Mind-bending, clever, fun and surreal puzzle-game without a story. The main theme of the game is conveyed through pictures with simple, yet brilliant messages.

In that sense, puzzles can be analogy for our daily life and our struggles. "Taking the first step can be harder than the rest of the challenge.", for example; or "When you absorb your surroundings, you may notice things that you didn't see before.". Often these were so clever, that I straight-up laughed, thinking that the game just taunts me.

Visuals are pretty dated and considering the fact it has stylized art style - I think this is pretty shocking. Still, I am not playing the games for visuals. Visuals can only enrich the experience, but never let it down or destroy it.

This game showed me that I am not stupid, I just tend to rush through the things too much and I should often slow down. Immerse and analyse.

I liked it! It requires a lot of outside-the-box thinking, but it pays off pretty well.

My only critique of this would be that sometimes it is too cryptic. It doesn't say how map works, only suggest how it might work. Also, because of this whole work with the pictures, you might lose the sight of your sole purpose - beating the game. This whole time I thought that you beat the game with collecting all of them, which is not true. You have to escape the chamber.

Ending is such a bullshit. They really didn't have a better idea, did they?

Reviewed on Feb 07, 2024


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