A nice, good-looking first-person adventure game with a ton of optional puzzles that don't hold your hand. All the clues and puzzles are greatly varied and neatly integrated into the extensive environments, slowly uncovering a tangled web of characters, memories and intrigues in a small town.

For some reason, practically all puzzles are optional - in fact, you only need to solve a single one and just walk through the locations to finish the game. In fact-fact, you can skip an entire huge level out of the four available ones, so I guess you can have a pure cut-down walking simulator experience, but I wouldn't recommend it just for that. Both the inventory and clue saving systems are a bit whacky, so you better grab a notebook. There are also a couple of annoying puzzle bugs, so be prepared for the recurring 'Am I too bad at this or is it a bug?' meta game.

You might like this game if you liked the following (or vice versa!):
- Kona: A lone detective investigating a town's story during a supernatural blizzard - not as much puzzling, but more horror.
- The Occupation: A much more intricate world, a whole load of interactions and all of it in real-time. Made by the same devs.

Reviewed on Sep 19, 2022


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