This weird little game took me years to finish. I probably could have beaten it faster, but looking back on it now, I’m glad I took my time. It’s the perfect game to slowly chip away at it a few puzzles at a time.

Stephen’s Sausage Roll is the kind of game that you can really only play once, at least for the full proper experience of it. The actual process of learning how to play is so rewarding and such an intrinsic part of the game. In the beginning, even the simplest things take so much effort and brain power. But this game rewired my brain. It’s kinda like how people start seeing interlocked shapes everywhere after playing Tetris for a while. I started moving differently in my dreams. This game made me feel like a genius in a way that no other game has. It gets to a point where you start planning ten, twenty steps ahead like some kind of chess grandmaster.

Maybe the biggest fault of Stephen’s Sausage Roll is that the difficulty tapers off in the final few hours. On top of that, the final puzzle is unusually straightforward and repetitive when compared to most other puzzles in the game. But I suppose it’s inevitable after spending so much time getting familiar with the movement and mechanics. It just made for a slightly disappointing finale to an otherwise fantastic game.

I had a great time with Stephen’s Sausage Roll and would easily recommend it for anyone who enjoys a nice brain workout.