Neat little game. It's a short, unconventional action-adventure.

The soundtrack, aesthetic, and gameplay twists are all cool, but what's interesting about this game is its abstruseness. Gloom Reducer occasionally asks you to do downright unintuitive things to progress, things that might make a player give up unless they really want to see both endings.

This is by design. Owch appears to be testing where the line is between "tricky puzzle", and "esoteric bullshit", and she uses this line to tell a story about choices, self-destruction, and transformative growth.

There's something uncomfortably personal about the experience. It's great.