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Milkmaid of the Milky Way

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Linux • 2017

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Quick resume

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Global score

95/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual, Indie, Point-and-click, Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Charming poetic storytelling
    • Beautiful pixel art and music
    • Relaxing and immersive atmosphere
    • Accessible and logical puzzles
    • Unique rhyming dialogue

    Cons

    • Short gameplay length
    • Some awkward rhymes
    • Minor puzzle unintuitiveness
    • Limited replay value
    • Lack of customization and social features

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for enjoyment and personal interest, not out of obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention to solve puzzles and progress story."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management elements."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Thrill, Survival.

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    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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