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TL;DR: 6.5/10 This can't hold a candle to Stephen's Sausage Roll, but then again, what can? Thankfully, it still delivers designer increpare's bread & butter: mind-bending core mechanics and inspired level design, respectively. The game gradually introduces a half-dozen new ideas onto a 3d Sakoban foundation, but the first is doing the, *giggle*, heavy lifting. That mechanic, called Larva, asks solvers to recontextualize 3d space relative to gravity and was obviously the worthy inspirational seed. Many later mechanics feel disjointed, as if conceived for separate freeware releases, but instead, tacked on here. Which isn't a real issue but for the piecemeal nature of the whole experience. More than half of the 17 worlds use only one or two mechanics, and it's not until the very end that those pieces are amply integrated. Each new mechanic is a genuinely fascinating spatial idea, but kept separate, the game plays more like a puzzle anthology than an escalating journey. The automatic camera is a meandering drunk man, but in all fairness, it would need telepathy to predict the ideal view for a player's intentions. Many of the trickiest levels came early. By the time mechanics combine, I understood everything so intimately, I could intuit the authorial intent behind each level's design. For me, that's a feature, not a bug. Movement that once broke my brain became second nature, and I feel smarter for it. I bought this to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Stephen's Sausage Roll, a serious contender for difficult-puzzler GOAT. I'd sporadically partaken in increpare's infinite (and predominantly excellent) freeware output over the years, but for whatever reason, had never bought anything else. I'm happy that I, *giggle*, changed my tune, since increpare is still worth celebrating even if his magnum opus is a decade behind him.

Тяжело, тяжело. Пока Мартин спал, его коллекцию пополнили головоломки. Я честно среди всех бесконечных ключей вынужден признать, что я вообще не помню когда она у меня появилась. Но рекомендую фанатам жанра вечных головоломок без логичного конца.

having this in your library instantly makes you 10% the game itself is good but it gets hard quick

Hi! Steven. Cool game. I think It will be better with Chinese language support.

Hard puzzle, schematic graphics only, awful sound.

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