![]() Music and visuals are calming and peaceful. Some optional puzzles are impossible to solve by yourself, but I don't think that should stop you from playing in our Internet age. There are only a few tools at your disposal, but the puzzle designers really got everything possible out of these few tools, in the ways I couldn't imagine. Oh, by the way, the puzzles are great too. However, the game lead me to some answers for myself. A lot of questions are raised here, with not many answers (what did you expect?). Often I don't have patience to read philosophical texts, but here it just works - you read a little, go solve a puzzle, and think about what you just read in the meantime. I don't know how they did this, but that existential lore seems to be perfectly curated and broken up into digestible chunks. It's just like in the real world - we run around doing chores / making money / achieving goals that have nothing to do with who we are or what our purpose is but that's just how our life is. At first glance, this seems like a weird combination, but it all starts to make sense and fit together after a while. In this game, you are running around solving puzzles and reading a lot of lore about existential philosophy. if either of the above is not true, you must avoid it (the game has a potential to trigger an existential crisis, and the gameplay is nothing but puzzles). if you ever had an existential crisis AND if you like puzzles, you absolutely must play it. ![]() There is a very simple way to determine whether you should play this game: ![]() Having said that, it's definitely not for everyone. This game is now one of my favorites (if not THE favorite).
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