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by BostonM

You “walk” around, picking up any items you find, that are scattered around without reason. The items let you interact with certain obvious things, leading to more obvious items, more obvious interactions. Sometimes there is an boring puzzle game to solve. One of the puzzles is flat-out stupid, hard to believe you’ll figure it out without consulting a walkthrough. The navigation control is crude. You can’t turn around, you can only back up, and, weirdly, sometimes “backing up” actually navigates down to where you haven’t been before. The biggest missing component to this game is imagination. Nothing imaginative or surprising happens.

by KymberlynT

I think this could be fun at some point if it were updated a good bit. Too much time is spent clicking from one path to the other. See an item, pick it up, click, click, click, go back to the last location, use the item, click, click, click, go back further down the last path to find the next item. There are only a few actual puzzles. The rest is like a treasure hunt, very unchallenging treasure hunt.

I appreciate the free Prologue. I don’t think I’ll buy the following chapters. It’s the type of game I love but it wasn’t complex enough for me. All the clicking and old style graphics really bummed me out.

by Twoarmscollin

I was a bit dismayed at the developer’s comments for some of the critical reviews, which initially turned me off. Then reading some of the more positive reviews, and being a fan of the genre, I decided to give the free prologue a test drive (after all, that’s the whole point of why they made the free prologue). For a small development team (I think 2 ppl based on another review) this seems really well done. It’s definitely closer to Myst than to games like The Room, so I can understand why some players disliked the design and gameplay. However, I found it to be enjoyable. The puzzles themselves were on the easier side, though one of them did not seem to relate at all to the in game clue (not hint) so that had me stumped. The player does spend most of their time clicking through the world and searching for items, that’s the genre, so if it’s not for you I’d move along. This type of game is more about the exploration of the world than just solving puzzles. As with games of its kind, Meridian suffers from the player sometimes having to click around, unsure of whether they’ve missed something or not. Again though, that’s part of the puzzle aspect—figuring out what you need in order to move forward. The storyline is intriguing, and since I like a good scavenger hunt I’ll give one of the paid chapters a try. My one suggestion would be that the devs work on their professionalism when addressing critiques of the game, and not take an aggressive tone with players.