This game reminds me of Pathologic (2) in a good way.
The game hates you.
The dev hates you.
The dev wants to do twisted fucked up things to you because they think its funny.
And it is! It's extremely funny. In a rage inducing way.
God bless.

Easily the most difficult game I've played in a while. Certainly this year. A troll tier game in the vein of things like The Impossible Quiz from way back.

You just "enter a password" but as you do it adds rules like "have numbers" oh but "the numbers have to add up to 25" and then it goes up and up to having you play geoguesser, know the day's wordle, find a hex code in a random color it gives you which usually has numbers so you have to account for those messing up your original 25 sum and adjust. It's hectic and messes with you in all the right ways.

It took me a few attempts but finally managed to beat it with some fun out of the box thinking and a lot of patience. Great fun thing to try and get others to play around with just to see reactions. I'd be impressed with anyone who sat there and got through it since it really is designed to fuck around lol. Lovely experience.

Misha, I have to admit to you
In contrast to you, I cannot play chess
That's why we found strong rival for you
I invite
12th world champion
International grandmaster
Merited Master of Sport of the USSR
ANATOLY KARPOV

It's fun until you start getting to the timed stuff with the dumb chicken.

I kind of expected it to be like a puzzle you chip away at slowly until you finally crack it, making it a pretty fufilling experience overall if you put in the time for it.

But man, that fucking chicken needing to be fed but you can't OVERFEED him either was what killed my enjoyment of the game. I could handle the fire, I could handle having to spend an egregious amount of time figuring out what chess notation means, but I don't like being rushed.

One of the best "troll games" I've played to date, as deviously clever as it is hilarious, all without overstaying its welcome. A simple satirical premise that rapidly escalates into a masterclass in supervillainy! All you need to do is craft a single password that meets all 35 rules, each revealed after the last is met, and it's about as straightforward as a drunk ballet dancer on a runaway merry-go-round!

Playing this is like building a taller and taller house of cards with constantly updating design specs, forcing you to keep changing critical cards' positions... and occasionally closing a drafty window that opens by itself, threatening to destroy your whole stack! Oh, and if it does, you can't just copy-paste your old design again, because some of the specs have small but critical RNG elements that make half your prior efforts useless without significant adjustments!

All of which is an elaborate way of saying that the password requirements are nothing short of evil genius! Rules and tasks continue to get more outlandish and start playing off each other in ways I can only describe as delightfully irritating! The game says, okay Mr. Smartypants, you've got roman numerals, but now you gotta make them multiply to 35. Oh, and here's a periodic table puzzle... but wait, those roman numerals are elements too! And this is just the beginning of your descent into madness. Every time you think you've seen the most ridiculous, awful, plan-destroying rule yet, something even more devilish comes along, leaving your face a palm-dipped plate of fresh laughter, organic cursing, and exasperated "NO!"s to taste!

It's the rapidly increasing complexity, pressure, and constant script-flipping plot twists that make this brain-knotting, player-teasing experience so memorable! I will never forget the rug-pull rush of seeing the last, tiny requirement, realizing its Chaotic Evil implications, and then scrambling to optimize and redesign about 10 different non-trivial pieces in under 10 minutes while keeping another 20 pieces perfectly aligned, all while constantly feeding a hungry chicken. Never in my life have I been so proud of a 101-character unintelligible monstrosity I haven't a hope of remembering!

If you are wondering, I gave up at the atomic numbers rule. I'm weak and I remain defeated, I just couldn't do it, I barely know what a Fe even is, my brain can't keep up!

It's difficult to be really critical of a game that is designed to be as absurd and overly difficult as it can be; when the game is all about the astronomical challenge it poses and be a game that most will never beat, it feels a bit dumb to criticize it for being exactly that... that doesn't stop me from doing it anyway!

There are some rules that genuinely funny or really interesting, some are based around general knowledge or just searching a bit on the internet, going to other web-sites like Wordle or one that I didn't even get to experience like feeding a emoji chicken with emoji worms every three minutes. These little annoyances pile up, but I couldn't do anything but smile at first; sure, they are incredibly stupid rules, but also clever and all of them feel like puzzle pieces you have to fit with each other as they appear, and it's incredibly satisfying to find the perfect ways to make several rules click... but yeah then it gets dumb.

The moment I had to start changing the captcha to find one that wouldn't screw up the new and past rules, I know that this game had officially transitioned from an interesting puzzle game to a le troll game, and yeah, seeing what comes after and the rules that I didn't get to see, that seems to be the case. The fact that the game basically mandates to change parts of the password isn't a problem at first and it seems like it adds an interesting layer to the challenge and math problems it presents, but it reaches a point of no return where it becomes an absolute shit-show with the amount of things you have to keep track of, and it just becomes a frustrating, infuriating mess with moments reminiscent of the troll games of old that isn't fun in the slightest... but the problem is that THAT is exactly what the game is going for!

At first is stupid, the is just dumb, but it's always clever; the game is going for a very specific thing, and as much has been stating by the developer, and in that way is a success; I don't know if I would necessarily call it ''genius'', but it reaches a point of tom-fuckery clearly intended that I do appreciate, even if I cannot enjoy it in the slightest.

For me, if I had to give it a mark, it would be a exact 5/10, but it's hard to even give at a rating not because I'd be embarrassed to say the game defeated me or something like that (mainly because I have no problem saying it both kicked my ass and brain), but because that would be missing the entire point of The Password Game. It's an incredibly dumb experience, but it looks like it has been scientifically designed to be that; I only enjoyed at times, it stumped me once it became absurd and I really don't know if I'd recommend it, but it did make me think in two ways, one while play it, and the other on how I could talk about it, so in an absurd way it does have value... which is fitting, not gonna lie.