I've been playing this for a few hours now, and this game is simultaneously obtuse and highly addictive. It's an old-school approach: It picks up immediately, and expects you to learn it as you go rather than doing any hand-holding. The timers keep things moving and maintain a sense of urgency, even making liberal use of the pause button, though I sometimes find myself getting too caught up in that feeling to give the prose and atmosphere their full due. And they are due a lot! It feels like I still haven't reliably figured out some things that ought to be basic. There are some quality of life improvements that would help a lot in terms of the UI (finding cards that occasionally get covered or auto-bumped by others is a particular annoyance), and it's occasionally irksome to know I'm about to die, that none of the cards I'm waiting on will be done in time to prevent it, and have to wait on that death timer to do its thing as every second ticking off rubs it in a little harder. While less than optimal, though, these issues haven't been enough to keep me from the rabbit hole of, "Just a little longer--oh, what's this bit do? Wait, how did it get to be 2 a.m.?"
