BLACKSHARD

Great surreal megastructure exploration game. The levels and artwork are just superb. The fantastical huge architectures are truly something magnificent to behold and walk / run / jump, and platform through. In terms of gameplay, your task is really just to explore - the goal of the game is to visit and click on certain things at certain locations scattered around the world where you will be rewarded with some animation and lore. You can also click on a particular type of object to effectively set a respawn point that you can get back to in case you fall in crevasse you can't get out of, or just as a quick way to get back to a known location. In terms of negatives, it is is easy to lose track where you've been and therefore where to explore next some times. You can also get a lost, but it's not as big as a problem because usually there's a fairly obvious way to go "forward" which will either lead you towards your next goal or to the "entrance" on the "subworld" you're in. Also, getting lost is actually much of the fun of exploring. The game is arranged as a central hub world which is quite large, and from there you can visit several (about 8 or so) subworlds that have respective portals to / from the hub. The only other negative (other than losing track of where you've already been) is the painfully slow default walking speed. However, there are two speed modifiers, shift key makes you "run", which is actually just an acceptable speed, and then once you are running you can also right click and then you can "sprint", which is what you'll be doing 90% of the time since you generally have to cross large distances. So aside from occasionally not sprinting when being careful not to fall off platforms, you will have a finger on the shift key and a finger on the right mouse button for most of the game. An annoyance for sure, but you get used to it.