Fugaz

Incredible game and overall great puzzle design. (also managed to get all 4 easter eggs/secrets)

Cool unique concept and nice art style

Маленькая меланхоличная брейния на пару вечеров. Очень достойно реализована карта мира. Неудачный момент, что все головоломки обнуляются через 7 минут и их решение надо каждый раз вводить заново. Также игра визуально и механически напоминает целый спектр игр (Undertale, OneShot, Aquaria, Loom и т.п.) Я всё время ловил себя на мысли, что такой момент или прием уже видел ) Приятно играется, но как-будто не хватает глубины, чтобы дотянуться до других представителей жанра. В целом, хорошая штука. 7/10

Short and sweet, but with some flaws that made me need to put the game down for a couple of days before picking it back up. For example, the darkness mechanism that throws you out of a zone while exploring every 7 minutes is quite frustrating, especially in a game that relies this much on back-tracking and searching for clues. Luckily the map is great and contains all info you discover along the way. Since the game operates on an internal clock, but without any indication to the player how much time has elapsed, it becomes quite annoying to figure out the time-based puzzles, especially when it is not clear what puzzles are time-based. In terms of atmosphere, I wished the game dove deeper into the uncomfortable themes and the psychological horror aspect. The happy flute tunes kind of took me out of the emersion. Also for the BGM I wished it was more unsettling in certain areas, but it remained overall tame. The potential for a truly shocking, unsettling, or traumatising story is there. In terms of gameplay, puzzle solutions are really clever and difficult to decypher. Given the non-linear nature of the game, sometimes you are given clues that may seem relevant, but it truth refer to things you might have already solved without the clues, making it a bit troublesome to arrange your notes while playing the game. The story was a bit too implicit to my taste and a bit "generic", considering we are only given vague references, implications, and clues to piece together that "something" must have happened. The story could have been more explicit and could have relied more on the horror of what happened to the main character. The final cutscene of the game also does not work for me at all. The close up of a pixelated character on a huge monitor just looks like a mess; I could barely tell what was on my screen between the black-and-white pixels. With all the critiques out of the way, I still enjoyed the gameplay and was hooked on the puzzles! I was very determined to finish the game, so I do recommend it. Definitely worth the time.