One of those #satisfying Objects Well Organized instagram posts but in game form, intercut with a travelogue told through great VO that sneaks in a surprisingly personal and emotive through-line.

Just like in Ustwo’s original classic Monument Valley, all the moving parts here have a toylike tactility that make them a joy to fidget & spin. Each clicky-clacky whatsit has got just the right level of detail to make fixing them feel breezy instead of intimidating. I was especially impressed, for example, that you can often run an internal mechanism to test it out before screwing the outer case back together, just like you logically would do irl.

Just wonderful. It’s not my absolute favorite thing on Apple Arcade— that’d still be Grindstone, I think— but it’s my very easy recommend as the short, unique thing for new subscribers to download and play first off the stack.


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Reviewed on Apr 03, 2022


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