Since Encodya is a point & click adventure game, i'll only talk about the puzzle and the narrative aspect of the game.

- 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 P&C game.
- Chapter 1-3 puzzles are hit and miss. Some logical, while a handful of them are "moon-logic" coded.
- Chapter 4-5 are straight up diabolical, especially ch 4 being mostly pure pixel hunting.
(damn those 3 pixel raspberries, it was so bad that you will still suffer even if you use written guide.)

It can be summed up that the gameplay is kinda cursed due to those points.

In my opinion, narrative in these kind of game can redeem those that has a bad or mediocre gameplay.
But sadly, this game isnt one of those. The story is shallow at best, and straight up not making sense at the end.

Actually its pretty bad.
While i do understand what the writer trying to aim here, they obviously botched it on the delivery.
Not only that the general idea is too whimsical, at the ending it was revealed that the father actually still alive the whole time and has someone that actually helping him, this basically makes you wonder what even is the point of the whole journey.
If he was still alive the whole time and has someone else that can help him hide, what even is the point of dragging his 9 years old kid (he plan this years ago even when she was still 2 btw), when he and his friend could just complete the project by themselves??? Other than the writer's desire to have tina and SAM being the MC, that is.
Literally no logical reason whatsoever, perfectly mirroring most of the puzzle in this game.

Even without that one scene, the story would be very shallow as the "rebellion" doesn't do anything meaningful and realistically wont change anything. Encodya project is basically just a glorified digital firework.


Both the puzzles and the narratives are not worth your time and effort.
Its start okay but get worse with each chapters.
Unless you get it free or heavily discounted, Dont, just dont. Save your money, time, and sanity from this game's later chapters.
And if you want to play this to get somewhat quick 100% achievement, i recommend you to use written guide, as you will still struggle to find where the object that the guide mentioned, due to how bad the puzzle are in this game.


Also speaking of achievement, who even think that its a good idea to have "afk in one spot for 15 min" achievement while having "speedrun the whole game in less than 3,5h" achievement?
This bs forced me to do multiple runs and suffer through ch 4 several times.