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ENCODYA

Adventure

Developer Chaosmonger Studio

Encodya is a 2021 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed by Chaosmonger Studio and published by Assemble Entertainment. The player assumes the role of a young homeless girl, Tina, and her robot, SAM-53, as they explore the cyberpunk city of Neo-Berlin. The game was the first to be created by the studio's lead developer, filmmaker and animator Nicola Piovesan, who based the game on an animation, Robot Will… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Audience score

70
Fresh

131 positive · 57 negative
95% range 63–76%

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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
166 of 228 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

70% recommend · 134 yes, 57 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 191 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (373 of 499 positive).

Players praise the game's beautiful art, music, and voice acting. [1][2][3] Many find the puzzles frustrating, with pixel hunting and obscure solutions. [4][3][5] Some reviewers note the story is engaging but others call it shallow or cliché. [6][7][8]

Liked
  • Beautiful graphics and atmospheric cyberpunk world. [1][2][7]
  • Great voice acting and music. [1][6][3]
  • Adorable main characters with heart. [2][9][10]
  • Engaging story for some players. [6][9][11]
Disliked
Representative posts
  • [5]Steam user Steam user …3303Steam review · May 22, 2021 · Not recommended

    I really wanted to like this game, but I'm afraid I can't quite recommend it. Pros: - lovely art and environments - some decent puzzles - characters are fleshed out, and the two-character system is nice - good QoL features: map, fast-walking, reminder of tasks Cons: - some pretty bad puzzles (pixel hunts, a quiz where there's no way to know the answers and you have to start over every time you get one wrong - …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …1774Steam review · May 2, 2022 · Recommended

    Encodya is a beautifully crafted point-and-click adventure in the classic style of Broken Sword or Syberia. It has lovely artwork, solid voice-acting and a heroic quest. You play as two characters - an orphan child (Tina) and her robot guardian (SAM) in a dystopian future that is threatened by greed/power. If you are a fan of traditional point-and-click adventures, then you are very likely to enjoy this game. …

  • [2]Steam user Steam user …9375Steam review · May 8, 2022 · Recommended

    Amazing adventure game that was made with lots of heart. Pro: - Tina and Sam, the robot, are delightful and excellently written and voiced - The world and environments are visually just breathtaking - Story is great, with a lot of interesting characters to meet and secrets and puzzles to discover - Happy at times, heartbreaking at others, it's a game full of emotion - in-built hint system, in case you really get …

  • [7]Steam user Steam user …1907Steam review · Feb 27, 2021 · Recommended

    I can barely recommend "Encodya", although it is a sci-fi point and click adventure with gorgeous cartoonish graphics, a well designed cyberpunk world, nice music and two adorable main characters. But it fails to deliver in every other aspect. The story is dull and cliché, the puzzles are uninspiring and most of the NPCs are flat with bad writing. It wants to be political but it ends up being a caricature. Pixel …

  • [3]Steam user Steam user …8064Steam review · Mar 1, 2024 · Recommended

    Would recommend only if you buy it on discount. The story didn't really blow me away, mostly because the main antagonist was more cringy than dangerous, and though some of the dialogue with other NPCs was entertaining, the interactions were too brief for any real depth. The puzzles were often frustrating, with lots of pixel hunting and trial and error when combining random pieces from your inventory, and I ended up …

Summarised from 34 of the 203 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made

RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account

70% of the 191 Steam reviewers we collected recommend ENCODYA. The complaint that keeps coming up: frustrating pixel hunting and obscure puzzles. Deal-breaker or nitpick?

Critics, per Wikipedia

According to review aggregator Metacritic, Encodya received "mixed or average" reviews.

