Fuck knows but I don't think I have seen a game so effectively elicit the nightmarish rhythms of a David Lynch film and the aesthetic murkiness of Tarkovsky's Stalker (with an explicit homage to Solaris to boot) as well as this game does; and all within an excellently succinct hour. First thing I wanted to do upon finishing was to do it all over again and take in its visceral horrors and surrealist images once more. It is a startling game that doesn't beg to be interpreted, only felt and it goes all in with marrying its obvious external influences with a medium that requires direct engagement from the consumer. Perhaps this is what the game is aiming to communicate; the potentially toxic relationship that exists between player and art, and the creator that exploits that link. You can't look away, and the game knows it.

Reviewed on Nov 25, 2020


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