cant believe this game about fucking gators was one of the funniest experiences ive had this year its so wittingly written with the right kind of humor for me i feel like it was purposely made for me because i always brag about having a haute couture but for humor (sex jokes and piss and poop jokes) so pillow fight was like we are gonna show you a piece of our minds

leaving that for later this is a point and click disclaimer i fucking despise point and clicks i tried to play syberia because a friend recommended it to me and it single handedly made me pause gaming for like a month because i touched the fucking bottom of the well with that one umh wait there could be fans of syberia here umh … i meant it was a great experience but not for me <3 so i was saying point and clicks arent for me which is funny because i reviewed that furry brothel game which is a point and click but with the added flair of porn CGs to fap to therefore it actually had a very good reason for me to try it

as for the game in it of itself i cant say much because first this is about a an alligator trying to find out who in his family is trying to kill him so talking about the whole plot would make the mystery aspect go away and second this is a game whose charm you cant really understand until you boot it up theres so much love put into this game that its honestly a shame it isnt as popular as i want it to be the animations are GORGEOUS absolutely the best ive seen in these cartoonish type of style and add so much to the experience that i honestly cannot think about this game without thinking about the dumb as shit character designs that are gonna make you laugh so hard and the smooth idle animations to give life to the portraits UGHHHHHH its so good and i swear theres so much thought being put in everything here the single characters the streets and locales the landscape and minigames nothing is left to chance i can feel the hard work they put into this game THROUGH the fucking screen i kid you not

so i was saying the main character of the game pat the alligator is being threatened to life by some kind of mysterious family event + hes definitely schizo so he hires the protagonist to investigate the circumstances and to do that you will have to get to know every single relative of this stupid guy and rest assured his family is MASSIVE parents cousins siblings grandparents friends boyfriends and girlfriends of friends everyones in for the party and to actually get to know the true intentions of these people you have to do some minigames

now im not a fan of minigames but the ones in this game were quirky enough to actually make me enjoy most of them and i have to applaud the sheer about of creativity in these ones because professor layton can only learn from this ong theres so many of them i cannot spoil them to you yes but rest assured that they will play with the concept of minigame a damn lot i had my wig snatched more than ones theres something for everybody puzzles card games and even VNs like

so you get the pins of each relative put them in the family tree and if you get all of them you get the true ending which made me gag a little bit i gotta be honest plot twist of the century

now as i was saying theres not a lot of meat to the game because this is not a game to play its a game to live and breathe and i swear to god this is the funniest game ive played all year the character all have at least some one liners that made me crack tf up and genuinely bingoed most of the stuff i like in humor apart from obviously… sex but whatever and im gonna put this imgur link to give you an idea to what the kind of humor this is because i have no idea how to explain it but that being said it was TOO GOOD definitely the best part of the game and if you hear me say something like this it means its really damn funny because 2 things i rarely get me from videogames and those are horror and humor because i only fear far right wing ideologies and only laugh at butt jokes and i guess if you want to go completely blind dont look at the screenshots DUMBASS

so umhhhhhhhhh im at a loss of words rn because again its such a weird game to recommend to people but if you play this im gonna send you some nudes there you go how to get players 101

Get to know a family of gators in Alligator New York City, and uncover the future murderer of the bestest birthday boy.

This game was really great! The art, music, and writing are all superb and feel right at home with my personal tastes. It isn't super long, but be advised, if you care enough you may be replaying the game several times for reasons I won't disclose. For me, it was likeee..4 playthroughs, mainly my fault, but the 3 after the first went very fast. I spent about 6 hours to fully do everything in the game (including the other 3 plays). Which is to say though, the things you're able to do are pretty fun!

The whole experience is basically a bunch of mini games and bits of point and click visual novel. I never really had any personal issues with the design choices of the mini games, but I did have a bug or two. The game felt really polished, but somehow I managed to break 2 of the games. I won't go into detail, but both times they felt like they were a 1 in 100+ chance. It was like, basketball stuck between the hoop and the backboard-esque. Softlocked me. Regardless, I was enthralled all the way through, even on the repeat playthroughs of the game.

