Lingo 2

Okay, this game isn't going to be for everybody, but it _was_ for me. This is an alien's crossword puzzle escape room: the kind of game that will make you happy if you like having to figure the rules out for yourself. It is very heavily reliant on your understanding of English words in different contexts, and you will want to keep good notes. This is a game that will appear, for the first five or ten minutes, to be a very amateurish indie game, but it quickly becomes apparent how skillfully the puzzle and game design elements are intertwined. If you're not the type that reads spoilers and hints, _good_. This game will be for you. If you're the type that reads the guides beginning to end, you would probably find this tedious. Games like Lingo 2 are a different experience when you have to figure everything out from scratch, and while it has a hint system you could consult, I suspect the appeal of the game would be significantly different if you used it frequently. The types of puzzle in this game cannot be unsolved, not really, because while you could start the game over, you can't un-hear the answer to a riddle. You are intended to discover it gradually, with a series of Eurekas, and to put seemingly-disconnected things together as you go along. This was a very deeply satisfying game to me for the same reason it may not appeal to everybody, and thankfully, the developer isn't trying to appeal to everybody. But if you're the right kind of space alien, this might hit you very squarely, as it did for me. And if so, maybe you'll also enjoy digging out every mystery and hidden corner as much as I did - it was absolutely delightful, beginning to end to end to end.