top 10 games for depressed introspective little guys who just wanna walk around

what a masterpiece

I had a lot of fun with this game, but I can't say I'd recommend it to others. My favorite part of the game was discovering and reading different books, and the timer gave me more motivation to get through as many as I could. But since these books are open domain, I could just read them for free, so I decided to interact with the actual game:

I played the game entirely blind, so I missed a ton of things, but when I completed the game and looked it all up, I had very little emotional attachment to any of the endings or secrets. Some of the puzzles I loved, most were stupid. And the rewards are decorations that speed time up, which gave me less time to read the books and to my knowledge there's no way to get rid of them - so that frustrated me. I only found the way to reverse time at the end of the game, which couldn't rewind faster than time moved forward so it was entirely useless.

All in all, it's a very novel time waster. Interesting in concept, sometimes even fun, but it's basically a time soak like it says on the tin. The themes about depression and the finite nature of life fell somewhere between sincere and "overly artsy" so I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be comedic. I'm definitely getting that reading list though, and I'll read them next to a real fire this time.