A fold apart is a cute little game with decent puzzling mechanics (that I personally didn’t particularly enjoy) on the outside and a touching story on the inside.
At first glance it deals with a couple suffering the obvious pains of a long distance relationship. But more abstractly it’s about communication, may it be with a loved one, a family member or a friend. Texting has become the new normal not only for millennials. What has been thousands of years of cognitive evolution for our species (where we have learned to process nuanced facial expressions, jittery voices, fearful eyes and tons of other emotions) in order to communicate and build entire civilizations on that foundation, is now stripped down to a couple of bits and bytes. A single written word can often times leave us with an abundance of doubt, misunderstanding and loneliness, even if it’s meant to evoke opposite feelings. You never really know, how something you have written impacted the other person, as you don’t have them in front of you to analyze it.
A fold apart depicts exactly that and leaves me with a scary and weird urge to have more meaningful contact to other humans. You know? With eye contact, hugs and whatnot.