
A dark and surreal puzzle adventure set in a decaying town where veins pulse through ruined structures and the night hums with unfamiliar life.
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Navicula Meatus is a dark and surreal puzzle-adventure game set in a peculiar world of murky alleys and fleshy growths. Explore a decaying town shrouded in mystery, interact with its charming denizens. Become a crustacean and utilise the unique puzzle-crawler grid-based meat systems.

Explore: The decaying town where the sinews of ruined buildings throb while grotesque beings beckon you to the alleys.
Unravel: The lurching cryptograms of the Navicula Meatus, become entangled in the cumbersome user interface.
Bereft of Guidance: Human language has been surgically removed from the experience. Fun and gameplay have also been excised to allow for pure streamlined immersion.
Unstable Surroundings: The meat-glue binding the world is fragile so repeated playthroughs will present new disfigurements, including:
The Flute Boy: A wretched street urchin whose amusing melodies will thrill you as you linger, soaked in the sublime ambience.

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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Navicula Meatus
Incredible cool system by way of taking a familiar gameplay loop and abstracting & burying it under enough Gigeresque & Hylicsian scuzz to make the game just as much about figuring out what the ♥♥♥♥ you’re doing as actually doing it. The pleasure comes in getting to know (while not really knowing) these little gleep glorps and their meaty distorted world, a familiarity in the uncanny of routine and “ok so I think this guy is who I need to get this from next to give to this guy who screams”. Short but sweet and even manages to squeeze in some good humor about the whole thing.
One of the coolest games i've played. Such a cool atmosphere and a superb concept. Go in fully blind and bring a pen and paper (helps a ton)
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Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Wonderful vibe, beautiful game.
Good gooby game!
A beautiful nightmare, the scariest game I have ever seen. I can't even finish it.
je suis nulle donc le jeu est nul, c la regle
interesting
An excellent lil surreal puzzle adventure, deeply confusing at times but thankfully there are hints, however obscure some of them may seem.
Gross, I loved it! Wonderfully challenging puzzle game. However, dev please put in a flashing lights/epilepsy warning [spoiler]specifically for the second boat ride.[/spoiler]
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