the game is interesting, ill give the devs that. thats really my only compliment though. i never played the demo so i went into it pretty blind aside from being under the assumption that its a "desktop explorer" game... >.> act 1 does deliver on this with having to sort through files, find hidden images, etc but then is gone after. act 2 is puzzle based and you are now playing a game within a game. i did enjoy that part but as a different game. i stopped at act 3 because it literally stopped working. idk if i did something wrong but when i eventually looked up a walkthrough, their screen was entirely different than what mine let me see. so who knows.
i do have a big gripe with this game though. i love puzzle games. i love investigative games. this game however, is snobby to the max. puzzles with solutions i never in a million years wouldve thought of, extremely tedious puzzles (im talking 20+ min each for the average person to be able to solve), and they were just honestly outright boring. it feels like the dev is a huge try hard for how unnecessarily tedious and ridiculous some of these puzzles are. it feels kinda like a "if youre not smart enough then this game isnt for you" attitude. eventually i got to the point where i had no interest in doing another longwinded puzzle and it was easier to just look up the solution so i could progress the game. im sure there are plenty of people who enjoy the tedious types of puzzles, but youre secluding a huge group of other people by making them as constant as they are in this game.
TDLR game is interesting, but focuses very little on the actual OS exploration/investigating aspect and too much on unnecessary puzzles to increase play time. also, please fix the softlocking issue.
