Gomo

Gomo is a point-and-click puzzle game developed by Fishcow Studio that, unlike most games labeled under the same category, won’t consume much of your time.

The game premise is quite simple: Gomo, a sort of ragdoll that may remind you of the movie 9 or the animated series Salad Fingers, has a bad dream in which his dog is abducted and, when he wakes up and tries to look for the dog, he catches an alien on the act of kidnapping it. So now Gomo has to embark in a quest to liberate his buddy.

Although the setting is rather interesting looking – something like a post-apocalyptic wasteland – the game itself doesn’t deliver. The gameplay is easy, but ends up being predictable and repetitive, never presenting a real challenge. The puzzles can be as simple as pressing buttons on a console in a precise order or starting a fire by using a magnifying glass, and they follow a simple formula: take A, combine it with B and use it on C. Most puzzles can be solved using items and clicking buttons within the same screen, so there’s not much to remember or to carry from one place to another. Furthermore, you can be sure that finishing the game in its entirety won’t take you more than an hour and there’s no replay value. The absence or a real challenge derives in lack of attention from the player after a few minutes of gameplay and, ultimately, the abandonment of the game in its entirety. On top of it all, Gomo’s movement is not smooth at all; his pace is slow and his actions seem to take forever to accomplish.

Gomo’s score sets a good ambiance, but nothing memorable. Despite all that, there a couple references and gags that will draw a smile on your face. For example, a puzzle in which you travel through time and find yourself in the middle of H. G. Wells’s  The War of the Worlds; unfortunately, it doesn’t last long.

If you are into Tim Burton-esque animation and point-and-click games, and have an hour or so to kill, then you might find good companion in Gomo; if you don’t, look for another game.

Jonathan Coutiño, NoobFeed
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