Dujanah

To those who want to gatekeep art: All I can say is that this game is an honest human expression, crafted with dedication, intention, and both contextual understanding and self-awareness. I find its aesthetics (especially the music) to be really interesting, but I don't think art needs to be "good" or "virtuous" to be art. Some people feel connected to and represented by this kind of weirdness / boldness / obnoxiousness or whatever you want to call it. Other people may find that the kind of art you like is predictable, pompous, kitsch, or whatever else. Expecting too much of art, or anything, is a recipe for disappointment, when sometimes it's just a matter of taste and being at peace with diversity. Nothing "great" is going on here. Or maybe there is: life. And it's pretty ordinary. Sometimes that paradox hits you while looking at a bee, at a Renaissance painting, or when some form of absurdity in what would otherwise be a familiar medium makes you realize that you like chasing gleamy representations of abstract objects and funky sounds on a screen, for no purpose whatsoever other than exploiting an evolutionary glitch.

Dujanah is probably a game about the titular character going on a journey to find her family. It's also definitely about more than that. Sometimes it's comically but fittingly blunt about imperialism, other times it deals with the subtleties of coming to terms with death and the attitudes towards dying. Dujanah is weird, clunky, pretty funny, and ugly pretty. I'm glad I finally played it, and would recommend it to someone looking for a unique and experimental indie gaming experience.

Just listen to the trailer and decide based on that.

Profoundly beautiful

Magnum Opus. 10/10 game and music. Most people won’t fully appreciate but their kids might. I love you Jack King-Spooner.

It's baffling to me that this has 90% positive reviews.

What if we just kept throwing ♥♥♥♥ at the wall, but all of them stuck. A game about everything and nothing