I'm so happy I stumbled across the game. I'm surprised I don't see it mentioned more often. The graphics are simply beautiful, and the gameplay is interesting, engrossing, and is nicely woven into the story. Many of the puzzles are truly challenging and unique.

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Drawn: The Painted Tower is just challenging enough without being frustrating. The graphics are beautiful and the puzzles are highly imaginative and relate well to the appealing storyline.

It is a short game. It seems as though the really good games are all short! It's still a pleasure to play and I highly recommend it.

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Both I and my 16 year old daughter found this game delightful. The graphics are great. The story is inventive, as is the way the puzzles are put together. It isn't super difficult, but it is hard enough to keep your interest and occasionally stump you for a while. It gives you the option to skip any puzzle, but none are that hard, though some took me a while to figure out.

You are in a magical world where a little princess can make things appear by drawing them. She created, for example, a play of a knight battling a dragon. You have to figure out the play, and how to put it together in the right sequence for it to work. It's presented in the format of a clockwork - inventive, picturesque and fun.

The whole game is like that.

If it had been longer, I'd have given it 5 stars, but it is a little short. What you get, though, is great.

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Charm is something that is almost impossible to define but whatever charm means "Drawn" has it. This enchanting game is a delight for everyone. It is one of the few games that is hard enough for an adult to enjoy and cute enough to enthrall a kid. The two of you can play together side by side in mutual satisfaction. "Drawn" is also one of the few games to score highly on all fronts: the beautiful graphics, the excellent voice acting (the narrator's husky tones, especially), and the appropriate music from gloomy and soft piano notes to joyous violins and full symphony exuberance.

The environments include dark and muted scenes like the decaying tower in which Princess Iris, our heroine, is imprisoned, and an eerie primeval forest, to the paintings Iris has created, which are rich in color and filled with wonderful effects such as flickering candles, bees and dragonflies flitting about, a dragon breathing fire. And we meet colorful characters such as a scarecrow, quirky magicians, a hilarious witchdoctor and even some amusing talking shrunken heads, which are not scary.

Once upon a time there was a prosperous kingdom ruled by a benevolent king. Members of the royal family had the ability to bring paintings to life and by enchantment, you could step into a new brilliant world of your dreams. But a malevolent dragon and his master conquered the kingdom, burning down the houses, creating turmoil, and the Queen, desperate to save her new born baby daughter, Iris, gives the baby to a trusted servant, imploring him to hide her. They are safe for a while in a tower near the sea, but the usurping king finally discovers them and turns the steward into stone and Iris is placed high on the top of the tower.

Of course you have to find and free the little princess, but the way is full of snares and booby traps as you slowly make your way to the top of the tower, entering Iris' gloriously colored paintings as you go. The puzzles you encounter are not hard, they're often quirky and they're fun, too. You'll be looking around for tools to help you on your journey, such as an axe, colored stones, a chisel- plenty of stuff to keep you busy. Bon voyage!

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This is a very creative game. The graphics are amazing. I found myself saying "wow" a few times. Some of the puzzles are hard but there are hints if you want to use them. There is a real story involved. I had so much fun playing this game and I'm hoping for more games like this in the future.

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Really enjoyed playing this game...All in all took an average of 10 hours to complete. Ending was a bit disappointing.

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This game is very intriguing. The puzzles are challenging and the graphics are very pleasing. The story is very deep and integrated well within the game. I loved playing this game. I only wish it had lasted longer.

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I played this game when it was available for download at [...], I think it is one of the most beautiful video games I have ever played. This seems to be a hybrid of the popular hidden object video games, and the adventure game genre of yore, (Which I love and still play!) If you are a casual gamer you may find some of the puzzles frustrating, but if you're willing to take your time or cheat and use a walkthrough(like I did!) This game is totally worth it.

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Probably best for a young "sleuth" but can be played and enjoyed by older people as well.

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The artwork is wonderful, the story is great, the voice acting is engaging and professional. Gameplay is seamless. The puzzles were interesting and intuitive, but they were quite easy. This might be a great way to introduce younger adventure gamers to the genre for that reason, but the style and feel of the game will win over even a seasoned gamer.

It was never repetetive, I didn't feel like I had to trudge back and forth between locations at all. I also never found myself clicking around in frustration looking for an object or a pathway, like so often happens with point and click adventures.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because it's a short game. I finished it in a little over 2 hours. The price is reasonable for that amount of gameplay, I just could have gone on playing for much much longer. MUCH longer.

It's a great little game.

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I am pretty new to computer puzzle games. This is only my third adventure. I really had a great time playing this game. I loved the graphics and the puzzles were just right. I had lots of hours of entertainment. Much bettter than anything on television.

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I want to start by saying I played Dire Grove prior to playing Drawn, and was expecting another game of the same beauty, quality, and excellence. I think Drawn was made for a younger, less demanding audience. It isn't a typical Hidden Object game, in that you find items within a scene, use them in a puzzle and move on. However, if you are looking for a relatively easy, short game, with a simple story line, then this is it. Some of the puzzles are fun and unique, but I was disappointed that none of the characters moved their faces when they talked. They are shown as still graphics, with voices and written word inserts. And instead of realistically detailed creatures, as in Dire Grove, all of the characters of Drawn are cartoons that move in short, repeated clips. The music clips do the same. A couple of the clips became annoying, and I turned the sound off more than once. Also, the ending is disappointingly abrupt. The ultimate ending hinted at during the story is never fully achieved. I knew it was over when the credits (which you can't speed up or exit out of) started rolling.

If you buy this game, understand what you are getting, and enjoy it on its level, like so many others have.

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