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Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train

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27%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
41% User Score Based on 17 reviews

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About Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train is a single player shooter game. It was developed by DIG Games and was released on January 10, 2020. It received neutral reviews from players.

Follow Jane Westlake on her quest to discover the secret of a mysterious train and stop it from leaving with its cargo.

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41%Audience ScoreBased on 17 reviews
humor1 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions

  • The game presents a focused, compact third-person adventure with a classic pulp-style mystery that creates an intriguing premise.
  • Level design offers a large, visually striking environment with verticality and exploration elements, encouraging creative traversal.
  • The combination of exploration, combat, climbing, and puzzle-solving adds variety to the gameplay, supporting the feeling of being an adventurer.
  • Movement and controls are clunky and imprecise, often leading to frustrating navigation and platforming issues.
  • The game suffers from multiple technical problems, including bugs, crashes, poor checkpoint system, and occasional loss of progress.
  • Combat and puzzle mechanics feel underdeveloped and simplistic, with AI being unintelligent and puzzles offering little challenge beyond item hunting.
  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a blend of puzzles, climbing, exploration, and straightforward shooting, creating a varied but imperfect adventure. While movement and shooting mechanics lack refinement and can feel rough, the focused design and unique scenario provide a charming, small-scale experience. Players seeking a polished, cinematic third-person shooter may be disappointed, but those open to a modest, engaging adventure will find it appealing.

    • “The combination of puzzles, climbing, exploration, and shooting prevents the adventure from becoming completely dominated by any single mechanic.”
    • “Ultimately, this is an imperfect but interesting small-scale adventure whose strongest feature is the way it combines several familiar mechanics around an unusual central scenario.”
    • “Mechanical roughness and limited production values prevent the experience from feeling especially polished, but its focused design gives it a certain independent charm.”
    • “The movement mechanics are not exceptionally sophisticated, and occasional roughness can make precise traversal less fluid than the level design ideally requires.”
    • “The shooting mechanics are relatively straightforward and serve the adventure adequately, but they should not be mistaken for the deeply refined gunplay of a dedicated third-person shooter.”
    • “Find a gun in a map that has terrible graphics, the movement is wonky, the mechanics are not there.”
  • graphics

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some users finding them terrible and obscuring gameplay elements, while others appreciate the visuals as nice and well-done. Overall, the graphics are seen as inconsistent, impacting the enjoyment for certain players.

    • “Ok game with good graphics and interesting gameplay.”
    • “Graphic is nice.”
    • “Puzzles in this game are not puzzles... they're simply hunting for some object that isn't cleverly hidden, but merely obscured by the terrible scenery graphics.”
    • “Find a gun in a map that has terrible graphics, the movement is wonky, the mechanics are not there.”
  • story

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The story is minimal and lacks depth, with little explanation or character development. Players find the narrative nonsensical and feel the missions are straightforward without meaningful context or progression.

    • “I made it to the section where you need to close a portal with a spellbook (no explanation for any of this, by the way... the story is nonsensical and practically nonexistent), but I did so without ever finding the bomb in the previous section... I simply climbed a platform and jumped over the fence.”
    • “This is not intended to be a sprawling adventure with dozens of missions, extensive character development, complicated progression systems, or a huge selection of environments.”
    • “Start off with a mission to find a gun.”
  • atmosphere

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The atmosphere received mixed feedback, with some appreciating the developer's effort while others found it somewhat boring and felt the shooting mechanics detracted from the overall ambiance.

    • “The atmosphere was quite boring and the shooting felt a bit off, but I appreciate the developer’s effort.”
  • character development

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features minimal character development, focusing more on a straightforward experience rather than complex progression or extensive narrative growth.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game was originally designed for Windows PC, so Steam Deck users may face optimization challenges such as control, display, performance, and configuration issues when running it through Proton.

    • “Because it was originally designed as a Windows PC title, Steam Deck users may need to rely on Proton and could encounter control, display, performance, or configuration issues.”
  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is largely derived from simple, relatable moments like the character saying "oof" when jumping, adding a lighthearted and playful tone that resonates with players.

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Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train is a shooter game. Common tags for Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train include indie and trains.

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train was released on January 10, 2020.

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train was developed by DIG Games.

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train for its humor but disliked it for its gameplay.

Jane Westlake Adventures - The Mystery Train is a single player game.

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