Stuck between a desolate future and a present where he is largely ignored, it is now up to our accidental hero to find out what has happened and how to prevent it in order to save mankind. The mysterious man was right: 40 years into the future mankind has become extinct. As the man draws his last breath, he hands Joe a portable time travel device to aid him on his quest.It isn’t long before Joe activates the device and is confronted by the truth. The man warns him that a terrible event is about to occur and pleads him to save mankind. This is all about to change.One morning while tending the floors, Joe is suddenly confronted by a mysterious dying man who is seemingly appearing out of nowhere. In fact, the only thing remotely remarkable about him is exactly how much he conforms to the median of the hypothetical everyman, and up until this point, Joe’s life hasn’t exactly been biography material. Average height, average weight, average IQ. It’s been like this for years, going from one soul-devouring job to the next.Our protagonist is Joe in more than just name. Working a dead-end attendant job making sure the building is as spotless as the suits walking the halls. Missing an item you need Check the other time zone. You just click and go, and there’s also a small inventory. It’s a point and click adventure in a very traditional style, with a cross-shaped cursor like the old SCUMM games, but without any sort of verb system. Door blocking your way Just jump forward in time and it'll be hanging off its hinges. The Silent Age is a 10 dollar game that’ll take you a few hours to complete, from small developer House on Fire. More often than not, it's just used to get you past an obstacle. All the winds of change are doing here is blowing leaves all over Joe’s newly-swept floor. Gameplay-wise, The Silent Age gets a lot of mileage out of Joe's time device. The Silent Agefunctions on a simple point and clickinterface, in which players can interact with specific objects when the cursor is over them, and must solve a series of puzzles to advance, mainly by finding items needed to overcome obstacles. The winds of change are certainly blowing over the country.Somewhere in the big city, in a tall, faceless government building someone left a window open. Environmentalists, the female liberties movement, and on the dance floors an entirely different kind of movement is overtaking the underground clubs. Meanwhile the Cold War is more than lukewarm and a real one is going on overseas. Flipflops, English leather and bandanas are the height of fashion. Environmentalists, the female liberties movement, and on the dance floors an entirely It’s 1972.
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