About This Game Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar is the first in a series of "20 minute adventures" where you take on the role of a crew of snails on a journey to a new home world.In the style of the early Sierra Online adventure games, Snail Trek has colorful EGA-ish graphics and a text parser interface. Relive the nostalgia in these bite-sized adventures - but without all the pain. Autosaves, a text parser with auto-suggest, and puzzles with no dead ends, all combine to bring this old genre into the modern era.In Chapter 1, you arrive at the lettuce-covered (or so you hope) planet. But something is amiss. Your ship has been damaged and you may not be able to land at all! Meanwhile, your home world is dying, and your entire civilization is waiting for your report on this new planet. Is it really a lettuce-covered paradise?You can find chapter 2 here.Key Features Autosaves - no need to save every few minutes (though you still can if you want). A text parser with both auto-suggest and auto-correct - fat finger your way to puzzle glory (but you can turn them off if you want to suffer more greatly). A text parser that understands what objects are in front of you, so you can be lazy and just type things like 'get' or 'look'. CRT emulation mode that gives those pixels an ever-so-slightly fuzzy look. A stereophonic score. Cute snails. Deaths (but hey, autosaves). No dead ends! Puzzle your way around with impunity! Widescreen aspect ratio, since monitors are more rectangular now. 7aa9394dea Title: Snail Trek - Chapter 1: IntershellarGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:Phil FortierPublisher:Phil FortierFranchise:Snail TrekRelease Date: 30 Nov, 2017 Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar Download] [License] I love these bite sized adventures, really hope to see a lot more in this style, I can't get enough of em! Great to have something like this when you find yourself with a spare 20 mins. The art and parser instantly transports me to how I felt playing parser games as a kid, and I find myself getting a lot more absorbed than I expected for such a short game about a race of snales in space. I think the parser/control scheme somehow lends itself more to that feeling of exploration and discovery that makes it very satisfying when you open up the next room, etc. Can't wait for more!. Snail Trek is a really fun little 20 minute Sierra-like point and click adventure. The scenes, characters and dialog have been lovingly crafted to feel very much like one of those much-loved games. The best part of Snail Trek is the text interface which works amazingly well, and it very flexible.To finish the whole game will just take about 20 minutes, as the description says. However to get all the achievements requires you think outside the box and do some searching.. That brought the play time up to about 45 minutes for me.The puzzles aren't by any means hard. You can easily figure out how to complete the game and you don't have to think in convoluted crazy ways, like in some of the Lucasarts games "try everything on everything"... It's all pretty logical. Great throwback to old Sierra games and I can't wait for Chapter 2 and the full game Cascade Quest.. The Snail Trek series is well worth your time. On the surface it may just seem like a nostalgic throwback to old Sierra On-Line parser games of the late 80s/early 90s.Not so. The text parser is perhaps the best that's ever been made. Taking inspiration from modern smartphones, the text parser here will autocorrect common spelling mistakes, auto-suggest words in the sentence, and auto-complete long words.The story itself is endearing, charming, funny, and definitely more interesting than you would think a game about talking snails would be. If you have any love for the freedom of parser games -- or even just want to experience that freedom for the first time -- then Snail Trek is where you want to go.. Only lasts 20 minutes. So it's not even worth a buck.. I never played parser games back in the day so I went in this without nostalgia goggles. Despite this, Snail Trek won me over with it's charm and how painless the parser system was. I've heard a lot of bad things about old text adventures and this game thankfully avoids them. It's short but that time is enjoyable not frustrating.. Awesome space snail adventure in the style of early Sierra classics. The text parser is very well done, the narrative is engaging, and the challenges move the story along in a fun way. The first chapter is very short at around fifteen or twenty minutes, but the overall quality is great. Throw a buck down on the game - it's definitely worth that much at least. Can't wait for the next chapter!. This review is pretty much for the series as a whole, btw, not just Chapter 1.)Snail Trek is a pretty delightful series of adventure games, reminiscent of Sierra's SCI-era games (and influenced perhaps most directly by their Space Quest series). Individually, the chapters are reasonably short -- the early ones specifically -- but they get a bit longer and more involved as they progress, and taken as a whole it's a very satisfying chunk of adventure game. I'd definitely recommend just buying the bundle.The puzzles themselves are rarely too difficult, and the game nudges you with hints for the first bits. Later puzzles can definitely stump you for awhile, though, and some of the solutions are rather clever. The game invites you to experience as many deaths as possible, something that was always a favorite pasttime in Sierra games, and its autosave system prevents you from even having to do the standard Sierra save-every-minute technique, which is a welcome feature.The Linux ports of these work quite well (barring one weird Unity bug related to keyboard input at the moment - if you want to "move fast/sprint" ingame, you'll have to rebind that key to something like Insert), and the developer is quick to provide assistance, so extra bonus points for that! Folks who enjoy the CRT emulation should appreciate it, and that option is toggleable for those of us who prefer crisp graphics.All in all, if you're a fan of this sort of game, the bundle with all four chapters will be well worth your time! Chapter 2 of Snail Trek is now available!: Go get it here while it's got the launch discount, and find out what happens to those snails!http://store.steampowered.com/app/756320/Snail_Trek__Chapter_2_A_Snail_Of_Two_Worlds/. Patch released for Snail Trek Chapter 1: I've released an update that fixes three bugs:- crash when trying to save if all save slots are filled- game-breaking bug if you try to open a pod while another snail is still emerging and doing its thing- small memory leak that probably no one will noticeNote that your save games may lose just a bit of progress with this update, as I fallback to a simpler but more robust format that keeps its integrity across code changes.. Chapter 3 store page is now live...: It should be available in early January. Go wishlist it!http://store.steampowered.com/app/761480/Snail_Trek__Chapter_3_Lettuce_Be/. Chapter 3 is now available!: Have at it!http://store.steampowered.com/app/761480/Snail_Trek__Chapter_3_Lettuce_Be/. The Snail Trek series now available for MacOS and Linux: I'm happy to announce that Snail Trek 1-4 are now available for MacOS and Linux! Enjoy!. Snail Trek releasing in a couple of days!: In the meantime, check out the page for Chapter 2 - A Snail Of Two Worlds!
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