Alkirian - The Ice Stone 1.0

Warning: You need to have a special piece of software to run this game. You can find the special software right here. Then, you'll need to follow the instructions in the review to play the game.

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid-size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator that stood out for their high production quality is Esklavos. Let's look at an entry in one of their many series, Alkirian - The Ice Stone.

To play Alkirian - The Ice Stone, you have to unzip all the files into the folder you extracted the FPSoftware files to. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

This is an episodic series revolving around a group of friends who have get roped into a scientist's schemes. In this entry, Dan has to a snow mountain to find the ice stone mentioned in the nine pages from the first entry. The gameplay revolves around you solving puzzles and finding items in a picturesque environment.

The production quality is a little lacking compared to the other games by the studio, but the graphical style is incredibly unique and beautiful.

All in all, Alkirian - The Ice Stone is a fantastic entry to the series and continues to build on what makes the series strong.