Amar Pai

"I downloaded this on my MacBook via Steam cos of a fatally boring combination of pandemic and wildfires making the SF air unbreathable. I'd watched everything I could think of TV, read all my books, and what else is a man to do but play games when you can't go outside or go inside anywhere? It's an interesting RPG in a kind of Eastern-European-esque steampunky world. Loads of dialog and interesting skill trees. I found the whole upgrade-via-thoughts mechanism kind of puzzling, but I did find myself wanting to explore the possibilities. I didn't realize till halfway through that the game was trying to figure out if you have fascist/communist/liberal/morally upright/hedonist tendencies by the choices you make. A lot of the political stuff was pretty hamfisted honestly. I skipped through those oceans of text. But I like the washed out impressionistic graphics and it was nice to play a graphic adventure game in the old style. Not a lot in the way of crazy puzzles, it's more just talking to people and making skills checks. And a lot of walking around. The world is satisfyingly dense and satisfyingly small. It would have been super annoying to have to trek around a huge universe. The size of the game feels right. I'm enjoying it."

"good although it gets frigging hard. when there are a million words it starts to hurt my brain. i'm sort of tapped out at this point"

"i normally don't let izzy play games but sometimes i do. i like that many of the games she's played are on the guardian's list of funniest games ever (see link below). this game is funny because you're an asshole goose. some people complain that the game is too short which is stupid because not every game needs to be 100 hours long!! i like that there's no HUD https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/07/the-27-funniest-video-games-of-all-time-hitman-grand-theft-auto"