Olav and the Lute is fun little game that is inspired by the Lucas Arts classic Loom. You have a lute instead of a staff and play little melodies to manipulate your surroundings instead of using verbs from an interface. There is a melody for "open" and when you play it backwards it becomes "close". Once you see you need to play the fire melody backwards to freeze the riverbed to be able to cross it it becomes apparent and fun. The graphics are in a pixel art style, but not that detailed and rather a bit sketchy but it gets the idea of what you see on screen across pretty well. The haunting music is really to my taste, but maybe not to everyone's taste, but I really enjoy that. The puzzles are really cool as already mentioned, the backwards playing of melodies is a fun concept. A bit more quality control would have helped the game a lot, somehow the game mixes up the walk cycles it seems and Olav quite often moonwalks across the screen, but you get to places and can have fun.

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Synopsis: Olav & the Lute is a mystical adventure game. Dive into the post-apocalyptic fantasy world, solve puzzles, discover melodies, change the game-world with your mystical lute and .. fix it? Inspired by the old LOOM, Olav & the Lutemakes use of an extraordinary gameplay mechanic. Discover the melodies of this magical world and use them to change other objects. It's not like something bad could happen, is it? Will you be able to figure out your mission, and let alone fulfill it?

Credits: Shelly Alon - Art & Design & Code Daniel von Appen - Code Quirin Nepas - Sound and Music

Download: https://shellyalon.itch.io/oatl

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