I liked puzzle games before playing Stephen's Sausage Roll, but this game crawled inside my brain and turned it up to an 11. Even as I'm out of it it's hard to describe the sheer extent to which this game held my attention during the about-a-month duration I spent going through it.

Sokoban games are something that's sort of distantly fascinated me for a while now. The idea of such a simple game concept having such an involved niche fanbase nearly 40 years on is astounding to me. While I still haven't played very many, the way this game takes such a simple conceptual difference from "base Sokoban" and runs and runs and runs with it is astounding. It's the kind of game that uniquely rewards a blind playthrough so I'm kind of being vague on purpose; but the things this game teaches you and the ways it teaches you to them are utterly mind expanding. By the end of the game you have such a diverse repertoire of ways to interact with the objects in a level and such an intuition for the initially awkward controls that it is shocking.

If I have one complaint (which is completely opposite to most reception I've seen of the game), the last set of puzzles definitely jumps the shark a bit and ends up the worst part of the game; it feels, at least to me, that the game designer felt a grand final hurrah was in place, and this leads to the final mechanical pepperings feeling simultaneously way too terse and way too long. My favourite "worlds" as I played the game were the first one - figuring out the bare essentials of the game is very specifically fantastic - and the third and fourth ones - a happy medium of mechanical complexity which leads to, in my mind, the most brain-busting puzzles in the game.

TL;DR - Play Stephen's Sausage Roll!!! It looks a bit expensive but if you have any love for puzzle games it is worth every cent and more