Let's Go There And Wander Nowhere is more "art" than game, being a sort of lazy walking simulator art installation where you come across a bus that's on fire and you go talk to someone clearly suffering from a long list of mental illnesses (including "really snarky passive-aggressiveness", if that can be considered a disorder). Interacting with the NPC takes you to various low poly environments and unlocks chains of more snarky passive aggressiveness.
The implmentation here comes across as very lazy with low poly assets, although they are arranged tastefully rather than thrown in a blender like some amateur developers are wont to do. The developer didn't bother with actual animations, which is rather a big deal as far as game development goes, so when you trigger the NPC (and boy is that NPC triggered), it lurches and teleports down the road in an almost comically half-done way.
Being more art than game, and lacking any interesting game loops apart from a test to see whether gamers can be interested in putting up with the snarky, defeatist NPC (which I think is part of the "art" of the game to point out that people with personal problems can be hard to get along with), it's hard to recommend this as a game to gamers. As an interactive art installation, I'm not sure the story is very rewarding either. As the developer says in their storefront blurb, "Let this be a reminder of how dedicated I could've been." But they weren't, were they, or this would have been a lot more fleshed out and might even be categorised as a video game instead of art. It's okay to put art into games, yes, but let's not shove art down gamers throats and insist because it's been launched on Steam, that suddenly makes something a "game". That kind of thing doesn't make art better, it just makes gaming worse.
The game is completely free. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. This is certainly a gesture that shows dedication to the gaming industry. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. There's no "maybe" option in Steam, unfortunately, but I hope to see more work from this developer, perhaps as part of a professional game development company that can make full use of their talents without needing to make budget/quality compromises, and perhaps with someone to help them with actual game design architecture and things like "game loops".
