Loco Motive

Release Date: November 21, 2024

Adventure, point-and-click, detective, 2D, humorous, indie games, side-scroll, singleplayer

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A point & click adventure game in which we take the role of three passengers of Reuss Express train. In Loco Motive we investigate to discover identity of the murderer. The game is kept in light slapstick comedy style.

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7.6

OpenCritic Rating

Game is Recomended by 67% of Critics. There are 21 Critic Reviews.

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Pure Nintendo: 8 / 10 by Trevor Gould

You can see the attention to detail and love put into Loco Motive. It's a high-quality game that respects its point-and-click predecessors while carving out its own identity as a graphic adventure. Juggling three characters does lead to occasional pacing hiccups, a few less satisfying puzzles, and a couple of other minor issues. Still, this talkie adventure is great fun with a rewarding payoff.

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Try Hard Guides: 10 / 10 by Erik Hodges

With its beautiful pixel art, great humor, and outstanding voice acting, Loco Motive is a captivating blend of next-gen and yesteryear, taking everything we love about classic point-and-click adventures and giving it a fresh, modern spin.

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RageQuit.GR: 89 / 100 by Giorgos Dempegiotis

Loco Motive is a game that all fans of point 'n' click adventures should play. It's satisfying in length, has sharp writing, memorable characters, an impeccable pixel-art approach and is a worthy challenge for your adventure reflexes.

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Loco Motive is a point & click adventure game inspired by Murder on the Orient Express, a crime novel by Agatha Christie. It was developed by Robust Games, an independent studio, and its prototype was created during the AdvXJam 2020 game jam.

Plot

Loco Motive is set in the 1930s, aboard the exclusive Reuss Express train. When wealthy Lady Unterwald is murdered on the eve of an important speech, three characters are suspected of the crime - lawyer Arthur Ackerman, novelist Herman Merman, who wants to become a detective, and Diana Osterhagen, who works as a spy for Her Majesty the Queen. The three protagonists have no choice but to conduct an investigation that will clear their names and lead to the discovery of the killer's identity. Although it all sounds very serious, the story is kept in the vein of a slapstick comedy.

Game mechanics

In Loco Motive we watch the action from the side. During the game we have an opportunity to take the role of each of the three characters, whose paths start to cross with time. In order to bring the investigation to a happy end, we have to conduct numerous conversations with the remaining passengers and solve numerous puzzles. Puzzles are mainly about finding items and using them in a specific way.

An original hint system has been implemented in the game. If we have no idea how to push the action further, we can use the built-in hotline which is a source of useful tips. What's interesting, we can control the characters in two ways - directly or with the help of classic point & click interface.