Anna's Quest is a very good Point&Click Adventure made by Daedalic Entertainment. It took me about 11 hours to complete the story and another 2 hour to complete the rest of the achievements.

You are following Anna who lives with her Grandpa. But sadly he got sick and you must find a cure. On your journey you will have to solve riddles and puzzles to achieve your goal.

The story is very good and has some interesting twists. I wished there would be multiple endings. With only one ending I had not much interest in replaying it a second time.
There are many side references to other Daedalic-Games and fairytales from the Brothers Grimm.

I liked the art. Very well drawn and there are fun and interesting details you can spot in every scenes. Only weird thing is the missing eyeballs of Anna. It was kind of creepy at the beginning but I got used to it after minutes.

Sadly this game comes only with english audio but with several subtitles. Although I am not a native speaker I enjoy all my game in english. But if the developer is a german company I always switch to german audio because that is the language it has developed with. Nonetheless the english audio is very very good. The speaker made a great job. As a german speaker you may have some funny moments, when it comes to the pronounciation of some german words like "weisse frauen, hans, wunderhorn, etc."

Main inputdevice is the mouse. Well that's why it is called "Point&Click". Some elements can be controlled by your keyboard, like opening the inventory or showing interactive elements. But you don't have to use the keyboard at all. I played it completely with my mouse only.
Interactions are devided into use, look, open inventory, dialogs and special power.
For replay aspects you can skip every dialog by clicking with your mouse to skip the current sentence or hit escape on your keyboard to skip the conversation topic.

This game is very easy to 100%. There are several story based achievements you will unlock during your normal playthrough. After finishing this you can replay every chapter to get the funny "side objectives". If you explore everything you may get some of them in your first playthrough.


Overall I give this title a solid 9/10. I would give it a 10 if it would come with german audio and multiple endings.

Anna's Quest is a sweet little Point and click adventure, it has some good puzzles in each chapter, and i found my self being stuck once or twice, but that just makes it that more satisfying when figuring out a puzzle :)
And its fully Voiced, i love that, much more relaxing and immersive than reading all dialogue. Very much Recommended.

https://youtu.be/7-O6aVSNTnA

So charming and beautiful. The puzzles are intuitive. The writing is good. The production values are really great. Can't recommend this more.

Daedalic Entertainment did it again, yet another perfect point & click adventure.

I wanted to finish the game before I write review, but I overestimated my skills, meaning puzzles will keep you busy for period of time :)

As for graphic and sound, they are beautiful and most enjoyable, story is fun as much as can be.

I really do not have anything negative to write about this game, it is perfect.

If you are in point & click adventures, you must own this.

Summary:

A point and click adventure game with heart, Anna's Quest does something that I haven't seen the genre do for a while: tug directly on the heartstrings in terms of empathy. While it's gameplay is what you'd want out of the genre and does a great job in really being in that sweet spot of not being too easy, but not being too painfully frustrating, it's the story telling and characters that carry it in a way that hasn't been done in the genre for a while. There's not a lot of humor and the visuals lack compared to some of their prior work in Deponia, but its clear that they wanted to make a heart-warming story more then anything else, and great voice acting and writing makes you want to see what happens next. It's a game that I'll be completing for the story alone, and that's what you need out of a game in this genre. Definitely worth a pick up for narrative focused fans or Point and Click lovers.

Gameplay Footage and Video First Impressions: http://youtu.be/CNSkY5ITB7s

Lists:

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• Perfect balance of gameplay in terms of difficulty. Not too easy, but not with old PnC adventure game logic that makes you want to pull your hair out.
  
• The story is superb and in particular, the empathy aspect of the game really shines through. Be prepared to have your heartstrings tugged on.
  
• Voice acting is great. In particular, Anna is played perfectly and the characters in question come to life thanks to their voice actors. Not over the top, but just right.
  
• Enough red herrings added in terms of gameplay without it being annoying for exploration.
  
• Have I mentioned the charm?
  
• Pacing is handled rather well.

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• The visuals seem like a step back from Deponia.
  
• Could have added some puzzles/minigames to add a little of variety to gameplay.