the weird counterpart to Bernband. very similar in some regards - you're aimlessly exploring an alien city, in which you come across a few bars, and you can see your character's hands. very, very different in other regards, though - Bernand is a very stylish game, very impressively immersive especially for a small indie game, while Hernhand seems to deliberately avoid any sense of good style, and is kind of outright hostile to immersion with its weird graphics and clumsily-placed objects. i don't mean that in a bad way, i love my weird ugly surreal games, it's just definitely a very different aesthetic experience than Bernband. the reason I'm giving this a lower rating isn't that, but mostly that the weird alien city you explore in Hernhand is much smaller, and an essential part of why i liked Bernband was getting lost.

Reviewed on Apr 19, 2021


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