A whimsically entertaining toy box recreating and remixing a lot of classic literary stories and tropes. The puzzle prompts are just vague enough to make solving them feel satisfying, but rarely stumping. Its literary allusions and the jokes it makes with them are sophisticated enough to feel rewarding to pick up on, but still very familiar overall; the resolution to Nietzsche’s first appearance was particularly funny and on-the-nose. The animation while swapping out various actors and scenes is charming, and its technical seamlessness makes experimenting feel frictionless. That’s especially helpful during the epilogue’s bonus chapters and stamp challenges, as focused as they are on mischievously recasting prior chapters in a new light.

This is also the perfect sort of game for Netflix to offer on mobile and I’m glad they did. It’s rewarding to play even just for a few minutes, great with touch controls, and its brief overall playtime isn’t a value consideration when it comes with an existing subscription.