A few interesting environmental puzzles, but they're crushed under the weight of heavy-handed metaphor. The mixture of weepiness and cynicism almost reminded me of Photopia, except that Alley in Photopia was a happy kid, loved by her friends and family. The protagonist of The Almost Gone', by comparison, apparently never managed to eke out a moment's joy in her miserable existence--which makes it proportionally difficult to care about her untimely death. Early on, I examined a shattered plate on the ground, only for her to remark that she knows how it feels. She continued to make similarly one-note observations for almost the next hour before I simply gave up.