The Witch's Isle

This is a fascinating and elaborate puzzle adventure game. The pixel art looks sharp, and what really makes it shine is the distinct layered approach taken with it. The environments of the isle are shown in a sort of 2.5D style, with the foreground often taking up the lower portion of the screen, the focal area (main play area), and the distant background in the mid to upper portion of the screen. In certain parts of the isle, you can see distant areas as part of the background and a fun little detail is, when other people begin roaming about and visiting those areas, you can see them there. In fact, if you notice this, it can help you in one of the game's puzzles. Overall the game's puzzles are mostly well done, but there are a few where it begins to feel like they may have relied on the built-in hint system a little too much, as I'm not sure how you would figure them out otherwise. Others have that unfortunate element of the game's visual design and lack of interactive details to guide one colliding, where you can overlook certain areas existing at all as they're a little too well-hidden. Finally there's one step where, and thankfully this is tucked in the game's hidden chapter, you eventually know what to do, but there's one more little interaction to it so that the game's characters know and recognize the situation so you can move forward. The story is compelling enough that it kept me interested to see through to the True Ending. However, the ending comes across a little as though they weren't entirely happy with the idea that you might figure it out before the True Ending, so they toss in some last ditch twists that I don't think land very well. They're interesting tries, but there wasn't enough from any of the dialogue or items, at least as I understood them, to feel like they really earned their place in the story. Instead of being a, "Whoa, cool!" twist they're more like a, "Wait, did I miss something?" sort of last minute twist. Nevertheless, it doesn't diminish the overall experience, and the hidden chapter, despite a couple of awkward puzzles, adds a fun, different angle to the story. It's a solid game, well worth a play if you're into puzzle/adventure games.

This game makes you think to find hints and progress further, the smallest little details matter and I loved how npcs were important too. Overall highly recommend!

A small but really good game. This is probably my third or fourth time playing it (after playing in Android before) and it feels just as good trying to collect all achievements and everything. Definitely would recommend.

Good game, especially for how cheap it is. I did have some struggles with navigating with the foreground constantly in the way and some small parts of the story didn't make a lot of sense to me.

Honestly a very enjoyable puzzle game.

Beautiful art and has a very unique pacing and challenges in there. It might be a bit linear and obtuse but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

This game is so fun. There's lots of layers to the story and multiple endings so you have to keep replaying it. Each time you do, you uncover a little more to the story! Very unique.