The Whispered World Special Edition
The Whispered World Special Edition
Game
Game2016
Silence
Developer Daedalic Entertainment
Silence, also known as Silence: The Whispered World II, is a 2016 German point-and-click adventure video game developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment and the sequel to the 2009 game The Whispered World. It was released in November 2016 for Linux, macOS, Windows, and PlayStation 4. Ports for Xbox One and Nintendo Switch were released in December 2016 and April 2019, respectively. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
239 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
134 positive · 43 negative
95% range 69–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 134 | 43 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 56 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
643 of 822 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 137 yes, 44 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 181 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (2,319 of 2,770 positive).
Players praise the game's beautiful visuals and emotional story. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the puzzles too easy or the controls frustrating. [4][5][6] A few players note technical issues like long load times or bugged achievements. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
I don't like controls in the "puzzles" related to the precise mouse movement, feels counterintuitive. If the first two already made me annoyed (moving block and balancing on a rotating globe) what can I expect from further game? Not exactly what I want from this kind of game.
- [2]
This point-and-click adventure game combines a touching story with stunning visuals. While its short playtime may leave you wanting more, the blend of fairy-tale imagination and harsh reality creates a subtle and lasting impression.
- [16]
Silence is a pretty good point and click adventure game and a good sequel to the whispering world, so now the story, in a war-torn country two siblings Noah and Renie try to live their lives as normally as possible despite a war raging and being orphaned, Noah the eldest sibling is dedicated to protecting his little sister so when air raids start happening he immediately takes her to the bunker. Soon they are safe …
- [10]
Silence, developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment, is a beautifully melancholic adventure that continues the story first introduced in The Whispered World while standing firmly on its own as a meditation on loss, imagination, and the fragile line between reality and dreams. The game begins in the midst of a bombing during wartime, where siblings Noah and Renie are forced to take shelter in a bunker. In the …
- [1]
Got it on sale and it was money well spent. About 6 hours of gameplay, good point and click, great graphics and medium-easy puzzles. The soundtrack is not engaging. overall grade 7/10
Summarised from 34 of the 199 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
76% of the 181 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Silence. The complaint that keeps coming up: puzzles are too easy or simple. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
It received 75/100 as a score on Metacritic, out of 29 critics. GameSpot gave it a 7 out of 10, noting that it was a "quiet puzzler," and praised the hand-painted backdrops and interactivity. The review did criticize that there were not many challenging puzzles, and that some neat characters were removed from the game too quickly. Kotaku also thought it was pretty and had nice characters. It also thought the puzzles were more streamlined and intuitive than the one before.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 239 · most liked firstWatched the Carolina vs Leafs game last night. Loved what the TO fans did during the US anthem. DEAD SILENCE. Nothing. No booing. Usually there is clapping, at least at the end. Those days are gone. We won't forget. Not going back. #CanadaStrong
neutral · AI labelView post →"Mr Smith is true you recently attended a football game with Buffalo Bill?! FROM SILENCE OF THE LAMBS?!" "No, the name of the team is the Buffalo Bills." "WHERE ARE THE GIRLS MR SMITH?!??!"
neutral · AI labelView post →mom: can I play the demo for your game? me: omg yes [MOTHER THEN PROCEEDS TO PLAY THROUGH THE DEMO IN ABSOLUTE SILENCE]
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm gonna draw the horse girl racing game girls as horses Here's Silence Suzuka my goat
neutral · AI labelView post →Come out to my shows! Tomorrow at Houndstooth and Thursday at Bovine Sex Club! Here is an "acoustic sampler" of a song called "I Am The Silence." Attempting to game the algorithm by identifying this as Nathan Fielder Rock.
neutral · AI labelView post →struck by an impulse to make a game jam like in the old days, and realizing there was nothing stopping me, i decided to make one! it's called Jam In Silence and the focus is on using silence/quiet/nonverbal communication in game design. come join if you wanna! itch.io/jam/jam-in-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oof, this Wolves game is bad. Might need to turn on something more uplifting, like Silence of the Lambs.
neutral · AI labelView post →my bub plays every mobile game in complete SILENCE.... whereas i need sound for all games.. i feel like play better that way?!
neutral · AI labelView post →Silence. A gamer is speaking
neutral · AI labelView post →and then next week I start off with "and you're in pursuit as we approach their hideout" and there's just. Dead silence around the table. Dead. Silence. For. A while. Until someone speaks up confusedly "...that's...not how you play the game...take us back..." I was ejected from the group.
