When comparing The Silent Age vs Thomas Was Alone, the Slant community recommends The Silent Age for most people. In the question“What are the best games with rich story for Android?” The Silent Age is ranked 3rd while Thomas Was Alone is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose The Silent Age is:
The Silent Age is a great looking game that uses lighting effects and color to make the game pop.
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Pros
Pro Good use of lighting and art design
The Silent Age is a great looking game that uses lighting effects and color to make the game pop.
Pro Interesting time travel mechanic
The Silent Age uses an interesting time travel mechanic in that the protagonist will jump between 2012 and 1970, which results in environmental changes that the player needs to explore.
Pro Great atmosphere reminiscent of the old Delphine software games
Pro Enjoyable professional narration
What really drives the well crafted story home is the wonderful narration done by British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television, Danny Wallace. Not many indie small budget games receive the polish this game has in their voice acting, which really adds to the experience when playing the game.
Pro Great story
For what is a pretty simplistic looking game, Thomas Was Alone offers a truly great story that actually gets the player to care about what are basically squares and rectangles.
Pro Polished ethereal soundtrack
Haunting guitar strums mixed with beautiful piano chords and bits of chiptune creates a very fitting soundtrack that allows for an experience of polish not often found.
Pro SImple, peaceful gameplay
Gameplay is introduced at a relaxed rate, and is never frustrating or off-putting. It's not big on challenge, but does require some thinking. Everything is solvable, new techniques are introduced as they are needed for the story, and the whole thing just radiates relaxation and love.
Cons
Con Somewhat easy and too short
The few interactive objects a player finds will ultimately be an object that is used in a puzzle, leaving not too much guess work as to how to progress. Chapter 1 is too short to entice you to pay for the rest of the game.
Con Short
The gameplay only lasts about 3 or 4 hours.
Con Some puzzles can be difficult
Here an there are a few really tough puzzles in the game which can be frustrating, luckily they are few and far between as the gameplay does not tend to repeat itself too often.