favorite game of all time hands down no contest. Made me start writing again. God it's so good. i'd hit myself on the head with a baseball bat to forget this game so i can play it again. its so good. thank you cardboard computer

"I put my head on your shoulder. We heard soft music from a car radio, but couldn't see the car; it must have been around the corner or down an alley or something. You tapped your foot and hummed. I made up lyrics but didn't say them out loud."

Do you ever wish you could be a fly on the wall, watching a full 3 act play unfold right before your eyes? Is your definition of a good time sitting in a 40 minutes call with an Interactive Voice Response system? Do you enjoy riveting gameplay, such as reading, waiting and clicking on one out of multiple meaningless dialogue options? Then this game is for you!

I loved the first act of the game, it had a nice vibe. An empty gas station at evening, ghost people, an
abondoned mine with a dark backstory. The dialogue and scenes were grounded and it was easy to understand what was going on. And then it just got more and more confusing as it went on. Sometimes it started feeling like a bunch of disjointed scenes put together with just enough spit and chewing gum to hold it all together. A lot of the time I had no idea what was going on.

The game spews paragraphs at you that don't mean anything. You could literally skip all of it (and I've heard some people do) and it would not impact your understanding of the game. Because you'd not be understanding anything anyway. And there is a lot of text. It's not all bad, there are some cool things here. For example, there's a company that gets people into debt with as little as a swig of a bottle of wine, and then the interests are so high the people have to spend the rest of their lives working for said company to pay it off. But the interesting things are drowned out by the walls of nonsense text the game throws at you.

Calling this a game would be misleading, as there is no gameplay. You click on a prompt, read the text, pick one out of 2-3 dialogue options and repeat for 9-10 hours. I'm not entirely convinced the dialogue options even matter that much. The game can get very boring, and playing through it was a slog. It's not often a game can put me to sleep, but here we are.

Maybe I just don't have the media literacy to appreciate this game. I understand this is one of the "games as art" type of games. And I don't mind those. I've played some that are very enjoyable, but this one was not for me. The visuals are nice, and I've heard it's an amazing game for people who are into magical realism. But would not recommend otherwise.