Kid a Mnesia Exhibition is as the name suggests, not a game (and the developers say also that at the very beginning of the experience), but an exhibition or a tour in a virtual museum and also a free one.
This experience serves as a digital exhibition of music and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).
I honestly never heard of them and I haven't listened to any of the songs made by them until today, until this experience.
I have to admit that this experience, was an interesting one, even though I didn't understand the purpose of most of the rooms.
How long this experience lasts, depends on you, on how long you want to stay in each room, but approximately this experience doesn't last more than two hours.
Since this isn't a linear experience, but something similar to a labyrinth, you have to find a community-made map since, unfortunately, there isn't a map implemented within the game, which means that you can easily not experience a room if you don't keep track on which rooms you've visited.
Also, as I said before, I didn't understand most of the artwork, especially me, a physics student whose right side of the brain (responsible for creativity) is much less developed than the left side (responsible for logic). I would've loved to have a text-written guide that explains to me the purpose of each room, which maybe can be set to pop up after opening the main menu, I don't know.
All in all, this was a nice experience, even though I didn't understand much, which is probably because of my unfamiliarity with Radiohead and their work. To sum up, this experience isn't probably for everyone, but since it's free, I would suggest trying it out, it's not long and it's something that most of us haven't yet seen. I think that this probably ended up being a better decision than having a physical installation artwork.
This experience serves as a digital exhibition of music and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).
I honestly never heard of them and I haven't listened to any of the songs made by them until today, until this experience.
I have to admit that this experience, was an interesting one, even though I didn't understand the purpose of most of the rooms.
How long this experience lasts, depends on you, on how long you want to stay in each room, but approximately this experience doesn't last more than two hours.
Since this isn't a linear experience, but something similar to a labyrinth, you have to find a community-made map since, unfortunately, there isn't a map implemented within the game, which means that you can easily not experience a room if you don't keep track on which rooms you've visited.
Also, as I said before, I didn't understand most of the artwork, especially me, a physics student whose right side of the brain (responsible for creativity) is much less developed than the left side (responsible for logic). I would've loved to have a text-written guide that explains to me the purpose of each room, which maybe can be set to pop up after opening the main menu, I don't know.
All in all, this was a nice experience, even though I didn't understand much, which is probably because of my unfamiliarity with Radiohead and their work. To sum up, this experience isn't probably for everyone, but since it's free, I would suggest trying it out, it's not long and it's something that most of us haven't yet seen. I think that this probably ended up being a better decision than having a physical installation artwork.