The Dot

If you like unorthodox think piece games with lots of mini-games built in, go ahead and give this a whirl you'll probably really enjoy it; however, I have a little bit of information and some warnings to give before you go: Its kinda really mid. First of all HUGE Trigger Warning [spoiler]Suicide, Depression[/spoiler] is needed for the ending and a lot of the later game, and if you have any sort of hand issues or wrist issues or arm issues in general (carpel tunnel, arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc.) don't play this, its essentially a clicking simulator for like 90% of it. Majority of the game takes place in your files library clicking from folder to folder to folder to note to note to application to image to note to folder to folder to fol-- you get the point. there is a few games in the game, all unfinished and some a little wonky, and like 2 or 3 are interesting and fun. The rest are mostly slowly walking through levels, sometimes the same level with just slight changes. Also there are like no pigeons, or at least no pigeons you can interact with. Oh also because the game is mostly in your file library i just noticed the play time isn't reflected properly, I've just played the game through and it took me about 6 hours. And I didn't finish some of the games because i couldn't physically do them. Another heads up: you cannot save. the entire game is just paging through folders, so if you have to 'quit' the game you have to remember the exact folder you were in and how to get to it, or else you have to start over. I figured this out the hard way when I had to download DirectX(?) for one of the games and that required my computer to restart and I had to find my folder again. Its got a couple decent puzzles tho, and its definitely more of a think piece attempt. On a good note I'll say it was pretty funny throughout, the games and features that were entertaining SLAPPED, and did have an overarching 'plot' and theme that are fairly solid-- I just personally think it could have been executed a little better and maybe a little more friendly to those of us a little less able and maybe have a more accurate trailer and/or advertising? For example I never saw like 4 of the images and like half of what they show in the trailer video in the store page showcase, but maybe those were hidden somewhere in the section of 1-99 folders with 3 empty sub-folders each :) (It IS a puzzle, but if you don't understand the previous part of it you probably will get lost in those files looking for the next section of the game for a long, long time.) Oh also make sure you have your desktop background image saved, as the game does affect that as well. I do like the concept of old projects and unfinished projects don't get me wrong, but it is the method here that just caused me a lot of physical pain and provided little to none and not-very-satisfying pay off with all the time effort and pain I personally had to put into it to arrive there. Even if I wanted to, I physically actually cannot replay this game.