ENA: Dream BBQ

I did my first playthrough of Chapter 1 and I gotta say this is one of the most unique games I've ever played. Everything about it is so aesthetically pleasing! From the art style, the hand-drawn animations, to the music, and story! Never played anything like it. It stays true to its name, feeling like a dream-like liminal space type of setting. It's almost like you're playing an old 90s PC game, but I love it! I honestly can't wait for the future chapters! I will definitely buy it when it comes out :)

I do not know how to explain this game to my friends without sounding like I've had a stroke, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. What surprised me most is how much heart is buried under all the weirdness. For as much chaos as the game throws at you, there's a real current of loneliness and yearning running underneath it, and it sneaks up on you between the jokes and the jump scares and the sheer audacity of some of these sequences. The humor lands more often than not too, this dry, deadpan style where the funniest moments come from characters treating insanity as mundane. It helps that it's completely free, which honestly makes the whole experience feel even more generous, like someone handed you a fully realized fever dream and asked for nothing in return.