The Silent Age is a challenging point-and-click role-playing game that uses puzzles, beautiful graphics, and an eerie soundtrack to engage users. However, it uses unnecessary violence and gloominess and has limited educational value. The first episode is free and the upgrade is for the second episode. The game is set in 1972 where the user becomes Joe, the protagonist, who must travel in time to save Earth. Joe is a janitor who mops up a trail of blood and discovers a dying man who has come from the future. He must find the man’s younger self of 1972 to prevent the end of the world. The puzzles involve traveling back and forth from the present and 1972 to unlock doors, escape police custody, and break and climb through windows. As with other role playing games, this app can foster problem solving skills as Joe confronts obstacles and makes decisions to save Earth, but parents should not consider this a valuable educational app. In addition, the juvenile humor, mild violence, and dark, gloomy presentation make it a questionable choice, particularly for younger users.

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Anxiety
• Themes that might disturb sensitive students (death, blood, slime)
• Attention
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Reading Comprehension
• Reading Fluency
• Self-regulation
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Themes that might disturb sensitive students (death, blood, slime)
• Verbal Reasoning
• Working Memory
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers

Episode Two now available, the final chapter in this award winning adventure.

The Silent Age takes you on an adventurous journey into a dystopian future where mankind has gone extinct!

Travel through time between the iconic 70's and a desolate present day haunted by silence.

The Silent Age is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game with stylized visuals and an eerie soundtrack that will keep you in suspense as you solve mind-bending puzzles.

With an interface specifically designed for touch devices, you'll flow through the story without hiccups and frustrations. Sit back, plug in your headphones, and enjoy the adventure.

Background Story -------------------------------------------------

It’s 1972. Love is free. Flipflops, English leather and bandanas are the height of fashion. Meanwhile the Cold War is more than lukewarm and a real one is going on overseas. Movements are happening. Environmentalists, the female liberties movement, and on the dance floors an entirely different kind of movement is overtaking the underground clubs. The winds of change are certainly blowing over the country.

Somewhere in the big city, in a tall, faceless government building someone left a window open. All the winds of change are doing here is blowing leaves all over Joe’s newly-swept floor. He’s been there for two years now. Working a dead-end attendant job making sure the building is as spotless as the suits walking the halls. It’s been like this for years, going from one soul-devouring job to the next.

Our protagonist is Joe in more than just name. He is quite literally Joe Average. Average height, average weight, average IQ. In fact, the only thing remotely remarkable about him is exactly how much he conforms to the median of the hypothetical everyman, and up until this point, Joe’s life hasn't exactly been biography material.

This is all about to change...

Reviews -------------------------------------------------

Metacritic score: 84

*** "The combination of intelligent puzzles and sexy spartan design has iOS adventure fans flocking to The Silent Age in droves [...]" -- Kotaku

*** "You may detect a strong Twelve Monkeys influence at work in the game's storyline." -- Eurogamer

*** "The Silent Age is an absolutely fantastic adventure that fans of the genre should not miss" -- 148Apps

*** "Beautiful and immersive graphics and soundtrack create an uncannily calm ambiance. Logical puzzles make sense in the context of the world" -- Gamezebo

*** "Smart, mysterious and layered beneath a very welcome dose of otherworldly eeriness, The Silent Age will delight any adventure gamer who feels that the genre's revival, welcome though it is, is just a little too light-hearted in the 21st century" -- Modojo

*** "The Silent Age delivers a charming experience, packed with stylish graphics and sound, simple touch controls and an intriguing story" -- Multiplayer.it

*** "I especially recommend The Silent Age to fans of science fiction, time travel, quirky writing, inner monologues and epic mustaches" -- Indie Love