Journey of a Roach

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Summary

Nuclear war, post apocalypse, barren and lifeless wastelands.
Lifeless? Not so much!
Mutated insects have made their home in a bomb shelter and they're set on exploring the world.
Let this point&click adventure welcome you to a hilariously bizarre end time world and join the roaches Jim and Bud on their journey to the surface.

Journey of a Roach tells the story of two roach-buddies, who want nothing but see the surface world.
On their way up, they meet all kinds of bizarre and ludicrous insects inhabiting the post-apocalyptic earth. In atmospheric 3D point&click adventure style you'll take control of Jim the roach through the bomb shelter, effortlessly crawling your way along walls and ceilings. This innovative and dynamic game mechanic creates opportunities for a wholly new puzzle design. Fondly designed speechballoons offer an unconventional new dialogue experience and the soundtrack delivers and atmospheric, post-apocalyptic mood.Key Features
Point&click Adventure in a unique environment
Crawl along walls and ceilings, exploring secret underground
Innovative controls create dynamic game mechanics
Atmospheric 3D comic style world
Two charming, memorable protagonists with humorous, nonverbal means of communication


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Journey of a Roach Reviews & Ratings

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Review by kezzyhko [user]
August 5, 2020

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Review by nickrgamer [user]
April 26, 2014

Journey of a Roach is a great game. It has a nice story and challenging puzzles(good luck with it). The arts is good, the characters, settings and background music are cute(actually the whole game is cute). But you need to be aware of the spinning screen when Jim is climbing walls or ceilings, it might make you dizzy.Journey of a Roach is just a short game so you can finish it with just a couple of hours.

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Review by COGconnected
December 18, 2013

Journey of a Roach is ideal for someone who wants a change of pace in a puzzle game. It is for someone who does not want a complex story line and is looking for an affordable puzzle game for your PC.

80
Review by Duckstiff [user]
December 4, 2013

The game thrusts you into a difficult puzzle almost immediately and my first thought was "This feels like a version of Monkey Island". TheThe game thrusts you into a difficult puzzle almost immediately and my first thought was "This feels like a version of Monkey Island". The movement around the game is seemless and I played through using a 360 controller, it was generally hassle free although inventory management took a few attempts to get used to. The can climb up walls and along ceilings which leads to some movements that resemble Fez.After playing through however, I decided the game was not similar to Monkey Island at all with regards to the puzzles. Some of the choices were bizarre and made the game difficult not because of how hard the puzzles actually were but the placement and sheer ludicrousness. The game effectively consisted of 3 'large' puzzles. Each zone was unique and had a certain theme to it but all followed a main 'quest' or aim linked to the zone. The game difficultly was mostly gauged by the awkwardness of certain actions, combined with the fact that rarely did you get any sort of clue other than a speech bubble depicting a cruel picture of what the character you're interacting with wants.The length of the game is fairly short, I took around 3-4 hours of passive gameplay, i.e I was watching TV whilst playing this game every so often. I can't imagine the replay value of this game is very high, maybe at some point I will speed run this game but it doesn't have that charm Monkey Island ever had and thus I don't feel that I could return to play this game simply for the storyline. Then there is the price, I wouldn't say this game is worth the RRP at all, I caught this in a bundle by chance and after a while decided to actually play it.However, despite that overall difficulty/awkwardness I think the game deserves some credit. The game is technically flawless with regards to bugs and the developers should be applauded for that, not often does this happen now that they can just simply release broken and patch later.The game really should be around the £5 range though due to its length. I honestly think I could speed run this game in under 20 minutes and that isn't really a selling point.

60
Review by 1ManAndHisDroid [user]
November 27, 2013

Got this as part of a humble bundle pleasantly surprised...The key mechanic is the ability to walk 360 around rooms (on walls ceilings)Got this as part of a humble bundle pleasantly surprised...The key mechanic is the ability to walk 360 around rooms (on walls ceilings) but it's actually a cute little adventure game too!And the puzzles make sense (not too random) well worth checking out if on sale!

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Game Information
Release Date November 4, 2013
Publisher Koboldgames, Daedalic Entertainment
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Third person
Genres Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Themes Comedy
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac