"Syberia" is a point-n-click adventure about mechanical automatons (robot-like wind-up machines) – and teasingly, about mammoths. With rare but existing weird pronounciation in both, the English and the German version, the heart of this game lies in the impressive achievements of Hans Voralberg, an ingenious savant engineer, who left home in search for a legendary land called Syberia.

The story is quite charming (or the premise, at least), though, its protagonist not too believable: I think Kate Walker makes the (greatly appreciated) personality changes – from obedient to self-confident – for the wrong reasons, resulting in a superficiality based on unhealthy selfishness that I don't like. Every so often she will receive a call on her cell phone from her boss, friend, boyfriend or mother, which stops Kate in her tracks for a few moments, for a dialog sequence. In these dialog scenes she arguably distances herself from these people more and more as the story goes on.