{"id":4656,"date":"2026-03-27T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:31:08","slug":"video-game-dinner-with-an-owl-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/video-game-dinner-with-an-owl-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Dinner with an Owl (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/shared.fastly.steamstatic.com\/store_item_assets\/steam\/apps\/1567420\/header.jpg?t=1717669306\" alt=\"Dinner with an Owl\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" \/>Dinner with an Owl<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2021<br \/>Rating: N\/A<br \/>Time Played: 0.5 hours<\/p>\n<p><em>Dinner with an Owl<\/em> feels like one of those throwback games from the era when adventure games just started having point-and-click capability and good enough sound cards to do voice acting. Of course, the length of this game is more on the side of a demo than a full game. If anything, it shows that small or solo teams of developers can release games of all sorts these days. It\u2019s functional, even if there isn\u2019t a lot of it to experience.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of point-and-click games I always found frustrating was how many different things you had to click to find the right item to progress the story. <em>Dinner with an Owl<\/em> is peculiar in that you can\u2019t interact with much. Again, it\u2019s a simple game that doesn\u2019t get bogged down in the extras that don\u2019t add to the narrative. This also means the interaction options with the characters are fairly limited as well, since there are only a few options with the handful of people you can talk to.<\/p>\n<p>I can appreciate the interesting way this game deals with looping mechanics, but I wish there had been perhaps a few different paths that I could have explored. After all, once the solution \u201cclicks,\u201d it becomes obvious what to do, and it\u2019s just a matter of executing it as fast as possible. But for a game with a roughly 30-minute playtime, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re wasting too much of your time exploring what it has to offer. Perhaps those who are more interested in interactive stories or visual novels would appreciate what <em>Dinner with an Owl<\/em> can give them.<\/p>\n<p>A bare-bones point-and-click mystery, I give <em>Dinner with an Owl<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner with an OwlYear: 2021Rating: N\/ATime Played: 0.5 hours Dinner with an Owl feels like one of those throwback games from the era when adventure games just started having point-and-click capability and good enough sound cards to do voice acting. Of course, the length of this game is more on the side of a demo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1900],"tags":[2715,184,4458,3608,2158,8,3913,906],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-video-game","tag-2715","tag-adventure","tag-dinner-with-an-owl","tag-point-and-click","tag-puzzle","tag-review","tag-time-loop","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}