A fairly interesting short game. I dunno why but a lot of indies go for basically pennies on the eshop, so I grabbed this for 2 bucks. At that price point a game would have to eat my dog and shit on my cereal to not be worth at least a try, and this game is indeed worth one. The atmosphere is thick and overpowering. You are a child, in a world so much bigger than you full of things you don't completely understand, where almost everything wants you dead or doesn't care. You travel through a lot of desolate places, where you can tell something horrible happened, but the game leaves it all ambiguous enough to make your own conclusions. The narrative is also like that. If I remember correctly there was no spoken or even written dialogue, and the only text in the game is on menus. Nothing like documents to read or audiologs, it's a pretty linear experience. There is one series of collectables that unlock an alternate ending once you get all of them but I believe that's it. As for what passes for gameplay, there's a lot of puzzles to solve. Maybe you need to get an item on fire from one place to another without the flame going out from water, or maybe you need to get to a high place. Every puzzle is piss easy to figure out and usually just as easy to complete, but they can be tedious. There's also a lot of trial and error. Sometimes dogs chase you, or it's a stealth section and you get instakilled if detected. Point is, you can die and have to repeat stuff a lot. That's how it be sometimes I suppose. Whatever issues the game has on the gameplay side, it did stick on my head for a while just based on the atmosphere and imagery.

Reviewed on Aug 09, 2022


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