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Release Date 19 June 2012
Release Type Commercial
Content Advisory Strong | None | Strong
Operating System Windows
Setting Sci-Fi
Genre Investigative
Story Original
Play Length Full Length Game
Language English
Graphics 320x240, 32-Bit Colour
Downloaded 11,717 All Time

About

Resonance merges classic point-and-click gameplay with innovative, contemporary storytelling thanks to its nostalgic pixel-art graphics, suspenseful plotline, and creative puzzles.

A brilliant particle physicist has just died under suspicious circumstances, leaving the classified details of his powerful new technology locked away in a hidden vault. Now fate has thrown together four strangers - the scientist's assistant, a doctor, a police officer, and an investigative reporter - to find the vault before this potentially catastrophic weapon falls into the wrong hands.

Controlling each of these protagonists, Resonance players will decide when they should work together, which secrets to guard, and who to trust. But loyalties will be tested as the clock ticks down to global disaster, and you may discover that you've been mistaken all along...

VinceXII Design, story, programming, additional art
∞ bit Design, Scripting, Art, Sound
Anna Design, Writing, Scripting, Art, Sound
Blades of Passion: An Oceanspirit Dennis Adventure Voice acting
Domestic Conspiracy Demo Design, Writing, Scripting, Art
Forest Everything Else
Frantic Franko: Bergzwerg Gone Berzerk play-testing, beta-testing
La Croix Pan Beta-Testing
Nanobots Scripting, debugging
Spooks Scripting, debugging
The Dwarven Dagger Of Blitz some testing and tips
What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed Design, Writing, Scripting, Art

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens Character art
Blackmail in Brooklyn Scripting, Sprites and Sound
Dance 'Til You Drop! Creator
Kathy Rain Character Art & GUI
Reactor 09 Dialog edits
Wooly Rockbottom and the Quest for the Golden Beard of Thor! Everything

nikolasideris Music, sound

DaveGilbert Voice acting direction
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 Deluxe Receptionist (Voice)
Bestowers of Eternity - Part One Creator
Blackwell Deception Design, programming
Blackwell Epiphany Writing, programming, voiceover directing
Blackwell Legacy, The Coder/Designer/Writer
Blackwell Unbound Design, coding, writing
Eyes of the Jade Sphinx
Gemini Rue Voice Directing & Casting
Hard Space: Conquest of the Gayliks! Pragmatic Puzzle Suggestions
He Watches (DEMO) QA/Testing
Kathy Rain VO Recording & Direction
Limey Lizard: Waste Wizard! Voice, Testing and Support
Mind's Eye Tester
PMX: The Magic Hat Beta testing
Primordia Publisher, Voice Actor (Hansel Rossumbuilt, Scraper)
Reality-on-the-Norm: Cold Storage Testing
Reality-on-the-Norm: Stuck at Home Testing
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Postman Only Dies Once Author
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Repossessor (2014) Original story & design
Shardlight Producer
Strangeland Publishing & Voice Work
Tea For Two: A Detective Logan Case Voice Acting
Technobabylon Almost certainly some stuff
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow Publishing and voice direction
The Shivah Writing, character animations, coding
Two of a Kind design/dialog/coding
Unavowed Writing, design and programming
Whispers of a Machine Voice Direction
Zombie Attack (BAKE SALE) Bake Sale Organizer

Tramponline Additional Fonts, Beta testing
9 Hours to Dawn beta tester
A Golden Wake Beta Testing
All Pigs Deserve to Burn in Hell Play Testing
Primordia Beta testing & Feedback
Tales help on early version of the game
Tales - Tech Demo German Version Proofreading
The Bum German translation

Awards & Reviews

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AGS Awards 2012 Winner

AGS Awards 2012 Winner

Best Animation
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Dialogue Writing
Best Game Created with AGS for 2012
Best Gameplay
Best Music
Best Original Story
Best Programming
Best Puzzles
Best Sound Effects
Best Voice Work
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AGS Awards 2012 Nominee

AGS Awards 2012 Nominee

Best Player Character

AGS Panel Rating

Engaging puzzles, an engrossing story, and beautiful art make this a hugely enjoyable commercial game, well deserving of 5 cups.

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By Kini Games on 9 March 2023

This was FANTASTIC! I'm gonna go out on a limb and say... best puzzles of any adventure game I've played (and I've played a lot!).

The puzzles are where this game really shines. They make you really figure stuff out for yourself, and the best ones make you feel like a genius when you do. They're much more Return of the Obra Dinn than, say, Monkey Island. Still, they manage to slot nicely into the game world, without feeling contrived.

Often, you'll have to prove you've understood a puzzle solution by using the game's (truly innovative) memory system, which allows you to ask characters about any hotspot (by dragging the hotspot into your 'short-term memory'). You'll also uncover long-term memories - short videos that you can replay at any time. These can be used, for example, to contradict something another character has told you, à la Ace Attorney.

There's a good mix of other puzzle types, too - ones that don't use the memory system, but still require real deduction. It seems clear that some have multiple solutions (you'll be controlling up to four characters at once, each with their own abilities). However, I haven't tested this yet.

As for the story and characters, they were solid enough to keep me hooked throughout. However, I doubt they'll leave a lasting impression on me, unfortunately.

If you play this type of game solely for the story and characters, I'd still recommend Resonance as a good yarn. However, if clever puzzles are also a big draw for you, you simply MUST play this game.


By Threadwood on 9 August 2021

I can’t wait to wait a bit and play this again. It’s fantastic!


By lanchong on 6 April 2019

7 years on, it's still a great game. This kind of game never ages. I bet I'll play it again in a few years time. Some puzzles were really hard even with the walkthrough but it was worth persevering.


By oh_hey_ray on 8 April 2016

A deeply engaging game - one of my favourites.


By Fitz on 9 November 2013

I'm usually into more light-hearted stories -- but I couldn't miss out on our own indie AAA title, now could I? ;) And it was more than I could've expected. It was exciting, thrilling, smart -- and beautifully executed. The graphics were gorgeous and the cast were spectacular (I liked Logan's performance even more than in Primordia -- which says a lot). They made the characters even more relatable (the front desk lady at Antvorta being my favorite of the bunch, her online romance was great comic relief).The puzzles were clever, logical and fairly intuitive. I did have a hard time jumping between different menus (and some other minor issues) -- but the GUI was great in how much freedom it allowed. I also kept thinking how much the whole story reminds me of Broken Saints, a flash graphic novel: four strangers connected by fate, a grand conspiracy involving new, groundbreaking technology with great potential for abuse... A tech nerd and girl haunted by nightmares (those sequences were my favorite, very surreal and dark)... Not nearly as trippy (except for the nightmare scenes, maybe), but still -- quite a ride!


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