This is the first time I’ve seen an offline co-op game: both players need hints from the other player to solve puzzles but otherwise, no connection between the games is required. Luckily this allows for playing with a single steam copy of the game, pretty cool huh?

It’s a fairly short game and the puzzles are not too elaborate. It has four chapters during which you’ll see an environment where you can scroll through different screens and interact with things to find and solve puzzles.

So first of all, it’s very samey. You might expect a lot of difference between the two players but they just get different riddles and texts that are cut in half. The locations are the same and work the same way.

The game also lacks a lot of interactions. For example, you start the game on a desktop and you have a paperclip on it. You can’t do anything with it. It’s very obvious what is a puzzle component or not because of this. What’s more, most puzzles are extremely linear and isolated. If you go to a screen, you’re likely to find every element you need on that specific screen. It’s the same for coop, almost the entire cooperation is done with both players on the same screen and hence while the game advises you to hide your screen and share the information yourself, there isn’t all that much which is different.

It looks nice and has some cool animations but it’s all pretty samey and there isn’t really much to say about the presentation. Overall, the game was fun but I didn’t think much of it ultimately, especially the story which I think is neither very interesting nor well used in the context of a coop game.