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …3303Steam reviews · May 22, 2021 · 9 h played

    I really wanted to like this game, but I'm afraid I can't quite recommend it. Pros: - lovely art and environments - some decent puzzles - characters are fleshed out, and the two-character system is nice - good QoL features: map, fast-walking, reminder of tasks Cons: - some pretty bad puzzles (pixel hunts, a quiz where there's no way to know the answers and you have to start over every time you get one wrong - lampshading it doesn't make it better) - a shallow, contrived and often nonsensical…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5368Steam reviews · Feb 15, 2021 · 5 h played

    The graphics are good, the constant rain and relaxing background music are atmospheric - and that's about all I can recommend. Is it horrible? No. You're going back and forth from places, in classic Point & Click Adventure-style, but so frequently for so little it becomes burdensome and boring. You have to try both characters to get different characters to say/do things, but with no common sense about why a character might respond differently to one than the other. No mini games/puzzles.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1774Steam reviews · May 2, 2022 · 18 h played

    Encodya is a beautifully crafted point-and-click adventure in the classic style of Broken Sword or Syberia. It has lovely artwork, solid voice-acting and a heroic quest. You play as two characters - an orphan child (Tina) and her robot guardian (SAM) in a dystopian future that is threatened by greed/power. If you are a fan of traditional point-and-click adventures, then you are very likely to enjoy this game. However, Encodya includes those facets of this genre that tend to become tedious for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2756Steam reviews · Aug 24, 2021 · 11 h played

    Solid cyberpunk Point & Click with modern age graphics. A breeze of fresh air, and a recommend for most P&C lovers! Tina & SAM Tina is an almost ten years old orphan living on a rooftop in Neo-Berlin, together with her guardian robot SAM-53 (2053 is the year Tina is born). Her father disappeared a long time ago, and that led to her mother getting addicted to the VR cyberspace that hooks the mass of the population. This eventually killed her, leaving Tina alone in this grim world. Luckily she…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0245Steam reviews · Jan 29, 2023 · 2 h played

    The worst of the 80s is back. Alone. Didn't bring the good along. First thing first, this is barely a Point n' Click adventure. Rather a mere Hidden Objects game. An extreme downgrade from solving puzzles to slowly and constantly scanning every screen with your mouse. A severe issue that tanked many sales and was resolved in Antiquity with the innovation called the Hot Spots key. Which doesn't exist here. You'd think it extremely hard to screw up the interface in a genre having the simplest of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2239Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2022 · 9 h played

    When I was first introduced to Encodya, I was drawn to its art and graphics. The mixture of detailed ligne claire art style and water colours to depict the cyberpunk setting of Neo-Berlin in 2062 is really appealing. The visual contrasts between the main characters, the nine-year-old Tina and her robot guardian/caregiver SAM-53, reminded me of Mei and Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro. SAM-53’s design was also reminiscent of the robots featured in Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7018Steam reviews · Sep 4, 2021 · 4 h played

    Blatant woke politics injected into a video game. I'm tired of being lectured by companies. It would be a decent point-click adventure otherwise.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3375Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2023 · 10 h played

    This game is at best a maybe. Puzzles are mostly bad, locations have poor design. The game is not particularly engaging and story is also quite week and lacking in consistency. If you want to play it try and get it on sale

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  • Steam user Steam user …6360Steam reviews · Jun 13, 2021 · 5 h played

    Didn't like it. My mistake for buying it only because I heard was an awesome p&c adventure. Graphic is not good for my taste. Puzzles are too random for me. Found the story shallow. All this too late for a refund. But everything is subjective, so it is defintely not good for me.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7665Steam reviews · Nov 28, 2024 · 8 h played

    TLDR: A poorly designed point n click that’s just not worth it. It isn’t even unnoteworthy enough to be faithfully generic, and hasn’t managed to get a single thing right. General Thoughts/Overview: Encodya is a bland and generic cyberpunk dystopia 1/5 cross (Mega City/Cyberspace) running indie story beats 1 and 8 (Child and Protector and stop the corruption). It’s a terrible Point’n’Click (PnC) adventure which manages to hit almost every genre branch on the way down. The game lacks any…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5460Steam reviews · May 15, 2024 · 3 h played

