The Inner World

I liked the worldbuilding and kept playing for that alone. The puzzles were sometimes rewarding, but all too often I found myself trying every interactable on every other interactable. Too many puzzles demanded a sequence of actions that made no sense, and unlike Day of the Tentacle-type puzzles, random experimentation was not rewarded. If you take objects which are part of the same puzzle and combine them incorrectly the game will sort of give you hints, and if you combine anything else the game will suggest that you're combining stuff randomly, which would be funnier if I didn't feel so compelled for so much of the game to combine stuff randomly. The story also heavily relies on some weird straight people are awful to each other stuff, and ends on a creepy rapey note in which the main dude character kisses the main lady character while she's turned into stone, and once de-stoned she hits him for it, and he says it was worth it so he could kiss her, so that's a few things. Basically, three stars for some great worldbuilding, some good puzzles, and a lot of potential. I hope the game designers can put their creativity toward something that is better to women.

The Inner World is indeed a charming, funny game. The humor is silly, the puzzles are likewise a little off-the-wall in a good way, and the world is immersive with fully fleshed out characters. So it's a real shame that the game is so woman hating. It's a complete turn off, and you can't ignore it because it's pretty central to the plot. The one major female character's whole reason to exist seems to be a love-hate object for the main character. The operating assumption of this game is that all women are out to exploit men for ulterior motives, and that they are fundamentally catty and unpleasant; at the end of the day, however, they just want to be loved. Stay away.