Alluvium

this is amazing 

The story 10/10

The voice acting 10/10

The visual 10/10

I cant belive this is a free game,it's a masterpiece 

Good stuff!

What a great way to tell this story! It had me sitting on the edge of my seat for the entire run! Amazing job!

5/5 - I really liked the game!
(However the tasks at the end were really not that intuitive, and I had to resort clicking randomly everything, accidentally conquering the game.. or it could be that I am just stupid :D)

It crashes for me every time when I return to the beach and go through the plane and the cut scene starts. It's a great, beautiful, dramatic game but sadly totally broken at that point. 

I was able to finally finesse my way past the crash. Aside from the numerous crashes - Very well done!

The voice acting in this game is superb! Made me feel likeI was living in the story. I'm also thankful for the low graphics and the simplicity of the game cause I don't think I would be able to play  the gore scene of the map if it was more detailed. Great work.

There may be some spoilers in this review, but the game is free, so there's really no reason not to play it before reading.

Powerhoof's Alluvium was not at all what I expected going into it. From the thumbnail with the bright colors and flying plane, I thought this would be some sort of futuristic vaporwave adventure. The bright, vibrant colors of the game itself were on point to my initial expectations, but as for the story, maybe its lesson is that you should always be prepared to have your expectations subverted.

In the case of Alluvium, subversion of expectation leads to surprise after surprise as the plot marches forward. Even with all these twists and turns, I did not feel distanced from the story at any moment as Powerhoof's characteristically great storytelling shines through.

Normally point-and-click adventures are text heavy, and while I don't mind that, other people might. Alluvium's solution to this is exciting and at times emotional voice acting from Adrian Vaughan, detailing Ian's internal thoughts and external conversations, his potential deaths from wrong moves and his return to reality, showing the last action to be in Ian's imagination (a concept that I've only seen a few times before and absolutely love rather than a game over or simply limiting the player's actions to the right choice). 

Sally Beaumont portrayed Anna's creepy cannibalistic touch of insanity excellently. Speaking of, cannibals on desert islands are usually portrayed as otherwise uncontacted natives, but a corrupted crew drunk on mysterious berries, attempting to corrupt the last (debatably) sane crewmate is a thrilling change of pace. Ian's reentry into insanity and his resistance to it as he approaches the former campsite harkens back to the subversion of expectations when first setting out on this adventure. Ian's disgust and revilement of the rotting flesh of his comrades seems to show that he is reformed from his cannibalistic ways, which is confirmed in his moment of self-sacrifice as he destroys the dam with the (seemingly) last remaining cannibal atop it.

After the credits, I was left with just one question: Was the Russian captain truly there, left behind by his crew?  Or was it perhaps just some random person that Ian hallucinated was the captain?

The story seems complete and self-contained, but the more I keep thinking about this game, the more ideas I have for a continuation of this island's tale. Perhaps Ian is flushed out to sea, but washes back ashore, awakening to find  a cannibalistic society of the crew and their progeny that worships the evil fruit. If Ian is truly dead, perhaps the Russian ship comes back with someone to investigate, and that detective would be the main character. The main character would seek to put a stop to the society's atrocities - farms where humans are raised as livestock, prisons where people are kept in pits, and fed human flesh, but no berries, so they regain their sanity, but are driven mad again as they're forced to eat their fellow man. Perhaps the story ends with the main character blowing up a volcano on the island, destroying himself, all the cannibals, and all the berries in the process... And in a post-credits scene, a few stray berries would be seen floating across the ocean...

Of course this is just rambling at this point, and I'm much more eager to see a continuation of the Telwynium series, but there is definitely room for a series of two or three games to be made out of this one. Perhaps someday after the Telwynium series is complete, we'll see a return to Alluvium.

The art is amazing, and the game is so fun

I love everything about this game, it's only flaw is being too damn short. I'd gladly pay 20 bucks (adjusted for inflation) for a feature-lenght version.
Wish you the best, I'll be following your work!

This game is outstanding! Everything from music to gameplay are so amazing that I almost forgot everything around me.

Btw, the game is better enjoyed if playing yourself, but you can watch my 4K gameplay if you don't have time to enjoy it.

it is very beautiful thank you for making the game and leaving it at 'give what you want'price !!!

amazing

It swallowed me whole, like a delicious spine-tingler found in a dusty old bookshop.

3.75/5

While some of it's story can't compete with it's stylish visuals, and the gamepaly needs work, it is none the less interesting enough to be seen to the end- which won't disappoint. 

great voice acting, really love the color pallet. This is just as good as Scriptwelder's games, if not better. 

damn! the colors look awesome! best game ver bro!

Just wow.  So much better than a game like this has any right to be!  My ONLY suggestion would be to add a button to show objects you can interact with as there were a few items I didn't notice.  10/10

Hey Powerhoof! I made a cringe video on this game but it was very entertaining nonetheless! I love this style of games!

We might be a little dumb and took a bit longer to figure some things out but we super loved this game!  We'll be looking out to see what you do!!

What an awesome game! The plot was gripping! And the narration was spot on! All together one of the best indie games I have played in a long time!! 

hello from France! pretty interesting work but it do crashes for me on ubuntu 18.04 when reloading the saved file .

This is is so good, but it crashes on ubuntu 18 when you enter the camp and meet the ships captain  

wooow...

This game is Berry Squeezing Good. Get it, Do it!

This was just the funniest thing, had me cracking up frequently with each surprise. Nice job, top game.

What a trip this game ended up being! It went exactly where I wasn't expecting. Great work :D

Gave it a go...