Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View vs J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is an investigative point-and-click-like adventure game where you play as a wheelchair-bound retired private investigator named Conway. A young girl named Charlotte May was kidnapped in the middle of the night in his neighborhood and he has decided to dust off his coat and dive into one last case. In this game, you'll need to talk to neighbors, observe their behavior, and conduct some sleuthing of your own, all in hopes of tracking down the missing girl before it’s too late!Besides having incredible voice acting and storytelling that completely immerse you into the story, the game also features a nice photography aspect, allowing you to photograph pieces of evidence as well as to spy on neighbors exhibiting suspicious behaviors, as well as an evidence board where you'll try to figure out what fits where just to reveal the bigger picture of the case. There are even vintage stamps that you can collect for fun too... if you can spot them that is!
All in all, Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is a brilliant detective game where a keen eye and having great deduction skills can come in handy. Will you be able to rescue the girl from her captors before it's too late?
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is truly a game that's very unique. Despite its apparent appearance - it does look like "just another space sim", doesn't it? - the game is a fun and innovative, story-driven adventure game with a heavy dose of mystery added for good measure. In this game, you'll get to step into the spacesuit of Rachel Manners, a 35-year-old astrobiologist who initially embarked on a critical mission to explore and collect data on potentially habitable planets with a crew of of other elite and hand-picked scientists, but somehow, things went awry, and she found herself alone with J.U.L.I.A., the space probe's rather tempermental AI and Mobot, the reconnaissance robot.Driven by a need to know, you'll need to help Rachel search for clues which might potentially explain the mission's failure and the missing crew. You'll also get to travel to six widely varied planets where you can then get to work trying to reveal their secrets. There will be plenty of puzzles and mini-games in your journey as well just to give your brain some intense workout from time to time.
That said, the puzzles in the game can be a tad bit frustrating to solve, mainly because it's the sort of "trial and error" puzzle-type. So, unless you have a thing or two against this specific game mechanism, J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is a really nice puzzle-adventure game to buy and play.