First, let's get one thing out of the way: this is not an Indiana Jones clone. Indiana Jones was himself based on and a tribute to Allan Quatermain (H.R. Haggard, 1885) and Professor George Edward Challenger (A.C. Doyle, 1912). And the protagonist of this game, James Lee Quatermain, Allan Quatermain's great-grandson, has a completely different personality (and a couple of jokes in the game point out those differences).

But the feel, the mood and the ambiance are the same, so Indiana Jones fans WILL enjoy it.

The good:

When Lucas created Indiana Jones, he was trying to recreate the feel of 1930s action serials. This game succeeds in re-recapturing that feel and it's the main point in favor of this game. The scenery is beautiful and even the ceilings are worth admiring (not to mention that they also sometimes hold clues or things with which you can interact). The plot is unoriginal, but still engaging. The puzzles are logical and well integrated in the flow of the game. There's an interesting selection of weapons and they feel well balanced. You can kill an unarmored human enemy with one or two bullets, but they can return the favor, so you can't play this game as if you were Rambo. The journal, a very obvious copy of Henry Jones' journal, is not interesting to read, but it is very useful. Sometimes it just provides a hint for a puzzle. Other times, it's a key part of the puzzle and you can't solve it without consulting the journal. A nice touch is that the foreigners you meet speak in their native tongue, which makes it feel more authentic.

The bad:

The game is so linear that you might not notice a difference if they put it on rails. Backtracking is impossible because your entrance is invariably blocked every time you enter a new zone. I can't see this game having a lot of replayability. It uses the lazy, antiquated, and much hated checkpoint mechanism. Sometimes, the chekpoint is so far back that it can take 10 minutes to replay the part leading up to your death. Movement and shooting are ok, but in almost every other part of the interface, it feels so much like a console port that it's practically a slap in the face to PC users. You can only scroll back and forth between your weapons; you can't select the one you want directly. The POV is very strange and gives you the impression that you're only 4 feet tall. This feeling is exacerbated by the fact that you're unable to jump on a crate that your grandmother could jump over. The jumping is so sluggish, in fact, that it's more irritating than useful. There are glitches that will let you get trapped between two objects and your only option is to restart from your last checkpoint.

The acting is a bit on the campy side, but not so much that it ruins the game.

But for all the little irritants, this is a fun little trip into an Indy-esque world and I still recommend it, though not at the ridiculously high full price.

One odd thing: the optional Allan Quatermain revolver that comes with the Deluxe edition is worse than the default Webley; it's just prettier.

Two suggestions: (1) don't swap your basic revolver for a better one you find. The basic revolver has infinite ammo, your new one does not! (2) If you're so inclined, you can change one of the ini files to give yourself infinite ammo for all weapons (instructions are on the web). A nice side-effect is that you end up keeping almost every weapon you find (you can usually carry only two), but you occasionally get stuck on one of them until some random event in the game clears the buggy state and you can switch weapons again. It's a fun way to run the game a second time.

★★☆☆☆

+ funny sometimes
+ very classic fps style (if u like B class games buy it - under 5€ only)
+ funny bugs
+ nice idea / puzzle and shooter
- poor implementation
- bugs, so many
- poor story, characters
- a joke for 40€

Played it all the way through. A nice little Diversion. Nothing ground breaking in gameplay or story but still very entertaining. I have to say that the puzzles fit in well and the environments are often very beautiful and well done.

Definately worth a play through, although there won't be much here to bring you back once you've beat it. Looks like another case of crammed-in multiplayer that no one asked for forcing the single player experience to be shorter.

Bugs - check, both as enemies and the glitchy bad sort
Fun Quicktime events -check
Novel FPS platforming - check
Instadeath - check
Sparse and inconsistent checkpoint savesystem - check and doublecheck
Mandatory secrets - if you want a fighting chance later on then yes check

On the plus side it's larger that the sum of it's parts. Like, you could be jumping from platform to platform to reach an artifact, fall of and instadie because...water is deathjuice...and find yourself back 10 minutes and a platoon of enemies when the game decided to save. So that's a bunch of previously mentioned parts, but the agrevation is larger than the sum of it.

This game has it all...

Sub-par voice acting,
Nazis,
Puzzles,
Mummies that you can kill by shining a flashlight at,
Nazis,
A female companion with a nicely rounded posterior.

What more could you want?

This game contains this direct quote:

"Arctic Nazi Submarine Mummies? Any other time that might be unusual"

And it's fairly typical of the game. I'm not sure if it's just bold-facedly dumb or working on at least some level of irony.
It's definetly not 5 star game play and the writing/ voice acting is pretty atrocious. But it's fun!
Imagine Uncharted had a baby with Indiana Jones. You've got Deadfall Adventures. It's worth keeping up with the gameplay for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ly funny story. And vice versa.

Worth a play if you can pick it up cheaply enough.