    I can't like this game. It was too painful for me to play. I am a big fan of point-and-click puzzle games, so I thought I would like this one given it's highish rating. However, after beginning to play, I started having doubts. From the very beginning I was having to blunt force some of the "puzzles". A little bit is a given in these types of games, but at the very start I would think good game design would initiate some basic intuitiveness in the puzzles. After completing the starting area, I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8715Steam reviews · Jan 28, 2023 · 4 h played

    Production values (i.e. art work, setting, writing, voice acting, etc.) is passable, but the puzzle design is rather frustrating. I'm going to focus the rest of the review on discussing some of the puzzles, so MINOR SPOILERS for some puzzles below. The game features a built-in hint system where you can ask your robot companion on advice on what to do next, but the advice the robot gives is generally useless, as the robot is likely to just tell you that you need to solve the puzzle you're…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7393Steam reviews · Sep 1, 2022 · 12 h played

    Mixed. It is an average point-and-click game with a passable story. Some puzzles were too abstract, though there was a mix of mechanics throughout. The humor mostly fell flat following typical references and tropes, with just a few instances where I found it clever. In the end, I expect point-and-click enthusiasts to enjoy this game but no so much anyone else. The art style reminds me borderlands, love it or hate it. The background music is a highlight though. Additional Details…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4530Steam reviews · Mar 12, 2025 · 7 h played

    What brought me to this game was that it seemed to be a game within a cyberpunk setting, naturally for that alone the game earned its brownie points before it has even started. The store page mentions that the atmosphere is inspired by Blade Runner so you would assume that Neo Berlin is a sprawling megaplex, but every screen basically feels empty and live less. This feeling gets even more amplified because the architecture is indeed shown in a megaplex style. The story for me is neither funny…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3491Steam reviews · Jul 6, 2023 · 11 h played

    Laughably bad game. The puzzles are easy, just time consuming. Having to comb over every square inch of the screen to find the object that your cursor doesn't pick up the first dozen times it passed over it is a huge pain, so you end up having to look up where to get the item to solve the puzzle you already know how to solve through the simplistic riddles and basic intuition but just can't find the item for. Only to discover it was in the same area you combed over repeatedly disguised as…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0424Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2022 · 2 h played

    I feel very meh about this game. The Good I enjoyed the general art style, it reminded me of old 3d animation. I liked the relationship of Sam and Tina The Meh Intractable items were hard to differentiate on screen from the background and felt like a pixel hunt at times. There was a claim that pressing/holding the space bar will light up those items, but it never worked for me. What I assume are translation issues, there was a part that suggested finding a secret word located on a big door.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7170Steam reviews · Feb 26, 2021 · 13 h played

    ♥♥♥♥ SAKE! This game is so close to being a really great game but falls short on few levels - first big fat robot always gets in the way - he should move around tina - and not block so much screen space - but the two main issues with the game is 1) there is a few times ur stuck as u cant find an object - objects which are very small - something like a tiny rock that u dont find unless u spend serious time scrolling the entire scene - and 2) it just get sloppy and too difficult towards the end -…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8557Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2024 · 12 h played

    This game, while nice to look at, did not offer much else. The humor is mostly fourth wall breaks, which stopped being funny in the first chapter. While solving the puzzles I felt like I was swamped with random items and red herrings and often shaking my head in disbelief about things I tried out of desperation and that just simply should not have worked like that, but somehow did anyway. And the story, sweet and heartwarming as it was, has unforgivably huge plot-holes and suffered from a cast…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6155Steam reviews · Mar 14, 2021 · 6 h played

    Do you like tedious pixel-hunting and hidden-object "secrets" in your "serious" non-casual adventures? Do you enjoy moon logic almost as bad as in the adventures from 90s? Are you exited about the idea of making a story with social conflict and politics, but for kids, yet sold like it's a serious game? Does yet another "cyberpunk" game that has nothing to do with cyberpunk as a genre besides being "sci-fi" and with "cyber" slapped over random stuff spike your interest? Then Encodya might be…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7960Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2024 · 5 h played

