Played not only because of the advertising from Dunkey and his new publishing company, but because this game really looked like it would be up my alley. This is genuinely one of the best and most satisfying games I've ever played; it contains generally relaxing clever puzzles and gameplay, while also hiding some of the best video game secrets maybe ever. No, really—recall the urban legends of retro gaming that spread before a more factful internet age, such as unlocking Luigi in Super Mario 64 per "L is Real" or finding Mew under the truck in Pokémon Red and Blue, and then imagine that whatever obscure hoax methods within those urban legends are actually real. Those are the types of solutions that Animal Well has to offer in its latter layers, beyond its 64 collectible colorful eggs.

Let me first admit that I was not a patient enough player to collect each of the hidden rabbits in this game, which tend to be a bit more cryptic than the average secret video game collectible. I'm sure I would've felt significantly more satisfaction within my playthrough had I done these. However, even just watching a YouTube video after the fact that described the solutions to the rabbits I didn't find on my own had my mind blown into a million bits. And then, even more mind blowing, is the overarching puzzle that these rabbits serve to help solve. It's no wonder that it took an entire Discord community of secret-hunters to figure out the post-game.