Abi: A Robot's Tale

Abi is a point-and-click game that’s all about the story, not the gameplay. It’s lovely to look at, with a sorrowful soundtrack and lonely characters that tug at the heartstrings. There are a number of simple puzzles to solve as the player journeys from a desolate abandoned town to a futuristic utopia which is not what it seems. It’s easy to feel moved by this beautiful tale about loss and friendship. The plotline explores what it means to leave things behind, and the hurt that can be caused by never looking back. But it also contains a hopeful message about life going on, no matter what the hardship… and right at the end, there’s a chance that the friendships that were long forgotten can be revived again. I’ve taken away a star for one reason: I can’t rationalise how much data this app harvests. It’s paid for up-front and has no ads or in-app purchases, so… why?!

The game had so much promise but I ended up deleting the app part way through the game. There were a few reasons it frustrated me: - The movement is slow. - If you toggle out of the app at any point it restarts and you lose progress. - You can’t fast click through dialogue you have already played. - You can’t turn off the music or sound so can’t listen to your own music while playing - Can only carry one inventory item at a time - inventory items are so tiny, I couldn’t even see what I was picking up a lot of the time.

Great game but it was way to short just gettin into game and it finished disappointing in the end

My partner and I love playing point and click games together. We both agreed Abi was special: beautiful graphics, appealing music and quite emotional, but we wanted more. What we did get was great, but it felt unfinished. We didn't get on the train to Metropolis or even see the city in the distance... Also a bug kept crashing the game 2 minutes before the final credits. We had to watch a You Tube walkthrough to catch the final bit. It may be because we were playing on an ancient iPad 2 but all apart from the last 2 minutes ran just fine. Having got through the whole game minus 2 minutes was frustrating...

I really liked the characters and story, and would love to see more. Hard disagree for those saying it isn’t worth the small about of money it costs - you can clearly see the effort and time that has gone into creating a beautiful game. It’s not a puzzle heavy game, and won’t take you too long, but it’s still a good time.

It was a little short. Please tell me you are making a sequel, this was one of the best games I ever played though

Look, it’s probably worth the dollar fifty but it’s a bit clunky and it’s a bit painful to endure the long, pointless narratives.

Whimsical, beautiful artwork, challenging at times... but crazy dialogue.

I loved the game play and art work but the story doesn’t remotely finish. So much of the story is left incomplete that’s it’s entirely unsatisfying when the credits suddenly start playing. I started on the TV however I had to move to my phone to continue. The TV version is virtually unplayable in parts. The TV version feels rushed to market and not well enough tested. Might be better if it supported the game controller. On the phone the controls worked however so much of the lovely detail in the artwork is lost on the small screen I was guessing at what I was tapping on and hoping it would work.

The gameplay is a little slow and clunky. There also appeared to be a bug that prevented me from being able to proceed further and I don’t consider the storyline to be engaging enough for me to give it another go.