A short and sweet piece of exploration that succeeds at it’s goal much better than most other games like it for several reasons:

- It’s extremely small open world is completely made much bigger thanks to a sheer lack of any kind of barriers to stop you, and encourages you with its dark, concrete hell of a world to just explore. You don’t get much out of it most of the time but there’s an almost intrinsic satisfaction of finding a new, surreal part of the world that gives you anything from chills to satisfaction, which is something I never really feel when exploring games.
- The world itself is empty with few points if interest in its almost illogical design, but does a great job of making it feel lived in from each tiny detail to even carrying texture quality.
- I personally found the actual world’s background very open-ended in its storytelling, which made exploring every nook and cranny feel like you were finding a piece to a puzzle you build without any guidance.
- You get as much out of it as you put in. You can beat it in about ten minutes and it won’t leave much of an impact on you, but it can very easily just be used as a liminal
playground if you want.
- The tone and atmosphere is just unlike anything out there, nothing else to say.

Granted I don’t see anyone that doesn’t vibe with its barren world to find it all that interesting, but I feel like I’ll be coming back to this for comfort for a long time.

The most immersive game I have ever played and it’s not even close. Every gameplay and aesthetic choice is made to make the game both more interesting and make you feel like everything you’re doing is real. It’s simple at times, complicated others, often stressful, and never ceases to be addicting. It’d be fine if it was just a hacking simulator but it goes above and beyond with a surprisingly complex amount of world building and how it uses it’s non-linearity to give you lots of different experiences in each playthrough. I can’t recommend it enough!