Constant backtracking around unlit, labyrinthian locales looking for the One Object that progresses the story. Maybe it's in a previously visited room, you can't know because, while the map is lousy with batteries and "spare parts", key items are often squirreled away from your prying eyes.

Speaking of eyes and their prying; I haven't a CLUE what (detective?) Carl Faubert is doing here and the game is not interested in telling me. No clear end goal for the player results in a game loop of "just doing shit 'til the game is over".

In the end I got tired of spending 50% of my playtime wandering aimlessly and circuitously through samey corridors because I couldn't magically intuit the right way to go with zero hints.

They're asking £20 for this? Christ above.

Cute bordering on insipid at times and the humour seems to go down the "A Dog's Life" route with animals who are too anthropomorphic in their mannerisms (including a beetle that runs the social media campaign for a famous cat....wat?) and CANNOT shut up yammering.

Platforming is somehow extremely clunky with too many cluttered ledges getting in the way of some precision jumping sections.

I'll admit I kind of ran through this pretty briskly but aside from getting to the end of the game there's VERY little else going on here unless you're achievement hunting.

It's nice I guess but I didn't really enjoy my time in this game.

It's fine, seems to be getting a lot more traction than similarly basic 3D puzzle games do which is what it is.

Pick up clues, grow odd magical plants, get a key to unlock the next area, repeat.

Lost a star because at least 50% of play time was me running backwards and forwards to recheck clues because you can't check them from the journal??? Or if you can the game kept that secret from me.

Not the worst way to fill an afternoon but pretty unsubstantial.