Recent reviews by Alex Night

I was originally very excited for this game - in terms of narrative themes as well as game play genre, on paper it's a game that should be perfect for me.

In reality the "puzzles" are a lifeless drudge, never really igniting any of the kind of creative intellectual spark that games like Portal and The Talos Principle manage so well. There's no real arc of difficulty, or conceptual growth behind them. The game adds a few mechanics here and there as it progresses but never, ever delivers on any of their potential.

The game has pretensions of depth - of philosophical inquiry and debate, but it's painfully clear that the game creators really only engaged with the ideas on the shallowest of levels; rendering what little redeeming value the game might have had beyond the agonizingly lackluster gameplay entirely moot. I really don't recommend this game to anyone who reads (or watches or plays) widely in the general terrain of thoughtful or philosophical scifi, escpecially on themes involving AI or ethics or... just anything at all. It's a dreadfully facile take on ideas that have been much more deftly handled by legions of others in both games and other media.

I recommend only if the game is on rock-bottom sale, as a time waster. It runs resonably competently, the puzzles do work, the story isn't entirely charmless. But it's no classic and not particularly replayable as the puzzles genuinely have very little going for them.

I genuinely wished I liked this game more; it had some lovely ideas - and squandered them in execution.