Syberia: The World Before

10 OUT OF 10 I REALLY ENJOYED THE STORY!!! i am not really a fan of story and puzzle person but this game changes everything. it is very interesting and has a lot of details that are really easy to miss, it also makes me wanted to use my brain for once because i want to see what is going to happen next. i hope they are making another one of these games because i cant be left hanging with the ending!

If you like the previous Syberia games this is simliar. They have a certain vibe. For general a puzzle/point and click fans I wouldn't necessarily recommend it; The puzzles are often frustrating in the wrong way. It's more of an interactive story with puzzles..tons of dialogue and sequences to sit through and eventually I was just wishing for it to end, but I'm not hugely into story driven games,at least not when it's very much on-rails, so that might be just me. Graphically I wouldn't have guessed it was from 2022, looks quite dated already..yet my pretty decent pc seemed to work hard to run it with fans roaring. TLDR; If you like the Syberia series, go for it, else no.

Waste of money game. The story is mediocre, the dialog is awful (why in gods name does oscar say her full name every sentence?), and the game mechanics suck. First off, half of the plot points in this just seem useless or nonsensical, I get there were other games before and they are trying to add onto it. But the whole, baby died then came back plot was stupid IMO. Dana becoming a sergeant or whatever seemed so out there. The dialog was kinda just annoying the whole game. Just the fact that they only had one voiceline for some interactables and they way people spoke with one another, it felt insufferable sitting through many cut scenes. But of course, this could all be looked over if the gameplay was good. and its not, on keyboard and mouse they were lazy as fuck. no buttons? no escape? I have to point and click EVERYTHING? I suggest controller if you want to suffer this game. At least on it theres a full set of controls. The game is semi open world, and you would expect to be able to free move the camera. No you cant, dont know why but they choose still frames and often they were glitchy or unhelpful when trying to select the interactables. The instructions they give you for what steps to do often dont tell you when you get a side quest so if you want to do them you have to be constantly pressing the button to check. The quests also are very vague and can be annoying to figure out what the game wants you to do (cant progress unless you find everything but on controller you cant see all icons). The game also doesnt look great, not the biggest deal obviously but i kinda expected better from an established series. Overall this game just pissed me off and made me miserable. I havent played the other games and dont intend to because if you are releasing this in 2022 and its this bad I cant imagine what came before. If you played the others though you might enjoy it more than me, Im not sure. I dont recommend it without a sale. Music was good though.

100% YES. It was not easy on some of the puzzles you had to do, but what are brain cell for, but to give them a workout. By the end I was getting very involved with the story. The section on the war was exciting, the end moving and I was talking to the computer to make the ending of Kate Walker a good one, ( Yes to involved in the story, sad true ) I enjoyed the first series, and second in the Syberia adventure, not the third. This forth did just great

Syberia games have always been a little janky, their stories are quite weird, puzzles are not exactly of the highest quality… but I'll be damned if there's not enough heart and passion in them. "Syberia: The World Before" is the fourth game in the series. In an attempt to regain control of her own life, Kate Walker finds a new elusive goal: find out about the girl from the 1930s who looked like her. For those who played the older games in their childhood and skipped the third one, there is a story recap. The gameplay is pretty much a standard implementation of the point-and-click genre, with puzzles and dialog options. The main mechanic features switching between multiple perspectives in order to solve puzzles. The chapter select missing was definitely a mistake in my eyes. Technically, I don't have much to say about "The World Before", the game didn't cause any trouble. The only visible issue was poor anti-aliasing, which could be resolved with TAA. The game is surprisingly pretty. Could be the art style, but I choose to believe my impressions. The music is also nice, both original tracks and classical pieces. I played this for the story — and I got one that made me tear up a bit. Can't ask for more.

A great addition to the Syberia series! It carries all the charm of the old games, but with a new modern style and gameplay. The characters are much better here than previous games in my opinion, and although it still has that unbelievable aspect to its plot that the old games had, it is handled a lot better here and feels more immersive and believable. Kate is still a horrible protagonist who treats the people who care about her terribly, but the rest of the game (and a re-appearance of our favorite guy Oscar!) make it bearable.

This game will forever have a special place in my heart. I got the first Syberia game for free on Origin and thought nothing of it. Once I started playing alongside my partner we couldn't put it down. We found out there were two other Syberias, each with fantastical settings and storylines. Then I saw this game released soon after finishing Syberia 3. Benoit Sokal is a masterful storyteller and world-builder. This story is heartbreaking, joyful, whimsical, nostalgic, and beautiful. I am honored to have experienced this story spanning 4 games. I hope beyond reason there is a 5th to take us home in Kate Walker's moving journey. Play this game, play this entire series! It is a masterpiece

Syberia has always had a special place in my hearth. With this 4th chapter, the team has really outdone themselves.

Despite the puzzles not being super involved this time around, I think TWB is easily the best Syberia game <3 The atmosphere, music, and immersive qualities are stunning. The voice acting, unlike in Syberia 3, is wonderful all-round. This is by far my favourite performance Sharon Mann has given as Kate; she's managed to inject so much more personality into her on top of what I had already come to love from the first three games. Thankfully they also found a great VA for Oscar this time, and while he doesn't have the same type of charm as he does in S1+2, he has a new one that works just as well <3 I do think the story + dialogue is slightly heavy-handed, and most of the major plot points I saw coming from a mile away. I'm also not at all sold on Dana's relationship with Leon, despite it being a major focal point for her story. I don't personally believe in love at first sight, and it just felt very contrived and honestly a little derogatory to see Dana be such a lost-lamb to a man she'd hardly even spoken to. I do like Leon on his own, but they should have done something more to establish the relationship better before tying Dana's character so heavily to it. I'm also not at all sold on the motivation for Kate's initial journey in TWB. Without spoiling, it essentially boils down to a character saying "Hey wouldn't it be cool to go find this lady in this painting?", and then Kate decides to dedicate the next year of her life to doing just that. The context forgives it a little, but it honestly just didn't seem like a strong enough motivator to warrant the effort she goes through given the circumstances her life is in. It's a shame, because the plot later reveals elements that would ABSOLUTELY justify Kate wanting to find out more about this painting, but that only kicks in about halfway through. Oh, and the last complaint I have is the gas-lighting by Olivia. There were hints of it in Syberia 3, too, but in this game it's way worse. I can understand Olivia being so entitled and frigid as to blame Kate for everything that's happened, but I just cannot see why Kate gets no chance to defend herself. Olivia cheated on Kate with her then-fiancé, but at no point can she blast her for it. Olivia also tries to frame Cantin as a good person, despite him drugging and abducting Kate in S3, and again, Kate just doesn't say anything. An option to tell her to go screw herself would have been much appreciated </3 Those are really the only 3 sore spots for me. The rest of the game is wonderful, engaging, beautiful, and thoroughly enjoyable experience. The ending has tied a few people in a knot, because with the passing of Benoît Sokal (rest in peace :c) the series future is up in the air, and this game ends on something of a pseudo-cliffhanger. Keeping my fingers crossed that we do end up seeing a 5th game, and that maybe Benoît's son Hugo can take the reins <3

Beautiful game!

Best game evahh