Kevin C. Wong

Apple Arcade - Pilgrims (2019) [+]

Pilgrims is a short point-and-click type adventure game with some replayability. You are a tramp who meets three other people: granny, bandit, and devil. Your companions each have a goal to accomplish and once you help them do that you finish your own goal and end the adventure.

The game play is that there's a map with locations. Tap to go to that location where you are presented with the location and some inter-actable person or object. Slide up the card of whichever person you want to interact then slide up an object card and something will happen. Sometimes there are picture talking bubbles so you know what you need to use and other times you experiment.

It's not a complicated game -- I finished it in less than two hours. I feel it's more for a younger crowd. The animations are good and the music thematic. I think a reviewer mentioned the themes are Czechoslovakian. When you do the right character and object at the right place you reveal a story card and I guess there are 45 story cards.

Then you start the game again and everything is exactly the same. The objective now is to find a different way to achieve the goals, thereby revealing more story cards. I think in one run through I revealed 10 or so cards so it would take several runs to reveal them all. That's definitely not enough appeal for me to keep trying but other people may like the challenge. I would have preferred more randomized goals and object placement even if reusing the four characters.

Still, it's a nice game even though it's short.