Silt

The game has its unique art style which creates interesting experience. Unfortunately, all the puzzles are extremely easy to solve, but the executuin of the solution is sometimes tedious and sometimes hard becuase of very clunky controls.

Key bindings are impossible though: you're supposed to press e at the same time of d and w with left hand and remapping is not saved when quitting. Also when left open it goes back to main menu with the message "disconnected". Why the heck a game like this needs to be connected all the time ??

A very artistic and atmospheric game. Unfortunately, it wastes a lot of potential in terms of puzzles and game length and therefore comes nowhere near to Limbo, which is still the reference in my opinion. It took me about 3-4 hours to play and I took my time. In consideration of the puzzles and the length of the game, I can give unfortunately only 3 stars, but I was still able to enjoy the game and it's certainly worth a look.

A large part of the way whether or not you get into this game is what you expect out of it. I will briefly cover the negatives first and then detail that. The controls are clunky making parts of this unnecessarily frustrating and tougher than it should be. One thing about this I will not miss is aiming the crab jump . Sometimes you'll wish checkpoint saves were more frequent . There are times where this is basically trial and error. Where it's unlikely that you'll get 100 Percent into the groove before perishing at least once. At that point you might be able to recognize the pattern and be able to get through that chunk without further problem and then it starts over in the next section. then there are the aspects where it is a matter of expectation. This has minimal narrative and context And while puzzles have a sense of accomplishment and progress they largely lack challenge. if you can get past these things this is truly incredible. It is rare for a video game to make me feel as small as this did when that's what it was going for. There is a not insignificant amount of weapons grade nightmare fuel here. You deal with creatures from the deepest darkest recesses of the ocean and some of them are so much bigger than you that it is genuinely hard to fathom. The game play is sufficiently straightforward that you pick it up almost immediately and yet over the course of it this ends up feeling complex for what it is. basically if it's moving there's a decent chance you can possess it, only ever won at a time, some of them have one ability each and you can possess without getting your diver close if whatever else you're possessing gets close. Sometimes this enables you to access new areas and sometimes you are using them to get past some other dangerous thing either by destroying it or feeding it. I won't give away what the ending is but I will say I loved it. You do have to fill in some blanks but if you're willing to there's a good chance you'll love this like I did.

In love, so beautiful.