Buried

This experience is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken. I’d consider it a risky purchase, as it simply does not work as intended for a significant portion of players—including me, 0bviamente. During a single playthrough, I was unable to interact with some of the game-crucial objects that I encountered. After watching a few walkthroughs, I realized I wasn’t [i]entirely[/i] stupid—the actual game [i]was[/i] broken. Some objects (specifically, the death-forsaken lockboxes) would become completely glitchLocked, requiring a full restart of the game. I spent quite a bit of time thinking I was missing some masterstroke of puzzle-solving, only to discover that, no, I had actually figured out the entire game within about four minutes of observation: find the numbers (found), use them to open the lockboxes (succesful once. stuck every other time), use the tools inside those lockboxes to open the other lockboxes (was able to acquire the tools from one lockbox but unable to interact with the second - that's as far as i got) and, eventually, the coffin (based on the countless walkthroughs i watched to see if I was the problem as i so often am in these situations - but no. not this time. The problem was that I simply couldn’t execute any of those maneuvers because I couldn’t interact with the lockboxes properly—or, in some cases, couldn’t even exit the interaction once I had managed to open one. Was this somehow related to my UWHD setup? Who knows. Who cares. It sucked. *This sucked.* To add insult to injury, the game randomizes its codes, meaning that restarting requires starting completely from scratch. For the sake of replayability? To make walkthroughs useless? Who knows. It seems rather pointless for an experience that, frankly, I can’t imagine anyone playing twice—not even someone who actually enjoyed it. This simply isn’t that kind of game. So: restart, replay, encounter another glitch, get softlocked, restart, repeat. After the third cycle, I seriously considered requesting a refund. It felt almost ridiculous to request a refund over a dollar, although I probably should have. Instead, I decided to leave a negative curator review and move on.