I like games like this, Myst was one of my favourite games of that era. This game had some potential but doesn't live up to it.

First the graphics. resolution tops out at something much too low for a game released in late 2022, this isn't the end of the world, but it's just one of the smallest of many issues in this game. There are issues with how it renders for me, lines through everything diagonally across my screen that don't exist in any other game. Some of the graphical issues made it harder to play, anything written in game was hard to read, and for a few puzzles (notably the morse code translation) you needed to read in game writing.

Control issues. My biggest gripe was the mine cart section, every other part of the game when you have to push a lever, you use the mouse, click and drag the lever, but here it uses the movement controls. I spent ten minutes trying to figure it out, seeing if I had missed some way to unlock the cart before I tried just pressing move while in it. This isn't the same system for moving the mag-lev, there you grab the lever with the mouse and push it forward, but..,

Game breaking bug. The game broke right after the mag-lev section, when it was moving, the game had me looking down, when I got out of the chair, the game kept spinning, I saved and reloaded to try and fix this, and it loaded me off the map in the water where you're not supposed to be able to go.

And all of this took far too little time. I'm an hour and a half in and the lighthouse seems like the end game (2 achievements left to earn) If the game hadn't bugged out I would probably finish before the 2 hour mark, particularly because a lot of that hour and a half was idle time while the game was just allowed to sit (one of the reasons I like games like this, outside of active puzzle solving you can just safely sit there and do things when you are free to do them) The puzzles were easy for a game like this, too few and far between mostly,

I'm giving up on this game for the second time, probably for good. Bad resolution, bad controls, and bad bugs. And it's a shame, the look, feel and lore of the game showed promise, reminded me of The Witness, the last game like this I played, in a lot of ways, and was better in lore I think, but in all the other ways it far paled in that comparison

I like games like this, Myst was one of my favourite games of that era. This game had some potential but doesn't live up to it. First the graphics. resolution tops out at something much too low for a game released in late 2022, this isn't the end of the world, but it's just one of the smallest of many issues in this game. There are issues with how it renders for me, lines through everything diagonally across my screen that don't exist in any other game. Some of the graphical issues made it harder to play, anything written in game was hard to read, and for a few puzzles (notably the morse code translation) you needed to read in game writing. Control issues. My biggest gripe was the mine cart section, every other part of the game when you have to push a lever, you use the mouse, click and drag the lever, but here it uses the movement controls. I spent ten minutes trying to figure it out, seeing if I had missed some way to unlock the cart before I tried just pressing move while in it. This isn't the same system for moving the mag-lev, there you grab the lever with the mouse and push it forward, but.., Game breaking bug. The game broke right after the mag-lev section, when it was moving, the game had me looking down, when I got out of the chair, the game kept spinning, I saved and reloaded to try and fix this, and it loaded me off the map in the water where you're not supposed to be able to go. And all of this took far too little time. I'm an hour and a half in and the lighthouse seems like the end game (2 achievements left to earn) If the game hadn't bugged out I would probably finish before the 2 hour mark, particularly because a lot of that hour and a half was idle time while the game was just allowed to sit (one of the reasons I like games like this, outside of active puzzle solving you can just safely sit there and do things when you are free to do them) The puzzles were easy for a game like this, too few and far between mostly, I'm giving up on this game for the second time, probably for good. Bad resolution, bad controls, and bad bugs. And it's a shame, the look, feel and lore of the game showed promise, reminded me of The Witness, the last game like this I played, in a lot of ways, and was better in lore I think, but in all the other ways it far paled in that comparison