    I wanted to like this game I really did. The graphics amazing, the story was alright, the music and sound affects good, but the pacing and the back and forth was so convoluted I wanted to rip my hair out a lot. I couldn't even finish it at the end because I was just more frustrated and annoyed then anything else and was no longer even enjoying the game. Even with a guide I found this game so cumbersome that I couldn't finish.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6261Steam reviews · Mar 2, 2024 · 12 h played

    I'm sorry but the game was just not enjoyable for me. It's mostly fetch quests, running back and forth and pixel hunting. Also a few illogical puzzles that can only be figured out if you try using every item with another item. At one point I got stuck because I had missed a tiny rock laying on the ground, I had to look it up after running around for quite a while. Another puzzle I had to look up because it gave absolutely no feedback so I thought I was doing something wrong, found out you have…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8996Steam reviews · Apr 11, 2022 · 11 h played

    Should be just my kind of game. Pure point-n-click and set in the future... I want to love it, but there are too many annoying things. You have the perfect tool for something - but have to collect some nonsense to solve it instead... 'barriers' that could be overcome by simply walking round... but you can't. I hate PnCs where you use a tool for a puzzle - lose the tool - then need the same tool for the next thing... Encodya has the opposite problem - you end up carrying a lot of stuff you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8381Steam reviews · Jun 17, 2022 · 5 h played

    I played this game for a couple of hours and really tried to get into it. I'm sorry but...it's boring. I had a HUGE inventory very quickly into the game and found myself cycling through all my items on clickable points in the world trying to move forward. I also found the world difficult to navigate and I would sometimes have to move SAM out of the way to better view the scene (he makes a better door than a window.)

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  • Steam user Steam user …5841Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2021 · 14 h played

    I really liked this game! The story was engaging, funny, moving and kept my interest throughout. I enjoyed the voice overs and music very much. The puzzles were fair and at the right level of challenge, not too hard or easy. Unless you are a masochist, like me, I would recommend playing on easy mode first. I played on hard mode without a hot spot indicator or hints and though hints weren’t necessary for me, some of the items and hot spots were small and very easy to miss and was the reason…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1084Steam reviews · Aug 26, 2025 · 17 h played

    I really wanted to like this game, but I have to be honest: I played through it from beginning to end and I just didn't enjoy it very much. Halfway through I took a hiatus of three months or so and almost didn't muster the motivation to get back to it. When I picked it back up, I kept playing more out of a sense of obligation to finish what I start than because I actually cared about what happened next. The problem is the game just has very little to recommend it. The puzzles weren't clever,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8805Steam reviews · Jan 8, 2024 · 9 h played

    So many bad, intentionally user-unfriendly design decisions. Most obvious: ability to show hotspots. Pixel hunting should no longer be a thing, yet here it is

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  • Steam user Steam user …4832Steam reviews · Dec 10, 2022 · 5 h played

    I'm several hours into this game and I'm both frustrated and bored. While visually beautiful, the logic behind the puzzles makes zero sense. They're so convoluted and difficult that I had to resort to using a walkthrough to solve many of them. For some of the solutions, I found myself saying, "I never would have figured that out." On top of that, character movement is painfully slow (even when you double click) and I find myself clicking to speed through the dialog sections because they're so…

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  • Meroull the Wooden Doll ✨ @meroull-and-oaki.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    Feel like the Point and Click Game Encodya didn’t get the respect it deserved, though I had to use a guide throughout it due to small brain it was a real enjoyable game

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  • Steam user Steam user …2791Steam reviews · Aug 21, 2024 · 14 h played

