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dkirschner's Samorost 3 (PC)

[February 25, 2026 03:23:45 PM]

I gave up on this one. The puzzles become really obtuse. There is a hint system, which helped me get through a couple tough ones. In the end, I either came up against a puzzle that stumped me or my game has a bug. The internet suggests it is the latter, but you never know. The puzzle in question is about 2/3 through the game and it is plant-related. You acquire three different types of flowers and have to cross-pollinate them to breed different types, eventually spawning a mandrake. I combined flowers in various ways as I experimented, but reached a genetic dead end and needed to get the original flowers again to start over. The problem is that I could not get flowers to regrow. I was actually able to do this once, but the second time, I could not. I turned the game on and off, as per the internet's suggestion, reloaded, and so on. Nothing. No available flowers and I couldn't "undo" what I had done. Frustrating!

Aside from the obtuse puzzles and likely bug, I was enjoying Samorost 3. It is an Amanita Design game through and through, although I found that it lacked the charm of some of their other games. It wasn't as funny as Chuchel or as disturbing as Happy Game or as whimsical as some of the others. Perhaps it's because this is an older one (2016) and the third in a series of still older ones. Nevertheless, it had that great Amanita Design art and sound design, and there was joy in poking and prodding at things in the environment to see what they did.

You play as a little alien guy who gets a space ship and flies around to different planets, solving puzzles. I think in the end you are defeating some big evil baddie that is wrecking all the planets. Not quite sure because I didn't get there, but there was some exposition in the beginning that suggests this is where it's headed. I'll just assume that the little alien guy (is its name Samorost?) saves the day. Hooray! We did it!