I accidentally purchased this game and I regret not refunding it immediately. I thought I was purchasing Stray Gods, but by the time I noticed my error, I was excited at the prospect of getting lost in another of Don't Nod's worlds. Life is Strange 2 was the game that got me into visual novel/narrative style games, so imagine my shock when this game turned out to be cheeks.

The premise of the game is that you are returning home to find your missing, semi-estranged mother and get sucked into an alternate dimension populated by personified human emotions. The alternate dimension is being threatened by a shadowy corporation which is also threatening your actually reality. The danger of the corporation is never really identified, and while the themes of anti-capitalism are clear, the threat is not really that ominous. You're basically fighting against Amazon. A series of characters are introduced with weak back stories that I never really became attached to even though the game wants you to believe you care deeply for these people. The story drags on for about 7 hours which is 5 hours too long for the player to get a good understanding of the "world". In general, the story is a very thin and not very engaging.

The delivery of the story is another issue. Polly, the main character, is a prescient, so she can see the future. The future is represented by the augral, which is basically a flow chart of all of the options available to the player, some of which require special circumstances to activate. I found navigating the augral quite tricky ( I was playing on steamdeck) and simply gave up trying to figure out which option was going to influence which outcome. Some options result in cut scenes as short as 30 seconds and having to piece together an incoherent story in miniscule vignettes while arbitrarily picking outcomes made the playing the game more tedious than it otherwise was.

Harmony is not a great example of how impressive Don't Nod games usually are.