Primordia Review

Primordia

Created by Wormwood Studios 

Published by Wadjet Eye Games

Primordia, in its simplest explanation is the humans are dead and the robots are next.

Written by a team lead by Mark Yohalem. Primordia is about Horatio Nullbuilt, a robot living in the desert with his friend Crispin Horatiobuilt, a companion robot that Horatio made to help him fix the airship they are currently living in, in the beginning of the game. Crispin wants to go to Metropol, the magnificent city of light and glass but Horatio doesn't trust it. When a random robot plunders their home and takes their only energy source to Metropol they have no choice but to go.

You play as Horatio Nullbuilt. Horatio is a cynical, old bot who is too life weary to trust anything nice anymore. Horatio only remembers so much about his life and prefers to live alone with his best friend Crispin. The second character is Crispin Horatiobuilt, being younger than Horatio, Crispin has a more chipper view of life and doesn't question things that sound too nice to be true. These two are your basic dynamic of comic relief and straight man, but these two bots love each other so much that they would die for each other.

The artwork was done by Victor Pflug and the design was done by Mark Yohalem. The world of Primordia is absolutely gorgeous in that dying world, run by robots, the end is near type of look. The team working under Victor Pflug and Mark Yohalem did a wonderful job making the dark and gritty colors of this world pop with the designs of the buildings, robots, and landscapes. The lighting in the game is minimal but what lighting you do get shows how important an area is or if it's a striking, solid color on a robot it gives you a visual sense of what the robot is like.

The music was composed by a team lead by Nathaniel Chambers. Primordia's soundtrack does a fantastic job of giving you that feeling of loneliness and isolation with the deep bass sounds and slight banging of gears grinding in the background. The soundtrack especially loves fluctuating between high notes and low notes, giving it a hypnotic feel. Last but not least the music genre is electronic, which is appropriate as the game is about robots.

The game play of Primordia is simple enough as a click and point, adventure. It uses real world logic with the choices you make and can be pretty frustrating. If you love click and point, adventure games then this is definitely for you whether you're a hardcore gamer or a casual.

You can buy this game on Steam for $10 for your PC and Windows, on GOG.com for $10 for your Windows, PC, and Linux, and on your phone for $5 for your IOS. Just to name a few places that you can get the game yourself.

There is also an audiobook about the events after Primordia --> Fallen

I give this game a 5/5 stars. I would give it a lower rating as click and point games frustrate me but I still enjoyed the game overall. I hope you enjoy this game as well if you ever decide to play it.