neutral · AI labelView post →~ Announcement!! ~ DETAINED: Too Good For School [ Original Soundtrack ] My debut game soundtrack is available EARLY exclusively at M3! 第一展示場 D-20b “Inverted Silence”
neutral · AI labelView post →Got it on sale and it was money well spent. About 6 hours of gameplay, good point and click, great graphics and medium-easy puzzles. The soundtrack is not engaging. overall grade 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Anniversary to "The Twilight Zone" #ThankYouRod #ZoneSky Top 10 #TwilightZone episodes to know me by (no order) -Uncle Simon -The After Hours -The Masks -Time Enough At Last -Living Doll -The Silence -A Game of Pool -The Howling Man -The Monsters Are Due -Obsolete Man
neutral · AI labelView post →Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like controls in the "puzzles" related to the precise mouse movement, feels counterintuitive. If the first two already made me annoyed (moving block and balancing on a rotating globe) what can I expect from further game? Not exactly what I want from this kind of game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall it's a visual improvement over its predecessor "The Whispered World", but it's very flawed. The story is very grim and impossible to understand if you don't know anything about the first game, the controls are very janky, voice acting feels off, cutscenes are unskippable and there's not as much interaction compared to other Daedalic classics. The majority of players doesn't finish the first chapter, which takes a couple hours to do. 100%ing this is very painful because of the "not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The visuals are very nice and the voice acting is really good. You will feel immersed into the game rather quickly because of the seamless transitions between cutscenes and interactive mode. I'm not so sure I like the basic idea behind the story though. It just turned out not to be exactly my cup of tea. Why I wouldn't recommend this game to others: 1.) The many loading screens simply feel tiresome even though I have played this game on a powerful gaming rig. So there is no real excuse why…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is "Whispered World 2" why does Daedalic Entertainment call it "Silence"? They did the same with "Chains of Satinav 2" by calling it "Memoria". The sequels are not stand alone and REQUIRE the player to know the world and characters! This game has to be by far the EASIEST point & click game I have ever played, literally baby level difficulty. The puzzles are simple and linear and it is hard to call this a point & click game. It is more a linear cinematic FMV with point & click ELEMENTS. A…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I subtract half of star from my review of fortune's weave every time I get one of the hours played achievement popups. Silence game that's between me and my stats page
neutral · AI labelView post →This point-and-click adventure game combines a touching story with stunning visuals. While its short playtime may leave you wanting more, the blend of fairy-tale imagination and harsh reality creates a subtle and lasting impression.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →makes a better artbook than a game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR Although it tries to bring some innovations to traditional adventures, poor implementation and lack quality of life features make it a shore to play. [7/20⭐, 12h🏅, 2/5💡] Context Silence is a sequel of [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/macwh/recommended/268540/]The Whispered World, taking place in the eponymous dream world (assumed right from the start this time) as the prequel after characters' village is bombed . Although there are some improvements in writing, and the game does look…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I might have recommended this game if I were 10 years old or playing it with my kid, but as an adult I just can’t. The game suffers from an obvious pacing issue, and the gameplay becomes downright tedious even though the concept itself is pretty nice. On top of that, the game is unusually easy for a point‑and‑click, which is all the more surprising coming from the studio behind Deponia. In the end, it feels like a real waste caused by poor balancing - with just a bit more work, it could have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I get that most things in this game are not to be taken literal and we should be looking at the symbolism but i just don't think this is a really fun game, it's a good game just not fun enough for me to recommend. Dialogues sometimes don't really make sense, characters walk annoyingly slow and some other things pile up. In the end i just finished for the sake of finishing it. I also think that instead of a game they could've made this into an animation as a whole which would be more enjoyable.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure what this game is supposed to be. It seems like a point and click game, and I got stuck on the very first scene having to use a walkthrough. Objects blend in but apparently you can press spacebar to show objects you can interact with. The game tells you this, after you get past the scene where I could not see what I should interact with. Next up was a part where you have to drag the mouse in a certain way to proceed. This was broken on the native Linux version so I had to switch to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Someone locked her behind a door at the back of the bunker. She's still wet. In Nightmare mode, the door opens. 🚪 SILENCE, free horror game on PC & Android: nekuzaky.itch.io/silence #indiegame #horrorgame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →🧟 THE DEAD ARE RISING 🧟 I am LIVE with @hanejunsei.bsky.social for Fire Emblem PvP! Berserk and Silence and Sleep, oh my! Last time Hane showed us just how ABSURD the game can be when you can't trick the enemy AI. Is there ANY way out of this mess?! Let's find out! twitch.tv/scarletmagus