    This game is a 6/10, hence the thumbs up. The story is engaging. The puzzles are rather simple but enjoyable. NPCs are too eager to give you items, even without you asking them. And too much pixel-hunting! Despite its flaws, definitely recommended.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9375Steam reviews · May 8, 2022 · 12 h played

    Amazing adventure game that was made with lots of heart. Pro: - Tina and Sam, the robot, are delightful and excellently written and voiced - The world and environments are visually just breathtaking - Story is great, with a lot of interesting characters to meet and secrets and puzzles to discover - Happy at times, heartbreaking at others, it's a game full of emotion - in-built hint system, in case you really get stuck Cons: - none, I wish we can get a continuation in the future!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4388Steam reviews · Mar 14, 2022 · 21 h played

    I'm new to adventure games - this is my fourth ever and now I'm hooked :) I started gaming with HOPAs for the puzzles, but don't fancy the hidden object element I played this game as a group play at Senscape and got enough help from other players to save the world :) I had a wonderful time with this game

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  • Steam user Steam user …7091Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2025 · 6 h played

    I'm not a huge fan of this type of game to begin with so take this review with a grain of salt. It's a "Point and Click" adventure game, which I think anyone who played computer games in the very early 2000 and before would be familiar with. Maybe even have some fond ones that you enjoyed somewhat at some point. I bought this around 2 years ago, but never actually played it. I liked the setting and art style so that's likely why I was drawn to it. Recently I've been going through my Steam…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8064Steam reviews · Mar 1, 2024 · 12 h played

    Would recommend only if you buy it on discount. The story didn't really blow me away, mostly because the main antagonist was more cringy than dangerous, and though some of the dialogue with other NPCs was entertaining, the interactions were too brief for any real depth. The puzzles were often frustrating, with lots of pixel hunting and trial and error when combining random pieces from your inventory, and I ended up just using a walkthrough for a good portion of the game. Visuals and soundtrack…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2704Steam reviews · Mar 14, 2023

    If you are really into slowly dragging your cursor back and forth over the screen looking for items to light up, this game might be for you. At the very beginning the devs go out of their way to say that they are not taking any political position, but immediately take a political position by making the mayor a caricature of an existing political figure. Cowardly.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6866Steam reviews · Feb 28, 2023 · 5 h played

    Encodya is an average game. There's quite a lot to be liked, but the second half is much weaker than the first. Length is okay, voices are good, interface is decent, story is ...okay. Not much else to say here.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8337Steam reviews · Jul 2, 2022 · 10 h played

    Overall = 6/10 An impressive looking but mediocre adventure game which struggles to tell its story at any kind of pace. The graphics are great with an atmospheric setting, full 3D scenes and models and cartoon style cut scenes, and the voice acting is good, although Tina’s dialogue is inconsistent with her age. The story however is far too childish, with everyone you meet too helpful and nice and the pacing is awful. The puzzles are all fetch quests, involving a lot of back and forth and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2151Steam reviews · May 21, 2024 · 1 h played

    Clumsy voice acting, over-exaggerated characters and old fashioned orientalism cyberpunk. Nothing really appeals to me. Sorry.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0648Steam reviews · Oct 23, 2023 · 5 h played

    It is fine when it's on 90% discount I guess. I love the music, the graphics, and the main characters, but. The speed of characters is so slow it's tiring to wait for them to walk somewhere. The robot obscures the view. The hints do not make sense and the repetition of "oh my RAM can overload I must count all the hints" is just tiring. Many of the puzzles don't make sense - how should one guess them? Overall it's not awful, but it feels dated and I'd give it 5/10.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0619Steam reviews · Jul 24, 2023 · 12 h played

    A game that gets progressively worse. Before anything else a wall-of-text disclaimer is shoveled to you face, something between trigger warning and code of conduct. Fine, fine, "no discrimination blah blah blah" let me play. Now into the game... soon you see "Mr Rupmf" poster on a wall and inspect it, protagonist comments "orange man bad". Repeat on every occasion. Ok ok developer doesn't like Drupmpf and decided to write a story evolving around him instead of creating their own character.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3403Steam reviews · Aug 21, 2022 · 12 h played

