Beautiful game about learning to accept one's death.
Deceptively simple in both presentation and gameplay; awe-inspiring atmosphere created by the pixel art and music, challenging but engaging combat, and fun world to explore packed with secrets and challenges that kept me hooked until the credits rolled.
Shout out to this video essay for helping me to understand the true beauty of Hyper Light Drifter hidden within an otherwise excellently-crafted video game: https://youtu.be/TqOjrYOOLNk

Didn't even remember how this game got into my Steam library when I booted it up for the first time, but I'm glad I decided to play it because the story presented by To The Moon ended up being much more emotionally touching and relatable to me than I could have anticipated. The main story gimmick of travelling back through a character's life in order to piece together who they are in reverse order is fascinating, reminding me somewhat of Christopher Nolan's Memento. The stretches of gameplay between the main story moments weren't as interesting to me, though this never detracted from my overall enjoyment of the experience. River's condition is presented in such a respectful and accurate way and it plays into the protagonist's story so seamlessly in a way I've not seen it presented in any other story, I must commend the creator Kan Gao. I'm going to be thinking of this story for a long time.

Adorable visuals, beautiful soundtrack, endearing characters. The storybook choices mechanic is interesting, though perhaps underutilized.

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The perfect cosmic horror story with great dialogue and uncomfortably relatable characters.

My most played game on Steam with over 600 hours, second only to Minecraft (which I sadly can't know my exact playtime for)

The one game I am confident in saying has unlimited possibilities and infinite replayability. Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time for a reason.