—— Moirai ——

As others have said already, this game is best going in knowing nothing about the story.

It will take you about 10 minutes (if that) and the controls are a little bit awkward to get use to. That is all you need to know.

People who've played this... What's in the barn??

—— Crystals of Time ——

A professional theif travels to an abandoned mansion to uncover the mystery of disappearances including that of her father, she has in her possession a crystal which can show glimpses of the past. Honestly though, you could probably remove those time mechanics and it wouldn't make much of a difference to the game, they're really quite irrelevant to everything except the plot, you can't even use the crystal in every room. It's a tad more difficult than some HoGs such as those from Artifex Mundi but there's a lot of repeated hidden object scenes to the point where you are asked to seek the same objects previously found. Also there was a lot of backtracking, on more than one occasion the game would have you on one side of the map and send you back to the other side to retrieve a couple of items, then you would return back to the original spot just so you could continue. I guess it's a bit more logical than other games of the genre but sometimes I prefer convenience. The story is quite boring, nothing really happens.</span>

Proof of completeion here.

—— Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel ——

Probably one of the more enjoyable Visual Novels I've come across, Orion is about a young man who receives a strange message that his home will be destroyed. He soon finds himself learning new things about himself, his family and his friends, whilst meeting a whole cast of interesting characters on his journey. There seems to be two art-styles going on, there was a more life-like but still stylised, used in background and larger scenes, which I thought looked very nice and a more anime-style, used for the character art, that I wasn't a fan of but it grew on me by the end. It took me approximately 1hr40mins to complete the first route but in subsequent paths you can skip previously read dialogue and text which made thing goes by a lot quicker. Not all the lines are voiced but what voice acting there is, is very good. I got 4 endings by myself before resorting to this guide for directions.

Screenshots.

—— Ben There, Dan That! ——
—— Time Gentlemen, Please! ——

British, silly, vulgar and over-the-top, these point & click adventure games are a good laugh at best, a little ridiculous at worst and often makeing fun of the genre it resides in. The two games tell the tale of Ben and Dan as they're kidnapped by aliens in the first and imprisoned by worse in the sequel. I enjoyed the majority of the games but it did start to drag by the time I was getting near the end of the second game. The interface feels more clunky than usual, it doesn't take too long to get use to it and is otherwise standard. There are lots of references to other games and media throughout, I did feel a little bit awkward knowing that I hadn't played any of the three games portrayed in the posters in the lounge of the first game but I guess that's just something to look forward to should I get a chance in the future. I couldn't take screenshots using the Steam function in the first game but it worked fine for the second.

Ben There, Dan That! screenshots here.
Time Gentlemen, Please! screenshots here.