    It's a great story, maybe not the most challenging game but the main characters are impossible not to love and I also love the design style.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7354Steam reviews · Mar 14, 2022 · 22 h played

    When I played this amazing game a year ago, I was fascinated by the story of Tina and her Robot as well as by the 'worlds' which we were shown - on the one hand, the city with its dark implications and then this green world of Encodya ! And I loved the idea, that that we, the good ones, win in the end ... I replayed Encodya a week ago and was again amazed and enjoyed it immensly. HIghly recommended !

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  • Steam user Steam user …8162Steam reviews · Apr 26, 2021 · 16 h played

    I can't stop playing this one. There are irritations so I keep a link to the guide on hand. Some things just don't come to ya so spending too much time trying to figure out what to attach to what to use on what can be irritating. Love the full walkthrough available that offers video and text. When I get stuck or anything for extended periods of time I will take a peek. I love these types of games. I'd change a few things but still appreciate it. I got it on sale :) I port it over to my ios…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1907Steam reviews · Feb 27, 2021 · 11 h played

    I can barely recommend "Encodya", although it is a sci-fi point and click adventure with gorgeous cartoonish graphics, a well designed cyberpunk world, nice music and two adorable main characters. But it fails to deliver in every other aspect. The story is dull and cliché, the puzzles are uninspiring and most of the NPCs are flat with bad writing. It wants to be political but it ends up being a caricature. Pixel hunting and searching for indistinguishable objects will annoy you too. A game…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9673Steam reviews · Sep 14, 2025 · 14 h played

    To put it plainly, the game is dull and drags too long for its own good. I needed to complete Broken Sword 1 for shorter amount of time, and yet that game had way more substance in terms of gameplay and story, for its amount of playtime. The gameplay starts out relatively promising, inventory puzzles are mostly logical(although its mostly just inventory puzzles, I think the first proper puzzle appears in Encodya almost more then halfway through the game completion), and while the story…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0915Steam reviews · Oct 26, 2023 · 1 h played

    At some point i had like 20 items which i found after pixel hunting in areas where they didn't stand out in any way and didn't know why i needed them. Weak game, clumsy UI and in need of many QOL improvements.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8083Steam reviews · Sep 22, 2021 · 1 h played

    0/10 Political Cats recommend this game. ☑️Relatively challenging. ☑️Overall well done point and click adventure game. ❌Politics: I don't care for politics nor your political bias injected into the game. ❌Graphics: feel way too dated and ugly for character models. It's an overall okay game, but then the "♥♥♥♥ Bates" (Bill Gates) & Mr Rumpht (Donald Trumph) political nonsense gets shoved in your face. That's where the fun stops, I'm not here to play a game about laughing in Americans faces.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0257Steam reviews · Jul 29, 2021 · 1 h played

    Good game and art but its very hard to find way and items.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0483Steam reviews · Jun 30, 2021 · 9 h played

    Based on my 9 hours gameplay, playing without hint is extremely difficult. However, there is no harm in trying the hard mode as the creativity of one and understanding of graphics appearance in-game would help you to play the game with ease, for the initial and mid-stage. However, at end-game, there is close to no way you tried without hints or Googling the hints (for hard mode initial user). Overall, I am very satisfied with this game and it's reference to other games (there disclaimers by…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7861Steam reviews · Mar 27, 2021 · 15 h played

    My first "date" with Encodya was thanks to the free demo the devs had released some weeks before the full game was still to come out. It was one of those excitingly old-school adventures with lots of item manipulations. The main characters, little tiny Tina and her nanny-robot, are, at least for me, well-drawn and quite interesting to follow. However, I feel like we were left missing a lot of both our main personages' characters: the reasoning behind their actions was sometimes left…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9557Steam reviews · Feb 16, 2021 · 8 h played

