Watch Over Christmas
Watch Over Christmas
Game
Game2023
Monolith
Developer Animation Arts
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive. From the Steam store page
299 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
116 positive · 49 negative
95% range 63–77%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 116 | 49 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 25 | 12 | 91 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
123 of 176 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
71% recommend · 119 yes, 49 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 168 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (271 of 360 positive).
Players praise the classic point-and-click adventure style and engaging puzzles. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the ending as disappointing or clichéd. [4][5][6][7] Some players find the voice acting and dialogue poorly executed. [8][9][10][11]
Liked
Representative posts
- [9]
First 2/3 of the game: Good Last 1/3of the game: NO! GOD! PLEASE NO! First: the voice acting in this game is bad. 90s Playstation bad. Pretty surprising that in 2023 a game still can't find decent VO talent. But whatever, it's a low budget adventure game, I can forgive ♥♥♥♥♥♥ VO. It was almost endearing, in a way. Graphics are fine, nothing amazing and the game should run on a potato which is a plus. Gameplay is …
- [1]
Monolith is a classic point-and-click adventure which reminds me of the old LucasArts games. It has a lot of dialog, a plethora of inventory to find and use, and requires thinking out of the box (no oil? no problem... use fruit!). Played from a third person perspective, you awake in a space station with no idea of what planet you are on or what has happened to your team. You then explore the space station, the …
- [4]
Mixed bag for me. I was looking forward to a cool point and click sci-fi adventure/mystery, and at first all seems well however the last part of the game totally abandons this concept and goes somewhere else entirely and the story sort of devolves into a daytime TV cliche. While passable, the dialog needs work, it is bloated in places and needs trimming back, some parts need re-writing entirely. You will be skipping …
- [5]
Overall good game that sadly falls apart at the end. The Good: - simple but clever puzzles at times - interesting story (until it switches) - the ending, its interesting how the twist is chosen - being able to skip puzzles if you get really stuck The Bad: - the cinematics feel ported from 1998 - the ending, because it really does a full 180° on the entire game and not in a good way sadly. - UI *can* be a bit finicky …
- [2]
I enjoyed playing. It is a true Point and Click adventure game. You get the feeling of The Dig, Syberia, and a bit of 2001 Space Odyssey weirdness at the end. The story and atmosphere kept me engaged the whole time. I really liked the art style. I especially liked the Backgrounds. The 3D protagonist in a 2D drawn world with some 3D elements and even puzzles thrown in is great. I like the control scheme. You can …
Summarised from 34 of the 277 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
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Players who liked Monolith talk about great atmosphere and art style; those who didn't talk about ending is disappointing and clichéd. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 299 · most liked firstBREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.
neutral · AI labelView post →STORY: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down three studios, including Monolith Productions, and cancelling the Wonder Woman game. "The quality of too many of our new releases has really missed the mark." Employees blame the weak slate on former president David Haddad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →This was the leadership group at Monolith on the Middle-earth games. Every single one of these people left in 2021 after Warner canceled their game. (Most started a new studio with EA.) Monolith then began working on Wonder Woman — but it simultaneously had to rebuild its entire leadership team!
neutral · AI labelView post →By the time David Zaslav took over WB Discovery in April 2022, Monolith had already gone almost five years without shipping a game and lost almost its entire leadership team under Haddad's management
neutral · AI labelView post →So, this past week, MONOLITH studios, maker of brilliant games, including GoTY, was closed down. This is a loss to gaming and storytelling both. I worked as a consultant on what would have been a beautiful Wonder Woman game, full of action, thrills and heart, along with an incredible team. Sad.
negative · AI labelView post →Lots of other folks followed them, too. Warner Bros. Games, under president David Haddad, put Monolith in the impossible situation of having to simultaneously rebuild a studio while starting a new game from scratch. Of course it didn't work out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Warner Bros has canceled the #WonderWoman game and Monolith Productions is being shut down (via Bloomberg)
neutral · AI labelView post →Capitalism—with its cancerous obsession with infinite growth—Ruins. Everything. The game industry is a perfect example, where legendary game studios with a rich and important history like Monolith, can just get snuffed out because an end-of-quarter balance report didn't please some shareholders.
negative · AI labelView post →SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL GAME ARTS/SORA/MONOLITH 2008 NINTENDO Wii
neutral · AI labelView post →Mario Kart World had a development team of over 300. 22 game designers, 86 programmers and 192 artists. Monolith Soft (30 people), Bandai Namco (31 people) and 1-UP Studio (24 people) also pitched in. This game was a big collaborative effort. automaton-media.com/en/news/mari...