This is going to be the upsetti spaghetti paragraph though. So according to Steam, the game is fully optimized and playable on the Steam Deck. This was mostly true. See, I played the entire game on that thing with a Switch controller. Do not do this. Here I am after playing, desperately trying to pull just my unbiased feelings about the game to the surface, and not my absolute anguish from playing a point and click game with a controller. Nearly every single mini game would be so much easier with a mouse. Some of them felt borderline impossible, even. My playtime was much higher because of this absolutely awful decision I had made, and I ended up souring my feelings towards the game a bit. Please use mouse and keyboard.
I went in blind, and played it with a friend, so we opted for the couch experience. I wish I had known more about the game prior. Pain.

This is a fantastic snack-sized treat, and it's def worth your time!

Endlessly charming with a distinctive art style, amusing characters and a fun premise and setting, but I really don't feel like the 'video game' elements of Later Alligator do it many favours. From my understanding this was a collaboration between a small dev team and a small animation studio, and it really doesn't feel like the work each group did on this project ended up merging together in a cohesive way.

At its best, the minigames in Later Alligator are fun parodies or subversions of gaming tropes; card shuffling guy was pretty funny and I very much enjoyed the game playing with its art style for the dating practice level. But at its worst, the minigames can be poorly explained (I had no clue what I was doing on the baby monitor game first time round...) or just frustrating/boring; I really didn't appreciate having to play a set of spot the difference puzzles, nor did I enjoy those godforsaken sliding block puzzles that everyone in the universe agrees are a bad time.

But the game did get more than a few out loud laughs out of me, which is a lot more than most games manage. The game was oozing with the kind of whimsical jolly and silly aesthetic that normally turns me right off a game, but aesthetically Later Alligator has been done so well that I ended up enjoying that side of things.

So yeah, your experience with this will depend on what you want out of it. If you want to take part a genuinely well-realised fun and silly adventure with gorgeous visual design, then this delivers in droves, but as for a /video game/... its a swing and a miss for me I'm afraid, but not one I regret playing.

Completed with 100% of achievements unlocked, all puzzle pieces and family badges collected. Lightweight but enjoyable, Later Alligator's core gameplay comprises a series of mini-game challenges set by members of an alligator family inhabiting a fictional city, explored through a point-and-click interface is a point-and-click puzzle game. Entertaining though these can be, the game's strength lies in its excellent writing, laced with humour throughout, which carries the game through its fairly short (somewhere around a couple of hours) length.

What a joyful little game. I had a grin on my face throughout my entire playtime.

Pat the Alligator is convinced someone in his family is planning to kill him. This paranoid little guy asks you, a random stranger in a pinstripe suit, to investigate his family and find out what 'The Event' is that they are planning.

What follows is a delightfully silly adventure game filled with a variety of minigames set in the aesthetically fantastic Alligator New York City.

The animation is some of the best in the business, every frame exudes character. The music is also fabulous, though I do wish there was a bit more of it. The game is structured so that you really need to replay it a minimum of three times to get the full narrative, and while the soundtrack is good, the small selection can grate on repeated playthroughs (particularly the track that plays in most minigames).

This is on the surface a dumb little point-and-click with lots of silly, simple minigames. Dig a little deeper though, and you get a touching narrative, with smart, snappy writing that will constantly make you laugh and endure you to this family of silly alligators.

What an amazing cute little title, full of charm, amazing animated visuals, and some of the best cheesy humor I've seen in awhile. Besides the over-simplicity of the style of the game, there is very little "wrong" with it (and even then the simplicity isn't really a problem for me). I think there is a lot of replayability here with a lot of thought put into the writing and design of the game, it really just oozes fun and bouncy, and it really is just that. A fantastic game to play in your longer downtimes to have some fun with friends or by yourself. No major notes from me.

It was quite charming and very well animated, although I think the time system adds an unnecessary pressure that discouraged me from wanting to fully explore each area. Once I discovered that attempts to fill in the family tree also took time I ignored that part of the game entirely.

I'm sure it's to encourage repeat play throughs but I'm not sure why that would be seen as a better system as simply not having the time limit and allowing me to just talk to all the characters at my own pace, or retry minigames without then being locked out from having enough time to visit other people.

- Though verified, it is not Steam Deck friendly. There was this puzzle that would require physical keyboard inputs. Some mini games were better played with a mouse too.
- wonderful arts and music
- the jokes flew over my head. I didnt get most of them at all. Not sure if it was because the dialogues were intended for native English speakers or sth.
- the mini games were mostly fun!

their writing was not my thing, so i didnt feel motivated to continue. But i must admit that the game had a lot of charm.