Once Glorious Artahk

A great exploration-based puzzle game. I've heard it called a Metroidbraina, and while I don't quite agree, it was a wonderful experience still. I also saw that the dev added multiple options to the game to help various player complaints, which is a great touch. Good dev, good work. For a game like this, the worldbuilding was surprisingly interesting, I really liked the tales, the mysteries and the evocative way various concepts (such as the garden, or "white") were conjured in the imagination. I loved the experience, despite a few things I really didn't like. One was the beast. I understand the vision, but if, say, Talos Principle randomly killed you if you stayed on a puzzle too long, I'd hate it. Thankfully, the dev added an option to turn it off which I ended up using. The other thing I didn't like were the timing puzzles - the controls of "magenta" kept tripping me up, and I had to redo some of them way too many times, just because I found the input too difficult and the timing too tight (for two, I had to look up guides - I was doing the right idea, but my execution was lacking). Despite these, I still loved the experience to fully complete the game until every last puzzle I found was solved. If the dev ever returns to this world, I'd be happy to visit it again. Highly recommended. For the antler foxes, may they learn much from this.

Excellent puzzle adventure game. If you enjoy knowledge-gated games and exploration, you will enjoy this.

This game is immediately gripping and intriguing. The writing, art style, and level design is all really detailed and impressive so far. Great start and I'm already hooked :) looking forward to a lot more of this!

Good puzzles, cool story, deserves more love

Fun, engaging enough to complete, and not too overwhelming re: linking together disparate clues for a exploration-puzzle game like this.

Amazing game with cute puzzles which just decorate the great lore behind. Long story of once glorious Artahk is unfolded as we persist on looking and reading for hints and details. Not my native language so some words in entries were new to me, but the rhyme and style of writing are marvellous. Though sometimes I mindlessly went around but one can always count on help from developer and other players - thanks guys!

Well worth the purchase.