Lost Echo arrives on Windows Phone

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Half a Gigabyte of graphics should tell you most of what you need to know about this 'point and click' adventure game. Maybe 'point and tap' would be more appropriate on a smartphone, but oh well... Production values are very high, as you'd expect from an iOS phone/tablet app from 2013. Interestingly, Android doesn't have the game yet, so WP is the second mobile platform supported.

From the official description:

In the near future Greg's girlfriend Chloe mysteriously disappears in front of him. He starts a desperate search for her. What happened? Why does no-one else remember her? 

In this indie, story driven adventure game you explore fully 3d environments using an intuitive point and click interface. Solve puzzles, explore, play minigames, interact with numerous characters and find out what really happened! 

  • Detailed and realistic graphics, rarely found on mobile devices. 
  • A soundtrack written specifically for the game. Drawing from multiple genres so it creates the proper atmosphere for each area. 
  • An engrossing mystery with a satisfying conclusion. Meet and interact numerous characters, find clues and slowly reveal the truth. But is the truth really enough? 
  • Point and click is one of those genres where touch devices just make sense. We made sure we took advantage of that. 
  • Two modes casual and normal, so you can play regardless of experience with the genre! 

The three main interactive mechanisms are moving around a scene, choosing between a menu of possible things to say to characters you meet, and scanning for touch spots where things are hidden or for interaction. The 'casual' mode enables easy display of all the interactive hotspots in any scene.

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Working through the mystery....

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Enabling the display of all interactive hotspots in a scene...

There's an incredibly arty promo video for the game, which you might enjoy:

If this is your sort of game though, just buy it and enjoy. Reportedly there's upwards of ten hours of puzzling to work through, etc.

You can buy Lost Echo here for just under £2 - the developer promises more to the story in future updates. There's no trial version.

Source / Credit: Windows Phone Store