neutral · AI labelView post →A decent point-and-click game with very nice art and a good story. Sadly, the Linux version of the game was completely unplayable due to severe artifacting, and because of that, I can't personally recommend it, otherwise, I probably would. When switching to Proton (9.0-4) and playing the game that way, there were no issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🟢 Plug and Play Tested on: OnexPlayer Mini Pro 6800U [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42772030-Handheld-Friendly/] Follow Handheld Friendly
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silence isn't free. Our game has seven ambience loops (birds, insects, wind, a brook). The quiet ones played at -80 dB, which still means decoding and mixing audio nobody can hear. Now they pause instead. Four lines of code, a few percent of a CPU core back while parked. #gamedev #godotengine
neutral · AI labelView post →Aruba duration, Marlow Silence, and Jade knockdown more icons for deadlock, it's fun seeing these in game to me >w>
neutral · AI labelView post →------------------------ If you are interested in getting the game, yet unsure you will enjoy it, you can get it for free (no subscription, just an account) on GOG and keep it forever. Go to Home, scroll down and then claim the game. ------------------------
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a Point & Click story game. It has both trading cards, and achievements. It's a sequel to a game from around 2010 called 'The Whispered World'. The graphics are astounding, and the voice acting is top-notch. The plot is pretty solid, but not that engaging. The story itself can seem childish at times, but the game is not meant for young children to play, as there are "adult" jokes and references scattered throughout it. Here you alternate playing as three different characters. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very slow paced. doesnt let you skip to the obvious paths. makes you check everything and constantly backtrack :-/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the lore of the Sisters of Silence, but it's a shame that in game they are just a 50 point way for Custodes players to hold their home objective. Having one of the worst points to dollar ratios doesn't help either. Justice for Sisters of Silence!
neutral · AI labelView post →The games itself is beautiful, but kinda fails in terms of actual gameplay. The puzzels are very easy and it feels like the game is holding your hand at every single one of them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silence is a pretty good point and click adventure game and a good sequel to the whispering world, so now the story, in a war-torn country two siblings Noah and Renie try to live their lives as normally as possible despite a war raging and being orphaned, Noah the eldest sibling is dedicated to protecting his little sister so when air raids start happening he immediately takes her to the bunker. Soon they are safe and Noah to distract his little sister from the grim reality outside he tells…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The puzzles are not puzzles. They are tools developers used to prolong the game and makes is appear somewhat like a game instead of a interactive story. The animation is fine, the graphics are stylistic and the story telling is okay but when it comes to what makes something a game Silence falls very short. I bet it would score fairly okay with people that don't usually play or finish games. prove me wrong
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is beautiful. That was the pro. The deal breakers are that not only the story is pretty uninteresting but it feels completely disjointed from the game play part. There are better games of this genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only recommend this game if you want a rather simplified and more story-driven point&click advanture game. The game is very simplified and easy to progress, which not necessarily bad to be honest and has lot of focus on the storytelling. Howewer I felt this made the game absolutely pointless to be a p&c game. Another angle is the story. This meant to be as a sequel for the Whispered World, but I felt absolutely forced to have any connection to that game. It tells a similiar story, but unlike…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting, vibrant world, but the story is cheesy and the characters annyoing. "I'm Kyra, the leader of the rebels!" - yeah, I suppose you are. The only thing that keeps you from falling asleep in that dreamwold is the cringe. Ciao.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early access is a fair deal only if the roadmap is honest about what is missing. Silence after launch is the real red flag. How long do you wait before writing off an early access game? #earlyaccess #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →The Haunted Hoard continues with a review of the new Xbox Series X indie game Ayasa: Shadows of Silence! thegamehoard.com/2026/10/29/t... #gaming #videogames #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →How small do you have to be to hide from it? 👀 One of the 12 secrets hidden in my horror game SILENCE. Free on PC & Android: nekuzaky.itch.io/silence #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgame
neutral · AI labelView post →In our upcoming space strategy game, every star system gets an epithet and a description from its own data. A neutron star can be “Dense Silence”: “At its center sits a neutron star the size of a city but with the mass of a sun; even time runs slower nearby.” In development. #gamedev #4X
