The Colonel's Bequest
Main game
3.61 average rating based on 28 ratings
- Developers
- Sierra On-Line
- Publishers
- Sierra On-Line
- Series
- Laura Bow
- Platforms
- Amiga, Atari ST/STE, DOS, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Genres
- Adventure, Point-and-click
- Themes
- Mystery, Thriller
Release Dates
User Stats
How Long Is The Colonel's Bequest?
Puzzle gamers had it rough in the past!!
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version
This game was likely ground-breaking for its time and the story is still pretty good. Especially in the way it forces you to make a serious decision at the end informed only by the clues you gathered along the way. But, my god, if every game had this UI, I would probably not be much of a gamer.
Preliminary: I kept finding excuses not to play this game. It's long and complex. But it's beautiful for 89, has that Clue look and feel that I love so much, and seems worth at least an earnest playtest. Argh, this chronology project is gonna take forever because so many games seem interesting! lol. Now the real challenge: how to play this. The fingerprint recognition copy protection is so hard lol.. But seriously. I finally got past it and I love that it's like a play.
Welp, it's absolutely beautiful and love the setting, but too tedious of gameplay. After all the work I went through to play it too lol