later, in the possession of the knowledge gained during the game.
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