Plentiful puzzles to challenge your neurons. See if you can find every puzzle to solve the mystery of Scoggins -- mazes, logic, riddles, brainteasers and more.
Investigate the strange, peculiar and mind-boggling to crack the case! Your discoveries provide clues to the larger mystery crippling the town, or uncover puzzles that must be solved to reveal answers ... or even more questions.
Hunting for Hints: Chewing gum helps Agent Tethers think and solve. Find and collect gum wads around the town to uncover hints if you get "stuck" in any puzzles.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you one!
Minimum System Requirements:
Supported OS: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
Processor: 2.0 GHz +
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Disk: 220 MB
Video Card: 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card
DirectX: DirectX 8.1 or greater
Sound: DirectX 8.1 or greater sound device
Recommended System Requirements:
Supported OS: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
Processor: 3 GHz Pentium 4 or greater
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Disk: 220 MB
Video Card: 128MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card
DirectX: DirectX 8.1 or greater
Sound: DirectX 8.1 or greater sound device
Steam account required for game activation and installation.
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The game is excessively slow paced and the puzzles are either terribly easy or horribly hard. You have to click on everything talking to everybody and it is so long winded. This would be far better with a lot less talking and lot more puzzles and games that progressively became harder instead of bouncing all over the place.
Great style and great puzzles in a short game with an abrupt ending to make room for the sequel. It could have been longer and make the sequel more interesting if they had use another location for it.
Sometimes this game is so nice that you don't even know you're playing a "puzzle point-and-click" style game! It's really really fun and it has great challenges.
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2013
"Puzzle Agent" is a puzzle game released in 2010 by independent game publisher Telltale Games, a company known for snagging licensing rights to popular franchises like "Back to the Future" and "Walking Dead" and turning them into popular video games. "Puzzle Agent" utilizes the striking artwork by cartoonist Graham Annable to create a one-of-a-kind look and feel that you won't likely forget. Annable's bare but expressive drawings instantly captivate us, and fit nicely to the comical Fargo-like settings of the game's missing-person mystery set in snowy Minnesota.
Unfortunately, the gameplay is as bare as the landscapes shown in the game. There are 36 puzzles in the game only, which can be finished in just 2-4 hours. Some of them resemble the ones you find in puzzle books: an almost static, minimally interactive screen with a simplistically-constructed puzzle. There are a few "guess the next number or symbol in the sequence" puzzles. There are quite a few "control the flow" puzzles when you set the necessary directions to pass through obstacles. And there are way more tile puzzles, the old standby in puzzle games, than I care for. Some puzzles just offer too little interactivity, such as those "he says, she says, guess the answer" type of puzzles that I'm never too keen on. All in all, there is hardly any puzzle that I find memorable. I have seen IQ tests that had more interesting puzzles. There are better-designed puzzles to be had in even some of today's casual games. Sadly, the artwork is the most outstanding feature in "Puzzle Agent".
The game ends in a cliffhanger, to be continued in "Puzzle Agent 2" from 2011, which is more of the same, puzzle-wise. Both games are already heavily discounted from their original prices. During holiday sales, they are discounted even more. The two games are available for PC, Mac, Playstation, and iOS. PC and Mac users can buy them on Steam, Amazon, or Telltale's website.
This review is for the actual game, not the game code purchased through Amazon. I just finished playing Puzzle Agent (it took around two hours to play through) and while the game was interesting, I felt it had fewer pros than cons.
Pros: +I like the concept of a game based solely around puzzles. The only other type of game I've encountered with puzzles are hidden object games and sometimes I want to just do lots puzzles and no have to deal with the item searches.
Cons: -The story itself is strange and the ending feels unresolved. -The game is too reliant on the slow, annoying voice acting. I wish there had been an option for no voices and instant text. This would have made the game move more quickly. -Several of the puzzles left out details/rules that made the puzzles exponentially more difficult than necessary. -All one difficulty. This game would benefit from two or three different difficulties since not every player has the same skill with puzzles. The simplest difficult could allow the user to solve puzzles manually (interactively) on the puzzles that required users to solve in their head or writing on a piece of paper.
If Professor Layton was to take a trip to Twin Peaks by way of the Telltale Express, you'd probably end up with a game like Puzzle Agent. An adventure game whose puzzles stray away from the traditional "put item A in slot Y", opting instead for brain twisting riddles and logic puzzles that fit perfectly with the quirky world.
Everyone seems to have a puzzle on their mind, and solving it for them is all too much fun. Though at times overly vague, they are for the most part interesting and well designed. The story takes a back seat for most of the game, and in traditional Telltale fashion, leaves you with a cliffhanger ending.
All that aside though, Puzzle Agent is one of the better adventure games I've played in a long time. The art is simple and charming, as is the voice acting which I found very enjoyable. A welcome change from the Telltale's traditional offerings, I can't believe it remained unknown to me for so long. I'm very eager to continue Nelson's story in the sequel, and can easily recommend it to any adventure game fan!
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