Inspired by the Into the Aether podcast, I played Venba around midnight on a Friday night and completed it in about an hour or so.
Beginning with the game's merits, the game's art department is the real driving force behind the game, with drawings that come to life. The game itself cares that they are seen as drawings: at times when there are zoomed-in details, the outlines of the characters are clearly irregular, as if done in pencil. Simply wonderful.
The gameplay is simple and fun. The game is moooooolly short as I said. Of the hour I described, I will have played for half the time and in the other half the story was being told.
Speaking of the story, it is perhaps the part that convinced me the least. It seems to suggest that it will have two points of view, neither of them correct or wrong, but it ends with almost exactly that ending. A little "strong" in saying "see? This is how you should see your culture," a somewhat difficult subject for me, an Italian who left home many many years ago.
Anyway, if you have the game pass, it must be tried!