I don't know how to even talk about this game without getting into spoilers. Ive been snapping pics with my cell phone to remember things, but I just can't commit to dedicating a notebook.
Yeah when you bust out the periodic table... And then start looking up order of operations in math... I literally spent an hour hand drawing a graph just now...
I’ve got a notepad filled with scribbled notes, and I’ve snapped probably 100+ cell phone pics of clues, notes, scenery. Brings me back to the experience of playing Myst and Riven, without easy access to guides and reddit. But wow, each discovery is so worth the discipline of avoiding spoilers.
Yeah I’ve been religiously avoiding any information on the game, and it’s funny because I absolutely *hated* Myst and Riven as a kid, but I love this one
Just finished @compulsiongames.bsky.social 's South of Midnight (which was truly an experience unlike anything I've played or seen or heard recently, if ever. simply a work of art.) Might have to hit this up next.
Finished yesterday and just sat with it for a time. Cannot stop thinking about the reverence everyone involved clearly had for the storytelling/myths/lore/culture and characters. Gonna stay with me for a very long time. Just a singularly beautiful thing they put out.
Between this and The Roottrees Are Dead, my puzzle game notebook is filled with incoherent rambling about tremendously screwed up family trees and scribblings that may someday be mistaken by historians as someone's manifesto. Which is to say, it's a great year for puzzle games thus far.
It’s the best. It reminds me of a time when I would leave hints on post it notes inside the instruction manuals of rented games to help the next player.
I'm so torn between - is this game too much stress for me rn & is this the distraction I need from all of this *gestures wildly*. And the answer is still Yes. 😐
I accidentally increased the rarity of the security room because my video game brain was all "rarer means more valuable" and I have beat myself up for that mistake more than any other in my life.
I am at the “well I guess I am [doing thing] now. I don’t know WHY I am [doing thing], or how it fits or what it might do, but it’s OBVIOUS from my increasingly unwieldy phone note that I need to be [doing thing]” stage and loving it. Day 25.
AFTER this post...how to not spoil this...I was tracking a thing across multiple game days & thought I had solved the pattern! but it turned out the pattern diverged after 12 rooms or so, and I just had a run of "short days" (bad RNG & strategy fails) where the split didn't happen. Theory go "poof".
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On the other hand, some puzzles are diabolically clever, and it can be frustrating at times with the inherent RNG of the core gameplay loop.
All I can say is I love it.
My fiancee and I take turns being the controller and the notebook person, and we alternate runs.
It's such a well done game.
oh no
I did so many practice tests at home using the microwave timer. Over and over and over and over.
I thought the game sounded interesting from the store's summary.
After buying and playing some of it, it's more "Oh no. This will *utterly* consume me."
also, the unfolding story and lore just keeps getting better