neutral · AI labelView post →Despite being a crossover between Namco and Capcom developed by Monolith Soft that entirely predates the merger with Bandai and features no Bandai IP, Namco x Capcom is actually a Bandai game.
neutral · AI labelView post →There aren't a lot of game companies around today that could point to releasing DOS games in the 90's. Monolith was one of 'em.
neutral · AI labelView post →To all the Wonder Woman fans who desperately wanted it & to the team at Monolith who put their talent & heart into creating it, I’m so sorry. You deserved better… you deserved a Wonder Woman game! #wonderwoman 💫
negative · AI labelView post →I've recovered a cache of documents and videos from the pre-production phase of Project Apollo, a canceled Batman game Monolith worked on for Warner Bros. The materials, from 4/2009 to 1/2010, were in deleted sectors of a HDD used at a game company. archive.org/details/proj... 1/9🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Switch 2 isn't a PS5. However, from the game comparisons we are seeing, it can be more capable than a PS4 or even Xbox Series S. It's a substantial leap over Switch. Monolith Soft working on a large scale RPG that could look like this (or better) is very exciting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 7th Anniversary to Xenoblade Chronicles 2! It's Monolith Soft's highest selling game. With an incredible soundtrack, fun battle system, a moving story and great characters, it's one of my favorite Switch exclusives.
positive · AI labelView post →Nintendo Today posted my favorite art from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I actually think Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Definitive Edition on Switch 2 is more likely than people think. It's Monolith Soft's best selling game ever and I could see them wanting to release an enhanced version.
positive · AI labelView post →4k 60fps Monolith Soft game
neutral · AI labelView post →Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition released 5 years ago! Part remake and part remaster, Monolith Soft showed how much work and care can be taken when bringing a classic game to a new platform.
positive · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft shared the sculpture that was used as the concept for the very first Xenoblade Chronicles game. If the Nintendo Museum ever does a big Monolith Soft exhibit, this needs to be the centerpiece!
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft's main office in Tokyo has all the Xenoblade series posters proudly displayed on the wall. In my opinion, Xenoblade Chronicles 1/2/3 is one of the most perfectly realized trilogies in video game history.
positive · AI labelView post →Why the fuck isn't the person that suggest Bluepoint make a live-service freaking God of War game fired? Why the fuck isn't the person that pushed Monolith and Rocksteady to make live-service fired? Why the fuck isn't.... right. It's the same answer every time. So infuriating.
negative · AI labelView post →Previews for Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition dropped today. No surprise to any Monolith Soft fan, the game is still incredibly impressive. The visual and quality of life improvements only made a great game even better.
positive · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft asked fans what their first Xenoblade game was. Xenoblade Chronicles - 50% Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 35% Xenoblade Chronicles X - 10% Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 4% Over 27,000 people voted
neutral · AI labelView post →Daisuke Honda joined Monolith Soft 5 months ago as a freelance cutscene director. His video game work includes: Kingdom Hearts III, FF VII Remake, FF XVI, Visions of Mana... Now he finds himself at Monolith Soft. What are they cooking! www.linkedin.com/in/daisukeho...
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft announced that new graduate training for the Kyoto Studio has ended. They will soon be added to Nintendo game projects!
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft says the meeting room in the Osaka Studio is used for more than meetings. They hold game tournaments here as well as “fighting game showdowns”
neutral · AI labelView post →Xenoblade Chronicles 2 released 8 years ago! A fantastic RPG that was a little rough around the edges in some ways, but perfectly capped off Switch's legendary first year. It's Monolith Soft's best selling game.
positive · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft is celebrating the 19th anniversary of Xenosaga Episode III which released in 2006. This was there final game on non-Nintendo platforms. By April 2007, they became a Nintendo studio.
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's to this! 🐀Gamer since: 5 🎮First system: N64 🕹️Last system: Switch 👾Main: Switch ❤️Fav: Switch 👑Fav dev: Monolith Soft ⚡First game: Pokemon Stadium 2 🕐Fav game: Live a Live 😈Least fav game: Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl ⏩Graphics or Frames: Art style
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft gave an overview of what the Kyoto Studio does. It's sole purpose is making Nintendo games better. They should seriously be working with Game Freak for Pokemon Gen 10.
