14 DAY TRIAL // 
The Night of the Rabbit is a solid adventure game experience that uses pretty colors and soft-spoken animals with the ability to speak to partially obscure a story that deals with loss and desperation.
The development team at Daedalic Games manages to create an interesting atmosphere with its most recent release, one that delivers a number of improvements when compared to its Deponia series.
The story of The Night of the Rabbit feels like a mix of a lot of the stories that I read when I was young, with a kid that’s looking for adventure, transported to a magical land where he is given an important task and must discover a deeper mystery while also finding out more about himself.
The universe that Daedalic is creating is in many ways suited to the perceptions of younger gamers and sometimes a more experienced player might actually be a little ahead of the adventure curve.
I was quickly pretty sure that the Mraquis de Hoto was dishonest in some way and I became a little exasperated that the hero, Jeremiah Hazelnut, failed to spot this and act on my hunch in any way.
The puzzle design is also an improvement over Deponia, mostly because the fantasy nature of the game actually allows players to improvise and try out objects that they would otherwise dismiss as solutions.
There are some obscure solutions and I have often wondered why The Night of the Rabbit forces the player to travel so much in search of clues and items, but overall, I have never felt like the puzzles were a huge obstacle to story progression.
The coin that Jerry has highlights objects of interest in the areas he visits, which makes it easier to get all the items that can then be combined to advance the story.
The protagonist also grows as a magician in The Night of the Rabbit and the spells are important in some of the most important puzzles.
The problem is that when one does get stuck, there’s no clear hint system to rely on as the Marquis de Hoto basically only talks about what you need to do and never approaches the how.
These days, walkthroughs are easy to find, but it’s annoying to switch between the game and a browser instead of getting gentle nods towards the right solution from the developer themselves.
As most Daedalic-created games, The Night of the Rabbit looks very good, with hand-painted backgrounds and characters that fit very well within the story and the universe.
The animations sometimes feel a little slow, but that gives players time to admire the world and the various objects that can be gathered and used.
The voice acting is also solid, with only a hit of European accents here and there, and it also complements the music, which does a great job of enhancing the mood and increasing the emotion at crucial moments.
The user interface is also very functional, although at times, I wondered why the journal was included, given its relative lack of useful information.
The Night of the Rabbit is a treat for fans of the adventure genre as long as they manage to invest some of their own feelings and memories into Jerry’s story and the game offers around 12 hours of play that can lead to some interesting revelations.
