Have you ever wanted to experience "Loss" but in an artistically pleasing form?

I played through this game for the first time after seeing the map release for Escape Simulator. Loved the map, and thought "Wow, what an amazing style. I'd love to play the game that inspired this map."
I downloaded the game for $4.49 (50% discount) and went into it thinking it was going to be an amazing puzzle game with an immaculate story to match such a brilliant art style. Upon finishing the game I saw an achievement for replaying this game. I prepared myself by putting on a 10-hour loop of "Spanish Flea" and muted the game's audio. Completed this game in a little over 2 hours time. You can keep the money, but please give me back the time.

If you play this game, record your playthrough and upload it to speedrun.com, you WILL get 2nd place.

Lacking master, and narative audio settings. And a few other basic settings.

If I had a neutral review I'd give it. The art style here is beautiful and there are seeds that could have been grown into a good if not great game but it never really reaches full maturity. The puzzles range from dead simple to at least needing a little thinking time toward the end of a chapter, but then it's back to dead simple again. You don't really get the blending of puzzle motifs that could have made for some neat challenges toward the end. If anything, the last chapter is one of the least difficult. The only thing that made me go looking for help turned out to be a bug that made me reload a chapter. Likewise, the story has some nice themes to it but there's so little room to work with that it can't do much but just crudely beat you over the head with it, including a two-minute-or-so monologue where you can't do much more than stand there and listen. as far as I can tell, the achievement and other hints that there might be more to a second playthrough are either pointing at ideas that were left on the cutting room floor or just baiting to stretch your playtime. I was done with this in two hours, plus one for the pointless second playthrough. Not worth the full price by a long shot but I don't feel ripped off getting it at half-off.