Super cheesy but actually pretty solid Indiana Jones style adventure that doesnt take itself seriously at all but yet still provides a solid adventure regardless.
The story itself is decent and the dialogue is intentionally cheeseball and pokes fun at itself often. The gunplay is solid. The backdrops are gorgeous. This is a very nice looking game. The puzzles were mostly easy, but there were a couple challenging ones mixed in.

If you are looking for a game similar to Indian Jones movies, or in the same style of a Tomb Raider or Uncharted (but wiithout the production values), but with more humor, this is a game you should definitely try out.

Far more enjoyable than you would think just by looking at the product page. Well worth the 10 or 12 hours it takes to finish.

7.5 out of 10

Way better than the critic reviews in my opinion. I bought it for $4 on Humble Store and was pleasantly surprised by how fun it is. Basically a low budget Tomb Raider in first person, with some hilariously bad voice acting. Grab it on a sale for $5 or less. 6.5/10

This is by far one of the worst Linux game ports ever! The game has a nasty aim bug, apparently you can fix it when you disable mouse smoothing, but that doesn't seem to work for me, so aiming in the game is sluggish and a pain in the butt. Not to mention the occasional hang ups. Nordic games has really messed up the Linux port big time and maybe they should consult Feral Interactive or Aspyr on how to properly port their games over to Linux. Nevertheless, the game performance is good and it runs fairly smooth until you actually have to aim and shoot, that's where it goes down hill. Too bad, this game had potential, but it's definitely not worth 49,99 bugs. If you can get it for 10 or 15 bugs that's acceptable!

This game is enjoyable and fun. Has some bugs (don't try to wander off from the path because you can get stuck), but overall it is OK. If you want a light-weight Indiana Jones adventure, I can recommend this one.

It's good game, beautiful graphics.
Linux. Arch. NVIDIA Driver Version: 343.36.
660 gtx all "very high", all smooth.


Short freez while saving, and first start appromaxetly 2-3 min

Deadfall Adventures is an exploration-oriented, first-person adventure game with some shooting and puzzles, including puzzles that involve shooting and shooting sequences that require solving puzzles to survive them.

The story is a typical Quatermain-style adventure - while it won't win a Hugo, if you like punching Nazis, shooting Commies, immolating mummies, or applying dynamite to irreplaceable archeological treasures, there is something here for you. The fighting sequences are mainly creative and well done - I enjoyed them more than, say, Bioshock Infinite's. The puzzles are generally straightforward, but they establish a nice, relaxed pace between the high-tension action segments. I took about 20 hours to play through the single-player campaign - I attempted to collect most of the optional treasures, at least the ones that were semi-obvious, along the way. "Normal" difficulty combat was perfectly doable with a gamepad - if you're using a mouse, I'd bump it up to "Hard."

Thanks to The Farm 51 and Nordic Games for porting this to Linux - I played the complete game on Ubuntu 14.04 x86-64.
There are a couple of technical issues, but I'm not sure if they're Linux-specific or not: Load times are massive, over 5 minutes for a "cold start"; the gamepad mappings are odd - "Jump" and "Use" are mapped to the same button, so you need to hold LB to interact with things (or perform mêlée attacks), which simultaneously toggles your flashlight.

Overall, I would recommend this game to fans of the genre.

This is like the "Sky Captain: And the World of Tomorrow" of videogames.

A genuine pulp-adventure, but ultimately flawed in many aspects. However, if you can appreciate the good things it has to offer you will have a fun time with it despite it's flaws. Beware though that this game is tetering on ♥♥♥♥ and Average, you will only enjoy it if you have specific tastes and a lower threshold for mediocrity.

This game has really great atmosphere, a pretty decent amount of variable but simple puzzles, and some really well made unreal engine 3 maps that keep the adventure from becoming too stale. Also there are plenty of forked pathways to find hidden treasure and it seems to be a little different everytime you come upon one.

What's average is the gameplay. It's just another one of those FPS games with Call of Duty-itus. Boring linear paths, regenerating health, flat battlegrounds for the most part, aiming down the sights to be able to hit a target, etc. However, something about it feels a tiny bit worse than most generic call of duty-itus shooters.

What's really bad is the voice-acting, A.I, cutscenes, and the overall assets. The music is really bland and a half ♥♥♥♥♥ rip-off of uncharted or something. Voice acting is bad but not in a fun corny way. Gun models and sound effects are amatuer, in fact there are many amatuer UE3 mods that are even better in those regards.

I would buy if you are a huge fan of Indiana Jones or Uncharted type things because the atmosphere is amazing in those regards, and if you are an FPS ethusiast who can even enjoy the slightly below average FPS gameplay.

This game is very buggy, but in singleplayer at least, all the bugs I've come across have been innocent, charming ones, like ending up with a handheld flashlight with your tommy gun instead of the gun mounted one it should be, so it looks like you have 3 hands. Also, the cutscenes, AI, and voice acting aren't very good, but no worst then most budget games of this style of gameplay.

