An interesting, melancholic little puzzle game.
7.5/10, closer to a thumbs up than a thumbs down. The game is fairly simple: you control pieces of fabric, and when the fabric obscures an object from the camera/your perspective, it vanishes, similar to the classic magician's trick. The main mechanic works well, though occasionally the tolerance for vanishing objects was too high, and I saw objects suddenly vanish when parts of them were exposed. It's ok, I'd rather this than an unintuitive system, but it is noticeable and irritating. This only happened a few times, and one level where a piece of fabric is pinned beneath a speaker kept bugging out where the speaker would only vanish if I tried to vanish it before any other object.
Bugs aside, the aesthetics are lovely, and the music is droning and ominous. You get a sense of dread that you're somewhere or doing something you're not supposed to know about, and it pairs well with the minimal story presented; though I would've liked more narrative, the story present here feels a bit brief. The music gets quieter the fewer objects left in each stage, adding to the sense of making things go away. Attempting to leave a map will cause the screen to blur, which also feeds into the game's aesthetics. My only real complaint with the aesthetics is the options menu, which while minimalist, offers very few tangible changes outside of a volume slider. Providing a colorblind option or other accessibility options would help a ton, though the game's length might not make it a deal-breaker for most people.
The actual gameplay is pretty intuitive with a controller; you have 1 button that lifts fabric up, and another button moves fabric in a horizontal direction of choice. Outside of a few occasions, puzzles don't really evolve past 'make everything vanish', which is a shame, since the few times the game deviates from the formula, some interesting concepts come up that would make for amazing puzzles. Without spoiling anything, if more puzzles implemented the mechanics used in the Canvas stage, the Bar stage, or the Fog stage, then the game would provide some real head-scratchers. As it stands, the timed stage late in the game and the puzzles requiring you to vanish objects in a certain order aren't really groundbreaking, which stinks since we get glimpses of really ingenious puzzle design that aren't dependent on common puzzle gimmicks.
The game occasionally features multiple pieces of fabric in a stage, which functions very similar to Portal levels with multiple cubes; after you have access to the extra fabric, you can cover bigger objects. I'd be more curious if there was a level that required you to vanish a second piece of fabric to accomplish a puzzle, or a stage where the camera could be rotated with a switch or something; I like this game's mechanic, but I feel like there's a good amount of untapped potential.
The achievements are good and frequently require dexterity with the cloth. Unfortunately, my main criticism with the game is this control. The fabric and cloth is frequently loose and moving in ways you can't control very well. While it adds to a sense of improvisation and attempting to control things beyond your power, it makes actually completing levels frustrating. However, since stages can be restarted or even skipped, this isn't that big of a deal.
TL;DR: As a puzzle game it's meh, as an atmospheric experience it's moody and immersive