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft have confirmed that they provided development support on game design, programming, and graphics for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
neutral · AI labelView post →Manami Kiyota is working on a new project! She composed music for Xenoblade Chronicles 1/2/3 She very well could be working on the next Monolith Soft game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today marks a year that we’re told not only was our game being canceled; but Monolith was being shuttered. Still mad about it, but also sad & dismayed at how much worse the video game industry has gotten in a years time. #RIPMonolith
negative · AI labelView post →Random game Saturday: The first Monolith Soft game I worked on. Same DNA as Xenogears, and arguably a spiritual predecessor (thematically) to Xenoblade. These guys are probably my favorite Japanese devs.
positive · AI labelView post →An important video celebrating the games and devs of Monolith. Great job @gamemakerstoolkit.com youtu.be/qywq_1GVIGI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Warner Bros. has cancelled the Wonder Woman game and closed several studios in "a strategic change in direction" Monolith Productions - F.E.A.R. series, Middle-earth series Player First Games - MultiVersus WB Games San Diego
neutral · AI labelView post →Warner Bros is shutting down Player First Games, WB San Diego and Monolith Productions. The Wonder Woman game is also cancelled. Fuck.
negative · AI labelView post →Shot: WB shut down Monolith Productions (the Nemesis system guys) to focus their video games division on "key franchises" like Game of Thrones. Chaser:
neutral · AI labelView post →Pouring one out for Monolith with the theme song to the first game of theirs I played.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Monolith Productions news sucks even harder when you know that now-cancelled Wonder Woman game has been the only project they've been working on for almost EIGHT YEARS
negative · AI labelView post →Game - The Operative: No One Lives Forever Song - Main Theme Year - 2000 Developer - Monolith Productions Genre - First-person shooter, Stealth Composer - Guy Whitmore
neutral · AI labelView post →Mario Kart World is the only Nintendo 1st Party game on Switch 2 that Monolith Soft Kyoto has helped with so far.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw it happen in real time. Xenoblade 3 was so critically (and player) acclaimed, streamers played through the entire series just to play it. They became Monolith Soft fans. Monolith Soft's first Switch 2 game, a lot more people will take notice.
positive · AI labelView post →The bad news just won't stop. WB Games announced today that it is shutting down three game development studios, including Monolith Productions, which had been working on a now-canceled Wonder Woman game, and ‘Multiversus’ developer Player First Games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Warner Bros. reportedly cancels Wonder Woman game, closes Monolith and other studios www.eurogamer.net/warner-bros-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Soft says the Field Level Designer's job involves planning the placement of enemies, items, and mechanisms in the field, designing the player's game experience. But at Monolith Soft, map planners may also take part in this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Xenoblade studio Monolith has revealed it co-developed Switch 2’s big launch game, Mario Kart World. vgc.news/news/xenoblade-studio-reveals-it-co-developed-switch-2s-big-launch-game/
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine getting some of the best, most comprehensive video game development training of your life and then being told your first game is Zelda, Splatoon, Animal Crossing or any of Nintendo's big series. Monolith Soft Kyoto is very important to Nintendo's talent pipeline.
positive · AI labelView post →I had no idea Monolith was making a Batman game at one point. Really amazing bit of preservation and discovery here.
positive · AI labelView post →No one does it like Monolith Soft, man. What the hell. How does this game still look so good 10 years later?
positive · AI labelView post →The REAL question is, how do we get Monolith Soft to help make a Pokémon game?
neutral · AI labelView post →If you ever catch me talking about "good AI" there's a good chance I'm talking about the 2005 PC first person shooter game F.E.A.R. by Monolith Productions
positive · AI labelView post →New documents and videos from the 2010 cancelled 'Batman' game from Monolith Productions (Shadow of Mordor) has surfaced online. www.eurogamer.net/monolith-pro...
neutral · AI labelView post →$290,000! FFS Monolith is free, really fucking good, not overly produced Really good space game that's free adamhensley.itch.io/monolith
positive · AI labelView post →I hope the arrangement is this: 1) Monolith Soft supports other Nintendo games with the Kyoto studio 2) Monolith Soft's other studios are left alone to create the games they want to make with Nintendo's marketing backing I hope we see their next game at the Switch 2 Direct.
neutral · AI labelView post →Monolith Productions theme song. This exact version of this tune and/or its variants appear in the three 2D games they've developed (Claw, Get Medieval, and Gruntz) as well as the Monolith CD and Windows 95 Game Sampler 1 & 2. 🔊🎵
neutral · AI labelView post →I just heard Monolith was closed down. Monolith, technically was the first professional game company to employ me, even though they didn't pay me. I briefly play tested their game Blood before they fired me. ‼
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved working at Monolith back in the day. Hope everyone lands ok. I wanted to share this nice wrap up by @gamemakerstoolkit.com thank you <3 youtu.be/qywq_1GVIGI?...
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight and tomorrow are final tests for The Monolith before final files are due. The emotions haven’t fully settled in yet. 3.5 years in, I still love playing this game.
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