Tulpa

Bof. Visuellement je trouve le jeu très beau, avec un style original. Les énigmes sont parfois complexes et sans aucun indice, mais on finit par trouver. La durée de vie est courte, artificiellement compensée par la complexité des énigmes, mais la rejouabilité est nulle. Ce n'est pas un mauvais jeu, mais c'est encore moins un bon jeu.

Poorly optimized. Needed to change to 60 Hz refresh rate on monitor to complete the first puzzle. Alot of the gameplay consists of just randomly clicking on the screen to get the solution to the puzzle.

The good: + Gorgeous visual which fit surreal landscape. + Native linux support. + OKish much, even though ti's overshadowed overshadowed by the visual. The bad: - Steam FPS counter say the game run in 75 FPS, but i feel like it's locked-in to 30 FPS or lower. The ugly: * 99% "Show, don't tell". Personally i'm doubt what shown to player actually have meaning. * Awkward keyboard/mouse control. The possible 30 FPS lock-in makes it worse, although still playable. * Mixed quality of puzzle design. Some are ok, but some other isn't intuitive or require some trial-and-error. The auto-follow feature also could lead to dead sometimes. While it's better than most game i receive for free from giveaway group, this game is simply too rough. I would recommend you to seek better platformer-puzzle, unless you're specifically looking for platformer-puzzle game with surreal aspect.

*Status: 100% Completed* An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that sends you through surreal levels with an imaginary friend. The only real downside is a lack of technical polish.

Basically, this is a sidescroller with some obstacles, where you use one ghost-like character to reach and manipulate objects that the regular character cannot. The game sacrifices the logic in the name of the surreal flavour. Yes, this means "trial and error" most of the time.

good :)

Tulpa is a mixture between a 2D platformer and a point-and-click adventure, with a heavy focus on puzzle solving. Basically, you play as 2 characters, and you can swap control at any time. One of them is physical, and can push and pull things, and the other is ghostly, so he floats and interacts with far objects using the mouse. It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think the 2 genres blend well. Switching from a more standard platforming to a point and click style, where you need to search for the interactable objects isn’t smooth. But since this is more focused on the puzzle elements, it’s not a big deal. Just a bit awkward. There’s a lot of variety in the puzzles, but some of them are unintuitive and frustrating, because a lot of times you are supposed to figure out how the puzzle is supposed to work. A lot of times I progressed through trial and error or by clicking on stuff by accident. And that isn’t a sign of good design, like here are the rules, now solve the stuff. It has a lot of out-of-box thinking, but mostly not in a good way. Still, it’s a short and enjoyable experience, if you can get it for cheap.