So with all of it's problems I will recommend this game (when it's on sale) to two groups of people, people who really, really like Indiana Jones, The Mummy, or anything similar, and people who just saw one of those movies or whatever and want a simple first person shooter to go along with it.

I am trying not to let my loathing of the protagonist and his companion color my review too much, but if you have an option to turn off the spoken dialog and go with subtitles you will probably enjoy the game much more. I am playing the game on Normal/Normal. Probably should up the combat difficulty as the soldiers and Dark enemies really are kind of a joke. Puzzle difficulty is hard enough for me as these are more distractions than the whole point of the game for me. The notebook pretty much gives you the answer to any puzzle you HAVE to get past, Weapon variety is good, and you are given the tools to get through each level - so much so that you pretty much know what is going to happen next just by seeing what is laying around. The mine cart scenes where too much. WAY too much of a steal from Indiana jones for a game that is already riding firmly on Indie's coat tails. Plus, these scenes are of little interest. I think you could really just sit there and not bother shooting or looking around and you would end up with the same results. The game claims to be about exploration - but does not give you the opportunity in many places. You are not sure which areas trigger a level transition and which do not, so if you happen down the wrong path at some point you can no longer retrieve the treasures that trigger your character progression. The game is worth what I paid for it (~$9) but you would feel gipped if you paid more.

o.k, first i must say that the graphics of that game are really splendid, you got there some fine views... the other things like the plot or the voice acting and puzzles are o.k but not more then that, anyway the importent to me that would drive me to give this game 10/10 points, is the joy that finally someone is doing the good fun old indiana jones games style but with updated good graphics and all, why is everybody always doing all those sad and rotten zombie/ horror games? why don't make a happy and good-feeling-leaving games like this game or ps3 uncharted, that were so enjoyable to play... hope someone high there is reading this review and will do something...

So, For having been released in 2013 I was a bit let down my the overall graphics. The game was fun to play but felt limited overall. I will finish my playthru but will not probably play it again for a while. I did have an ocasional problem where the screen will pixel out and you cannot see anything. This was uaually after going to a menu and then back to the game. So all that said if you find it on sale and you like this sort of game I would recommend it. Just don't expect to get a Highly polished game.

I wasn't sure what to think given some of the negative reviews, but I got this on a sale and really enjoyed it. A fun mix of FPS and adventure game, with some environmental puzzles reminiscent of Tomb Raider. Recommended on a good sale.

Side note: I first heard of Allan Quatermain ages ago, but only realized as a result of this game that it's not Qua*R*termain :)

"Arctic Nazi Submarine Mummies? Any other time that might be unusual."

Deadfall Adventures is a decent first person shooter, action adventure game, with fun puzzles and beautiful graphics, but with voice acting, dialogue, and repetitive combat that brings it down. Good idea that seemed rushed, unpolished, and left with untapped potential. Worth one playthrough of decent length, not much to come back for though.

+ Decently fun, good distraction
+ Some great puzzles
- A lot of tedious and/or boring puzzles
+ Combat is mildly entertaining
+ Mummies!
- Repetitive combat

Some very cool, and interesting puzzles, surrounded by many tedious, boring puzzles that bring down the overall quiality of the game. Combat is fun but gets repetitive quite quickly, but having mummies and occasionally changing the weapons and appearance of enemies helps keep it sort of interesting.

+ Beautiful Environments
+ Amazing Graphics, the water, plants, ect, all looked great
- Not enough variety

Amazingly looking graphics and beautiful environments throughout the game. Plants, water, enemies, temples, everything looks well-polished, but what it makes up for in quality, it lacks in variety. Many environments ( which takes place in different parts of the world ) look almost identical with little variation.

+ Occasionally something interesting would happen
+ Decent story
- Slow quite often
- Painful, PAINFUL dialogue
- Clunky cutscenes

The story in Deadfall Adventures is mildly interesting at best, with only a few moments of actual true interest, despite it being quite predictable. Slow throughout the whole game, clunky cutscenes that are badly executed, and some of the worst dialogue I have seen in a game in a while. It was cringe worthy half the time and the other half I simply felt embarrassed for them.

+ Fun side puzzles occasionally
+ Feel like you're actually on an adventure at times
- Pretty linear path
- Minimal actual "exploration" (More just looking around in a decently sized area for a shiny)

The exploration aspect is almost non-existent, however; they have mini puzzles when attempting to retrieve artifacts that make them interesting enough for me to look for them. You are basically on one path, look around the area for artifacts you can find, move on to the next area, and get locked out from going back, forcing you to replay an entire section if you wish to go back.


I recommend this game, but get it on sale. It is entertaining enough to play through, collect what artifacts you can, and enjoy a decently engaging story (if you can get passed the very painful, and often times embarrassing dialogue).

I really enjoyed playing Deadfall ...nice game