Epitasis

Tricky finding my way around all the portals to different locations. I think I understand the puzzle mechanics but I'm often stumped. I am enjoying the mental challenge of finding my way around.

The game is not very long; with full exploration (i.e. roaming aimlessly to find the edges of the maps, jumping off cliffs, walking into the sea etc), it took about 4.5 hours to finish. The puzzles were quite satisfactory, although easy (sometimes too easy) and I also absolutely enjoyed the soundtrack; it seemed to match the environment very well and even though the graphics were too simple, they did their job perfectly. However, there was (almost) no lore or explanation of what happened. The game starts and tells you a few lines of story, and that's it. Then it's up to you to translate an alphabet based on binary code, and get some texts, which are a little too few. [spoiler] We learn that there were some people/individuals (aliens?) divided in groups; some groups made war to other groups (or to everyone) and then they went extinct. Or they left. How did they end up on Earth? One message says that they see us. Also, in the end, we hit a switch and we levitate into a white light. Did we reach the Library on the Moon? From the planet size it seems that we reached the main planet, while we were on the moon, so it kinda confused me. [/spoiler] I do love games with lore and I love reading long texts or scrolling through murals with pictures and stories to find out what happened. Stories give a lot of depth to adventure games, after all. Playing puzzle after puzzle made me feel like going forward just because there was nothing else to do. Also, I encountered some minor issues. [spoiler] There were one or two occasions where I restarted a puzzle due to a physics bug (like throwing a cube on a floor switch, but then the cube rolling away locking me in/out), but that was probably due to my bad aim, and, like others I never got the Hidden Gardens achievement no matter how many times I went back. [/spoiler] Still, not much to make me hate this game. I do have mixed feelings on this one, but I would still recommend it to puzzle/adventure game players, just for the ambience and relaxing gameplay.