Silk Preview – “Mysterious letters”
- A new Leo Park Adventure game
- Lots of challenging puzzles
- Engaging story
The second game within the ‘A Leo Park Adventure’ series, brings a new, highly-polished story to the classic point and click genre – or well, point and tap, as it’s on mobile! I got the chance to play a demo of the game Silk at Indie Dev Day, where despite the venue being a bit noisy, it managed to fully captivate me.
Just as a note, you don’t need to play Sand – A Leo Park Adventure to enjoy Silk.
Silk puts you in the role of Leo Parker, a teacher at the University of Oxford in 1917. You’ve got a letter from your Mentor Sir Francis, who needs your assistance, so you leave your university and head straight to China to figure out exactly what is going on.
When you arrive, however, you cannot seem to find your Mentor and instead need to move around the house, attempting to solve this mystery and uncover what’s taken place. Silk has charming, hand-drawn graphics coupled with dozens of challenging puzzles that need you to investigate your surroundings and find out what to do next.
You’ll be finding bookcases, putting together ripped slips of paper, changing sand in bottles, and much more. Once you’ve made it out of the home, you will need to follow in the steps of Sir Francis, and find the ancient palace of the Ming Empress. It’s a long puzzle game that promises to give you some trouble with its harder puzzles, but the hint system is well done, getting close to, but not actually giving you a direct answer.
Although I didn’t have much time with Silk, I found the puzzles both fun and challenging, like with classic point and click games. The story was interesting and I wondered what exactly happened with my Mentor and why he felt his life was in danger. It’s one to check out for those who are fans of the genre and are looking for something new to play.
