Venineth

Played the game for 26 minutes before giving up. Game play requires you to steer a somewhat unwieldy (using keyboard) sphere thru the environment. Few clues are given as to which direction is the best to proceed in, other than a light that briefly appears. Environment is filled with traps and gaps that force one to repeatedly reset and retry as one would a platform-game. The environment appears expansive but a limited path is possible, preventing any sort of exploration. Ultimately the game expects the player to be the trained monkey that performs as the designer intended. Not satisfying at all.

When your species has become so advanced you achieved a civilizational apotheosis and transcended material reality to cast aside your undying machines, incorruptible by the eons and the elements, strewn across and among all the now-silent spheres of your star system, but you'll still always love a good game of "Mousetrap." I loved it, it's proudly and successfully carried by its aesthetics and atmosphere, even as certain platforming sections (especially one of the gas giant levels) were so frustrating even with the checkpoints I'll probably never play it again.