Life of Delta

During its 4-hour playtime, I realised that Life of Delta is perfect for those looking to make their start in the point-and-click genre. Some puzzles are decidedly unclear, which could frustrate newbies, but those who’ve tackled this type of game before might find the game easy when it comes to gameplay.

Life of Delta is a captivating point-and-click adventure where a small robot, Delta, navigates a dystopian hostile world to save his friend. The game is light, fun, and enjoyable, featuring stimulating and engaging puzzles. The storyline delves into philosophical themes such as the consciousness and morality of artificial intelligences, and the urgent need to escape from a state of oppression and unbearable slavery at the hands of evil creatures. With original and flawless graphics, accompanied by well-integrated music, Life of Delta offers an immersive experience enriched with nostalgic references and tributes to the video game past.

Though this isn’t perfect, I enjoyed my time with it. The puzzles and mini-games are interesting, and the characters are colourful. Moreover, the dialogue is interesting and amusing and the setting is fascinating. However, its janky mechanics and lack of tutorial were disappointing. Yet, despite these shortcomings, I love it and recommend buying it here! Will you become a hero? Solve some puzzles, assist some robots, and save your friend.

While it has a cute look and some of its puzzles are interesting, its interface, controls, and lack of context can be irritating

While the post-apocalyptic themes could feel dour, Life of Delta uses its charming art, puzzles and story to create an uplifting and thought-provoking adventure

Life of Delta doesn’t overstay its welcome and has nice puzzle variety, but you are often wondering what your goal is.

Life of Delta is an efficient and charismatic point and click adventure in its simplicity. The lean context helps maintain the rhythm of the tale of a robot who wants to save his friend and the beautiful painted scenes do a good job of bringing the player closer to the world of Delta, but don't expect mysteries, twists and explanations of the story of this post-modern apocalyptic dystopia. Just enjoy the puzzles and move forward in the metallic skin of the tiny and very human service robot.

The cool visual design can't stop Life of Delta from being a mediocre point and click adventure game. The interaction is very clumsy on the Playstation 5. Moving the cursor is normally too slow, but it is not precise enough for the many puzzles. The simple interactions and minimal choice of objects you have to use ensure that you don't have to think too long about the puzzles. The price of twenty euros is therefore on the high side and Life of Delta needs more than a nice presentation to make the purchase worthwhile.

Life of Delta is a cute puzzle game with a good story, which manages to offer a short but exciting adventure thanks also to a cast of unique characters and a pleasant artistic style.

All in all, Life of Delta offers a pleasant and relaxing adventure game that won’t make you think too hard, but might just test your patience. Set against a beautiful hand-drawn backdrop, the story is a bit shallow and comes with a few annoyances when it comes to controls. If you can overlook these minor issues, Life of Delta will captivate you with a diverse range of relatively easy mini-games and, as a bonus, includes a Slovak localization.