Really evocative and delightful visual design, fantastic synthesizer score, and perfectly tuned puzzles. The graphic style is Outer Wilds-esque in a way that really serves the alien X machine style that so much of the setting and characters have. Sounds are all really pleasing and otherworldly, and the synth soundtrack is great - sweeping in moments, very subtle in others, and used perfectly to indicate when you're on the right track with a puzzle.

Very interesting to have a puzzler with boss fights, but I think the occasional confrontations helped break up the core orb-based puzzles and provided some stakes that might've been missing if you were otherwise just wandering around. The puzzles themselves are clever and escalate in difficulty wonderfully. There are moments where you can just get in the zone and swim through the easy puzzles, and there are some real thinkers at the end to give the satisfying feeling of triumph, but it never gets too close to frustration. I played it in two sessions and it feels like the perfect length - I feel like the core mechanics were explored and it did not overstay its welcome.