We Were Here

Overall, I think this is a pretty good and fun game to play with a friend. It makes for a fun few hours, is pretty much bug free and for it being free it's alright quality. It is however, not without faults. For one run it'll take about 1.5 hours to complete. As for the good stuff first, I think the general idea of the game is really nice, I love the idea of having to rely on communication to help one another solve puzzles and escape, and some of the puzzles are genuinely interesting and fun, my favourite probably being the theatre scenes. However, some puzzles are poorly designed, such as the maze with switches, which is simply just tedious and long for no real reason, plus the chess game which I think could have been better made, rather than having someone relay what a video shows. I love the idea of selecting the role too, to give incentive to replay the game as the other role and understand it, however I do believe that they are not well balanced. I personally found the Globe role WAY more interesting than the Librarian role, who is for the most part stuck in the same room, spending the whole game relaying information while the other actually gets to play the activities. I love that the ending also only have one of you escape, although I'd love a secret way to have both of you escape. I also think the achievement to not die while probably not reasonably possible on your first two runs, is reasonable to obtain once you know what to do and you're given plenty of time and leeway to complete activities.