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Lair of the Clockwork God

Size Five Games
Feb 21, 2020 - PC
Strong

OpenCritic Rating

81

Top Critic Average

95%

Critics Recommend

PC Gamer
83 / 100
Eurogamer
Recommended
TheSixthAxis
8 / 10
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7 / 10
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4 / 5
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9 / 10
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7 / 10
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4.5 / 5
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Critic Reviews for Lair of the Clockwork God

The kind of game you'll be quoting for years to come.

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Bottomless wit and some inspired design choices make this genre mash-up a joy to play.

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Lair of the Clockwork God is a genre mash-up that probably shouldn't work, and yet it does. It feels a little unrefined, intentionally so, but there's plenty of comedic fodder in indie platformers, modern gaming and life for Ben and Dan to riff off through the lens of classic LucasArts style adventures.

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Lair of the Clockwork God is a difficult one to score. What it does well is brilliant – the humour is great, with constant jokes both quickfire and slow-burn – but the gameplay is a more complex matter. While it's not bad by any reasonable metric, it is awkward in places.

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Size Five offers both classic platforming and point-and-click adventuring in this self-aware and deeply anglocentric caper

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Lair Of The Clockwork God is an excellent game that will take you on a hilarious journey solving puzzles with Dan and Ben, even if the journey is shorter than I would like and the jokes don't really read to anyone who isn't quite steeped within games culture.

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That's not to say the gameplay isn't good. Both sides of the game are fun to play, and again, controls are well thought out, allowing you to hop between the two to make progress. Most interesting is when the duo have an effect on each other, such as crafting upgrades for Dan using Ben's inventory items. There's a lot going on here, and while it's occasionally a little clumsy, its humour and ingenuity make it a success.

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Lair of the Clockwork God is an exceptional fusion of genres that can't claim to do either individually better than any other game but can certainly claim to do both simultaneously better.

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