A couple of hours in this would've been an easy recommendation and it's not an outright bad game, which leaves me somewhat torn about posting a negative review. But after completing the last third.... sorry, some of the puzzles really rubbed me the wrong way.

Everything starts well enough, simple but cute visuals, confined locations, you click along, solve reasonably logical puzzles that build on each other, all very relaxing with some brain-teasing and hints toward a bigger story. But eventually I came across some rather obtuse and increasingly farfetched puzzles that neither make sense in the context of the world nor are there enough, or any, hints. Some are visually very confusing to boot (wine bottles…) and I found it harder and harder to follow the game's logic. To make matters worse locations become so big with so many options that it's easy to get lost with no idea what to do next, what are clues and to which puzzles they belong.

Add to that a severe lack of variety, I must've opened hundreds of locks or hacked into dozens of computers with all kinds of different symbols. Sure, the ways to get the combinations vary but in the end It's either that or turning some knobs and every new location is filled to the brim with locked objects. Becomes samey and boring when you realize that unlocking stuff will just lead to more stuff to unlock and that the hints/solutions are becoming less and less logically connected. Would've been fine if the game was 8 hrs long, but 15? Tedious.

Also can't say that I found the story to be very enganging, mostly because there aren't any people to talk to and the main character's comments are neither helpful nor charming and the writing in general is bland. Even when weird stuff starts happening he acts very uninterested and eventually you get a sudden, big infodump that leaves you with more questions than answers.

So in retrospect the game should've been shorter, have more in-game hints, some puzzles needed a redesign to make them clearer and there isn't nearly enough variety for how long this goes on. Maybe if you REALLY like unlocking locks this is for you, but I openly admit to regularly resorting to the official walkthrough on YT during the last chapters because the game became such a slog. Just wanted to be done. Too bad.

A couple of hours in this would've been an easy recommendation and it's not an outright bad game, which leaves me somewhat torn about posting a negative review. But after completing the last third.... sorry, some of the puzzles really rubbed me the wrong way. Everything starts well enough, simple but cute visuals, confined locations, you click along, solve reasonably logical puzzles that build on each other, all very relaxing with some brain-teasing and hints toward a bigger story. But eventually I came across some rather obtuse and increasingly farfetched puzzles that neither make sense in the context of the world nor are there enough, or any, hints. Some are visually very confusing to boot (wine bottles…) and I found it harder and harder to follow the game's logic. To make matters worse locations become so big with so many options that it's easy to get lost with no idea what to do next, what are clues and to which puzzles they belong. Add to that a severe lack of variety, I must've opened hundreds of locks or hacked into dozens of computers with all kinds of different symbols. Sure, the ways to get the combinations vary but in the end It's either that or turning some knobs and every new location is filled to the brim with locked objects. Becomes samey and boring when you realize that unlocking stuff will just lead to more stuff to unlock and that the hints/solutions are becoming less and less logically connected. Would've been fine if the game was 8 hrs long, but 15? Tedious. Also can't say that I found the story to be very enganging, mostly because there aren't any people to talk to and the main character's comments are neither helpful nor charming and the writing in general is bland. Even when weird stuff starts happening he acts very uninterested and eventually you get a sudden, big infodump that leaves you with more questions than answers. So in retrospect the game should've been shorter, have more in-game hints, some puzzles needed a redesign to make them clearer and there isn't nearly enough variety for how long this goes on. Maybe if you REALLY like unlocking locks this is for you, but I openly admit to regularly resorting to the official walkthrough on YT during the last chapters because the game became such a slog. Just wanted to be done. Too bad.