    I got this game for free in exchange for my willingness to create content around it, which I'll be putting on my youtube after I edit the recordings. However, there was no expectation for me to provide a positive review in this agreement. So believe me or don't, that's your choice. But I enjoyed this game! I have an odd relationship with puzzle games like this, and that's usually that I get frustrated and cheat a lot with guides. Not so much on this one! I don't know if I got lucky or if the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6918Steam reviews · Jun 4, 2026 · 10 h played

    Review after 100% : Since Encodya is a point & click adventure game, i'll only talk about the puzzle and the narrative aspect of the game. Gameplay - Too much backtracking required, way more than all P&C genre game i've played. - There's no object size consistency nor lining on interactable object, and some of the object are so small that you need to pixel-hunt it. - Solution mostly bog into trial & error/using hint/ using someone guide at later chapters, instead of common sense like good…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2409Steam reviews · Feb 3, 2026 · 7 h played

    This was a great game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2316Steam reviews · Aug 25, 2022 · 9 h played

    It's very hard to decide whether I would recommend this game or not. I ultimately decided to choose yes, as there were only a few minor annoyances that really made me hate the game during certain points, and I really did like the storyline. Cons: I felt like the puzzles were a little too hard during the game, and I had to look at a guide a few times as it was just something I would have never thought about Which goes hand in hand with my second issue, the items in the game that are the ground…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6374Steam reviews · Jul 31, 2021

    It is pretty good. The atmosphere is definitely oppressive and cyberpunky. The main characters are great and well voiced. The puzzles are not amazingly fun but that might be my own issues with point and click. https://youtu.be/B5kHwM3PHgY

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  • Steam user Steam user …2087Steam reviews · Mar 11, 2021 · 12 h played

    Some very stupid puzztes and unlogic story

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  • Steam user Steam user …1481Steam reviews · Feb 13, 2026 · 9 h played

    This game is a masterpiece. It has a beautiful story of humanity, and the environment is very reminiscent of the original Blade Runner. I especially liked the music. Vangelis would have been proud of it. P.S. use a walkthrough if needed to finish the game, it's worth it

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  • Steam user Steam user …6063Steam reviews · Jul 15, 2023 · 7 h played

    pros ✅ well developed and engaging, dystopian and sci fi story set in an interesting and immersive cyperpunk digital world. The story is about an orphan street child and her robot friend trying to find her inventor father, who created a artificial utopian world called Encodya. at the same time, they have to defeat an evil mayor who reminds you of former President Donald Trump ✅ there are so many beautiful and interesting places to explore ✅ great looking and impressive 3D background graphics…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8166Steam reviews · Jun 8, 2023 · 9 h played

    [url=store.steampowered.com/app/1137450/ENCODYA/]ENCODYA insists on convincing its audience that the real world is grey and wrong and needs betterment, but flounders at creating a more enticing one. Driven by a naively lighthearted plot filled with good intentions, ENCODYA has an honest, kind heart at its base, a generally pleasant art style and enjoyable soundtrack. Nice animation details. It demonstrates an authentic passion for the genre, and undoubtedly a lot of talent despite numerous…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7181Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2022 · 4 h played

    Cute characters, interesting setting, but has many of the usual trappings of point-and-clicks. Many riddles are about trying to find some pixels on the screen, lots of small chores rather than real riddles, etc. Too bad

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  • Steam user Steam user …6580Steam reviews · Jun 26, 2022 · 7 h played

    The good: beautiful art, a hopeful storyline centering kindness, a lot of puzzles, atmospheric music. The bad: it needs an editor, not unusual for a project driven by one (clearly talented) person; some puzzles should be rearranged to be in the same location rather than spread over 3, and the Loading screen between every room is annoying. Double-click to run should always work, even when using items; cutscenes and the credits should be pre-rendered to avoid glitching.

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