Game Review - The Silent Age

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Game Review: The Silent Age by House on Fire and published by Meridian4
Score: +3


We got The Silent Age free from the Epic Games Store in the week of 2023-Mar-30 to Apr-6.
Embark on an epic adventure through time with Joe, a simple janitor tasked with saving humanity from extinction. With the help of a mysterious time travel device, explore the groovy present of 1972 and the post-apocalyptic future of 2012, solving puzzles and uncovering the truth behind mankind's demise.
Featuring a deep storyline, challenging puzzles, and minimalist art style, The Silent Age is an unforgettable gaming experience. Can you, a seemingly ordinary Joe, rise to the challenge and become the hero humanity needs? Play now to find out.

The Silent Age is a game where you solve puzzles to progress.
Each chapter in the story occurs in an easily replayable scene and you can jump back and forth to replay the chapters as you like.
The experience of the puzzles is secondary to the story you are being told -- that is where the value of this game really lies. To play The Silent Age is to experience an interesting and carefully plotted time-loop story, with the puzzles mainly to pace how the story unfolds.

Gameplay was solid, no bugs encountered. There's barely 4 hours of gameplay here and that's if you take your time with it, so I can't really recommend it at the regular price of CA $10.99, especially as there's no replay value whatsoever.
  • Overall gameplay and production is solid.
    • +1 Good story revealed at a good pace.
  • +1 As a puzzle game the puzzles were quite good.
    • Very intuitive, although this might make it seem "too obvious".
    • Good use of flipping back and forth between present and future.
    • Not outlandish compared to the setting/lore.
      • Often, to provide an interesting challenge, puzzle games will involve outlandish contraptions completely implausible to the setting. None of that here.
  • +1 Convenient chapter structure of short scenes removes the need to have savegames to track your progress.
    • However, the story is entirely linear with no choices and nothing to miss, so savegames wouldn't really have been required anyway.

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