It follows Kate Walker, an American lawyer tasked with overseeing the major sale of a company and her subsequent journey across Europe and Russia to find the brother of the recently deceased owner.

Syberia is a point-and-click adventure game played from a third-person perspective, in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the story line to proceed.

[6] The game begins when American lawyer Kate Walker is sent by her law firm to the fictional French village of Valadilène to oversee the corporate takeover of a family-owned spring-automaton toy factory.

When Kate arrives, she finds that the recently deceased owner, Anna Voralberg, had informed the village notary before her death that her brother Hans is alive, despite her father claiming he was dead and buried.

Investigating the Voralberg estate, she learns that Hans not only exists, but was also injured in a cave outside the village during his youth, while attempting to retrieve a prehistoric doll of a man riding a mammoth.

Before leaving, Kate is tasked with retrieving items important to Hans, that Oscar requires before he can allow them to depart – the mammoth doll and two clockwork music boxes.

Upon moving on, Kate's journey brings her to Komkolzgrad, a dusty communist-era industrial mining complex run by the eccentric and somewhat crazy Serguei Borodine.

Although Borodine attempts to stop them, Kate makes use of some dynamite to thwart his efforts, killing him in the process, and allowing the train to continue onwards, reaching Aralbad.

[12] In France, the Agence française pour le jeu vidéo reported that Syberia's computer release had sold 50,000 units by September 2003, before the launch of its console versions.

[15] Michel Bams of Benoît Sokal's White Birds Productions said that Syberia had reached "nearly 500,000 copies" in global sales that February,[16] a number it surpassed by late 2005, according to Ubisoft.

[23] USA Today called the game "a solid pick",[30] and CNN noted that "Syberia brings back adventure genre impressive graphics.

"[32] PC Gamer's Chuck Osborne praised its visuals and "epic story"; he concluded, "As Kate Walker, not only are you searching for the missing heir to an automaton factory in France, but you're also embarking on a feminist journey of self-discovery.

[47] The Nintendo DS port took heavy criticism, receiving a 3.5/10 from GameSpot: most of the voice acting was stripped out and the graphics were simply shrunk down from the PC version which rendered many small plot-necessary objects almost impossible to locate.