neutral · AI labelView post →A magical return to a truly unique world. I didn't personally enjoy this as much as its predecessor, but I still had a very lovely time with it. The puzzles are very good, much like the first game, with a few new mechanics. The story is nice if a bit convoluted, with some really nice moments, and some fairly bland ones. The music is gorgeous and definitely elevates the experience, much like the visuals that are absolutely stunning. The voice acting can be a bit hit and miss, but I found it gets…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure there's adequate words to express how deeply this game changed me, but I'll certainly try. It sets the tone from the offset with some of the most gorgeous cutscenes and scenery art. Genuinely one of the most visually beautiful games I've ever played. Add in the top tier voice acting and the characters really have a way of making you love (or hate) them. The puzzles were interesting, though I must say at times a bit tricky for my not-puzzle-smart brain. It was, however, never so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just as Whispered World was, this is the same: such amazing games. Though I liked the first game more when it comes to art, as it was hand-drawn, but this also looks hand-drawn, just a 3D version of it; I don't know, it just doesn't seem as appealing imo. Also, the game seems easier than the first one, as it is more linear outside of controlling different characters in different zones; I was stuck WAY less than I was on Whispered World. Achievement hunting is a pain though, as it was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sad but beautiful little adventure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do like these games by this dev, and would recommend this one with a little caution. I played through twice, the second time to get all of the achievements. It was hard but I got through the entire second game as required to get the achievements. BUT, in the end 3 of the hardest ones did not pop, the ones for balance, not dying, and not skipping any talk (this one may be bugged). I must say that I did not enjoy the balance scenes, and the ending star races. I do not play these relaxing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is little to no character development in the game, making it difficult to connect with the characters or care about their journeys. Despite the good graphics, which are visually appealing, they aren't enough to save this game from being very bad and bland. The first game set the bar at a reasonable height, yet The Whispered World 2 consistently fails to meet even these modest expectations, falling short in almost every aspect. I absolutely loved the original's Sadwick. The character of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the game is definitely in the point and click genre, its mechanics are just too simple and broken up. You basically have small "levels" in which you need to figure out how to proceed. Based on the limited area of movement (usually one screen) and the limited number of objects to interact with there are only so many things you can do before you stumble upon the sometimes nonsensical solutions. Everything is so segregated it feels more like a chore than a fun game. The story is moderately…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a beautiful looking piece of work but it's hard to call it a game, as it seems to be mostly cut scenes with a bit of game play in between. Also it doesn't work well with a touchpad. I am completely stuck at destroying the bridge because after endless tries I have not been able to inflate Spot enough to destroy the ring. I give up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →don't think i'm a point and click guy. the art was pretty, and i might've enjoyed the story if i was watching it as a movie or show, but i got bored and quit fairly early
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really fun Point"n"Click game with a strong and emotional story. Knocked it out of the park with beautiful artwork and soundtrack. Puzzles are easy enough and make sense, The characters have depth and you'll probably love them all. Summing up, an amazing experience! skippable cutscenes and dialogues would have been nice but if you are only planning on playing it once it shouldn't be much of an issue. 100% worth a try considering it goes on sale for peanuts.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game where you can make a little girl get high from licking a giant mushroom, then make her lick everything in the search for something bitter including a giant skull and literal tar. Renie is very cute and frankly my favourite character, but she does say some questionable things for instance when talking to Samuel: Samuel: You can't just go around eating everything, it cold be poisonous. Renie: That's what Noah says - you want some? Samuel: Well... Renie: Open up Samuel: *Forgets what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horror: "Walking Among the Horrors - 13 Ghost Stories" by Various Authors. **.epub download page:** https://hub.hubzilla.de/cloud/ebooker/ebooks/Walking%20Among%20The%20Horrors_%2013%20Ghost%20Storie%20-%20Various%20authors.epub A mysterious light burning on a deserted stretch of coastline. A passenger who refuses to stay dead. A perfectly ordinary house with something terribly wrong inside it. And an ancient black stone that would be better left undisturbed. *Walking Among the Horrors*…
neutral · AI labelView post →it's an interesting game but it's just boring somehow played it only for short time over all i just got it for 1$ for it's price i think it's good offer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice game but didn't tickle my fancy. It just didn't grab my attention like the Monkey Island games or Deponia. A very good game tho. Well build, good graphics and nice audio. No shame to try it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice graphics. Way too many / long animated sequences and too little actual problem solving to do. I was assuming just based on the look of the game that it might be okay to play with my small children, which I would say turned out NOT to be the case. The seekers were quite scary, and the dialog has the occasional curse word, most of which (or all?) could easily be cut out or replaced. But perhaps I'll try and round this out by complimenting the graphics again.
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